In October, Literacy AmeriCorps kicked off the year with three service project. The first took place at the Gretna Heritage Festival where member help the YES! Learning Center publicizes their westbank location and conduct community outreach. In addition, to helping, the community learn about services and the literacy issue in New Orleans members got to listen to good music and eat some great food! The second event was held in partnership with Rebuilding Together New Orleans. Members helped rebuild two different homes. They worked on everything from scraping paint to priming the siding on a house. Rebuilding Together had people working on over 25 different houses around the city. Finally, members headed out to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at City Park and helped out by pulling weeds, planting, and cutting down some very overgrown ginger. The garden is maintained by volunteers only and appreciated the help. When they were done, Members were treated to free admission to the New Orleans Museum of Art.