Volunteering keeps Norman busy

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, April 13, 1999

By DEBORAH CORRAO / L’Observateur / April 13, 1999

RESERVE – Wendell M. Norman Sr., is a familiar face at the St. John ParishLibrary’s LaPlace branch. He’s served as a circulation clerk there morethan two years. He is also the owner of Norman’s Grasscutting Services.But his volunteer work is almost a full-time job as well. He is a memberof the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Reserve, where he serves as a Son of Fellowship assisting the pastor with his duties. He works as avolunteer with the Kairos Prison Ministry and Hospice of Greater New Orleans, and he works with children and youth in his neighborhood in Reserve in the Adopt-a-Road program cleaning streets between East 12th and East 31st.

A native of Wallace, Norman, 47, is a member of the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

In his spare time he enjoys working with children, basketball, jogging and hunting.

Norman and his wife Jeanne, who works for Cox Communications, have three children and four grandchildren.

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