GSCC in the News - Dec. 20

The Georgia Street Community Collective was featured in an Associated Press article on Dec. 20, 2008 about Detroit's blues extending past the auto industry.

We were lucky to have one of the writers, Corey Williams, come and visit the Garden and future Community Center and Market in October. He talked extensively with Cub and then sent a photographer to our last work day where we pulled the tin ceiling down in the market.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/20/america/Motown-Blues-ABRIDGED.php

For those who aren't familiar with the Associated Press, it's the creme de la creme of the global news agencies. So, for the AP to include us in a story is quite a feat & honor. And the amazing part is when the AP runs a story, it goes all over the world on the news wire. We got picked up by the International Herald Tribune, which is the New York Times' global paper, MSNBC, papers all across the US and the story was the top story on Yahoo's main page at 9 pm on the 20th. Yahoo Malaysia even picked it up.

Dinner Pictures Pt2

Dinner Pictures Pt1

Article In Saturday Dec.6th Detroit News About The Dinner

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Detroit community group holds holiday dinner for homeless

Santiago Esparza / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- The Georgia Street Community Collective will host its first annual Holiday Dinner from 5-9 p.m. today at Christ World Outreach Ministries' annex, 8925 Holcomb.
The grass roots, community-based organization operates on the city's east side and hopes the dinner gives members a chance to meet people in the community they do not already know. The dinner is for people who are homeless in the area bounded by Gratiot, Harper and Van Dyke avenues and Grinnell Street.
The group's officials said the collective started as a community garden and grew into a neighborhood organization.

In 2009, the collective will begin a project in which it will rehabilitate an area building into a neighborhood store and community center.
For information, visit www.georgiastreetgarden.blogspot.com.
You can reach Santiago Esparza at (313) 222-2127 or sesparza@detnews.com.

http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081206/METRO/812060430/1361

The article at first was a misquote. We were not actually feeding the homeless at first, but we had so much food leftover we ended up taking it to a homeless shelter.

Georgia St. Feeds The Neighborhood

Our First Annual Holiday Dinner is expected to feed around 100 neighbors today from 5:00pm to 9:00pm. At Christ Word Outreach's Annex at 8925 Holcomb at Georgia St.

We made this quarters issue of the Garden Resource Program's Newsletter

http://www.detroitagriculture.org/PDF_Files/2008OCTOBER_newsletterFINAL.pdf

Workday 2

At the Georgia St. Community Store/Community Center
Saturday November 15, 2008 @ 12:00pm
8902 Vinton @ the corner of Georgia St. Down from the Better Made Potato Chip Factory on Gratiot.
Come on out and find out what we have planned.

For more info Call: 313-452-0684