One of Kaelyn Carter’s ongoing challenges these days is working early hours as a landscaper through the cold, often rainy San Francisco Bay Area weather a world away from the stagnation he remembers feeling when he first arrived in California less than two years ago.
NIAD Art Center in Richmond is a progressive art studio for low-income adult artists with developmental disabilities. This week, a community garden on the corner of Macdonald Avenue and Harbour Way featuring work from their artists, was vandalized.
By Kathy Chouteau
On a recent Saturday, 19 worker bees from Reentry Success Center’s Men’s Group arrived at the Community Green Space at Harbour Way & Macdonald Avenue ready for some serious spring cleaning. Teaming up to cut weeds, rake leaves and remove trash, the group managed to collect an eye-popping 65 bags of debris and two yards of bulky waste in just under three hours.
The clean-up effort was part of a partnership between Richmond Main Street Initiative (RMSI) and Reentry Success Center (RSC) that’s been in the works for three years delayed by the pandemic and which came to fruition this month with the Men’s Group officially adopting the space to help keep it debris-free via regular caretaking.