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Features
Women’s Fellowship
Activist Stresses
‘2nd Time Around’ To Honor
Importance Of Attending
Grandparents, Guardians
MPO Meeting
BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor
The Women’s Fellowship of the Yes You Can Founda- tion will host an event to rec- ognize grandparents or guardians – those who are rearing children for the sec- ond time.
The organization’s 2nd Time Around association is sponsoring the event on Thursday, June 28, 2018, with an 11 a. m. luncheon. The luncheon will be held at THAP Co-Working Collabo- ration Exchange, 5508 N. 50th St., Suite 24.
The organization has se- lected 25 unsung heroes who will share lunch and be pre- sented tokens of apprecia- tion.
Yes You Can Women’s Fellowship Foundation was founded several years ago by Gloria Brooks-Williams. Since its founding, the organ- ization has birthed “2nd Time Around,” “Girls Gone Wise, in a World Gone Wild,” “Sin- gled and Saved,” and “Men- tors, Inc.”
“Each year we adopt a nursing home and this year it’s Excel Care Center. We go by to visits the patients, take
MS. GLORIA BROOKS-WILLIAMS, Founder, AND PAULA LANG, Vice President
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
On Tuesday, June 12th the Hillsborough MPO Board will host a meeting at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held in the County Center Building, 601 E. Kennedy Blvd., on the 2nd Floor. The hearings begin at 4 p.m., and will continue until 8 p.m.
The purpose of the meet- ing is to discuss the adoption of the Transportation Im- provement Program.
Mrs. Lena Young Green said it is important for residents to attend the meet- ing.
Mrs. Green said, “Some of the concerns that we will be sharing with the MPO on Tuesday are:
“We want equitable trans- portation options for every- one. This includes affordable, efficient means such as addi- tional on-time busses, safe bike and pedestrian routs. These would be economically helpful for lower income resi- dents to help them get to em- ployment locations without having to depend on cars that are additional financial bur- dens. This would help in avoiding gentrification in our areas.
“We want transportation
MRS. LENA YOUNG GREEN
that recognizes the impact on minority neighborhoods from past decisions. Therefore, neighborhoods need to be re- united, environmental and social impact on communities needs to be restored by incor- porating boulevards instead of interstates in the urban core.
“Transportation systems need to assist in neighbor- hood and communities’ eco- nomic enhancement based on studies that show boulevards generate greater financial im- provement for areas. DOT should not continue to impact neighborhoods by continu- ously extending to consume properties that are becoming more and more valuable as this generation returns to urban living.”
gifts, sing and have prayer,”
Ms. Brooks-Williams
said.
“We also have a younger
group of ladies who do most of the mentoring. We are a mentoring group whose mis- sion is to educate, encourage and assist women in what- ever is needed to enhance their quality of life,” she ex- plains.
A foster parent for more than 10 years, Ms. Brooks- Williams has always had a passion to help the displaced.
In addition to the brunch that guests will enjoy, Ms. Brooks-Williams and Ms. Paula Lang, who is Vice President of the Ministry, are hopeful that the community will provide gifts for those who have been chosen for recognition. Donations of gift cards, gift cards for restau- rants, or even monetary tax- deductible donations that will be used to purchase these items, can be sent to Yes You Can Foundation, 5508 N. 50th St., Suite 6A, Tampa 33610.
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