1.15.2007

Does he just have some kind of thing about painting schools or was it the postcard idea that turned him on?

At one high school in Washington, D.C, people from the surrounding neighborhoods gathered to paint the walls with murals, and to send postcards to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

President Bush helps paint a mural as he visits Cardozo Senior High School, 15 Jan. 2007
President Bush helps paint a mural as he visits Cardozo Senior High School, 15 Jan. 2007
About 350 volunteers showed up at the school, including President Bush....

(Voice of America)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Postcards from Katrina, a community arts and health education program, in partnership with City Year provided a nonviolence through the arts workshop on MLK day at Cardozo High in Washington, DC. There they had an unexpected visitor, President Bush, who came to visit and sign postcards. The website is www.postcardsfromkatrina.com. The creator is an Oklahoma native Tambra Stevenson with family in Gulfport, MS and friends in New Orleans, LA.

Ted Compton said...

Thanks, Anon. So the story's "send postcards to the victims of Katrina" didn't quite tell the whole story then. I know some people who would be interested in the web site and will forward it.

Some of the postcard pictures are available for viewing at Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/postcardsfromkatrina/