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How One Mardi Gras Parade Organizer Is Uniting An Entire Community
A staff worker from the French Quarter restaurant Justine loads ready-to-eat meals to be delivered to medical staff at Ochsner Health Center West Bank. Feed the Front Line NOLA is buying $20,000 worth of food from local restaurants every day to feed to hospital staff. “Feed the Front Line NOLA ended because we were spending $30,000 a day, and the donations kind of stopped coming in,” says De Wulf. “We were not able to sustain it on the level we had been, but we're still buying food sometimes for hospital workers.

This initiative helped the elderly get groceries purchased and delivered to their homes while creating jobs for younger musicians and other culture bearers. In year 1, $130,000 worth of groceries was bought and $300,000 worth of jobs were created. We are supporting 35+ locally-owned restaurants, and we have hired out-of-work musicians as our "delivery musicians. They are able to make a living wage helping us. Our little parade group was one of the first in America to recognize the connection between Hospital workers getting amazing food and supporting locally owned businesses.

Now the Krewe is buying food from local restaurants and hiring musicians and artists to deliver it to front line hospital workers - security guards, cleaning crews, doctors, nurses, techs. In the span of seven weeks, the effort brought in approximately $1 million in donations, which paid for more than 100,000 meals and snacks for healthcare workers. At one point, the group was spending close to $30,000 daily at local restaurants, buying several thousand meals, snacks and coffees from a rotating collection of them each day. The group turned to Krewe of Red Beans and its Feed the Frontline NOLA project to turn money into meals. Feed Nola Donations allowed the nonprofit, to serve thousands of meals to health care workers in area hospitals. More than two dozen restaurants counted on daily orders to keep their doors open, while out-of-work musicians served as delivery drivers.

We would very much like to keep this going - esp. because.... There's no movie star or famous person behind this effort... One organization in Austin, TX attributes homelessness to a ‘catastrophic loss of community,’ so they set out to build one.

“I wanted to create something to protect them a little bit. Feed the Front Line NOLA is an initiative, created by Krewe of Red Beans. New Orleans is a city uplifted by it's resilient community time and time again. This time, the goal is to get food from our struggling local restaurants to our front line responders as a show of support for our community during the fight against COVID-19. NEW ORLEANS — A walking parade group, the Red Beans Krewe, is keeping locally-owned restaurants in business by feeding hospital workers. They're now the model for groups with the same mission in other states.

More than two dozen restaurants now count on daily orders to keep their doors open, while out-of-work musicians serve as delivery drivers. “The L.I.G.H.T. initiative is keeping our effort alive as our city enters the most crucial phase of our battle against COVID-19. All the hospital heroes will be fed like the champions they are, and our whole community is united in supporting them as they fight to save us,” said Devin De Wulf, founder of the Krewe of Red Beans. When you donate to Feed the Frontline NOLA, the organization orders food from locally owned restaurants to be delivered to hospitals by artists and musicians who are no longer able to work. As New Orleans battles COVID-19, many of the city’s prominent law firms looked outside courtrooms and conference rooms for ways to help. Their program, L.I.G.H.T (Lawyers’ Initiative Giving Hospitals Thanks), raised more than $150,000 to feed frontline healthcare workers and support New Orleans’s renowned food and music industries.

A poster based on the work of Brent Houzenga in the window of Joey K's Restaurant on Magazine Street. It's part of a public art campaign from Feed the Front Lines NOLA to boost spirits and support artists during the coronavirus fight. Devin DeWulf, the founder of Feed the Frontline, told In The Know he thinks it’s essential that “everyone tries to do something” for their community at this time. "We started with a $60 order of food on Tuesday March 17 and it exploded from there," De Wulf said. Your support is vital to the news you rely on and the programming you love. Lakeview Christian Center cooks 350 meals a day with fresh ingredients, and the food is then distributed to the homebound and elderly by NOLA Tree Project volunteers.

Ngyuen says their work varies everyday, but they’re doing this kind of relief work “eight days a week” right now. Eater is tracking the impact of the novel coronavirus on the city’s restaurant industry. Playing it coy has never been the institutional strong suit at Commander’s Palace. If the peacock blue-striped awnings didn’t loudly declare the fanfare woven into the New Orleans establishment’s DNA, the jazz band marching through the dining room on any given Saturday and Sunday just might.

The Krewe of Red Beans began #feedthefrontlinenola to serve the hospital workers "food love" - and also to provide a "life-support system" for our locally-owned restaurants. Feedthefrontlinenola raises money to buy food from locally-owned restaurants and we have a safe-delivery system in place to bring the food to all hospital workers. Today, we are feeding 13 New Orleans area hospitals with around 10,000$ worth of meals.

In the end, the lucky winner won $10,000 for wearing a mask on the streets of New Orleans. In total, 3,500 masks and 600 raffle tickets were given out! Two weeks after their public health intervention mask-wearing increased 19% overall and in some areas, they saw mask-wearing nearly double in areas of the city that also had the highest COVID-positive rates. Kyle Fehrenbach, a sound engineer who was laid off from multiple jobs with the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide, delivers ready-to-eat meals for medical staff at Ochsner Medical Center West Bank in New Orleans. Kyle Fehrenbach, a sound engineer who was laid off from multiple jobs with the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide, delivers ready-to-eat meals for over-worked medical staff at Oschner Medical Center West Bank .

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Tax deductible contributions to Feed the Second Line can be made directly to Krewe of Red Beans, a 5013 organization. The fraternal order of police and the firefighters association both say their members deserved the extra pay. Their argument centers on the fact the city is under an emergency order and City Hall workers have been told to stay home. Cops and firefighters in New Orleans will not receive emergency pay for their work handling the coronavirus pandemic. In New Orleans, Chef’s Brigade was formed swiftly after shutdowns began in March. This concept bundles local restaurants together as “brigades” to multiply their potential to feed first responders and others working in the coronavirus fight.

This African-culture-based/New Orleans phenomenon, has been captured and presented in other parts of the country; the HONK! Festival in Somerville, Massachusetts was started by the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band. Asheville, North Carolina has the Asheville Second Line Band, which marches at parades and other local events. Oakland, California has a growing Mardi Gras celebration including parades organized by the Oakland Second Line Project and the Brass Boppers. In Duluth, Minnesota The Magic Smelt Puppet Troupe hosts their annual "Run, Smelt, Run!" second line parade every spring to celebrate the smelt run. A Second Line parade was featured in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die.

Reporter Emily Woodruff shares weekly updates and insights on local health news, including COVID coverage and medical research. A grassroots effort to support independent New Orleans restaurants during the coronavirus shutdowns has come to an end, though its blueprint is now being applied to other parts of the city’s cultural landscape. Epidemics from yellow fever and cholera to the 1918 flu pandemic have tragically impacted New Orleans over the past 300 years. These periods of crisis have had a profound impact on the economic and emotional well-being of the city and region. As the most significant public health crisis in over a century, the COVID-19 pandemic is no different. The city has endured a heartbreaking loss of human life, the interruption of cherished traditions, and deep economic hardship.

He began his artistic practice as a landscape painter and over the years has transitioned into a variety of subjects that investigate the human condition. Sean is a self-taught artist who utilizes oil and acrylic paints, and collage materials. Sean’s mixed media piece, “Unresolved Grief” was featured in Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative as a part of the organization's efforts to increase emotional awareness of mental health issues. In 2019 Sean was accepted into the Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. In 2020, Sean completed a 5 month residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. In 2021 Sean completed residency at Stoveworks in Chattanooga, TN. Coupled with his time as a health educator, he has led art classes that focus on helping students find their own creative voice through journal and mask making.

In the span of seven weeks, the effort brought in approximately $1 million in donations, which paid for more than 100,000 meals and snacks for healthcare workers. At one point, the group was spending close to $30,000 daily at local restaurants, buying several thousand meals, snacks and coffees from a rotating collection of them each day. African and African-American traditions continued throughout the "Code Noir" and Jim Crow eras in New Orleans. African-Americans formed Benevolent Societies and "Social, Aid & Pleasure Clubs" because white Insurance companies often refused to cover free people of color and/or the formerly enslaved. SAPCs assisted members through illness and supported families with burial costs for deceased members. This is a carry-over from African traditions that believed in celebrating the member's spirit leaving the body to return to the ancestors and God.

It's part of a public art campaign from Feed the Front Lines NOLA to boost spirits and support artists during the coronavirus fight. Due to this print being part of a campaign, orders will be printed on a weekly basis not including shipping policy days. Additional second lines, large or small, may be held for any event which people think merits hiring a parading band for such a style of celebration, including weddings and opening of businesses. It’s in our DNA as New Orleanians to be together, that is why this current crisis has hit us especially hard since ‘doing our part’ means staying home. However, there are essential workers on the front lines fighting this pandemic relentlessly, and need our help. Sofia Serves is an initiative from Sofia NOLA to help support Doctors, Nurses, and frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19.

The death rate and the isolation caused by the pandemic made it difficult to pay proper respect to those who passed away. Local embalmers like Stephanie Simon of Rhodes Funeral Home faced long hours, loneliness, and exhaustion as they confronted a crisis that seemed to have no end. Cynthia Lee Sheng had only been Jefferson Parish president for two months before the diagnosis of a parish resident on March 9, 2020, necessitated a crisis response. She discusses the delicate balance of economic realities with public health concerns throughout the pandemic—a challenge that has tested local leaders nationwide.

Kyle Fehrenbach, a sound engineer who was laid off from multiple jobs with the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide, delivers ready-to-eat meals for medical staff at Ochsner Medical Center West Bank in New Orleans. Kyle Fehrenbach, a sound engineer who was laid off from multiple jobs with the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide, delivers ready-to-eat meals for over-worked medical staff at Oschner Medical Center West Bank . Then he got the call from Devin De Wulf, who wanted to send more than 100 meals to the medical providers working in New Orleans hospitals during the COVID-19 crisis.

When Louis Armstrong left King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band to form his own band in 1925, he expanded the solo abilities of the cornet and trumpet. Whereas Bolden, Keppard, and Oliver were known for their rough and affected sounds (through mutes or wah-wahs), Armstrong developed a more pure cornet and trumpet tone, without affects or vocalization. His sound helped define the more modern jazz of the late 1920s, and was one of the most imitated jazz styles for decades. Armand J. Piron, leader of his New Orleans Orchestra, was one of the few to use a violin as a lead voice in an orchestra setting.
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