Posts by Ashley Thornton
Art on Elm: East Waco’s Neighborhood Arts Block Party
by Jenuine Poetess Since 2011, East Waco has partnered with NeighborWorks Waco to host an annual block party complete with music, visual art exhibit, artisan booths, and food vendors known as, Art on Elm. This celebration of community and creative expression was born out of a question of how to rekindle the sparks from a…
Read MoreNational Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month: Out of Sight, Out of Mind No More!
March is National Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (NIDDA). This Act Locally Waco blog post is one of a series which will be posted Tuesdays throughout the month of March to raise awareness and build understanding about some of the issues, challenges and possibilities associated with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. by Serina Cole Sometimes…
Read MoreCommunity involvement and Why it’s so important!!!
by James Gooden As it is written: “Feed a man and he will eat for only one day; teach him how to fish and he will eat for a life time.” Sometimes I think of this familiar expression when I am considering the importance of Neighborhood Associations… Why is it important to have a Neighborhood…
Read MoreGet to know the YMCA
By Crystal Hernandez Hi. It’s nice to meet you. We’re the YMCA of Central Texas. Many folks in Waco have never been formally introduced to the YMCA of Central Texas. First impressions or chatter among friends often portray the Y as just another gym, a place to don spandex, pound out a mile or two…
Read MoreJ.H. Hines Book Club: Why read?
By Minister Sandra Henry, Book Club Administrator, Pleasant Olive Missionary Baptist Church As I searched for the words to write this article, the question that I continued to ask myself was, “What is so important about reading?” I took a walk into my past and stopped by my childhood. I was born and raised in…
Read MoreObituary: Dale L. Schirrmacher
By Rachel Wilkerson …an Ivy League Graduate “You’re a junior, Rachel?” asks Dale. “Yep.” “So you’d be about twenty. Know where I was when I was twenty?” I take a stab, “College?” “Vietnam. Then I went to Cornell. They say it’s a half-decent place, but I think they might just be saying that.” That was…
Read MoreBut Some of Us are Brave: Baltazar Acevedo y Arispe, Jr.
(This post is one in a series on race titled “But Some of Us Are Brave.” The series includes posts from a diverse group of writers from our community. It takes a considerable amount of transparency and vulnerability for the contributors to this series to pen these posts and voice their experiences. We appreciate their…
Read MoreStretched, Shaped, Affirmed, and Renewed
By Dani Miller My roommate recently said that she was thankful for this city – Waco – where she has been stretched, shaped, affirmed, and renewed. Her words echo my own feelings about Waco. I have become rooted in this community through school and work. During my time here I have completed my Masters programs.…
Read MoreWhy Waco?
By Bart Townsend Why Waco? This question has been asked of me many times since starting a business here in late 2010 and moving here in August of 2012. It has been asked in many contexts for many reasons. It has been asked out of curiosity about me and my family. It has been asked…
Read MoreBut Some of Us are Brave: Amber Jekot
(This post is one in a series on race titled “But Some of Us Are Brave.” The series includes posts from a diverse group of writers from our community. It takes a considerable amount of transparency and vulnerability for the contributors to this series to pen these posts and voice their experiences. We appreciate their…
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