Manhattan’s Central Park shares little with Durham’s SEEDS garden in size or appearance. But Tom Kenan encouraged attendees at Wednesday’s groundbreaking ceremony to embrace the comparison – at least when it comes to impact on their respective communities. “When we first came out here 20 years ago, the neighborhood looked sort of tired,” said Kenan, the brother of garden co-founder… Read more →
On a bright Sunday afternoon, most of the offices on the fourth floor of downtown Durham’s historic Snow Building are dark. But the stillness at 331 W. Main St. is interrupted by energetic voices and warm light spilling from a door at the end of the hall: activists at the Durham Solidarity Center finalizing plans for the day’s event. The center,… Read more →
Providing youth and children with the power to prevent destructive behavior in themselves and their friends is the goal of many youth organizations in Durham. Playworks Durham and Durham Together for a Resilient Youth (T.R.Y.) work to promote community change by supporting local youth. Playworks Durham Playworks Durham, at 119 Market St., strives to improve the way children interact by… Read more →
Editor’s note: TROSA partners with the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide assistance to veterans in Durham. Two recipients are Herman Williams, a TROSA staff member, and William Touchstone, a current program participant. For at least 15 years, Herman Williams drank his breakfast in a yellow, 11-ounce tumbler. He filled the tumbler three-quarters full with Jim Beam whiskey and added… Read more →
¿Hablas español? The staff and members of the Lakewood YMCA in Durham want the community to know they do. The La Voz (The Voice) Spanish-speaking Advisory Committee aims to address the needs of the Latino community in the surrounding neighborhoods, as well as the greater city of Durham. The idea for the committee began as part of a project design initiative… Read more →
I enjoy spending time with family. Just getting together with the entire clan and “kicking it.” My father, son and I recently visited my 87-year-old grandmother and my aunts in Carrboro and it brought back memories for us. With busy lives, we don’t get to do it as often as we’d like. There we were — four generations under the… Read more →
“Some kids take things for granted,” said Patricia Muschette, a Durham parent. “They need to learn responsibility.” Muschette said this is the reason local teens need to work. Most teens try to find a part-time job for after school so they can start to earn their own money. Many teens may hate asking parents for money and sometimes they won’t… Read more →
The Villatoro living room presents a typical family gathering with kids and adults laughing with one another while lounging on plush, comfy couches. The animated discussions are undercut, however, by solemn reminiscing about a missing family member. Brother to some in the room and a father to others, Johnny Danilo Villatoro was murdered in December. Villatoro, 35, was shot and… Read more →
As Donald visited a Wright brothers exhibit, he made an important realization. Donald, a fifth-grader at Y.E. Smith Elementary School, learned the Wright brothers invented a lot of things before finally making the world’s first successful airplane. The exhibit quickly became his favorite part of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Samantha Cole knows this because she… Read more →
No matter how big or small, there’s a story to be told behind the door of every old house in a neighborhood. “All my life I have always liked old houses,” said Denise Harrison, a Durham homeowner and board member of Preservation Durham, a historical preservation society. Her affinity for houses is clear: Harrison has rehabilitated four residential properties in… Read more →
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