Disaster center opens in St. Francisville

• Advocate business staff
• Published: Sep 23, 2008 - UPDATED: 12:30 p.m.

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A Mobile Disaster Recovery Center (MDRC) opened today in St. Francisville to help residents affected by recent hurricanes. This makes 15 centers open to date.

The center will be open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. through Thursday. The mobile center is located at the West Feliciana Health Unit at 5154 Burnett Road.

At the centers, residents and business owners can meet with representatives from the state, FEMA, the U.S. Small Business Administration and Red Cross for information. Applicants can get disaster loan applications and information and drop off completed applications.

Applicants don’t have to visit centers in their own parishes; they can go to the centers nearest to where they work or where they are currently staying.

The other 14 centers, open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. are:

• Ascension Parish: Old All Star Building, 13192 Airline Highway, Gonzales.
• Assumption Parish: Napoleonville Community Center, 4770 La. 1, Napoleonville.
• Avoyelles Parish: Avoyelles Parish Shopping Center next to Popeyes Chicken, 816 Tunica Drive East, Marksville.
• East Baton Rouge Parish: Louisiana Leadership Institute, 5763 Hooper Road, Baton Rouge.
• Iberville Parish: Iberville Parish Library, 24605 J. Gerald Berret Blvd., Plaquemine.
• Jefferson Parish, Avondale Park, 709 S. Jamie Blvd., Avondale.
• Lafourche Parish: Old Wal-Mart, 4876 La. 1, Mathews.
• Livingston Parish: Old State Police Camp, Classroom No. 2, 11845 Buddy Ellis Road, Denham Springs.
• Orleans Parish: New Orleans Recreation Department, Community Center in Algiers, 6600 Belgrade St., New Orleans.
• Orleans Parish: Main Library, 219 Loyola Ave., New Orleans.
• Pointe Coupee Parish: Scott Civic Center, 1200 Major Parkway, New Roads.
• St. Helena Parish: 247 Industrial Park Road, Greensburg.
• St. Tammany Parish: Public Works Building, 1100 Mandeville High Blvd., Mandeville.
• Terrebonne Parish: Old Bingo Hall, 805 Barrow St., Houma.
• West Baton Rouge: Old City Hall, 750 N. Jefferson St., Port Allen.