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A Time to Help November 2016: Motor City Blight Busters

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ATTH November 2016

Project Description: To provide a safe route for children around Samuel Gompers Elementary-Middle School in the Brightmoor neighborhood on Detroit’s west side. Volunteers will be removing brush and blight, raking and bagging leaves, and performing other general landscaping chores. Attire/Other Info: Please wear clothing suitable for working outdoors. Some materials will be provided, but volunteers … Read more

Michigan Masons Make a Difference at S.A.Y. Play

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It was a busy and exciting morning at the S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center as Mitch Albom and the Michigan Masons Charitable Foundation announced a 10-year, multimillion dollar grant for S.A.Y. Detroit in what may be the single largest commitment to S.A.Y. Detroit, and to S.A.Y. Play, yet received. In honor of this gift, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan … Read more

A Time to Help October 2016: Motown Soup

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Project Description: Volunteers will be assembling soup and other dry goods mixes, as well as packaging and boxing them, at Motown Soup. All proceeds from the sale of the products benefits homeless shelters, soup kitchens and food pantries. Location: Motown Soup is located at 45160 Van Dyke Ave., Utica, MI. 48317 (corner of Hall Road … Read more

Urban farm yields bountiful time for ATTH volunteers

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Intermittent rain showers failed to dampen the spirit – or work ethic – of nearly two dozen A Time to Help Volunteers who participated in Saturday’s (Sept. 17) project at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Urban Farm on Meldrum Street in Detroit. Volunteers picked produce and performed other gardening chores inside a greenhouse, while another … Read more

A Time to Help September 2016: Capuchin Soup Kitchen Earthworks Urban Farm

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Project Description: Volunteers will be harvesting and processing produce, as well as cultivating and weeding beds and performing other general gardening chores, at the Capuchin’s 2.5-acre organic farm in Detroit. The garden provides tons of produce to the Capuchin Soup Kitchen each year. Event Date/Time: Sat., Sept. 17, 9 a.m.-noon. Location: The Earthworks farm is … Read more

S.A.Y. Play Dedicates Baseball Field to Judge Damon Keith

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Honoring one of Detroit’s, and our nation’s, most distinguished civil rights heroes, the renovated field at S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center at Lipke Park was dedicated today as “The Honorable Damon J. Keith Baseball Field.”

Judge Keith, Mitch Albom, and representatives from the Detroit Tigers Foundation, an affiliate of Ilitch Charities, and the Baseball Tomorrow Fund (BTF), a joint initiative between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association joined City representatives and the Tigers mascot “Paws” for the ceremony.

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