Model Neighborhood Aims To Curb Poverty Through Health And Recreation
Model Cities targets health education, nutrition, and preventive care in the MNA with programs on food handling, parental referrals, and school health classes. It plans four new recreational areas, expands existing centers, and addresses crime linked to lack of facilities.
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A City's War On Poverty and Model Cities Plan
The six part series by The Light's Susan Bauernfeind examines Model Cities a federally funded locally run program aimed at breaking the poverty cycle within the West Side. It highlights recreation culture goals including an arts theater for youth and double use flood control land as play areas with bike paths while noting the dreamlike yet comprehensive nature of the plan and its reliance on input from the poor themselves.
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Historic Clay Home Purchased in Richmond Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has bought the historic White Hall, home of 19th century abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay, and plans a renovation. The Italian Renaissance structure suffered heavy vandalism in recent years. Clay, a fiery editor who dueled often, was Lincoln era ambassador to Russia.
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