Rivers Edge at Eastside Pointe - Groundbreaking Celebration
(Pictured from left to right: Amon Martin, Vicki Wilbon, Aaron Wolfe-Bertling, Rita Dreyer, Commissioner Steve Casper, Congressman Geoff Davis, Mayor Chuck Scheper, Jim Rose, Hal Keller, Mark Walton, Rick McQuady, Glenn Kukla, Commissioner Sherry Carran and Michelle Sherrill. Picture courtesy of Phillip Ridley)
The Ground Breaking ceremony for the new River's Edge at Eastside Pointe was recently held with a breakfast followed by the actual ceremony on site where Congressman Geoff Davis made an appearance. Over 100 stakeholders, residents and dignitaries participated in the celebration.
This event has kicked off the Housing Authority of Covington's 75th Anniversary celebration and has helped define not only who we are but also demonstrate the positive impact that we are currently having and will continue to have on our residents and the City of Covington.
The Housing Authority of Covington would like to thank the Commissioners, staff, partners, residents and the community of Covington for participating in the Ground Breaking Ceremony for River's Edge at Eastside Pointe.
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Organizations are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the Community being Served, -- That whenever any Organization becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Organization, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..."
Unfortunately, in America; Non-Profit Corporations ARE NOT People and are forbidden to participate in the political process! However, that doesn't prevent their leadership from flappin' their jaws about it.... Time to evaluate Who They Are, What their stated "Mission" is and do they Pass or Fail. Sometimes; when you build something and fuck it up, it's better to tear down and start over rather than trying to salvage it with bandaids & lip stick...
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It's Time For PRIDE! May kicks off the 2012 Pride season... Join us the Last Weekend of June for Greater Cincinnati - Northern Kentucky Pride on Sunday July 1st throughout the South Bank! More info at http://www.nkypride.org/ & Click the following links to download the Retail/Vendor Application and Guidelines for Vendor Manual. http://cincinnatipride.org/vendors
Cincinnati & NKY Retail-Information Vendor Application
Cincinnati & NKY 2012 Guidelines for Retail-Information Vendors
???Covington!!!
“Winners(?)
develop the habit
of doing things that
losers
(?)
don’t like to
do!”
" I see one-third of a nation
ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether
we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide
enough for those who have too little." F.D.R.-1937
Showdown in Covington
As you know, I live in the Midwest.
Specifically, in Northern Kentucky across the river from Cincinnati which is
known as "The only City in America whose charter specifically forbids equality
for GLBT people". The following article appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer on
Sunday Nov. 17th, 2003:
"Weapons of mass (self)
destruction"
"... But the other term we hear
every day is "weapons of mass destruction." Weapons of mass destruction refer
to rogue nations such as Iraq, which harbors chemical, biological or nuclear
weapons capable of killing large numbers of people. The atomic bomb, sarin gas
or a poisoned water supply are examples of weapons of mass destruction.
In my opinion, we have other weapons of mass
destruction in our midst, but we seldom give them as much attention as the other
weapons of mass destruction mentioned daily on the 6 o'clock news. These
weapons of mass destruction are:
- Obesity -
- HIV/AIDS - Despite the fact that we have
been lulled to sleep about how the HIV/AIDS epidemic has lessened, in fact, it
hasn't. HIV/AIDS is still on the rise in the black and hispanic communities.
Condoms are still being passed out in many prisons. In South Africa someone is
stricken with HIV/AIDS every five seconds. Imagine 10 HIV/AIDS infected men or
women from South Africa turned loose in a major urban city in unprotected sex
escapades. What a deadly weapon of mass destruction.
- Crack cocaine -
- High school dropout rate -
History records that most great civilizations
fell from within. While we should be concerned about chemical, biological and
nuclear weapons of mass destruction, we should also strive to eliminate our
internal weapons of mass destruction. They, too, are ticking time
bombs."
Elmon W. Prier - a member of the
Enquirer's Local Voices panel, which contributes columns to the opinion pages
twice a week. He is a retired teacher and an ordained minister. (The
picture that accompanied the article also showed he is african-american.
I am very curious as to how
my South African friends would respond? Here's what I would like to say: This
is another example of the American Arrogance and Indifference that is part of
the root reason why other peoples hate us. I would think that South Africans
would be highly insulted, and rightly so. Why? Because in America, regarding
the spread of HIV/AIDS: the Arrogant, Untested, Indifferent, Untreated,
Complacent, Irresponsible, Hedonistic, Promiscuous (fellow) Americans are
leading a pre-emptive strike all on their own. Am I lyin'...???
After that, during my brief
experience with homelessness I saw the movie "Pay It Forward" and made this
observation:
“Think of an idea
to Change The World,
And put it Into
ACTION…”
“I
tried real hard, but nothing really happened.
I think some people are too scared or something. I think, things could be different. I mean, the World’s not exactly s**t.
I
guess it’s hard for some people who are so used to things the way they are, even
if they’re BAD, to CHANGE. ‘Cause then
they kinda give up. And when they do,
everybody kinda loses.
It’s hard, you can’t plan it. You
have to watch people more, ya know. Sort
of keep an eye on them, to protect them, ‘cause they can’t always see what they
need. It’s like your big chance to fix
something that’s not like your bike. You
can fix a person…”
“Trevor” in The Movie
Go
Beyond the Original Premise…
-
Instead of
helping three people , resolve to be of assistance to anyone, in anyway you
can.
-
Little things
can make as big a difference as the really “huge” things.
-
Strive for
“The Greater Good for the Greater Number…”
-
Remember that
“a rich person is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the
least.”
-
“Learn that
what is most valuable is not what you have in your life, but
who you have in your life.
As a result of the 9-11
Tragedies and the continuing aftermath, I have come to the conclusion
that:
We should hold
this truth to be forever self-evident: That ALL Hate is intrinsically evil and
should be considered EQUAL… I must
therefore hypothesize that there is no difference between the Hate that brought
down the World Trade Centers and the Hate:
·
Of The Klu Klux Klan which results in the deaths of innocent
Blacks
·
Of The Army
of God which sends Anthrax Letters to Planned Parenthood Clinics and supports
the deaths of Abortion Doctors
·
Of
Homophobes which results in the deaths of people like Matthew
Shepard
·
Of the
White Supremacists & The Arian Nation
·
Of Right-wing
Religious Radicals like Jerry Falwell
·
Ignorance, Fear and Prejudice of the American
People and Republican government that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of
U. S. AIDS Deaths since the beginnings of the epidemic in
1980…
"Coming OUT
of Hiding:
A Retrospective Journey Through
AIDS..."
A Memoir * Michael Wallace
Connett
"COPYRIGHT(c): The Michael Wallace Connett-LIVING
Trust"
"I used
to be afraid of dying, but I'm not anymore.
I'm more afraid of what happens
to the people who live..." from "And The Band Played On"
"If liberty means
anything at all,
it means the right to tell people what they do not want to
hear." George Orwell
