From Colorado with love

Not all New Orleanians live in New Orleans. Some have always lived elsewhere but visit New Orleans when they can and, through some inexplicable bonding, come to feel something deeper and more personal than a tourist's connection while they're here.
So it is, apparently, with Kim Fancher, an interior designer of upscale vacation homes in the ski resort town of Frisco, Colo. Her visits to the city have made her a lover of New Orleans. She has ridden in the Orpheus and Zulu parades. A blue fleur-de-lis flag, the symbol of New Orleans' recovery, flies at her Colorado home.

Yet the condition of the city still breaks her heart. So Sunday she watched as volunteers unloaded two 18-wheelers stuffed with toilets, doors, windows, appliances and other building materials she arranged to have donated to the people of Chalmette by Colorado homebuilders.

from the Times Picayune