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apartment with a roommate.
Ihe average rent means a
worker would have to make
$13.15 an hour to afford a
two-bedroom apartment.
“How many people make
that? Not that many" said
Judy Swanson, executive
director of the Grand Strand
Housing and Development
Corporation. “Peojde working
in the hospitality industry
and in our stores - they may
make $9 or $10 an hour. Not
that many of them make that
kind of wage.”
Swanson said there aren’t
many places left to house the
people that keep the Grand
Strand’s tourism economy
going.
“I probably get five calls a
day fiom people who cannot
find a place that they can
afibrd to live ... there’s not
enou^ apartments or houses
that are priced that an aver
age person can afford,”
Swanson said.
Just a decade ago, the
Grand Strand had an apart
ment boom and affordable
rentals wei'e available. But
developer's are now building
condominiums and rapidly
increasing land prices have
led owners to turn existing
apartment complexes into
condos.
Swanson and other's are
working to build more hous
ing at affordable prices, but
they stru^le to find available
land.
“West of the {Intracoastal)
Waterway, there’s very little
land available that’s not
owned by large companies,
said Cliff Rudd, board mem
ber for the Affordable Hoirsing
Coalition of South Carolina. ‘1
don’t know how to manufac
ture more land. I’m not sure
what the solution of the prob
lem is really”
Citrus cleaners work wonders at home
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cleaning agent. Pure lemon
juice is great for removing
stains on many of the new
solid surface countertops.
Best of all it is nontoxic - and
you can even drink it.
Lemon rind (peel): Not
lemon oil and not lemon juice.
The peel is what were talking
about here.
Grab a lemon and rub the
whole piece of fiiiit firmly
between your hands. The
warmth of your hands and
the pressure you apply to the
skin will extract lemon oil
fiom its skin and your hands
will smell wonderful. That’s
why a lemon rind is so
absolutely perfect as a
deodorizer for your garbage
disposal. In this case it would
not be a cleaner, but a deodor
izer instead!
Drop ihe rind down the dis
poser and in no time the fi^a-
grance of lemon will perme
ate the air around your sink.
Before using the lemon rind
we mix a cup of water and a
cup of vinegar (any kind) into
an ice tray and . ' r ^
make cubes. ’ •
We mix thek
water in with^^
the vinegar^
because the vine
gar wont fieeze on
its own.
By the way, be
sure to mark the ice
tray so that the next batch of
cold drinks doesn’t end up
with a surprise flavor. Drop
the cubes down the disposer
and the ice will coagulate
grease and oil and at the
same time will act as an abra
sive, instantly cleaning the
grease and grime in your dis
posal. We always follow this
procedure with at least on
half of a lemon rind. (You .can
use an orange rind if you like.)
Orai^: Orange oil, orange
juice and orange rinds can be
used for the same pmpose as
lemons. However, be careful
when shopping for citrus-
based cleaners at the store.
Often companies will adver
tise their cleaner as “Lemon
Cleaner” or “Orange Cleaner”
when in fact the active
cleaning ingredient is
not citric add at all,
but some oth^* chem
ical instead. This is
portant because
'dtric add is nontoxic
and often its pleasant
agrance is used in combina
tion with very dangerous
chemicals.
So, when you purchase a
product that says it is an
orange or lemon deaner, dou
ble-check to make sure what
that the active deaning ingre
dient really is. It’s better to be
safe than sorry
Tip: Bake orange or lemon
rinds in your oven on low.
Your home will smeU sweet
and fi'esh aU day long.
Sprinkle on a little dnnamon
if you like to step things up a
notch.
Grapefinait: Grapefinfit also
is a great deaner. Cut one in
half, dip the exposed fiuit in a
dish of salt and you have the
College students’ return to New Orleans
niE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS-For the first day of
school, Alissa Bigger was in an upbeat mood.
Hurricane Katrina clc»ed several major New
Orleans colleges last semester, but the start of
classes Tuesday at Tulane, Xavier and
Southern Universities marked a welcome
return to routine.
‘1 don’t think Tve ever been so exdted about
the first day of school. I’m so happy just to be
back,” said Bigger, a Tiflane sophomore. ‘It’s
provii^ there’s hope for the dty If the school
can run, we can go back to doing normal
things.”
None of the colleges are fully up to speed, and
it could be years—if ever— before all are bade
to their former size. But with their energy,
optimism and fiee-spending ways, college stu
dents could be just what this stru^ling dty
needs right now.
“Most of you have returned at a time when
many would have stayed away,” jazz trum
peter Wynton Marsalis said Monday ni^t at
an event on liflane’s campus welcoming back
the dty’s students, before playing a set with a
band that included his pianist fath^, Ellis.
“And now that you are here, you have the
opportunity to set a new tone, not only a new
tone for New Orleans, but... a new tone for our
nation”
Gov. Kathleen Blanco told the students their
return was a boost for the dty and asked them
to commit their summers to helping rebuild
the state.
‘Your state needs you,” she said. “We need
your minds, your good ideas, your contagious
energy, your spirit, to rebuild.”
The half-doz«i or so major colleges in the dty
have plenty of problems of their own.‘Many
dasses will be held in trailers and hotel con
ference rooms while they continue to repair of
hundreds of millicHis of dollars of campus dam
age, and overall enrcJlment is consida*ably
lower than before the storm They have laid off
hundreds of faculty and staff to try to meet
budgets.
Thlane senior Clay Kirby a mechanical engi
neering m^jor, will be able to graduate but was
set to protest cuts in his university’s engineer
ing program. ‘T. love Tblane, and this decision
is going to hurt Tblane,” said Kirby whose
family has sent four generations of students to
best marble deaner money
can buy
Caution here: don’t leave
the dtric add on the surface
any longer than it takes to
remove a stain. Flood with
fi'esh water and towel dry
immediately And don’t use
dtric add to dean marble
when it isn’t stain. If fi'esh,
dear water will do the trick
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used.
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Still, more students have returned than ini
tially feared—including 88 percent at
Thlane—offering New Orleans the prospect of
both an immediate economic boost and, down
the road, an educated work force to rebuild the
dty
An estimated 65,000 students attended New
Orleans colleges before the storm, and about
40,000 lived in the dty, according to the 2000
census.
Not only is TVilane the dty’s largest employ
er, but the reopening of the school will boost
New Orleans’ population 20 percent,
President Scott Cowen said. Before Katrina,
TVilane had 13,214 students—7,976 under
graduate and 5,238 in graduate sdiools.
In the short run, businesses fium bars to
bookstores should see a much-needed revenue
boost. In the long run, the dty hopes they will
stay after graduation as a skilled work force.
"It’s hard to imagine a m^or dty growing
and thriving without having universities,”
said Tim Ryan, an economist and chancellor of
the University of New Orleans. "They will
really give a breath of new life to the dty”
Some nei^iborhoods around TVilane and
Loyola are rdatively vibrant, but Xavier, the
coimtiys only historically black and Roman
Catholic college, is In an area of mostly aban
doned homes and stores. Dillard, near the
London Avenue Canal breach, was so badly
damaged that it will not reopen th^'e until at
least next fall. Even then, it will almost cer
tainly be an island of life in a sea of empty
nei^iborhoods.
Marsalis, co-chairman of the mayoral arts
commission that was announcing recommen-
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dations Tuesday for preserving the dty’s cul
tural heritage after Katrina, urged students to
commit themselves to rebuilding the dty
But he also had sharp words for the region’s
politidans, uiging to “realize the importance
of holding your elders and your peers account
able when it comes to rebuilding the dty of
New Orieans.”
“Our challenges is to rebuild a great dty in
these times of unbelievable political caliow-
ness and corruption,” he said.
On the Net:
Tulane: http:llwwwlulane£diil
Xavier: http:ffwwwjcula£ciu!
Southern: http.’Hwwwsunoedul
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