Word: clark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Following arrows drawn in bright-red ink ,Tamara Green, 28, and her husband Myriaun Clark, 20, apprehensively shuffled Green's seven youngsters, aged 1 to 12, along in the queue outside the Reliant Center last Thursday afternoon. Before Hurricane Katrina, they lived in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward; now the closest thing they have to a home is a collection of cots and stuffed bags on the floor of the Astrodome. Waiting on line to apply for a Red Cross debit card, the couple heard a rumor that they needed a photo ID to qualify for a card. While...
...family made its way around the giant hall set up for distributing the cards and found an empty desk where two smiling Red Cross volunteers waited, Green and Clark worried that they'd be turned away. They weren't. After a brief interview that included completing some forms, Clark and Green, debit card in hand, turned their caravan of a family around and headed outside. Green wouldn't say how much they had received, but she looked crestfallen. ?It wasn't what I expected,? she said, her words betraying more bewilderment than anger. ?I'm not complaining. I'm grateful...
...Clark weaved through the line, another UNO student nodded to her. Clark had completed one week at UNO before she left the city with a friend, getting thrills from driving on the wrong side of I-10 during the harried weekend evacuation. She stopped at her parents’ home in Baton Rouge; other students checked into refugee shelters or found shelter with relatives across the country. Days later she was seeking an application at LSU, a sprawling public school far larger than UNO, which hosted only 1,700 students, 80 percent from New Orleans...
Wandering past LSU’s monumental class halls and pink bougainvillea blossoms, Clark was optimistic about her coming semester...
...next semester she hopes she’ll return to UNO, a relatively tiny campus just south of Lake Pontchartrain. A few days before evacuation, Clark had taped in her student government office a poster of Rosie the Riveter who offers a tiny motto...