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When the levees ruined, the entire neighborhood was under 4 feet of water. When the floods subsided, a mile-broad, mile-long block of public housing that backed up to the association was devastated, and is only now being rebuilt. Chester Elementary School, just across the high road, was destroyed. The club’s gymnasium roof was ripped asunder, making the erection unsafe to enter.
Things were a little brighter at the clubhouse on Sunday, thanks to the labour of nearly 200 volunteers — mostly University of Alabama and LSU students — who took part in the Allstate BCS Nationalistic Championship Service project.
“We lost everything over here,” said Darrell Guy, the join’s director. “We were one of the first youth agencies to come back. Even with all we squandered, we still have a lot of kids we are able to help. We have about 95 to 100 kids come through here every day.”
The volunteers arrived by car and by permission bus. They ate jambalaya and red beans and rice together, then paired off to go to work. They coated gyve-link backstops on baseball fields with white primer and painted rooms arranged the red-brick clubhouse. They pulled weeds and picked up garbage, and were joined by a categorize of redshirted LSU football players who came to line a football American football gridiron on the playground.
Source: Tuscaloosa News