Jeffrey Barg, an urban planner at PHS, recently wrote a blog post about his experiences in New Orleans while attending a land-use conference and being involved in a tree-planting effort.
When Jeffrey and the other volunteers were planting trees in the Pigeon Town area of the Lower Ninth Ward, a young man was murdered just steps away from them. Saddened by the event, Jeffrey revisited the area months later to find that not only were the trees still there and beautifying the neighborhood, the one that he had helped plant was thriving! Click here to read the emotion-packed story.
Posted on July 10, 2012 by Barb
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