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Just came across this article from 2008 about the Just The Right Attitude Food Bank.  It is one of my favorites so I thought I would share it.  Here is an excerpt from the article that is available in the Nola.com’s archives…

Woman’s bad times help others

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Sheila Stroup

Just the Right Attitude is more than a food bank in eastern New Orleans.

“Debra South gives out everything from hot meals to hugs,” Ray Reggie said. “She has a personal rapport with everyone. She understands what it means to need help.”

Ray Reggie (now Chairman of the Board of JTRA), managing partner with Premier Promotions, serves on the board of Just the Right Attitude along with Troy Duhon, president of Premier Automotive Group.

In 2002, when the men heard about the little food pantry Debra was operating out of her garage, they decided to offer her a space on the second floor of a car dealership. And Just the Right Attitude began to grow.

“We love her cause,” Ray Reggie said. “Everybody wanted to help.”

— Growing out of need —

The idea for the community resource began a decade ago with a trip Debra made to the food stamp office. She was a mother in her 30s fighting ovarian and thyroid cancer, and she’d had to retire from her accounting job. Her first husband had taken off, and she was surviving on disability checks and help from family and friends.

She didn’t make enough money to feed her son and daughter, but she was rudely told she made too much to qualify for food stamps.

“I felt so humiliated,” she said.

She promised God that if she got better she would find a way to help people who were hungry and struggling.

From that promise, and a few shelves of canned goods, grew a United Way agency that doles out hope and 2.5 million pounds of food a year.

When Ray Reggie asked a man what he’d do without Debra’s food bank, he answered, “I would be hungry.”

— Place to get a hand —

In April, Just the Right Attitude, with the help of Ray Reggie, moved into two buildings next to Toyota of New Orleans on the I-10 Service Road. And since then, Debra has been giving out lots of hot meals, boxes of staples and hugs….

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I think it is good to remind myself why the work I do with JTRA is so important and this does. Have a Blessed day.

–Ray Reggie–

Isn’t it interesting the different ways that people view things.  People are screaming all over the world about how awful the graffiti is.  They are making laws and arresting people.  They are writing editorials and articles.  And some are using it as a family tribute.  I guess it just goes to show…it is all in how you look at things.

The fact that this family uses graffiti as a way to pay tribute to their loved ones that have passed away is amazing.  What an honor to those that are gone and what a loving remembrance to the ones they left behind.

Check it out!

If you have ever thought about trying your hand at writing graffiti this awesome tutorial and tips on Graffiti Masterclass is a great place to start!  Learning to write graffiti and do it respectfully is not difficult.  Check it out here! Shoot us some of your work…we’ll show it off for you!  We would love to see your graffiti.

With the huge amount of misconception about graffiti out there, I would like to make it clear what this website is and is not about. It is unfortunate that it is necessary in today’s world to defend any type of creative expression, but it is.

This site is being created for my son, Dakota. He enjoys drawing graffiti a great deal. He is not a gang member. He is a child. A teenage one, but still a child. He draws on paper and his own property only. He does not draw to mark his territory. It is a way that expresses my son to the world and that is what Dakota’s Art is about.

Dakota’s Art is growing and will include a multitude of topics from graffiti to music to who knows what else. Hope you will watch it grow while I watch my son grow.

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