For the third year running, Gravenhurst Against Poverty (GAP) has planted seeds for its community gardens.
There will be eight gardens set up in Gravenhurst, with Elaine Matthews watching over the ones planted at Gravenhurst High School and Gravenhurst Public School. “We grow all kinds of crops that we give away to people who are facing food insecurity,” she says. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it difficult for people, especially seniors, to access fresh produce.
It’s free to pick up the vegetables every Monday and Thursday from the basement of the Trinity United Church in Gravenhurst.
According to GAP’s website, the idea of creating gardens came from its 2018 Needs Assessment Survey when people asked for a better way to get fresh, local veggies.
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When the Rev. Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson, President of the North American region of the World Council of Churches and pastor of First United Church of Tampa sat for an interview at a meeting of the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference (SDPC), and tacitly suggested that American Blacks are the real Jews, not a single media outlet covered it. Despite the press release.
SDPC, a recognized NGO of the United Nations, was co-founded in 2003 by the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., pastor emeritus, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Dr. Iva Carruthers, a member of the National African American Reparations Commission and former Chair of the Sociology Department at Northeastern Illinois University, and Rev. Dr. Frederick Haynes III.
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A conversation with Kim Noble of Green the Church
Sarah Holcomb
Myers Park Baptist Church; Charlotte NC
When Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll joined with other U.S. leaders around environmental issues, he didn’t see people who looked like him Black brothers and sisters of faith at the table. Since the pastor founded Green The Church to amplify the efforts of Black churches 10 years ago, the organization has grown to include 1,000 Black congregations across the U.S. who are taking environmental action from preaching sermons about creation care, to installing solar panels and growing community gardens, to influencing national policy.
Henry W. Weight, Sr.
Henry W. Weight, Sr., 89, of Mingoville, passed away on Monday, April 19, 2021 at his home.
He was born at home on the Weight’s family farm in Marion Township on May 4, 1931, a son of the late George E. and E. Geraldine Weight.
Henry was married and divorced from his first wife, the late Gladys (Harter) Weight Miller and together had two sons; surviving is Jerry (T.J.) Weight and the late Henry (Hank) Weight, Jr. Also surviving are Henry’s biological grandchildren, Teresa (Tom) Wilson of Howard and Chad Weight of State College; great-grandchildren, Seth (Jessica) and Hunter Wilson, and Carter and Ruby Weight; and a great-great grandson, Haiden Wilson.