Minutes From Group Meeting 4/27

Thank you to all that joined us for our first group meeting on April 27th, 2011. Our next meeting will be THIS THURSDAY, May 5th at 7:30. We will be meeting at the New Americans YMCA Welcome Center at the Vanderbilt Morivian Church on Vanderbilt Avenue near Osgood Avenue. Please join us!

In other news the Roots of Peace Community Garden will be hosting its first workday on May 15th! We will be putting a fence around the property on 22 Waverly place and make a sign for our garden. More information to come, all are welcome.

Minutes from 4/27 Roots of Peace Community Garden:

1) Fencing

a. Goal is to have the fence up on May 15^th

b. Volunteers:

i. Have Wagner students and other youth groups help paint the privately owned fence that is graffitied

2) Participants: Start plot distribution

a. Thirty 4’x6’ Plots

b. Outreach to schools and youth programs

i. Osgood Daycare

ii. African Refuge Youth Program

iii. PS 57

iv. Port Richmond

c. 5 Plots to Van Duzer Civic

d. Realfood Project

i. Help translating participation letters

3) Educational Components

a. Guest Lectures

i. Project Hospitality hosting a guest lecture

4) PR

a. Distribute Fliers to partnering organizations for distribution

i. Healthfirst development of logo/PR materials

b. What is the best way to reach the Parkhill community?

5) Next Meeting 4/5/2011

a. Spot closer to community-TBA