07/04/2009

DO YOU WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS? Our friends from Weed and Seed are providing leadership training to the Southeast community once a month, in the evenintg for the next several months. See the schedule and and topics below


DO YOU WANT TO BE A VENDOR AT THE EASTERN MARKET? All the details can be found at www.historiceasternmarket.org

ELM Street Facade Improvement Grants now available in the designated Elm Street Neighborhood. This may the last chance to take advantage of this very special state progam for neighborhood revitalization. More information below.

MANY THANKS TO M AND T BANK FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF THE INNER CITY GROUP


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  04/28/2009 - Arbor Day in the Southeast. The Inner City Group, Lancaster Weed and Seed, SACA Youth Build, the Parks and Recreation Department, local school children and dignitaries gathered on April 24, Arbor Day
 
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  04/18/2009 - The Pennsylvania Great American Clean Up, Saturday, April 18 Thanks to all the volunteers, organizations and block groups who helped to clean up the Southeast.
 The Southeast Lancaster Weed and Seed and the Inner City Historic Southeast Elm Street program invited citizens of the Southeast to join in volunteering time and energy to improve our community by cleaning up the parks of the Southeast
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  04/23/2009 - Ewell/Gantz Playground Gets a Face Lift.
 The Inner City and the City of Lancaster have come together with local residents to renew the Ewell/Gantz pocket playground at South Christian and North streets. The playground is located next door to the site of a tragic fire last month that took the life of young Victor Weiss.
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  02/11/2009 - Weed and Seed Basketball Team Headed for the Playoffs. Update: They are the champions!!!
 
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  04/11/2009 - Community Easter Egg Hunt Sponsored by the Queen of Sheba Temple #137, the Conestoga Lodge of Elks #140 and the Lancaster Weed and Seed Program was a big success, despite the rain.
 Many thanks to all the volunteers who made this annual event a great success despite the bad weather.
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  04/23/2009 - DMC LAW ENFORCEMENT/YOUTH FORUM. April 3. More than 180 youth and 30 police officers and officials gathered for annual learning event.
  More than 180 youth from local schools, many from Southeast Lancaster, joined together with about 30 local police officers and officials for a one day event on mutual education and crime prevention. The purpose of this annual event is to strengthen positive relationships between the youth of our communities and the law enforcement officers who patrol our streets.
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  04/07/2009 - Mental Health Awareness Day is May 9, 2009
 Safe Schools/Healthy Students is partnering with Lancaster MH/MR & Weed & Seed for the 1st Mental Health Awareness Day. If anyone is interested in participating in the event please contact the SSHS office- 717-396-6501, we are looking for volunteers from our SBBH health agencies to provide information to parents and answer questions/concerns they may have about mental health and accessing services. This is going to be a great event to promote Mental Health Awareness to local families and children. Event: MH Awareness Day Date: May 9, 2009 Time: 11 am – 1pm Location: Roberto Clemente Park (SE section of Lancaster City)
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  02/10/2009 - Southeast Safe Coalition Addresses Citizen Security
 40 community from the Southeast gather monthly to learn about and discuss issues that relate to Citizen Security in the Southeast
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  12/19/2008 - A TALL TEAM CHRISTMAS AT CRISPUS ATTUCKS
 
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  01/19/2009 - TALL Team Helps Celebrate Martin Luther King Day.
 The Lancaster State Weed and Seed's TALL Team had a full two days of activities in the community in celebration of Martin Luther King Day
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  03/04/2009 - Ready2Work: 300 Graduates at March 4 Ceremony.
 The Ready2Work Program graduated 300 now ready to work persons at a ceremony at Liberty Place on March 4, 2009
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  11/21/2008 - Lancaster County Community Fund Awards Inner City with MOD Grant
 The Inner City Group received a $20,000 grant on november 21, 2008 from the Lancaster County Community Foundation. This award, announced by Shanon-Solava Reid, Program Director at the Community Foundation, will support the implementation of the 2008-2013 Strategic Plan recently adopted by the ICG Board of Directors
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  11/17/2008 - HURRAY! SOUTH DUKE STREET IMPROVEMENT PROJECT COMPLETED!
 
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  02/20/2009 - Community Responds to Tragic Fire, Weiss Family Trust at Belco Crdit Union can receive donations for emergency help for the family
 In the wake of the tragic fire that took the life of young Victor Weiss, the community has responded with care and concern for the family.
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  07/22/2008 - BELCO CREDIT UNION COMES TO THE SOUTHEAST
 
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WINTER IMAGINATIONS. With our newly renovated main street wrapped in the dreary colors of the winter sky, it is tempting for us to take the invitation of the snow, cold, longer nights and gray skies of the winter season to hibernate. At the Inner City Group, we see it differently. This winter season we are imagining what seeds of community development can be planted for a harvest of peace and prosperity when the colors brighten and the earth gets green in Spring and Summer.
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The Beehel Harambee Historical Services is making progress on creating a Vision Center to promote Churchtowne Development
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