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Friday, December 23, 2011

VICTORY IN LOSING

Lynn group holds celebration after fighting off foreclosures

Some people are happy with this "victory" for the homeowner, a neighbor in the HIGHLANDS with an all too common problem. Unfortunately we have a few vacant tombstone scattered throughout these hills that offer a testimonial to the more common losses.

You hear others blame the victims for the irresponsibility of not "living within their means". The sad thing is they probably thought they were. The "American Dream" turned into a "Wall Street nightmare" when the wind gusts of reality blew down the complex house of cards built by derivatives and other complex financial instruments designed as a new method of extortion, squeezing the last drops of blood out of a dying middle class.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

HICO WHO?

At least when my articles are poorly written I can blame my typing or my brain damage. Usually I don't forget who I'm talking about. If I hadn't been there and part of the planning I wouldn't have known the HIGHLANDS COALITION put this whole thing on, sure the people mentioned helped but it was HICO that led the GASS ATTACK!


 http://www.lynnjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/LynnJournal.pdf

FAMILY FUN AT THE FOOT OF THE HIGHLANDS

This is such a great deal I got to pass it along.

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

YOUR CHANCE TO COOK

It's pretty exciting to me that while I'm going to a PAC meeting tomorrow night that my son, TRIPPY, is going to a HIGHLANDS COALITION sponsored meeting about organizing some development of COOK STREET PARK.

Getting the youth's perspective on what they want will give any proposed project will stand a better chance of succeeding than just having us tell them what they need.And let's face it COOK STREET PARK is a hidden jewel.

Once again anyone interested in getting involved come to the meeting:
Mon., Dec. 5 @ 7 PM
193 Beacon Hill - 1st floor

Saturday, December 3, 2011

PLANT THIS

A garden is  more than a place to grow tasty vegetables or pretty flowers. There are plenty of people out there who will fill your head with nutrition data until your belly bursts from over consumption. Then there are those who will fill the air with testimonies with aesthetic testimonies about flowers until you pass out from inhaling the fumes of their exhortations.

Well both sides are a little right but completely wrong. For the real value of a garden you have to dig a little deeper until you hit fertile ground. Whether you have a raised bed or growing tomato plants in old milk jugs on the window sill,  the real importance is in the value in the lessons learned.

To be a good and successful  gardener, you have to car about something other than yourself. You need to take of the task of nurturing something, watching it grow, and develop into something that will be prized by others. The same criteria are held out for being a good parent. The lessons are transferable but instead of winning blue ribbons for an award-winning crop, we get diplomas issued from our schools. We are producing a bumper crop in the HIGHLANDS with the FORD SCHOOL and the INTERNATIONAL GARDEN.

With the diaspora of raised bed gardens the HIGHLANDS COALITION are building for families in the neighborhood and talk of a proposed expansion into a small section of COOK STREET PARK, everything could be coming up roses for the HIGHLANDS residents.

HEAR YE, HEAR YE!

Neighborhood Meeting



Would you like a community garden and play equipment at the Cook St. Playground ?



Will you help us stop crime in the neighborhood ?



Then meet with us:



Mon., Dec. 5 @ 7 PM



193 Beacon Hill  -  1st floor





The Highlands Coalition:   ECCO - The Ford School -  HAWC   YMCA - Maria Carrasco - Girls, Inc. -  High Rock Tower Assoc. -  Community Connections - Community Health Center  -  Health Task Force  -  Neighbor to Neighbor -  No. Shore Labor Council  Food Project - Henry Ave. Park Partnership for Youth (HAPPY) 



David 781-595-8701  dagass11@verizon.net    http://hclynn.org



Thursday, December 1, 2011

RECIPE FOR COOK(ING) FOR OUR KIDS

With the rapidly changing demographics of the HIGHLANDS its time to serve up a new recreational dish that satisfy every one's appetite for safe family fun. That hunger can be satisfied with the development of COOK STREET PARK.

The lay of the land is perfect for several tot play structures, a picnic area for family's and even a community garden to promote a healthy lifestyle and and developing a model for some sort of self sustainability. I know that THERESA and ANTONIO from LYSOA are all over anything that promotes the positive development of our youth.

At the HIGHLANDS COALITION meeting last Monday night, I saw THERESA going over a plot plan for COOK STREET PARK with DAVID GASS from the HIGHLANDS COALITION trying to come up with different ideas for the park's proposed renovations. Do I have to tell you who's idea the garden was? THERESA and ANTONIO just think that from strong families come strong kids.

The GASS MAN just wants to raise a gaggle of garden gangsters.