Mayor Cooper creates new advisory board aimed to make Nashville safer
Nashville Mayor John Cooper is assembling a team to help reduce and prevent violence.
and last updated 2021-05-05 12:23:58-04
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Nashville Mayor John Cooper is assembling a team to help reduce and prevent violence.
Eleven Nashvillians were chosen to join the new Community Safety Partnership Advisory Board. The group consists of experts in areas ranging from Metro Council to medicine.
The board will provide funding recommendations for more than $1.5 million in grants, which Cooper allocated in March to bolster neighborhood groups working to prevent and reduce violence in Nashville.
This year, mosques are open for prayers with coronavirus precautions in place and some worshipers have already been vaccinated.
Muslims are still adapting their usual Ramadan traditions as the outbreak continues and this time of prayer and fasting gets underway.
“It’s kind of like 50% going back to normal,” Hardui Adham said.
He volunteered Monday at the Salahadeen Center of Nashville, preparing the mosque for an influx of people. Traditionally, Muslims pray shoulder-to-shoulder, but not this year. Adham stuck social distancing stickers around the prayer hall, reminding everyone to stay six feet apart.
Unlike last year, he plans to go to the mosque this Ramadan, alternating days with his wife since their children will still stay at home.
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