One of the masterminds behind Mardi Gras in New Orleans for the past 60 years is cooking up something fresh for Halloween. Blaine Kern, Sr., chairman of the famed float-building Blaine Kern Studios, had an idea for a new foundation to raise money for our city’s first responders including local police officers, fireman, and EMS workers. “About 68 percent of the police are not back in their homes,” Kern says. “They are living in trailers. These are the good guys, ...