At a May ceremony, the Eastern Bank Foundation recognized Yun-Ju Choi, the executive director of Coalition for a Better Acre, with a 2023 Community Advocacy Award, as well as an award grant for her organization’s role in creating affordable housing in Lowell, Dracut and Haverhill.
LOWELL Crowds turned out the weekend of June 1-3 for the Friends of the Pollard Memorial Library Book Sale that featured good condition adult and children’s books, audiobooks, DVDs and CDs.
LOWELL Multiculturalism is part of Justin Ford’s DNA. The community activist says that hardwired diversity his mother, he says, is “Black and white” and his father is Cambodian combined with his youth, U.S. Army service and experience makes him an ideal voice of the people as he mounts his second campaign for City Council.
LOWELL On average, a newborn baby goes through 10 to 12 diapers a day, which can mean parents and caregivers could be changing up to 4,000 diapers in one year.