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Carver's field of dreams brings hope to Ninth Ward community

By Anna Katherine Clemmons
Special to Page 2

Monday, December 22, 2008

Carver High School athletic director Brian Bordainick sat in the Rue de la Course coffee shop in downtown New Orleans at 6 a.m., six days before Christmas. The lanky, 23-year-old New York native was hunched over his computer, headphones on, trying to respond to the hundreds of e-mails he'd received in the past 24 hours, when an older man walked up to him. Without a hello, the man slapped a $20 bill onto the table. "I really believe in what you're doing," the man said. "Get this done." Then he w ...

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