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A day in the life of a favorite Old Metairie postman — there’s even a path dedicated to him BY MADDIE SCOTT
dery machine in April after her husband, Carl Grass, 84, built the pathway. The two have known Egan since they moved into their home in 1991. Egan is a delight, Lynda Grass said, the type of After 33 years of delivering mail in Metairie, Earl person who always smiles and won’t pass you without Egan recently stumbled upon something he’d never saying hello. seen before. “People say, ‘I don’t even know who my mailman Egan, 60, stood in front of a house he’d visited nearly is,’ ” she said. “Or ‘I don’t even know my mailman’s every day since becoming a letter carrier in 1987 at name.’ Earl is a real part of the community, of this 23 years old. A brand new pebble pathway led to the area.” lime-green door, and a yellow flag read “Postman’s Egan walks on the path every visit, Carl Grass said, Path” in blue letters. An embroidered mailman figure but UPS and FedEx workers cut across the lawn inwas labeled “Earl.” “It was the coolest thing,” Egan said. “I remember stead, a difference he’s observed on the doorbell camjust smiling and thinking how great it was that they era. It really is Egan’s pathway, after all. actually made a separate path just for the mailman to “My own special spot,” Egan said. cut through.” The Grasses are only a drop in the bucket of the vast Lynda Grass, 83, handmade the flag with her embroi- connections Egan has formed on his daily route across
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Earl Egan walks a special path from the street to the front of the Grasses’ home. Old Metairie. He’s attended block parties, watched neighborhood children grow up and then attended their weddings. He’s a chit-chat connoisseur. He’s a
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More than 70 pediatric patients at Ochsner Children’s Hospital got a boost from Walmart employees, who shopped for $8,000 worth of toys and games from 17 Walmart neighborhood markets and seven superstores to provide the kids with some summer fun. Child life
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Jeremiah Griggs sits on his brother Elijah Grigg’s hospital bed as they receive toys.
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