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| Thursday, 05 November 2009 12:49 |
   BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – More than 150 volunteers rolled up their sleeves and dug in to a massive landscaping project at three schools in Birmingham’s West End. Councilor Carole Smitherman’s office and Main Street Birmingham secured a $25,000 grant from the Alabama Forestry Commission to purchase trees and shrubs. Main Street Birmingham has partnered with Mission Birmingham, which works to create livable communities, to organize more than 150 volunteers. On Saturday, October 10 from 9-11:30, volunteers cleaned and replanted outside Center Street Middle School, Hemphill Elementary School and Jackson Elementary School. Mission Birmingham recruited volunteers from UAB’s Into the Streets program to help provide manpower. “This is the next step in our campaign to work with the West End community to improve the area’s curb appeal,” said Main Street Birmingham Executive Director David Fleming. “Initiatives like our banner project in the West End Business District and the Southern Environmental Center’s Ecoscape send a signal that West End is a vibrant place to live, work and shop.” “By planting trees and shrubs we will enhance the environment as well as the aesthetics of the West End community. In addition, we are nurturing relationships by working with volunteer organizations,” said District 6 Councilor Carole Smitherman. Volunteers will be directed by leaders recruited from the West End. “Community transformation involves not only volunteers from the outside but also volunteers from the inside. A community is not moving towards transformation until the leadership comes from inside,” said Frank Woodson, Executive Director of Mission Birmingham. Mission Birmingham is a strategy to unite Corporate, Government, Church, Private and Community Based Organizations around a “Common-Unity” of creating livable communities in underserved neighborhoods in the Greater Birmingham-Hoover region. Main Street Birmingham, Inc. is a nonprofit agency under contract with the City of Birmingham to foster neighborhood commercial district revitalization. The program targets nine urban commercial districts to spur economic and job development. |
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