A complaint alleging that Tim Funk, chairman of the local Democratic Party, is seeking to keep a Black candidate off the primary ballot has been filed with the state party
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ANDERSON As she looked for a model to emulate in an effort to stimulate innovation that could lead to the revitalization of Anderson, Anikka King didn’t have to look far.
The annual Vesuvius Coworking Pitch Night in which hopefuls share their ideas for potential businesses provided exactly the kind of framework she sought for the Rekindle Anderson Impact Showcase Event, a competitive program. Raise will culminate in an October event at which attendees will vote on winners.
“We have a lot of apathy in this community, but we have so many people with so much talent. We just need to get our arrows facing in the same direction,” said King, who is already active in a number of local initiatives including the NAACP, education and felony expungement program.
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Larry McClendon, founder and president of the Redwood Foundation, stands next to the freezers he installed in a school bus he is converting into the Urban Fresh mobile food market. “It’s a lot of places we have dollar stores, but we don’t have fresh produce, fresh meats,” he said.
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Redwood Foundation President Larry McClendon explains the concept for the grocery bus to a passerby in Anderson. McClendon said he has had the idea for the grocery bus, modeled on a similar one in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for about five years.