CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Our First Meeting

    If your organization is interested in working with CenLamar in order to raise awareness for a specific cause, to attract volunteers, and to collaborate with others, please let us know by leaving a comment with your e-mail address and any other relevant contact information. Already, we have been contacted by five different non-profit organizations about joining forces. The next step will be for all of us to sit down and discuss logistics, which means we’ll need to begin planning our first round-table meeting. Only non-profit organizations (501c3s) will qualify.

  • CenLamar To Become Online Hub For Social Activism

    CenLamar has changed, yet again, into a new type of website. One year ago, when I launched CenLamar, my intention was to create an interactive conversation about the problems facing Alexandria; today, what began as a personal blog has metamorphosed into a community-wide online destination. During the past two months, I have been thinking about what to do with this site, how to best harness the traffic that it receives, and how to keep up the conversation. And then a good friend of mine, Daniel Smith, gave me an idea. Daniel and I had been discussing social activism in Central…

  • Changing CenLamar

    First of all, many thanks to the readers of Cenla Focus for naming CenLamar the Best Website of the Year. I once again apologize that the blog has not been updated as consistently as it was a few months prior. But hopefully, that’ll change soon. Throughout the next few weeks, CenLamar will undergo yet another series of changes– changes, I hope, that will inspire a renewed conversation about our community. This weekend, Geoff Clegg and I will work on Phase One. By Monday of next week, you should have an idea of how this transformation can affect our conversation, and…