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Camping out to give back

camperSince August 2006, St. Bernard Project residents and volunteers have rebuilt more than 100 homes in the St. Bernard Parish, an area near New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward that was one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. On the project web site, one resident describes the unique ways of the St. Bernard people. “Meet us once,” she writes, “and you walk away as if you have known us your entire life.”

That is precisely how Augsburg senior, Matt Eller, feels about Kenny, a man he met last month in New Orleans. Continue reading “Camping out to give back”