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Back Issue
August 19, 2005 |
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| "We Must Stay the Course"
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A message to the community from Police Chief Ronald Davis
The recent shooting incidents have increased levels of fear within the community
and caused many residents to reflect to the '90s when
East Palo Alto was dubbed
the "murder capital" of the United States.
As a community, it is good that we reflect on
the past because there are many lessons to take from both our successes and failures.
However, we must guard against our reflection turning into a level of fear that
negatively changes our lives or diminishes our resolve. We must "stay the course" and continue to
implement effective short-term and long-term violence reduction strategies, such as
community policing and the recommendations outlined by the East Palo Alto Crime
Reduction Task Force. If we stop now, the criminals have won.
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EPA Library Hosts Writer's Workshop and Book Signing
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By Raquel Medina
Redevelopment Project Coordinator
City of East Palo Alto
The City of East Palo Alto's Redevelopment Agency is ensuring through its First Source Hiring Program
that local residents will have the best advantage for the new jobs at the Four Seasons Hotel.
"The City's Redevelopment Agency is working closely with the Four Seasons Hotel to ensure that at least 30% of
its work force comes from East Palo Alto," said Marie McKenzie, East Palo Alto's First Source Hiring Program Manager.
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How to turn your thoughts
into a book
By Sereptha Strong
Public Services Librarian
East Palo Alto Library
"If you can write a sentence, you can write a book"...those were some of the inspiring words
spoken by the authors at the Writer's Workshop and Book Signing hosted by East Palo Alto Library on Wednesday,
July 20, 2005. Held in the EPA Community Room as part of the EPA Library's Adult Summer Reading Program,
four authors generously volunteered their time to be panelists for this workshop.
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Ravenswood High School Class of 1975
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The Story of Azibo Collard Greens Ice Cream
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By Jane Theresa Edwards
On June 15, 1975, approximately 125 students, excited to pursue
their dreams, marched into the Ravenswood High School
courtyard to the traditional melody of "Pomp & Circumstance "wide-eyed and eager to face the world.
The traditional graduation ceremonies ended with the class theme song, "We've Only Just Begun." Parents and students celebrated
together the milestone accomplishment of graduating from high school.
They were unaware that the very next year their high school doors would be closed forever.
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Come and try some at the 7th annual Collard Greens Cultural Festival next Saturday,
June 30th in Bell Street Park
By Keisha Azibo Evans
Homemade ice cream has been a family joy for generations for those of us from South Carolina
and other parts of the South. I've continued this tradition by making my own ice cream here in East Palo Alto.
This ultimately led to the creation of Collard Greens Ice Cream.
For years I made ice cream from the fruit in my yard for many people including the children of
Nobantu Ankoanda when they were growing up. When Mama Nobantu founded the Collard Greens Cultural
Festival in 1998 we discussed making collard greens ice cream for the Festival.
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