[StBernard] Jumonville Bouncing Back

[Westley Annis]

I respect Mr. Boss' decision to come back & am glad that his friends are all
in the parish. But all of our neighbors and friends are not coming back.

>From the 3600 block of Charles to the end, I know of only 2 people who MAY

come back. The main part of what made Chalmette special to me was my
neighbors.  And without neighbors, I have no neighborhood.
 
Syl
 
-----Original Message-----

Another Jumonville Plantation resident, Kevin Boss, said his elderly mother
in Arabi isn't returning, and he understands why. After all, her home
flooded for Hurricanes Betsy, Katrina and Rita. 

But Boss, 47, couldn't fathom the idea of leaving. So he talked his wife
into coming back to the flooded home on Etienne Drive they built 11 years
ago. 

"I don't want to go anywhere else and start over," said Boss, a supervisor
at CII Carbon in Chalmette now living in a trailer city for employees in
Houma. "I feel sorry for the people who are leaving because they are leaving
behind everything they had all their life. 

"I work here and all my friends are here. Why am I going to move somewhere
else and come here and visit all my friends on the weekend?"