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The last days of Kossuth Street Garden
Established by Michael Doody in 2007, the South Side community garden is being shuttered to make way for a new housing development following a prolonged fight
Columbus Alive
About five months ago, when he realized that Kossuth Street Garden would not be saved, Michael Doody, a former journalist and now private investigator, distracted himself by starting on a children’s book with the working title
The Life and Death of a Community Garden, a process that Doody termed therapeutic.
Though geared to children, the ending, as described by Doody, is one filled with horror, the garden gasping what it knows are its dying breaths. “Is this how humans treat each other?” she asks, finally giving in and releasing her spirit as the book draws to a close.
CBS News
Racism s corrosive impact on the health of Black Americans
Bill Whitaker reports on how decades of research show that racism is adversely affecting Black Americans health in several different ways. 2021 Apr 18
When the Centers for Disease Control declared last week that racism is a serious public health threat in America, it acknowledged something that researchers have found for decades: on nearly every measure of health, African Americans are more prone to serious disease and premature death.
The coronavirus pandemic has provided devastating evidence of this: Black Americans have died of COVID-19 at twice the rate of Whites, and so far are being vaccinated at a dramatically lower rate.
On a typical April weekend in the past, Candace “Chainsaw” Moser would be whirling around a roller derby track, smashing into competitors.
But with the Ohio Roller Derby league now in its second season of hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moser instead on Saturday was walking along S. 17th Street on the South Side, picking up cigarette butts and candy wrappers.
Along with her husband, Drew Stafford, and daughter Ember Stafford, 12, Moser was among about a half-dozen of her roller derby teammates who joined Saturday’s cleanup, organized by the nonprofit volunteer group Green Columbus as part of its Earth Day Columbus effort.
Pure stupidity : Cork club blasts mindless vandalism at its facilities
John Bohane
RIVERSTOWN FC chairperson John O’Connor has expressed his disappointment at the ‘disgraceful’ events which have occurred at their facilities in recent weeks.
Significant damage and vandalism have taken place at the Community Grounds in Glanmire. This has included broken glass on the grass playing surfaces, broken bottles on the car park, fires set on the new car park, protective netting slashed, new fencing is broken, hundreds of bottles thrown on the club grounds, and litter covering the entire facility.
The soccer club chairperson said the vandalism is a ‘kick in the teeth’ for the club members and for the local community.