Ben Pryde, an emerging leader and a senior at the Bush school decided to provide community service for his Scout Eagle Project by recruiting and organizing over 25 Bush School students and community members to spend their entire day on Sunday, August 14, painting the gymnasium at the MLK FAME Community Center. The students also mowed the lawn and pruned the hedges. Members of First African Methodist Episcopal Church were present on Sunday morning to welcome the students. Ben said he often watched the kids playing at the school and wanted to do something to improve the facility for the children.
This is an example of extraordinary collaboration and community spirit in light of the fact that the Bush School and FAME bid against each other to obtain the property. Once the property was awarded to the predominantly African American church, the Bush school leadership promised to be good neighbors and they are making good on that promise.
The mission of the MLK Community center is to develop and promote social, cultural, economic and community service for youth. Current services and programs include a reading program, recreational activities in the gym which is open Monday-Friday from 2-6 pm free of charge and dancing programs. There are plans to provide a youth obesity program, nutrition classes, exercise classes, counseling and tutoring in the very near future. This summer youth from the Central Area Youth Agency attended the school everyday for enrichment activities. They received free food and snacks and Tae Kwon Do classes were offered in the evening.
The MLK Community Center Director Norwood Brooks welcomed the support and participation of the Bush School and encourages members of the community to use the school for community activities and meetings. Rental space is available for community based programs. Free rental space is offered to organizations that provide services or activities to youth.
The MLK FAME Community Center had its Dedication and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony August 27, 2011. For more information call 206-257-5572 or visit www.mlkfame.com.
By writer Carolyn Scott-Brown
“Current services and programs include a reading program, recreational activities in the gym which is open Monday-Friday from 2-6 pm free of charge and dancing programs.”
Their are no programs listed on their web site, i am glad they are finally planning something, but as a neighbor i can say their outreach and info to the neighborhood has been poor (Unfortunately, most do not read this blog). My kids could use a reading program, and i would like them to be in a dance class, as far as i can tell none of this is happening right now.
DID YOU JUST READ THE POST??? I CAN’T STAND NEGATIVE PEOPLE! I ACTUALLY INQUIRED AND YES..THERE ARE SEVERAL GREAT PROGRAMS AT THE LOCATION. I LIVE IN THE MADISON VALLEY AND PLAN ON REFERRING SEVERAL NEIGHBORS TO THE PROGRAM. YAY MLK!
you are again the only negative person here.
what is negative about pointing out that they have no info about their programs on the web site they referred us to? It seems like you know a lot about the times of the reading program and dance program and the other programs at mlk, so can you inform us? If you can’t be helpful and give us some useful information regarding the programs currently going on then please keep quiet.
LIKE I SAID….NEGATIVE. I KNOW BECAUSE I WENT TO THE CENTER AND FOUND OUT THIS INFORMATION. YOUR HILARIOUS
nerve is a negative person, he apparently has lots of information about the programs but refuses to share(or really does not know like the rest of us). I am also waiting to find out about the programs at mlk, but no current programs are listed on the link they provided.
Come on nerve, won’t you please share with us!
NERVE – do you realize that all caps is the internet equivalent of shouting… It’s disturbing to the eyes and brain and makes it difficult to “hear” your point… it also doesn’t help that it makes your posts appear even more condescending than the actual words make them.