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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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Detroit Water Ice Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

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Detroit Water Ice Factory, the hottest destination for iconic dessert treats, celebrates its one-year anniversary on Thursday, August 4th. Free water ice will be given out between the hours of 11 AM and 2 PM (and scooped by Mitch Albom), to celebrate this milestone occasion, at the store’s flagship location, 1014 Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit.

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Ally and The Detroit Water Ice Factory Launch “Ally Caring Coconut” Flavor

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$3.13 from each sale of Ally Caring Coconut will be donated to S.A.Y. Detroit

Ally Financial and The Detroit Water Ice Factory announced a new water ice flavor called Ally Caring Coconut, with proceeds going to benefit the local Detroit community.  As part of its 313 Pledge, Ally will donate $3.13 to local nonprofit S.A.Y. Detroit for every purchase of Ally Caring Coconut. S.A.Y Detroit provides help, shelter, food, medical care and education to those in need.

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A Time to Help July 2016: Detroit Zoo Landscaping

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Project Description: Volunteers will be weeding and performing general grounds clean-up throughout the Zoo. Volunteers will work in teams and be supervised by the Zoo’s landscape staff. Event Date/Time: Sat., July 9, 8:30-noon. Volunteers are asked to be at the Ford Education Center (Click Here for Map) by 8:30 a.m.; project begins at 9 a.m. … Read more

A Time to Help Volunteers Help Senate Theater Sparkle and Shine

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“Dazzling!” “Amazing!” “Brings me so much joy!” These were just some of the compliments A Time to Help volunteers received from Detroit Theater Organ Society members as we helped clean up the Senate Theater in Detroit.

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