AWESOME AUSTIN FIBER ART COMPETITION
The venerable Better Government Association has featured members of our team on a recent video that speaks to the mission…
The May 21st Planting of Intersection Corners was a wonderful success! We had volunteers from the community, the city and as far away as Durham NC! We had volunteers from almost every block from Madison to Corcoran and from Austin to Menard streets. Thanks so much to so many people. A special thanks to all the…
CANA volunteers have been out almost daily since May 14 to prepare the ground for our May 21st Corner planting. The community has benefitted from the the efforts of six men so far performing the heavy lifting of tilling the ground. We discovered the ground was very hard and required manual digging before we could…
Austin’s Jesuit College Preparatory High School – Christ the King, joined CANA on May 7 for a second neighborhood cleanup this year! This event was unique in that it was comprised of students, teachers and parents. This dynamic group was wonderful to work with. The energy, service learning and relationship building should be a model for other…
Our meeting on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 focused on two topics: Beautification Safety We would like to hold a meeting at 10:00AM on Saturday, April 30 to discuss the plans for our projects in May. Please call (312) 952-4983 about your availability to participate. You may participate by coming to the meeting or be on…
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT The Chicago Community Trust announced 31 Local Reporting Awards through its Community News Matters program for reporting on a variety of important issues affecting Chicago’s low-income areas. The program seeks to increase the flow of truthful, accurate and insightful local news and information and encourage innovative new models for providing news and…
The weather is heating up and we can expect the activity in the streets to heat up as well. We insist that Austin residents get the same level of police service as any other community. If there is a shortage of police manpower, no area of Chicago should experience a greater loss than any other.…
