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continue with stories from local businesses laying groundwork for
a secure economy.In St. Bernard Parish Campo's Marina is a secret sweet spot for recreational and sport fishermen. Its proprietors, including FJ Campo, were swamped with 13 feet of water, surge from the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. Some of the Campo family live in a concoction of trailers across the Yscloskey Highway from the dock. From his boat the Karen Susan, shrimper Paul Trosclair sees frustrating prospects in Louisiana these days. Entrepreneurs have found the storm a good foundation for new growth. Shelly & Blain Denison started a lawn care business, often serving absent homeowners still coming back. They cut the grass and keep watch on property like neighbors would. 
In education, in government, in health care, in criminal justice
– public systems on which residents rely are making do with
patchwork resources.Dr. Bryan Bertucci is a one-man force for medical care in St. Bernard Parish. He helped start the only health clinic there after his practice flooded, and the hospital announced it would not reopen. As a juvenile court advocate, Gralen Mitchell monitors kids who have cases pending – and fills in the gaps for their families. He’s got a unique view into how Tulane environmental law professor Oliver Houck wrote an article about how to hatch a better future for all of South Louisiana post-storms. He found hope in the darkness in the fall of 2005 – when, without street signs and traffic lights to guide them, citizens took traffic control – and progress – into their own hands. We’ll hear a story of residents building their own progress to end the hour.  When
letter carrier Ike
Richardson came back to his
Broadmoor route after the storm, residents like
Virginia
Saussy
welcomed the return to normal he represented.
Since the storm, Ike and Virgina have forged a stronger friendship
– and a valuable underpinning for recovery.
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