At the 10th annual Neighborhood Builders Award Banquet on this Monday, Nov 30 along with many homeowners associations, neighborhood watch groups and other residents attending at the Bowling Green Parks and Recreation building’s community room, the Community Engagement house was recognized by the city. It was great moment for us when we heard Karen Foley, coordinator of the city’s Neighborhood Action Program voiced our house to come up with a Groundbreaker Award.
I and Greg were also lucky to get the extra prize "pineapple" symbol of hospitality for being the youngest member sitting in the table:-).
It is the honor for WKU Community Engagement House and Terry Flynn, the house’s cooperation with neighbors on East 10th and East 11th avenues. Thanks to Leah Ashwill, community engagement coordinator for the Western Kentucky University ALIVE Center for Community Partnerships, who took the resident’s idea for renovating our house and making it a home for four WKU graduate students to live in and use this place as a home base for our community development project.
Thang Le, Phuong Vu, and Greg Capillo, we all received a small gift handed out by the Bowling Green Mayor Elaine Walker with a symbol of those who are the first pioneers carrying out this project.
We feel very honored and hopefully our commitments to enhance the community are enlightened up and become successful with positive liaison with neighbors and others residents like Terry Flynn.
This event is also posted on the Bowling Green Daily News paper on Dec 1st. Here is the link so check it out: http://bgdailynews.com/articles/2009/12/01/news/news6.txt
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