North Park Newsletter Completed
Patri Bailey and the kids and teens in Northpark Neighborhood finished and delivered the first North Park Newsletter created at the Friendship House. The teens picked the title, "From Our Point of View".
Patri, one of North Park's neighborhood moms just helped our kids and teens finish the first newsletter and HSU students walked with the kids and teens to go out in the neighborhood to go door to door handing out the newsletter on March 24th. Neighbors were excited to get their newsletters and see how our kids are giving back to the neighborhood. One neighbor, I visited with personally, David on Anson Avenue, commented how he felt like our neighborhood was really learning how to watch out for each other again, as we dropped off his newsletter, he said, "for the first time in many years I know everyone on my street", and as we stood there he visited with his neighbor from a few blocks south. Here are a few excerpts and pics from the newsletter for you to enjoy:
NEW FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
The children were asked to interview Linda Carleton on the topic of the new Friendship House.
The new friendship house is on the corner of Lowden and Hickory. The will cost several millions of dollars by the time it is done. The project will include 6 houses for sale for young couples who have never owned a home, there will also be four subsidized homes that will be provided by the city that must be applied for. We hope to further improve the neighborhood with the new expansion of Friendship House at its new and permanent site. The contractor is Bruce Higgins with Chanley Homes. The entire project is being sponsored by: Connecting Caring Communities, Hardin Simmons University and The Shelton Family Foundation. “Even before I started walking this neighborhood—even before Danyel and I started walking this neighborhood, I would look at that corner and say ‘my dream is to have a Friendship House on that lot’ and I never even really believed that it was a dream, so it’s been really exciting to see how God has brought us one step at a time to making this dream a reality. I still don’t even believe it; I’ll believe it when Danyel moves in.” said Linda Carleton. The new friendship house will hopefully be completed the summer of 2009.
—interview conducted by FH children, article written by Shelby Bailey and Gabby Gamboa
"DID YOU KNOW" Section from the Kids:
· That human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
-Gabby
· Babies aren’t born with knee caps, they don’t get them until they are 2 yrs old.
-Gabby
· Nintendo Game Boy was the most successful game system ever with more than 100 million units sold world wide.
-Elijah
· In the old days footballs were made out of pig skins.
-Elijah
· In the book, “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” all four children that went into the wardrobe became kings and queens of Narnia.
-Damaris
· The almond is a member of the peach family.
-Tanner