CHICAGO (WLS) ABC 7, Chicago s Number One station for news, presented a virtual town hall offering Chicago area faith leaders behind the Media Editing Group, MEG, a platform to highlight their Family Value anti-violence campaign. In his new role as ABC 7 s race and culture reporter, Will Jones moderated this virtual event, OUR CHICAGO: VOICES OF THE COMMUNITY available on abc7chicago.com Thursday, January 14 at 2:00 PM. See Something, Say Something and Put the Guns Down, are excellent suggestions that encourage community participation. And The Media Editing Group (MEG) supports them both. But, MEG wanted to do more by making all families the central focus of its Family Value initiative, which kicked off with public service announcements last month.
Families host Fort Sill soldiers for Adopt-A-Soldier
Soldiers adopted for the holidays By Dallas Payeton | December 28, 2020 at 5:16 PM CST - Updated December 28 at 5:17 PM
FORT SILL, Okla. (TNN) - Fort Sillâs adopt a solider event helped 98 soldiers enjoy a home away from home this Christmas.
Stephanie Hoffman-Kuszmaul said her family has been adopting a soldier since she was a little girl, and sheâs continuing the tradition.
Theyâve always adopted because they feel for the soldiers who canât make it home for the holidays.
âWe always have them to the house, we always have stockings for the soldiers with little things in there, fun things, practical things. Dinner, big family dinner I have two 20-year old at home so itâs video games, and cards, and just hanging out with the family and enjoy in peacefulness,â Hoffman said.
how many other strings of beef do you have? we have we have right now we have that i can count that we do have four that s going on. four we keeping our pulse on. there s four situations that is really hot that can blow up any minute. even if the guns are here someone has to pull the trigger. our job is to get them not to pick the gun up. autry phillips runs target area redevelopment. among their missions, putting former gang members in outreach programs to try to stop violence on the streets. in this neighborhood of inglewood and auburn, gresham and spots across the city, there is great need, right? these communities have been depleted for a long time. some would say starved, right? yeah. what do the communities actually need? what the community is lacking is hope. you re talking about trying to instill hope in individuals who are living in a community or in a situation where it s hopeless. where the men in our community are unemployed. the women in our community are
autry phillips runs target area redevelopment. among their missions, putting former gang members in outreach programs to try to stop violence on the streets. in this neighborhood of inglewood and spots across the city, there s great need. right? these communities have been depleted far long time, some would say starved, right? yeah. what do the communities actually need? what the community is lacking is hope. you re talking about trying to instill hope in individuals who are living in a community or in a situation where it s hopeless. where the men in our community are unemployed. the women in our community are under employed. every community should have one place where all the kids can feel safe. you don t have those places now? there are some places but we have to understand that there are gang lives. onest. there are some that groups