11:50am | The community is invited to attend a Peace Garden recognition ceremony Saturday, August 28, 2010 from 10:00am to 12:00pm at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, DHHS Central Facilities Center, 1133 Rhea Street.
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The Peace Garden is a community grass roots project spearheaded by Long Beach Councilman Dee Andrews as a part of the Annual Long Beach Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Week. The recognition ceremony will focus on the neighborhood partner’s and the volunteers that assisted in creating the community project.
“When businesses and neighbors get involved with their local communities, we can really make things happen”, said Councilman Dee Andrews. “This Peace Garden has created opportunities for community ties and these efforts are an excellent example for neighborhoods across the country to follow because together we can do anything”.
The honorees include the Peace Garden Leadership Group, a youth group that has been working diligently on completing the project and the Neighborhood Services Bureau’s Neighborhood Partners Program, that provided a matching grant of $5,000 in goods and services to Central Neighborhood Advisory Committee and South Wrigley Neighborhood Advisory Group to purchase tool shed, hoses and tools to maintain the garden, garden design services, and lumber. Other honorees include Timothy Collier-The Green Plumber, Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network/Youth Opportunity Center, Azteca Landscape, Sully Miller Company Inc., Home Depot, State Farm Insurance, Connected Corridor, Sasha Sanno/Wrigley Garden/Long Beach Local, Stephen Duprey of DuPrey’s Garden & Design, Silvano Ponce- Handyman, Deborah Kearn- Long Beach Unified School District Educator, Long Beach City College Sheetmetal Department and Ganahl Lumber Company.
The event is co-hosted by City of Long Beach 6th District Councilman Dee Andrews, Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Weed & Seed Program, Department of Parks, Recreation & Marine, Neighborhood Services Bureau, Central Neighborhood Advisory Committee (CNAC), the South Wrigley Neighborhood Advisory Group (NAG).
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