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Our Super Mom Honorees...page 13 2016 Super Mom honoree, Betsy Sichi, poses with her children in front of Playa del Rey’s Ballerini Cooley Studios.
It’s build a garden, grow a community for Westchester’s EACG volunteers By Sandra Saldaña
was years in the making; Garden Manager Dorothy Stone recounts that in the mid-1970s the plot of land was originally reserved for an agricultural program of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Over the years, however, it became a storage area for trash bins and weeds until a new vision finally took place.
With the combined efforts of The Environmental Change-Makers, former Wright Middle School teacher Paula Cohen, several community members and a beautification agreement with LAUSD, January 2011 marked the official ground breaking for EACG. It was around that time that current (continued on page 2)
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The community of Westchester has long been a hidden gem, with only its locals knowing about the treasures that lie within. Driving down Emerson Avenue, most people might only notice schools, homes and churches, but if you look a little harder, you will find a
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small garden that has brought together a group of dedicated volunteers that are inviting the community to step inside the urban oasis they’ve created. Occupying an acre of land on the campus of Wright STEAM Middle School is the Emerson Avenue Community Garden (EACG). This completely volunteer run garden