Have you ever been to a block party? One where the street is actually blocked off and music is being played and people walk around and chat with each other in a way that suggests friendly neighborhoods are alive and well in America? I’d daydreamed about attending a block party like this for years, and it finally happened last Tuesday on Goodyear Boulevard between Newton Street … [Read more...]
Summit Metro Parks, Free Akron Outdoor Movies host ‘Willy Wonka’ at Goodyear Metro Park
Willy Wonka is bringing his famed chocolate factory to Goodyear Heights Metro Park later this month. Together with the group Free Akron Outdoor Movies and the Akronist, Summit Metro Parks is co-hosting a free showing of “Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory” Saturday, July 22. The sled hill will provide amphitheater-style seating in the park, located at 2077 Newton St., … [Read more...]
Akron Art Museum seeks neighborhood suggestions for Inside|Out art exhibit
In which neighborhoods would you like to see art from the Akron Art Museum? The Museum’s Inside|Out, community-activated art project will return in 2017 to four new communities in and around Akron. Forty high-quality reproductions of iconic artworks in the Akron Art Museum collection—10 per community—will find their way into the neighborhoods and outdoor spaces this summer … [Read more...]
Eagle Scout project includes garden makeover in Goodyear Heights
Joe Roebuck from Boy Scout Troop 154 led a group of volunteers to install a flagpole and roses at the Vietnam Memorial located at the intersection of Watson Street, Wingfoot Way and Malasia, in the Goodyear Heights neighborhood. Roebuck personally built all of the benches, as part of his Eagle Scout Project, and organized the installation. The location has had three … [Read more...]
Food pantry volunteer, 100, reflects on community involvement (Article and Video)
Lee Strawn may be 100, but, he said, “there’s still a lot of living to do.” Strawn has worked as a volunteer at Good Neighbors food pantry for nearly 40 years and throughout these many decades he doesn’t view his volunteerism as work. “It’s not a job, it’s fun,” he said. He said his wife volunteered for years before he got involved, then she passed the volunteer bug along … [Read more...]
