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Our Community Advocates are a special group of volunteers who support Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center by working as part of a group to raise awareness about their local Neighborhood Donor Center, encouraging their community to Commit for Life.
Their annual training was held on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, and included a "photo booth" ice breaker!
To learn more about volunteering with The Blood Center, please visit www.giveblood.org/volunteer
Of all the towns in North Dakota, I think Goodrich is easily in my top three. Why? It’s for kind of a strange reason.
Twelve years (right down to the month, if I recall) before I took these photos, I was in Goodrich but it looked a lot different. It’s one of my few good memories of being at boarding school. I was a senior. It was the fall of 2006. A gorgeous fall day. We were going to do community service - just something we did at the school. And that day we were sent to Goodrich - the whole school. Back then, Goodrich had more buildings on main street. And some of us painted them and hauled off debris and mostly goofed around and observed the goings on of a tiny dying town.
I may be the only one that went there that day that was so impacted. It was just one of those perfect ND fall days and we got there firs thing in the morning. As I walked main street while my classmates were goofing off I crested the hill of the main street and saw a little lake sparkling off in front of me, dotting the prairie like a jewel. There was just something about it. Something about the old buildings. The few townspeople out and about. Some were eating gat a restaurant called the Harvester. It looked kind of new, actually (back then). I was captured by the magic of Goodrich and of the beautiful fall Nd day and my classmates swarming around me kind of faded. We had the run of the town - something that was so extremely rare that it may be the reason I remember the day so well. The school was so oppressive that I still can’t believe we were left to wander. But where could we go? The town was so quiet and dying. There wasn’t much trouble we could get into.
That day as always stuck in my mind and I knew I had to go back. And it had to be on a beautiful fall day. Finally, twelve years later, I came back. But it was largely too late. I captured the town the best I could - but the most memorable main street buildings were gone. Torn down completely. You can see them on google earth street view - they were amazing. A little grocery store and more. But I still have my memories. They’re bright and crisp and not bad. Which was unusual for that point in my life. It’s what I think of when I think of fall in ND. Goodrich. Quiet. And that shining jewel of a lake on the edge of town that you can see from the top of main street. There’s just something about it…
So join me. Join me for what’s left of Goodrich I’ve split it into two parts.
Time to walk main in 2018. It looks completely different than it did twelve years back. Back in an empty field there was a big set of buildings - one was a grocery store. They were abandoned I think even when I was there in 2006. I probably wanted to explore them even then. I’ve never changed in my love of abandoned places. But what I can remember is that the guys in my school especially were being used for routine labor and maintenance around this set of buildings and around main street. Again, not sure what or why though. Anyway - you can see these amazing buildings from google street view shots on my blog!
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helping the community at aspen copse dorset uk
Planting more crocuses to complete the circle for next year.
Kasib Abdullah’s New Visions of Africa Restaurant and Believers United for Progress teamed up to feed people in need, and Liliana Marin informed older residents and people with disabilities about applying for medical benefits. Thanks also to New Visions of Africa employee Monica Montague, volunteers Angela Gamble and Tre Tomlinson; and Caroline Tybout and Aly Premji, who helped Ms Marin.
13 Tradies volunteers spent 10 amazing days in Cambodia as part of our Tradies Schools For Cambodia program. They visited Toul Sleng Prison, Angkor Wat, the Killing Fields, a silk factory, the Bio Sand Water Filter Project and the Kauk Prech village where the school will be built (among many other places!).
They had the experience of a lifetime and were overwhelmed by the generosity, gratitude and spirit of the Cambodian people.
A special thank you goes to Richard Dwyer, Wayne Hester and the team at Samaritan's Purse for being our partner in building the school and for organising this fantastic trip.
Shinn Photo won best of Show at the 2009 Reedley Fiesta Art Show! The print shown below the award, titled Sasquatch Sunrise, is the winning entry. Photo (and photo in the photo) by Andrew Shinn
Thanks to Harry Deed for his photos from Ghana Orphanage, Teaching and Community Health Project. Find out more at www.frontiergap.com
Volunters and People Donating Food at the Millions Meals Marathon at Pasadena City College Lot 1 on November 23, 2013.
Community Day was the culmination of BAMPFA's Grand Opening Week. The museum doors were thrown open for twelve hours to mark this historic occasion. Visitors got a first look at our inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life. The day included DJs spinning records, dance performanes, a weaving workshop, and other impromptu happenings throughout the building, organized by artist David Wilson. Photo: Joseph Driste.
June 20, Philadelphia --
Council members and community leaders announced an agreement at Iglesias Gardens on June 20 that Philadelphia city government would buy back over 90 community gardens and green spaces currently held by bank liens. City Councilmembers Kendra Brooks, Darrell L. Clarke, Jamie Gauthier and Quetcy M. Lozada spoke at the event in front of dozens of community garden activists.
According to the Philly Voice (tinyurl.com/4hv42b4p), a failed effort to raise money for the School District of Philadelphia in 1997 resulted in city officials selling off 30,000 city-owned land parcels to U.S. Bank. Though it did not solve the funding problem for the District, the properties have been held by bank liens for more than two decades and are currently being sold off individually at sheriff's sales.
Many of the lots, which have sat dormant and neglected for years, were taken up by community residents who provide upkeep and maintenance. As the communities do not own the properties, they are often left with limited notification if the land is being sold at a sheriff's sale.
The agreement which costs the city $1 million would allow the city to reacquire some of the remaining properties and work with City Council and other neighborhood stakeholders to return the plots of land to the communities they're located in.
#RestoreCommunityLand
Lafayette, Colorado. I was in Urgent Care recently and thought I'd just document where I'd been,,,,,
Barton Community College Cheer Team during the Basketball games vs Seward
County Community College on 01-22-14 at the Barton Gym on the campus of Barton Community College in Great Bend, KS
May 23, 2009 - Duck Party after four months. Dinner, walk to the community Gardens, dessert at English Bay, watched video of Paris.
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