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Salvaging wood from trees Update April 5th and 6th, 2008 The Project is featured at the LSUAG Spring Garden Show in the Botanical Gardens of New Orleans' City Park. We're not in the big tent this year. This time we are near the train exhibit.
Update February 26, 2008 The KatRita Wood Project was in Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi and was featured on WLOX TV Channel 13 (see yesterday's update).
Update February 25, 2008
Update November 2007 Thank you to all who helped.
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| Silver linings |
| Wood full circle |
| Making the most of something bad |
| Creating art out of ashes |
| Changing lives |
| Lifting spirits |
Email us at KRW@katritawood.org for purchasing information or to help.
There are many homeowners who have trees down on their property and have offered us the wood. In order to collect it, we need to cut it into moveable pieces or use equipment to load and carry it to storage or event locations.
There are tree service companies who are collecting logs for disposal; we need to contact them and negotiate with them to deliver it to our staging or storage locations instead.
We are looking for haulers who can carry wood back on empty trucks after delivering to the Gulf Coast region, making it possible for craftspersons and carvers to make items at their location. We are also seeking a trailer to be pulled with a GMC Sierra 1500 to haul wood from hurricane damaged areas to locations across the US.
We are seeking woodworkers of all kinds, from the occasional craft hobbyist to the most experienced professional, who would be willing to make items for us to sell, knowing that their efforts will help families recover. Also, volunteers in administration, marketing, web design, event planning, and to work events are needed.
We are seeking corporate sponsorships and private supporters to assist in acquiring the above and other item needed or helpful in our efforts.
Thank you much.
-Amy Canada, The KRW Project
504.606.1303
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Application from Nola.com which displays the timeline of Katrina's impact.
The following application can be used to select an area affected by the storm and view satellite imagery.
Katrina's Impact
NOAA Satellite Map - Right After the Storm
Satelite Application
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Who is Doing This?
Volunteers are working together on this project. Chainsaw artists from around the country have expressed an interest in coming to help. Local volunteers are working to secure permission to take the fallen trees, bring tress and finished pieces to designated places for storage or carving, seeking corporate sponsors to help with supplies and expenses for chainsaw artists, etc. The project is lead by Amy Canada, former resident of the New Orleans area.
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How are You Doing It?
Strictly a grass roots effort. We are talking to chainsaw artists, finding trees which fell, finding ways to haul them to a site or bringing the artist to the tree, etc.
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Why are You Doing It?
Two reasons:
1. Trees are down all over SouthEast Louisiana and Mississippi going to waste.
2. People and organizations need funds to travel back to their destroyed property for closure, rebuild, and restart their lives. The sale of art made from trees knocked down by Katrina/Rita will help.
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Where is the Wood Coming From?
We don't have good data right now regarding the number of trees which fell from Katrina and Rita. However, if you drive around the North shore of Lake Ponchartrain or almost any community in the parishes impacted by Katrina and Rita you will see countless tress down. And, of course, this doesn't even begin to count those in Mississippi.
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How Can I Get My Own KRW?
Click on the email link or call the number above and request to make a donation or purchase some Katrina wood. We will be putting pictures of available pieces on this website very soon. Also, you can request a specific object made and we will have a chainsaw artist make it for you.
The types of objects they can make include:
View the Artwork
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How Can I Help?
If you would like to help us please pray for the cause, call 504.606.1303 or email: KRW@katritawood.org to discuss donating time or money, trees, assistance moving or hauling trees or finished pieces, selling finished pieces or contacting potential corporate sponsors. Your help is appreciated by us and the people who are served.
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Trinity Christian Community Center (TCC) has been featured in a Washington Post Article. We are proud to be associated with TCC. You guys are an inspiration.
The KatRita Wood Project was honored by Ruth's Chris Steak House with a luncheon at their Metairie Location. We are honored and humbled to be included in the Heroes Lunch series. Kevin Brown, Director of Trinity Christian Community Center delivered a presentation about hope, progress, and the future. KRW volunteers enjoyed lunch and were each given a gift. We thank the Ruth's Chris team for their encouragement.
We were pleased to participate in the LSU AgCenter Fall Garden Show at the Botanical Gardens in City Park in New Orleans. We enjoyed seeing folks we met at the Spring garden show and meeting so many new friends. With no professional carvers in town at the time, our founder/director Amy Canada demonstrated her new carving skills for the first time. She stepped in and made several of her trademark trees, a pumpkin, and practiced techniques learned from other carvers. Big thanks to the Reynauds of LaPlace for their hard work and dedication as volunteers.
