RDC Meeting Wednesday February 20th at 7pm
CCAM Meeting Tuesday February 26th 6:30pm
St Bernard Parish Residents are invited to Join District C's Residents at the RDC Rediscover District C Meeting Wednesday February 20th 7pm in the Council Office Trailer. RDC is launching its third year of resident led committee projects to focus efforts on our parishes' revitalization, beautification, and community connection. We invite you to become part of this effort as we move forward in 2008 with the momentum to continue to rebuild our parish, our community and our homes. For more information visit the website: http://www.rediscoverdistrictc.com/
CCAM Meeting Tuesday February 26th 6:30pm
Lena Drive South Bring a chair
Join us with SBSO Charlie Borchers to reform Neighborhood Watch in the Flora Estates, James Place, Despaux and Ventura, and Sandra Park Subdivisions

Nomination of Officers and Update on LDEQ Hearing

True Team Spirit

The St. Bernard Recreation Corp. is commended for establishing a community wide effort to Clean Our Ball Parks for all the children of St Bernard Parish. Their leaders have been partnering with the St. Bernard Recreation Dept. who were joined by many individuals (including some RDC 's regulars) and other groups to clean and refurbish our ballparks; starting last Saturday with Carolyn Park (Arabi) . One notably present was St Bernard's own Ms. Polly; coordinator of the Community Playground Re-Boot, Re-Pair, Re-Build, program scheduled for April 8-13 at Torres Park.
(http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/stbernard/20080123/017168.html)
Scott Meuser, President, Board of Directors of the National Relief Network was also as energetically present as he has been ever since early post storm days. Scott has been working with various volunteer groups across the country to aid our recovery efforts and can be reached at scott@nrn.org http://www.nrn.org/ . There were also donations which included tree planting projects in the Murphy Oil Spill neighborhoods. I met Scott at the Carolyn Park (Arabi) Clean Our Ball Park Day (Saturday) with his volunteers who were high school students from across America.  Basically he said, the tree planting efforts have not been able to take root "due to political problems".


Next BallPark Day in about two weeks -- Keep Posted to NOLA.com for park and date. Bring your usual supplies, tools, equipment and Good Attitude St Bernard !!

Volunteers Needed

46708. Clean Our Ball Parks - Volunteers Needed by SBRCORP, 2/6/08 20:54 ET

The St. Bernard Recreation Corp. is partnering with the St. Bernard Recreation Dept. to clean the ball parks in St. Bernard Parish. We will begin with Carolyn Park (Arabi) this Saturday, February 9th at 8:00 a.m. If you would like to volunteer, please call Sabrina at 583-6000 or just come to Carolyn Park (Arabi) Saturday morning. Refreshments will be served.
Bring your usual supplies, tools, equipment and Good Attitude St Bernard !!

Whose IN? or is it Who's on First?

coker unit

Posted on the RDC Website Message Board
Author: MattDate: 2/3/2008 3:47 pm
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There is no Coker unit in this application. Murphy considered one in a previous application, but withdrew the request. There are no plans to permit one. The tanks north of the 20 Arpent are already permitted, but not built. Therefore, neither falls within the scope of the Public Hearing on Thursday, but that is at the discretion of the LDEQ Hearing Officer. The current application is to replace 4 tanks, and to move one tank. Overall VOC emissions will be reduced due to improved pollution controls on the tanks. There are no other activities in this permit application.

C A R E :: COMMUNITY ACTION FOR A RENEWED ENVIRONMENT

Because We Care, RDC and CCAM encourage all residents to participate in these five public forums to form partnerships to implement solutions for our community's environment.

The first meeting of St Bernard Parish's EPA C A R E Grant forums is scheduled for February 23, 2008 and will be a whole community workshop on the CARE program and the EPA’s voluntary programs. Participants in this workshop will be asked to identify their chief environmental concerns in the community for future facilitated meetings under the Parish’s CARE program, and to participate in future meetings.

Displays will focus on issues related to the present environment condition of the Parish as well as issues related to rebuilding, such as energy efficiency and green building; and providing information about complimentary state and federal programs, such as the Department of Energy’s rebate program for purchasing energy star appliances.

For More Information visit http://www.sbpg.net/care/meeting.html

Meeting Dates:
February 23, 2008 , 10am to 3pm
March 29, 2008, 10am to 2pm
May 31, 2008, 10am to 4pm
June 28, 2008, 10am to 1pm
July 26, 2008, 10am to 1pm

All Forums will be conducted in the presentation room on the second floor of Chalmette High School, 1100 E. Judge Perez Dr.

From attending and participating in the meetings and the ongoing dialogue and comprehensive communications with our industrial neighbor, Murphy Oil Meraux Refinery, the refinery had made a statement to us that they are pursuing a "reliability program" on their compressors, controls and other equipment so that there would be a noticeable difference in the flaring in the neighborhood.

(We are hoping for the same improvements that were achieved on the west coast http://www.gcmonitor.org/downloads/Embargoed%20Report%202_1.pdf )

Some of these improvements should come with proper preventative maintenance and the turnaround in January. They are not however permited to use the flares for anything other than emergencies (even for preventative maintenance or construction).

So there should be a good explanation for yesterdays (January 2, 2008 )incident.

Read more Here

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/94901547/Murphy-Oil