Category: Volunteer
12
Apr
Hands-on Community Building
by Kerri Ana Provost
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When volunteers spent a few days last year cleaning in and outside of the Burns School in the Frog Hollow neighborhood, some experienced something like...
10
Feb
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When the Plows Don’t Show
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Frog Hollow residents began shoveling a path the width of a van down the middle of a one-way side street on Sunday morning. What started...
30
Jan
Need Help With Taxes?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Residents will have a number of centers to choose from if they are seeking free assistance with tax preparation. These include the Hartford Public Library,...
16
Jan
Launch of Hartford Juvenile Mentoring Collaborative Scheduled
by Kerri Ana Provost
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January is National Mentoring Month, which makes it a suitable time for the Connecticut Mentoring Partnership along with the Hartford Department of Families, Children, Youth...
25
Aug
Sprucing Up Burns with a Little Help from the Neighbors
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The house cleaning that happened at the Burns School last spring was more than metaphorical. Besides the change in leadership, there have been renewed efforts...
13
Jun
Book Review: Better Together: Restoring the American community
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Books about urban development and growing community are often written in jargon, making the content inaccessible to the general public. That choice in language says...
18
Apr
Parks Week
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Not to be confused with Grilled Cheese Week or Shark Week, all next week there will be activities to celebrate the parks in Hartford.
01
Dec
The Must-Have Gift this Season
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A cheaply-made plastic toy that fails after a few months, or knowledge? Regardless of your income, you can give the latter to some 550 Hartford...
22
Nov
Hartford Unity Community Conversation: “Empower People Already in Hartford”
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Not unusual: people coming into Hartford with big ideas about what residents need and what will “save” us. The Public Allies — an AmeriCorps program...
05
Nov
Park Library Getting a Friendlier Face…Now
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Volunteers from the neighborhood are making the blue box at Park and Babcock into a more inviting space.