Drilling this week in Shreveport’s Highland neighborhood brought a community center one step closer to becoming a hub able to help residents during a weather disaster.
The Highland Center now has its own water well, part of the neighborhood hub’s conversion into one of Shreveport’s first Community Lighthouses. Along with solar panels soon to be operational there, the Highland Center now is better equipped to serve as a community shelter during disasters and power outages.
For about two years, North Louisiana Interfaith has been working to add Shreveport to a statewide network of “community lighthouses,” a program aimed at assuring neighborhoods have safe places powered by solar panels which can operate during disasters and major power outages. The first two lighthouses in the city at Highland Center and Morning Star Baptist Church now have been equipped with solar panels and, as of this week, both also have on-site water wells…