On the 18th, last Tuesday, Fresh Corner Cafe was riding on the money train!! The fresh Corner Cafe partners (Val, Zack, and Noam), Chris, owner of a start up company and I arrived in Lansing at 1 O’ clock . The team still bled blue in the land of Sparties. The break out sessions did […]
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This entire week was our office’s clean sweep, so you can imagine what my task consisted of. I am a neat freak to put it mildly, so usually I am excited about organizing and cleaning (lame I know). However, I wasn’t prepared for the task that lied ahead. The FOP building is considerably dated and
This week was slightly different than the rest of my weeks at ROC-MI. My supervisor was out of town so I had to fill in for her this week. I led a new member orientation by myself, which was really cool! There is a new member orientation every week and it is most people’s first
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Haha ok, so this week was very chill compared to our last two weeks. We spent the first half of the week in the office setting up meetings with community members and getting some logistical details figured out but on Wednesday, Kerrel and I went to the Allied Media Conference (AMC). The AMC is like
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Week 3 has involved so many events: Mid-day Music concerts in Campus Martius (all week, every week), Games and the opening of the Market on Cadillac Square, Yoga on Saturday morning, followed by Sand Aerobics at the Beach and a Kidz Show of Beauty and the Beast. It was exciting to be downtown because the
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On Tuesday, Spivey, Shelby, Alyssa and I accompanied Candice and her cousin to the 5E Hip Hop gallery for an open mic showcase night. Anybody who says Detroit doesn’t have talent is probably the same sort of person who was anti Irish Immigration in the 19th century or who Supported McCarthyism, because, as Spivey says,
HipHop at 5E, Canada, and some other stuff. Read More »
Hello all! So my work here has definitely been picking up. I have been spending a lot of my time on the computer developing curriculum and researching a bunch of different things. I am very happy to be finally doing something that makes sense and has a deadline. Although I am not the type to
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June Teenth is the celebration of the emancipation of African Americans. This year, St. John’s Hospital (a partner of Nortown) hosted a health fair along the Connor Creek Greenway with many events and organizations present to raise awareness for the community. The program manager of St. John’s asked me to volunteer for the registration table
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I was extremely proud of our accomplishments during the week of June 10th. On Wednesday Me, Amy and Rhonda (aka the team) presented our survey and community assistance ideas to the downriver minister’s alliance. We did this presentation because we are aware that receiving their support could significantly help us in our research. Our presentation
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This past week got even busier with it being the last week half of the workplace would be here which involved getting a ton of work done as well as restructuring everyone’s work schedule. I kept working at the parks and recreation literature review, I found a ton of good resources and also gaps in
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