The announcement was made through a release from the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.
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Following their visit to New Orleans, President and Mrs. Bush will travel to Gulfport, Mississippi, to thank first responders at a Mississippi Emergency Management Agency event hosted by Governor Phil Bryant and First Lady Deborah Bryant, Governor Haley Barbour and Mrs. Marsha Barbour, along with the Katrina Remembrance Commission. While in the city, the President will deliver remarks on the region’s rebirth and what’s possible when citizens, city and corporate leaders all work together to lift up their communities and build back in ways that make them more innovative and positioned for economic growth. In 2006, on the first anniversary, President Bush and former Mayor Ray Nagin ate breakfast with locals at Betsy’s Pancake House on Canal Street.
7 p.m. August. 24: An interfaith service will be held at St. Louis Cathedral. The president also visited with music legend Fats Domino at his devastated home in the Lower 9th Ward and visited Habitat for Humanity’s Musicians Village. Her Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries has given millions to schools in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Clinton will attend the Power of Community event, the city’s main commemoration of the storm, on August 29.
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The study found that unlike before Katrina, when those most at risk were African-American, from low-income families, and living in rental housing, the more recent high-lead readings were not linked to race or income.
