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Sucessful
Communities
I have a book that
says, among other things, that "people tell one thing yet the real
message is in their feet! What they do is what they think!"
We are now in our tenth year in Haskell Heights. It was headlined in
The State Newspaper in 1996 as total dismality! The same area was written
up again in 1997 on the front page of The State as having captured its
control. New houses have been built and financed privately (regular
bank loans) and some thirty plus "crack houses" have been
demolished, construction trash in vacant lots removed, commercial tire
dumps removed, and now there are flowers and plenty of smiles. (Yes,
there are many onsite witnesses!)
We are in our ninth year in Arthurtown/Little Camden. Here, on the same
street where I was warned by the Sheriff's deputy not to go, there are
now manicured yards and two brand new double-wide mobile homes with
more mobile homes entering the community and financed with private money
sources. There is a big Habitat for Humanity effort in Arthurtown, yet
we are not connected other than the owners of these houses jump to get
into the contest.
Hollywood Hills, “roughest of them all” according to the
Sheriff at the time, has new people moving in, and many, many more participants
than when we began. Now in our eighth year, we are seeing more and more
people with a hose attached to their house, a new pile of trash here
and there, and slowly, the yards are turning greener as the years go
by…Section 8 Rental Housing (HUD subsidy) hurts for these people
do not take care of their houses for the most part, and it reflects
on the hard work of the others.
There are now three contests
in Florence with this being the third year. Look at Central United Methodist
Church, Florence, SC to see the pictures of their contest.
In Winston Salem,
NC there is one contest now in its fourth year. About four hundred houses
in the south portion of Winston Salem, this contest has been awarded
merit awards by the City of Winston Salem.
The yards you will see in
these neighborhoods tell the true picture of what the people think!
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