Mid-City Neighborhood Organization

Carnival’s over, but you can read about Endymion’s return to Mid-City via the following links:

• Parade Returns, and New Orleans’s Heart Rejoices
• As Endymion returns to Mid-City in a colorful sign of recovery, it will pass through a kaleidoscope of once-familiar neighborhoods that are very much a work in progress
• Endymion’s return to its traditional Mid-City route shows that, sometimes, you CAN go home again.
• Largest Mardi Gras since Katrina reflects how area has rebounded
• Mid-City Celebrates

Karen Ocker has also designed a 1′ x 8′ outdoor banner version of the Welcome Home Endymion sign. These are available from MCNO for $75, and will be printed by local Mid-City business Stronghold Studios. (Download a preview.)

All orders must be placed by 4pm TODAY, and banners will be ready by Friday morning or sooner. To order, send an email to vp@mcno.org with:

1. Your name/business name
2. # of banners desired

Further instructions will follow on where/when to pickup your banners on Friday, or we will arrange delivery.

Don’t miss this chance to get a fabulous Endymion banner that can be used year after year!

Payments must be made in cash or by check to MCNO. There may be a paypal option available. If you place an order I’ll send you the info.

Thanks to Mid-City graphic designer Karen Ocker for creating a poster. Please download the file, print several color copies and have them in hand when Endymion passes on Feb 2nd.

If you can print some extras for your neighbors and friends who aren’t on our group, that would be great too!

–welcome home endymion.pdf–

At today’s City Council meeting, the council unanimously voted to approve the following resolution:

KREWE OF ENDYMION. NO. R-07-43 – BY: COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, FIELKOW, HEAD, AND MIDURA
Submitted in brief. – Strongly endorsing the return of the Krewe of Endymion to its traditional Mid-City parade route beginning in the Year 2008 and going forward into perpetuity.

This is good news for Mid-City and for the Krewe of Endymion. Please pass it on to your friends and neighbors. Councilmember Midura also stated that she spoke to Chief Riley and he gave a personal commitment to make this happen.

We are giving a presentation at tomorrow’s City Council Meeting, and again need the support of as many Mid-City residents and business owners. Please arrive at City Council Chambers at Noon.

There is no guarantee of what time we will present, but if we can have a large MC presence at noon, even if folks have to head back to work before the presentation, the point will be made.

What: City Council Endymion Presentation
Where: City Council Chambers (Loyola Avenue side of City Hall, ground floor)
When: Thursday Jan 6 at Noon

Please try to carpool with other folks to make parking easier.

Please wear your Mid-City gear and bring your Endymion sign or MC lawn sign.

A dozen Mid-City residents attended the City Council meeting yesterday, with beads and signs calling for Endymion to come home to Mid-City. Four people spoke about the economic need, the emotional need, the family nature of the event, the impact on the community, and so forth. The Council has not made the final decision yet, but everybody expressed support for the notion of Endymion returning to its traditional Mid-City route.
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Mid-City Neighborhood Organization is on the City Council’s agenda for Thursday, December 14, 2006, to address “the topic of Endymion’s return to the Mid-City route for Mardi Gras 2007.” The Council meets at 10:00 A.M. in City Hall Council Chambers, with this item as the second order of business.

If you would like to see Endymion return to Mid-City in 2007, please come out. MCNO yard signs, Mardi Gras beads and/or Endymion shirts are encouraged. We need a big turnout to show that the issue is not forgotten and that Endymion’s immediate return is very much an economic development issue that is part of our neighborhood plan. To understand why this issue is important to Mid-City, here are some letters written by our neighbors last month: (more…)