Tag: hope
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Working For Good In St. Joseph
A strength of our community is the many people who care for and about others. Our many nonprofits and volunteers who work together to serve and strengthen our community bring hope and resilience. Meet three of those people as Rolling Hills Library celebrates International Women’s Day on Saturday March 8, 2025 at 10:30 am, 1904…
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People You Should Know – Kirsten Stokes
This year’s Kelsey Beshears Racial Justice Award went to a group of five young journalists. Kirsten Stokes who reports for the St. Joseph News-Press NOW was one of the journalists recognized for her coverage during Black History month. AV: Let’s start with you. Tell me something about your path to journalism. KS: I grew up in…
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Our Children Deserve More
Our earlier dialogues quickly turned to questions about supporting our youth. Although we have many good organizations in St. Joe serving youth, — including the Bartlett Center, YWCA, InterServ, and MidCity Excellence, as well as our schools — they can’t address environmental needs like housing, health and food security, or even broader environmental concerns that…
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Building Social Trust
The Aspen Institute’s Weave: The Social Fabric Project has used census data to calculate “trust trait scores” for neighborhoods and communities across the US using census data. You can view the “Social Trust Map” for various areas of St. Joseph here (scroll down and enter your zip code). The project measures three areas that reflect…
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Walk On Water Full House
There was a full house at both showings of Walk On Water last week. There were many moments of hope, inspiration, and humor, and many offering the opportunity for sober reflection on the cruelties of slavery. Coming together in acknowledgement of and with a willingness to learn from our shared history strengthens us as a…
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Martin Luther King Jr Day, 2024
On this day remembering the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. we pray that in our community, Love will prove stronger than hate, Hope will overcome fear, Care and compassion will bring new ways of healing, Respect and engagement will overcome indifference, Justice will guide our choices, and We will see significant…
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Ideas Into Action
In 2018, the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of Greater St. Joseph launched an effort called Imagine St. Joseph 2040. That effort culminated in a vision of what St. Joseph might be by 2040 – a community of value and opportunity, one in which everyone belongs and everyone has a chance…
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Connecting Community
This is what community looks like — coming together to remember and learn from our past, and look with hope to the future. The community remembrance and dedication of the Lloyd Warner memorial marker on November 18 was well attended. The marker not only bears witness to his lynching, but also to the history of similar actions…
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Investing In Our Youth
Participants in past dialogues have identified the rising cost of many activities for youth as a significant issue. As the author Matthew Desmond observed in his recent book Poverty, By America, “The best way to ensure that opportunity is unequal and unfair is to charge for it.” Here in St. Joe, who is being excluded…
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Encouraging All Voices
How do we work together as a community? How can we encourage and hear from all voices? One theme that came out of the conversations on September 21 was the need to value and embrace the many diverse communities, neighborhoods, and individuals who make up St. Joe. As the notes from that meeting show, not…
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Supporting Our Youth
Our community cares about its youth! And we are concerned that too many are leaving. How do we create a community where children thrive? Where young adults will want to stay and raise their families? Those at our September 21 event had several ideas about how we might support our youth, advocate for youth, and…
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Strengthening Our Community
Lots of thoughts were shared and ideas generated during our conversation on September 21. Members of the community identified many challenges, hopes, and needs as they explored three questions – what is St. Joe to you?, what would you change if you could? and what groups are working to strengthen our communities? As we reviewed…
All Voices St. Joe 