Main Street Newspapers

Main Street Newspapers:

"Hefting drywall and hauling out debris left by Hurricane Katrina was hard labor, but seeing how little had been done a year after the storm was like nothing Salemite Mary Catherine O'Neill experienced before.

'It's so crazy that even a year later there has been practically no rebuilding of businesses,' said O'Neill in a telephone interview Wednesday morning from Baton Rouge, La., her latest assignment with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps. 'The physical work we did in Bay St. Louis, Miss., was hard but emotionally, it was harder."