HONORING HARRY HIGHLIGHTED

 Ford School salutes garden guru

It's nice to see HARRY'S MEMORY relived and recognized. Community and education must come together if we are to find solutions on how to live together and live healthy!

HICO TO GET THE LEAD OUT

» LHAND awards lead-abatement contract to Highlands Coalition

Looks like WORKING FOR THE COMMUNITY is going to result in "workers" in the community.

GROWING HEALTHY

The Daily Item: Ford students learn healthy eating in their own backyard www.itemlive.com

At FORD SCHOOL'S INTERNATIONAL GARDEN student's see both the forest and the trees. Science is best learned when you can touch it or smell it or even TASTE it.

A FESTIVAL OF THE WORLD FROM THE HIGHLANDS

The HIGHLANDS COALITION along with a few others will be sponsering the upcoming event on June 30 from 12 to 6 at Lynn Heritage Park. Get there early. I have inside sources that say there is a great opening act, my daughter ASIAH. She just happens to be a FORD SCHOOL alumni.

COMMUNITY COMPARISONS

I'm down here in WEST "BY GOD" VIRGINIA on assignment looking for KIPP stragglers and they had a startup meeting for a NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH lasr night. They had 200 people. It was in the STEALY section of CLARKSBURG, WV. STEALY  is to CLARKSBURG as the HIGHLANDS is to LYNN. Don't you just LOVE those IQ type comparisons.

Anyway CLARKSBURG has about 22,000 people. How many does LYNN have? How many people we have come to the meetings in the HIGHLANDS. And mind you, the HIGHLANDS has the most in LYNN.

CITY CURRENCY TO SWITCH TO THE "LEAD STANDARD"

A "LEAD REMOVAL" grant is rumored to be headed to the HIGHLANDS COALITION worth a LOT of dollars. Election time is just around the corner.

HIGHLANDS CLEANUP

At least twenty people today gathered at the FORD SCHOOL to take a broom , shovel, or leaf blower to not only the parking lot around the school but to the community streets as  well. The committed community group include CLEO, TRIPPY, LESLIE AND STEVE GREENBERG, AREDA HEREFORD, LISA CONNALLY, DAVID GASS, and myself. Along with several neighborhood kids (a homework pass had been mentioned) 10 ESSEX DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE CANDIDATE DUSTY CAUFIELD was out getting his hands dirty. Others were there but I'm too tired to type anymore.

Of course pizzas were available for lunch along with a tray of eggrolls. BROTHER'S DELI generously provided some kickin chicken salad.

Several bags of trash have found a new home and it isn't on the side of the road.