Front Street Ambassadors to Replace Welcoming Committee

HUMAN wrote:

EVERYONE ARE EQUAL IN GOD'S EYES

SOL wrote:

Mr Bernbaum, with all due respect sir, how do I know you are not some crazy person who would stalk me and my pet cat, Roger if I give you my telephone number? I can see it now, a crazy stalker at my window watching me take a bath and reading my Emeril cook book. I'm afraid to give out too much personal information in this day and age with crazies running around with guns and knives and bows and arrows and what not. I do appreciate your concern though. Maybe I'll just join one of those single clubs where I can meet a nice Jewish girl. Then all I would have to worry about is her father.

Eyes on Natchitoches wrote:

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Actually, not board....spent the afternoon searching second hand stores for the gold 100% polyester blazers.....
Mystery not all see Natchitoches through the chamber's kaliedoscope.

fly on the wall wrote:

all you people on this site need to get a grip. the crime rate in this town is bad compared to the big cities in our state we are the worst and the mayor and other cronnies that work for him want to keep it quite as not to scare off all those people who they want to retire here. a big fat joke if people only knew how bad every thing was here they would spend their money else where. whu would you want to live here yea it looks good but pull up the flooring and you can find more rot than a 100 yr old house has in the other parts of the state. and most of the history of this town is kept a big secret. they dont want people to know even the tourist to know that front street up washinton and down jefferson was nothing more than a cat house roe during the time of the river boats , we even had a china town and yea do you even know we have a jewish cemetary in this town no i dont think so the cob webs are many , if people would only go digging you would fine out so much about this place it would make you sick.

Joseph Bernbaum wrote:

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Send me your # and e-mail, be glad to provide a hookup. JB

Eyes on Natchitoches wrote:

So it has been determined...the 40's will be the official beverage of Natchitoches

Eyes on Natchitoches wrote:

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Mystery they both have their parts, but why is everything so secretive.....I mean, join the chamber and you get to see what they want you to see, and the city well that is an adventure in itself. Why can the numbers not be open and out there to be examined. Could it be that our government and leaders don't want the citizens that elected them to know what the numbers are? I mean when you put the numbers out there and let the citizens see how much the city spends on the CF, and let them compare that to fire and police protection, roads, etc., the town has a base of comparison. Having an informed citizenry is not a bad thing. Some folks might be interested in seeing where the sales tax revenue is coming from. Hmmm...how many tax dollars go into Front Street, how many come from Front Street. How many tax dollars go into Texas Street, how many are spent on Texas Street. No one is saying it has to be equal, but people get upset when the questions are asked.....and that is what is ashamed. I have been told with Mr. Nick, and a chamber membership, I will get a glimpse of the chamber's role. But my overall question is....what's the big secret? Someone else is asking the question about the civic center... and by the way is that the same civic center that is rented out to sell the mandated school uniforms, so parents don't go to local vendors who are here year round?

seesall wrote:

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You may as well give it up, Eyes! The questions you're asking probably have never been answered and probably never will. The Events Center, according to rumor, is eating their lunch in expenses. I'm sure they thought this was the "if you build it, they will come" scenerio, like in Field of Dreams. And, perhaps so, but it seems to me that trying to figure out how to pay for it AFTER it's built is a little late. The cash flow for that building should have been taken into consideration before they built it, not after they spent all the damn money! As for the "Front Street Projects"...you'll never know...that's Natchitoches.

Eyes on Natchitoches wrote:

People have on more than one occasion it has been suggested I offer no solutions for the problems plaguing Natchitoches….so I offer an answer,a weed and seed solution. First, we eliminate the Texas Street Welcoming Committee. The Texas Street area has become unsightly, crime ridden and dangerous. The displaced welcomers would be outfitted in matching gold 100% polyester blazers from a defunct Century 21 Realty office, relocated to Front Street, and be renamed “The Front Street Ambassadors” The Ambassadors would continue time proven tradition and ritual of saluting new comers, tourists and passer bys with their raised 40’s., welcoming all to the riverfront, demonstrating the friendliness and diversity of the community.