{"id":1455,"date":"2012-05-02T05:35:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2012-05-02T06:51:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:51:55","slug":"spring-cleaning-comes-to-the-cana-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Annual Welcome Spring Cleaning Comes to the CANA Neighborhood with Residents, Duke Alumni Engage, Christ the King High School, and The Safer Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

CANA had our better natures on display on April 21st as we welcomed 58 volunteers to help cleanup our community. We had volunteers from our neighborhood joined by Third Unitarian Church <\/a>members, the Duke University Alumni Engage <\/a>team, Christ the King High School<\/a> and The Safer Foundation<\/a>.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 We are truly touched with the outpouring of support from everyone who took time out of their busy schedules\u00a0 to help improve our neighborhood.\u00a0 The impact on the community cannot be understated. In addition to\u00a0a clean and beautiful neighborhood, the example of service was visible to all.\u00a0 Building a sense of community and letting residents know that people care can have good,\u00a0interesting and unexpected benefits. We heard comment from some of the young people that they never knew picking up trash could be such fun. There are so many people to thank, that I run the risk of writing a book instead of a post.\u00a0 A special thanks to Judge Jackson and the Hardy family for supplying\u00a0 the serious food.\u00a0\u00a0Thanks Ms Velma for the water. Thank you Anna for the cookies! Katie thanks for the Girl Scout Cookies and fruit.\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Another thanks to Ms Stafford for her world famous Pound Cake that I must confess\u00a0was not shared with everyone …<\/p>\n

We also want to thank the tireless efforts of Roman Morrow who arranged for and supervised the men of the Safer Foundation.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Katie and the Duke Engage Crew were wonderful as they completed their second year with us. We could not have completed our award winning corner planting last year without them. We really enjoyed the Duke Engage practice of Reflection on service that was held in the Third Church sanctuary with support from Pastor Covell, Board President Allen Matthews,\u00a0\u00a0Mena Boulanger, and our dear friend Jerry Parker to name a few.\u00a0\u00a0 The Christ the King High School \u00a0students participated in the Reflection period as\u00a0 they prepare for college life and hopefully\u00a0service as well.<\/p>\n

A shout out to Smitty who lead a team of people and Bea\u00a0who traveled around to several teams delivering water as needed.\u00a0 Marvin, Joe\u00a0and I\u00a0also lead teams that made short work of our 16 blocks by picking up litter, cleaning alleys and vacant lots to removing weeds from the corners in preparation for the May 19th planting event.<\/p>\n

This cleaning event happened to occur on the City’s Clean and Green <\/a>day. We thank\u00a0 Kyle Smith, our ward superintendent in charge of Streets and Sanitation for continuing support and loaner tools and bags.<\/p>\n

A special thanks to all those not mentioned\u00a0 by name. You are all examples of what having a better nature means.<\/p>\n