How long have you been a resident of the Real Timbers neighborhood?
16 Years
What do you love about your neighborhood?
I love the quietness and low crime activity in the neighborhood.
What successes have you had with your association?
Over the past twelve years we have had many successful events including a neighborhood fun run/walk, night out against crime activities with a candle light neighborhood walk, an Algiers community cleanup rally, as well as a community carnival fair.
Do you have any upcoming events or projects?
I will be asking my neighbors and other Algiers neighborhoods to volunteer to help my nonprofit organization, S.M.C.L. Foundation & Associates Paralympic Sport Club New Orleans with our upcoming community Adaptive/Paralympics Sports and Recreation event on December 11, 2015. This event will foster activities for the community’s wounded veterans, along with our youth and other adults with physical disabilities, blindness or visual impairment. The location of the event will be announced by October 31, 2015.
What advice would you give other neighborhood leaders?
To be successful in anything, you will encounter some ups and downs; however, when things seem to be working against you, when you are down, stay prayed up and continue to press forward. However, when thing are going real swell, I caution you to guard against pride, because “Only by pride cometh contention, but with the well advised comes wisdom.” (Proverbs 13:10)