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Ferriday denied Main Street designation this year
Published Saturday, November 22, 2008
FERRIDAY — The Ferriday Downtown Revitalization Foundation got word about their Louisiana Main Street application — and it’s “maybe next year.”
The foundation has set a goal of having the town declared a Main Street community for several years.
But in a letter from the Louisiana Office of Cultural Development that commended them for a “well-thought out and complete written application and presentation,” the group was told — while the Main Street program hopes to receive future applications from them — it wasn’t enough.
“I was very disappointed,” said Ferriday Downtown Revitalization Foundation Vice-Chair Carol Tomko, who spearheaded the Main Street application.
The Louisiana Main Street program has the goal of restoring the historic economic districts of rural Louisiana.
The Main Street designation would have opened the opportunity for the town to apply for certain grants.
Part of the problem may have been that — at this point — the project has not received enough practical support, Tomko said.
“We have got everything in place, the downtown, the preservation ordinance, the historic district, but we don’t have anybody moving into the buildings or renovating them,” she said.
Even though the town’s application was denied, constructive criticism never hurt anyone, McGlothin said.
“I am disappointed, but we knew going in that there were some towns that it was their second or third time to apply,” he said. “I feel like those other guys had had a better shot at it than us, but I’m not going to begrudge them for getting it.”
Currently the city is entered in the cleanest city contest and has applied to be a declared cultural district with the state, McGlothin said.
Cultural districts are given tax incentives to spark economic revitalization.
But this week’s news doesn’t mean that the town’s Main Street ambitions are dead.
“We will have to roll our sleeves up and do a little more work,” McGlothin said. “This is a minor setback in a bigger plan.”
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Posted by Muggle (anonymous) on November 22, 2008 at 12:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)
That's ashame! Just when things are looking better in Ferriday,,,,,along comes a blow like this!
Thanks for all your efforts Glen and Carol! Maybe next year will bring better news!
Posted by Hardcorps (anonymous) on November 22, 2008 at 11:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Ferriday is Louisiana's Fayette. As soon as anyone did anything to improve it's sorry state thugs would devitalize it. Give it all to the thugs like we did Fayette and build a bypass around it.
Posted by pedro (anonymous) on November 24, 2008 at 2:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There is a good part of Ferriday, the west side. Let Glen stay in office for a few terms and they will see change if he can get through the mounds of red tape. You got to remember what happen the past four years when the fine citizens voted that wacko in as mayor. What a joke that was. No telling how much money he left with. Scott free. That burns me up..All that money for the traffic tickets and who knows what else. Did gene ever pay the percentage of money from traffic tickets...that was way past due.... to the parish or whatever? That's been real quite unless I missed something
Posted by mscoody (anonymous) on November 25, 2008 at 12:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This has totally "nothing to do with this article?" I would just like to get your take on this matter. Two young immature adults have been married for several years. They have a daughter and she also has a son living with them. The man has been abusive to the wife and kids, mentally and physically for sometime. The wife is afraid to leave because he has made her believe she is unworthy and he will get the kids, he screamed and yelled all the lies that he was going to tell to make sure he got the daughter. He is not supporting the family and now they have split up. He is a pill head. Now here is where your opinion comes in. He is a piece of "you know what", he is messed up on pills, gets mad and runs off. He decides he wants out of the marriage, he goes to the police and tells them that the wife is on drugs, that she tried to kill him, that she ran off and abandon the kids, and alot more. All of the allegations are untrue, in fact he is the one that did all of these things. He somehow manages, based on these lies, to convince the police to help him get a restraining order and they came to the house and took the daughter. Now he has the daughter. They go to court, the judge issued a mutual restraining order telling him to stay away from her until they go to court. He asked if he could go to her house and get his stuff, the judge said absolutely not. He gets Ferriday police to go with him to her house anyway to "get his stuff", the whole time he is there he is steady mouthing off to her. She told the cops he was not supposed to be there, but they still alowed him to get his stuff. She is not financially able to get a lawyer, the court did not appoint one. What is she supposed to do, I have run out of ideas.
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