HUD Secretary Marica Fudge Announces $35 Million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant During Visit to Camden, NJ Federal grant will leverage funding to revitalize Ablett Village public housing, Cramer Hill Neighborhood WASHINGTON U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia L. Fudge traveled to Camden, New Jersey, to announce a $35 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant[.]
Earth Day 2021: N.J. city fights illegal dumping with epic recycled outdoor art display.
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A series of environmentally-conscious public art displays officially open Thursday on Camden, timed to coincide with Earth Day 2021.
Instillations include a giant black cat made of recycled car hoods, a turntable created with plastic bottles and face masks and a 17-foot-tall robot with a heart that beats for his planet.
Those and more are available to peruse throughout various Camden neighborhoods starting today after a year-long delay due to COVID-19.
The artwork, which is made from recycled materials, looks to spotlight the issue of illegal dumping. It’s a problem that costs taxpayers in the Camden County municipality more than $4 million a year, according to the city.
Outdoor public art project unveiled in Camden
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Today 9:55 AM Invincible Cat by Don Kennelll and Lisa Adler is one of six New View-Camden art installations sprinkled throughout the city.anewviewcamden.com
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On Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, the City of Camden, Cooper’s Ferry Partnership and the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts will unveil “A New View-Camden,” a half-year outdoor exhibit of six family-friendly public art projects located around the city.
Funded by a $1 million Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge grant, these large-scale, outdoor art installations specifically were designed to raise awareness about unlawful dumping of bulk waste in Camden, which costs taxpayers over $4 million annually. Among the “A New View” works will be a massive feline designed from repurposed automobiles, a 15-foot-tall steel trash collecting creature and a machine that utilizes mealworms to eat Styrofoam packaging from e-waste.
CAMDEN Instagram is the app for the influencer, and now some Rutgers-Camden nursing students are using it to influence city residents to get vaccinated.
Anastasia Dudzinski, a Rutgers-Camden senior, started an Instagram account in February to highlight stories of people who take their shots at the Salvation Army Kroc Community Center, the COVID vaccination site in Camden s Cramer Hill neighborhood.
Dudzinski and a dozen or so classmates are working the site each Monday, guiding residents through the line, observing them in the 15-minute waiting area and approaching several to learn their stories.
Christina Neal, a senior nursing student, makes use of her easy-to-talk-to style as the group s interviewer, approaching patients, making connections and asking questions.
New Jersey has reported another 2,679 positive PCR tests as well as 593 new positive antigen tests, bringing the state’s cumulative total to 761, 498 known