Posts Tagged ‘Community’
Community Powered Revitalization: Fall 2019 Recap
It’s been ten years since the first Euless Revitalization blitz. Even longer since the first two homes were repaired. Even though the program has only been called “Community Powered Revitalization” since 2011, it’s become an enduring part of the culture here in the Mid-Cities. That isn’t something we did. It’s something you built, year over…
Read MoreThe Pesinas: Fifty Years of Love and Memories
I feel two things as I step over the threshold into Rosa’s home: cramped and welcome. Because the living room has been converted into a spare bedroom, the front door is inaccessible. My camera equipment and I come through the back, squeezing through the space between the open door and the refrigerator. Perched in her…
Read MoreOperation Back 2 School 2019
Beginning on Monday, August 5 and concluding with a final distribution event one week later, Operation Back 2 School served 4,792 at-risk students in HEB ISD this year. The event itself – hosted on August 10 – served nearly 3,000 students and their families, connecting them with resources for ongoing support as well as giving…
Read MoreCommunity Powered Revitalization: Community Has No Boundaries
EULESS — There’s a hush in the air as Theresa and I sit for her interview; the kind of warm, buzzing silence that catches you off-guard in the suburbs of the mid-cities. We’re just around the corner from a major road that connects to a bustling highway, but you’d never know it. The hum of…
Read MoreWe Build Forever – Maintaining Community in the Booming City of Grapevine
GRAPEVINE — High above the Grapevine City Council chamber, carved into the wall where sitting officials cannot hope to miss it, sits the John Ruskin quote that has come to define the city’s policy: “When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use…
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