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Gretna vet gets new home after serving BY EVA JACOB BARKOFF Special to The Advocate
Building Homes for Heroes recently helped a Gretna veteran overcome one of his greatest challenges — returning home. As a member of the U.S. Army for nearly 20 years, Sgt. 1st Class Troy Reilly has traveled the world, serving along the east and west coasts of the U.S., as well as in Germany, Thailand, Guatemala, Kuwait and Afghanistan. For his service as a member of the 1192nd deployment unit, Reilly, a native of the West Bank, has received numerous medals and commendations during his service, including the Bronze Star Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign
Medal with Campaign Star, the Army Commendation Medal (fifth award), Army Achievement Medal (fifth award), Meritorious Unit Commendation, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal (second award), Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War On Terrorism Service Medal, Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon and the Overseas Service Ribbon Reilly (second award). Reilly is proud of his service and the honors he’s received, and he’s happy to be home. Yet, being home may be one of his biggest challenges. “Like so many veterans, I face a lot of
issues,” said Reilly, 45, who suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome, panic disorder, degenerative joint disease, lumbar and bilateral sacroiliac joint disease and recurrent depression. “I have medical problems due to different injuries, so it’s difficult to find work. And for a while, I didn’t have a home to go to, so I ended up living in my car.” While Reilly, who grew up in Gretna, continues to deal with his medical issues, he no longer has to worry about where he will reside. Thanks to Building Homes for Heroes program, Reilly recently moved into a newly renovated home in Marrero. Located off Barataria Boulevard, the house is approximately 1,900 square feet
and includes four bedrooms, two baths, a complete kitchen, a dining room, living room, a patio and a garage. “There is plenty of room for my four children, and it is not very far away from their mother’s home,” Reilly said. “Just when you think things aren’t going to work out, something good happens.” According to its website, www.buildinghomesforheroes.org, Building Homes for Heroes, founded in 2006, builds or modifies homes and gifts them, mortgage-free, to veterans injured while serving the country during the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. Reilly’s is the first home of as many as six to be built in Louisiana and given to veterans who äSee VET, page 7G
PAINTINGA BRIGHT FUTURE
Lynne Jensen
THROW ME SOMETHIN’
Group seeks award nominations Hear ye Uptown, downtown and Algiers! The Committee for a Better New Orleans is calling for nominations for its annual Diana Lewis Citizen Participation Award, which recognizes a person or organization that has empowered citizens to be positive instruments of change. The award is aptly named for Lewis, a powerhouse in the world of civic participation. A veteran volunteer, Lewis has served the city with organizations including United Way, the Bureau of Governmental Research, the Metropolitan Area Committee, the Southeast Louisiana Girl Scouts Council and the Greater New Orleans Foundation. “Civic participation means a better and stronger New Orleans,” said Anthony Carter, director of finance äSee JENSEN, page 7G
Advocate staff photo by MATTHEW HINTON
West Jefferson High School art student Shiloh Williams, top, and teacher Keith Eccles paint a 16-foot New Orleans-themed mural at the National Art Education Association National Convention convention in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on March 28. The high school’s logo is in the center of the mural surrounded by jazz bands, a fleur-de-lis and local iconography. Students spent three months designing the mural, which was sponsored by the art materials company Liquitex. Bill Worley, an accounts manager at Liquitex and a West Jefferson High School alum, helped facilitate the collaborative art project. Students working on the project also included Harold Allen, May Do, Tyler Lazier, Damien Cheatteam, Brianne Sylvester, Odina Michel, Rachel Ramos, Ciara Cuccia, Hanson Nguyen and Stacy Barrera. The mural will be moved and installed at West Jefferson before the end of the school year. For information, visit www.westjefferson.jpschools.org.
Trafficking, violence program set for Thursday
The New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah and the Women of Shir Chadash Synagogue will co-sponsor a special program about human trafficking, human rights violations and violence against women and children at 7 p.m. Thursday at the synagogue, 3737 W. Esplanade Ave., in Metairie. Panelists include Loyola University faculty members Laura Murphy and Rae Taylor and Tulane University faculty member Tania Tetlow. The program is free and open to the public. Murphy is the organizer of the New Orleans Human Trafficking Working Group and is the director of African and African-American studies at Loyola. She is also the lead researcher for Loyola’s Modern Slavery Research Project.
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Taylor’s research and teaching interests include intimate partner violence and other violent crimes; societal and organizational responses to violent crime; and social inequalities. Taylor has worked in the criminal justice system as a victim advocate, and she continues her training in victim services and crisis response. Tetlow directed the Domestic Violence Clinic at Tulane University Law School from 2005-14. She is a former fed-
eral prosecutor. The moderator will be Michelle Erenberg, Louisiana policy advocacy chairwoman for the National Council of Jewish Women. She founded the Louisiana Women’s Roundtable, a collaborative effort of organizations that aims to educate the community about issues that matter to women, children and families. For more information, call Charisse Sands at (504) 2316464.
Magnolia School festival
Magnolia School will hold its inaugural festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday on the school campus, 100 Central Ave., in Old Jefferson. There will be music, food äSee BARKOFF, page 7G
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Students from the pre-kindergarten Pelican class say hello to Martha, a Holstein calf, at Sugar Roots Farm on April 2. Advocate staff photo by SHERRI MILLER
Students from Metairie Park Country Day school traveled to Sugar Roots Farm to meet the menagerie that live at the working farm dedicated to farmto-table education and the compassionate care of farm animals. Sugar Roots is in Lower Coast Algiers.
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Touchdown Club honors gridiron heroes Advocate staff report Two-time Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw received the Pete Rozelle Award from the Touchdown Club of New Orleans during the club’s awards banquet March 5 at the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans. The club presents the award in recognition of outstanding contributions to professional football and the NFL. The club presented its Bob Roesler Media Award to John Deshazier, radio color analyst writer for the New Orleans Pelicans and senior writer for the New Orleans Saints official team website.
The High School Prep Award recipient was Tim Detillier, head football coach of the Lutcher High School Bulldogs. Detillier has been coaching at Lutcher High School for 30 years and has more than 250 wins in his career. He has advanced to the playoffs the last 28 consecutive years and has four state titles. The College Award recipient was Mark Hudspeth, head football coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Under From left are Tammy and Terry Bradshaw, and Wayne and Hudspeth, the Ragin’ Cajuns Charleen Ory. had 36 wins in four seasons, the best four-year record in program history. announced donations to the Ray and to Team Steve Gleason. Also at the banquet, the club Hester Cancer Research Fund The master of ceremonies
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Among those on hand for the Touchdown Club of New Orleans awards banquet were, from left, Tim Detillier, Terri Lowe, Mike Detillier, Charlie Heim, Terry Bradshaw, Mark Hudspeth, John Deshazier and John Kohl. was Mike Detillier, of WWL. club’s board of directors. The The invocation was given by welcome address was given by Wayne Ory, a member of the club President John Kohl.
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Alley Cat Allies award
The Humane Society of Louisiana recently presented a Lifetime Achievement award to Becky Robinson, left, founder and president of Alley Cat Allies, based out of Bethesda, Md. ACA has more than 500,000 supporters around the world. With Robinson is Jeff Dorson of the Humane Society.
FAITH NOTES MAGNIFICAT BREAKFAST: The Magnificat New Orleans Chapter will host speaker Claire Winder for its next Magnificat Prayer Breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Manifested Miracles, 3101 Bruxelles St. in New Orleans. Donation is $15 for the breakfast. For information, call Claudia Marshall (504) 6501931 or Pat Heisser (504) 8216309. SUPPER AND MOVIE: St. Charles
United Methodist Church is showing the movie “God’s Not Dead� on Saturday, April 18, at 1905 Ormond Blvd. in Destrehan. There will be a time of conversation and fellowship and a beef brisket supper at 6 p.m., with the movie to follow at 7 p.m. The movie is about a college freshman who is challenged by his professor in his philosophy class to prove God is alive. For information, call Gwen Keller at (985) 764-8292.
‘THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH’: Students from Delgado Community College and Grace King High School will make up the cast for the Delgado production of “The Skin of Our Teeth� by Thornton Wilder. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play will be presented at 8 p.m. through Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Delgado Drama Hall, on the third floor of 615 City Park Ave., New Orleans. Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 Delgado students and seniors. For reservations, call (504) 671-6360. The play is directed by Casey Groves, with sets and lights designed by Tom Dawson and costume design by Kerry Fitts. LSU SCHOLARSHIP: Mount Carmel Academy graduate Shelby Roy, of Kenner, has been awarded the Dr. Gerald L. and
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Metairie library to offer poetry workshop ing down relatives and The Jefferson Parish friends, Stewart turns up Library hosts a free foura host of clues — includhour poetry workshop ing forensic evidence — that features local poets that he says identifies his leading practical, handsfather as the Zodiac Killon seminars. The event er, one of the most notobegins at 11 a.m. Saturday rious and elusive serial at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon JP LIBRARY murderers in history. He Ave., in Metairie. LAGNIAPPE chronicles his search in “The Most Dangerous The workshop, held in CHRIS Animal of All.” The prohonor of National Poetry SMITH gram will be held at 7 Month, features the folp.m., April 23 at the East Bank lowing speakers: n 11 a.m. — Bill Lavender on Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. metaphor. STRIKE UP THE BAND: The Jefn Noon — Lee Grue on the slant rhyme, with some attention to ferson Parish Community Band performs a free concert end rhyme. n 1 p.m. — Valentine Pierce on at 7 p.m. Thursday at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. free poetry writing. n 2 p.m. — Kay Murphy on the Napoleon Ave., Metairie. SCHOOL RECORDS AND GENEALOGY: elements of a good poem. Each presentation lasts rough- Emery Webre will give a presenly 50 minutes. The presentation tation on “Researching Louisiana is designed for poets of all levels. Pupils in 19th Century School BIRTH-FATHER SEARCH: Soon af- Records” when the Genealogiter his birth mother contacted cal Research Society of New Orhim for the first time at the age leans meets at 7 p.m. Monday at of 39, adoptee Gary Stewart the East Bank Regional Library, decided to search for his bio- 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. logical father. While combing Webre will discuss how to rethrough government records search the available records for and news reports and track- many of the old Catholic schools
in Louisiana. SOFTWARE FOR WRITERS: Steve Beisner, a writer, musician and computer scientist, will discuss new software that is useful to writers when the Women’s National Book Association meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP: Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” will be the topic at a Great Books Discussion Group meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. “CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE”: Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” will be the topic at a Great Books Discussion Group meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Old Metairie Branch Library, 2350 Metairie Road, Metairie. For more information about programs at the 15 branches of the Jefferson Parish Library, go to www.jplibrary.net or friend the library’s Facebook page for daily programming updates.
Junior League honors its Sustainer of the Year A member of JLNO since 1983, Laborde volunteers with Peggy LeCorge Laborde has a long list of New Orleans been named the Sustainer of charities including Women of the Year for the Junior League the Storm, the Lake Poncharof New Orleans in recognition train Basin Foundation, Chilof her exemplification of the dren’s Hospital, the Audubon organization’s educational and Institute, the New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony, the charitable mission. Advocate staff report
Red Cross, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, the United Way, the Catholic Foundation, Lambeth House and Friends of the Laborde Cabildo.
N.O. Regional Black Chamber to present awards Advocate staff report New Orleans City Councilman Jason Williams will be the keynote speaker when the New Orleans Regional Black Chamber of Commerce holds its 2015 annual meeting luncheon at noon Friday in the Celestin Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. The chamber will present
its Cornerstone and Beacon awards during the luncheon. The Cornerstone Award will go to QCS Logistics, which provides courier, freight distribution and warehousing services throughout southeastern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region. The Beacon Award will go to Metro Service Group, formerly Metro Disposal Inc., which has grown from a single-axle
rear-loading truck into a major industrial services firm that serves the southeastern region of the United States. Tickets to the luncheon are $60 and are available at www. norbchamber.org. For information on the New Orleans Regional Black Chamber of Commerce, contact Patrice Williams-Smith at (504) 948-0991 or info@norbchamber.org.
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