A VIEW ON HIGH(LANDS)

Once again the example of the HIGHLANDS COALITION and FORD SCHOOL have been proven to be ahead of the curve. Tonight at the big UNITED WAY meeting, Lynn - Community by Community Co..., there was a lot of talk about the new philosophy being promulgated by the agency now is community empowerment  and that the way to see real change is in the community taking ownership in the services provided to them and by them.

I don't know if they are trying to reinvent the wheel but we've been doing that up here in the HIGHLANDS for years. Guess some people are finally learning!

HIGHLANDS COALITION MEMBER PROMOTING SELF DEFENSE AND SAFETY

Areda Hereford is organizing a women's self defense course at Ford School. All Lynn women can join . NICK CHUM is helping her put the POWER in empowerment.

NEW STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO HICO BOARD REPRESENTS, WELL ME.

Tonight some other members of the HIGHLANDS COALITION decided they wanted to give the youth of the highlands a voice, a chance to speak their concerns for our community. And without asking me, decided that my son, TRIPPY, would be that voice cause well he's not afraid to speak up. I don't know where he gets that from but anyway, I'm proud.

We need to hear all voices.

Councilman Collucci came to the Highlands Coalition meeting tonight to listen to residents concerns.

"LOCALLY GROWN" CELEBRITIES, FORD SCHOOL GARDEN HAS ANOTHER BUMPER CROP

 National attention runs high in the Highlands.I was there when CBS showed up  In fact go back through my blog, I got pictures.


http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7389535n&tag=mncol;lst;1****

HICO BUCKET BRIGADE KEEPS ROCKAWAY WAY KLEAN

Receptacles on periodic posts give residents the opportunity to put TRASH someplace other than the street.

HICO MEETING NOV 28 AGENDA

The Highlands Coalition Meeting 

    

Mon. November 28, 2011  7:00 PM    

The Ford School

Agenda

Introductions                                                                          7:00 – 7:05

2011 Election and Restoring Voting                                      7:05 – 7:30

Improving Health                                                                    7:30 – 8:00

• Gardening at the Cook Playground
• Food Corp 
• Harry Harley Hoop House                                         

School Report: Dr. Crane                                                       8:00 – 8:10

KIPP / High Rock construction                                              8:10 – 8:20

New Business / Announcements                                             8:20 – 8:20

                                               

  

Next meeting:  December?

Affiliated with:  

YMCA - Audrey Jimenez;  Neighbor to Neighbor - Maria Carrasco;  Lynn Health Task Force - Leslie Greenberg;  High Rock Tower Assoc. - Lisa Connolly;  Gateway Project - Calvin Anderson;  Girls, Inc - Maria Mazueta;  HAWC - Paula Gomez-Stordy;  Lynn Community Health Center - Lori Berry;  No. Shore Labor Council - Bob Reynolds;  Henry Ave. Park Partnership for Youth  (HAPPY) - Jessica Mooers, Kim Smith;  The Food Project - Jay Harrison.

MORE ABOUT THE FAIR AFFAIR

Stolen from lynnhappens.com .

Toward a Healthy and Green City of Lynn

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

At the Ford School last week more than 700 people attended an open house and Health Fair.
Families spoke with teachers then sampled our version of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move,” as we
combined food and fitness with music.

To encourage eating healthy food:
• The Food Project’s cider press made gallons of cider from apples donated by Brooksby Farm;
• We sold organic tomato sauce, bottled by Sauces ‘N Love of Lynn;
• Brother’s Deli donated salad that was served on plates from McDonalds;
• Greg Repuccci of No. Shore Community College served apple sauce and promoted canning.

To improve physical fitness:
• Nick Chum kick-boxed and asked women to join a Highlands self-defense group;
• YMCA’s Jose led Zumba exercises / dance, inspiring us to do so on a regular basis;

The band raised spirits with songs from Jumbalaya to B-I-N-G-O. Dozens received flu shots. Fifth graders
talked about parts of plants – the root, stem, leaf and flower.
A $1 donation raffle organized by lunch aides raised over $500 to build the Harry Harley Hoop House,
which will grow vegatables year-round. Salem Five contributed $500.
The epidemic of childhood malnutrion, especially obesity, is very present in Lynn. Cases of cancers
and diabetes are rising, especially among blacks and Latinos. Yet people who eat one pound of fruit
and veggies a day have one-half the cancer rate of the average America.
Lynn schools can become the centers to educate about and produce healthy food. At the elementary
level, every MCAS math and science question can be answered in a garden. All schools should have a
garden and a health fair. They cost so little and do so much.
Working with the Food Project, we built 25 gardens in the Highlands this year. Working with Mass.
DCR and Lynn DPW, we planted 60 trees the past month, mainly along Essex St.
Come on, citizens of Lynn: Let’s get healthy and Go Green!
David Gass
The Highlands Coalition

 

 

 The Highlands coalition is selling Organic Tomato Sauce for $5 a bottle.

•  

Thanksgiving Celebrations Sunday, Nov 20

East Coast International Church, 65 Munroe St., Lynn will be hosting Thanksgiving celebrations on Sunday, 11/20, at 10:00 and 11:15am. At these services “hundreds” of turkeys will be given away along with free bags of groceries. Call 781-592-3242 or email office@ecic-lynn.com

WATER WORK ON ROCKAWAY?

Another photo from the Health fair

CAHILL STANDS TALL IN THE HIGHLANDS (WELL HE STOOD NEXT TO ME ANYWAY)

Taken at the Nov. 16th HICO Health Fair at the FORD SCHOOL.

MARY ELLEN FROM HICO SUGGESTS....

Great holiday gift or treat for yourself - support the Ford Garden

Health Fair at Ford School on Nov 16

Taken early, before the chairs all filled up with parents eating pizza.

MORE THAN A HEALTH FAIR

At tonight's HIGHLAND COALITION HEALTH FAIR at the FORD SCHOOL garden guru NICOLAS CHUM put on an awesome display of martial arts and offered to teach a WOMEN'S SELF DEFENSE class in the evenings. It seems like seeds aren't the only thing he can plant.

Speaking of plants, some students from the fifth grade performed an entertaining while educational play about the parts of plants. Should we start planning the Oscar party yet?

NEW GROUP BORN OUT OF THE HIGHLANDS

Echoing the need for every one's views to be heard in order to formulate the homogeneous solutions necessary to solve some of Lynn's many problems. former Ward 4 city council candidate Cefarinio Rosa is calling for the establishment of a new group, "Voice Of The People", to advocate for change in "business as usual".

Another innovation in community activism born out of the Highlands, "Voice Of The People" plans to organize bring all city citizen's cares and concerns forward in a focused message to the appropriate city officials, demanding that the city bring to bear all available resources so that a mutually acceptable resolution to those problems.

This will be your group, interested people need to contact Cef Rosa at ceferinorosa1@gmail.com .

SILENT CEREMONY

On my way home from the VETERAN'S DAY CEREMONY at Lynn City Hall, I talked with DAVID GASS of the HIGHLANDS COALITION, He was working with NICK CHUM were putting up the plaque commemorating the late HARRISON HARLY, a HIGHLANDS COALITION member and VIETNAM VETERAN. Good symbolism, even though there were no bands playing.