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NEW HIGH SCHOOL PARKER VILLAGE UPDATE

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NEW HIGH SCHOOL to open in Highland Park

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181 East Buena Vista, Highland Park, Michigan 48203

Highland Park, after several years, is finally getting a High School.

The former St.Benedict’s church on Candler street, is now accepting applications in Highland Park for Kindergarten to 10th graders for the Fall 2020 season.

Sigma Academy for Leadership and Early middle college has partnered with Cleary University and you can Call 888-569-3424 for additional information or enroll at www.

Sigmalaemc.org In person enrollment will take place on July 26th and on Sunday, August 2nd from 1pm-3pm at 47 Candler. The HPCHS School board consist of: Janet Spight White/President, Alexis Ramsey/ VP, Eban Morales/Secretary. Lorne McGee/ Treasurer and members, Shamayim Harris, Linda Wheeler and Cheryl Sanford.

The board can be contacted by email at Info@hiPark.org or by phone at 313-402-0266

CITY INFO HIGHLAND PARK CITY COUNCIL & THE HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY CRISIS COALITION (HPC3) FORM JOINT TASK FORCE Highland Park City Council voted unanimously Monday, July 6th to establish a COVID-19 Just Recovery Task Force.

The Highland Park Community Crisis Coalition is made up of five grassroots organizations and was born as a result of the D2N Detroit Covid-19 Relief Initiative.

“This task force is about the community coming together to get through this crisis, but also to look forward,” said City Council President of Highland Park Carlton Clyburn in a press release.

The task force will be a joint effort between City Council and the grassroots-led Highland Park Community Crisis Coalition.

The goals of the task force are to coordinate relief and community safety efforts and develop a long term plan to respond to COVID-19 using the framework of a “just recovery”.

According to the Climate Justice Alliance’s website, “just recovery” is a framework for responding to crises that focuses on solutions that “respond, recover, and rebuild” rather than solely offering charity and aid. “Respond” calls on people to activate local mutual aid networks rather than outside emergency response,“recover” means helping people build economic equity versus exploiting them for low paying jobs, and “rebuild” means long-term support for creating a more sustainable and resilient community.

Highland Park resident and member of the group Citizens For A Sustainable Highland Park Margaret Lewis told Planet Detroit that this task force is essential in disseminating information, because Highland Park’s city hall is closed, the city lacks its own newspaper, and most of its residents lack computer access.

“The task force is at least a beginning where these concerns can be addressed and citizens can have a place to have dilogue,” she said.

Highland Park, a city made up of mostly Black and low-income residents, has been hit hard by coronavirus. According to the U.S. Census, Highland Park is almost 90% Black and 45% of its residents live in poverty, and 18% of its residents are over the age of 65.

For the first two months of the crisis there was nowhere to get tested for coronavirus in the city. On May 4th, Trinity Health and Saint Joseph Mercy Health System established the first testing site in Highland Park. On the first day the new test site was open, 35-40% of residents tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

PARKER VILLAGE UPDATE Several blessings have allowed us to move forward on the Construction of our Solar Pergola. First a successful 2nd crowdfunding campaign through the IOBY platform for our Summer Concert series allowed us to move on some additional infrastructure improvements and to put planning in place with several artists. Due to Covid19, we have pushed the dates back to 2021 and look forward to safely presenting the live performance section of this initiative when it is safe to do so.

The IOBY campaign was a partnership with ART PLACE AMERICA. Art Place America is a collaboration among a number of foundations and financial institutions that envision a future of equitable, healthy and sustainable communities in which everyone has a voice and agency in creating contextual, adaptive and responsible solutions.

Our partnership, with the Highland Park Community Crisis Coalition, consisting of Avalon Village, Soulardarity, Buckets of Rain and The Boys and Girls Club of SE Michigan, with funding from D2N Foundation, The Ford Foundation and Community Foundation for SouthEast Michigan, has set the stage further in our quest to not only be a daily resource center for the city of Highland Park, but an Emergency Destination for the community.

Solar will play a huge role in that process. Our current Food distributions, The COVID-19 Test site at SAY DETROIT CLINIC, The Energy Sustainability and Tech Fair and others initiatives are only scratching the surface. We are Still waiting on the city to approve our request to purchase the remaining parcels of land that we don’t own, to create arguably the first “Smart Neighborhood” in the Detroit Metro Area.

With the city administration approving that sale, we can then access the additional funding to complete the project. A 3rd of which has already been earmarked for us to receive, ($1.25 Million ). Working with the municipality we will add additional Smart street lights ( like the one we have already) and relight the block, provide free wi-fi as a hotspot in the neighborhood, attract additional residents to the city by building net-zero homes and a host of other vital and important functions to add onto the cities capability. “One building block, unleashes another”, shared Juan Shannon.

Publisher/Editor of this newsletter and a member of the Highland Park Business Association, Soulardarity, Michigan Solar Users Network, GLREA, Highland Park Community Crisis Coalition and The Just Recovery Task for the City of Highland Park.

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HPC3 Food Distribution Dates 1st and 3rd Mondays @ Avalon Village, 24 Avalon 2nd and 4th Mondays at Parker Village. 181 E. Buena Vista 9AM-12N Mutual Aid Contact info.Text AID to 313.349.1063 to be added to the HP Mutual Aid Network. You will be prompted to share your needs/offerings, and someone from the network will follow up with you!

You can also call 313.349.1063 and leave a message

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