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COVID-19 hurts Roseland businesses

Wendell Hutson “Things don’t look good right now with sales down 50 percent,” Starnella Johnson said of family-owned Ambassador Floral. COVID through a small-biz lens Wendell Hutson For nearly two decades Starnella Johnson said her business, Ambassador Floral Co., had steady customers from high school students going to prom to local churches buying flowers for funerals and weddings. But once the COVID-19 pandemic came along, that changed everything, and now her Roseland shop is facing closure unless she can get financial help through loans or grants. “Things don’t look good right now with sales down 50 percent,” said Johnson, owner of the flower shop at 11045 S. Halsted St. “As I sit here thinking of ways to reinvent myself to keep these doors open, things look pretty bleak.”

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Ballton Shares Insight on Extraordinary Ministry in Ordinary Places - Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel

Ballton Shares Insight on ‘Extraordinary Ministry in Ordinary Places’ By Cora Jackson-Fossett, Religion Editor Published March 3, 2021 Lula Bailey Ballton (Courtesy photo) In the world of CDCs, Lula Bailey Ballton is considered a brilliant innovator and some even regard her as the “dynamic queen of nonprofits.” Ballton’s reputation stems from her role as the CEO emeritus, co-founder and former president of West Angeles Community Development Corporation (WACDC). In 1993, Bishop Charles E. Blake, pastor of West Angeles Church of God in Christ, selected Ballton as the first executive director of WACDC and charged her with fulfilling the organization’s mission “to increase social and economic justice, demonstrate compassion ad alleviate poverty as tangible expression of the Kingdom of God.”

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USFRA announces new chair, members

serkanozalp/ThinkstockPhotos Nebraska farmer Anne Meis will chair the board; new members hail from Culvers, McDonald s and Native American Agriculture Fund. Mar 02, 2021 Three women have joined the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action board. New board members include Julie Fussner from Culver’s Franchising System, LLC, who was also appointed to USFRA’s Executive Committee; Janie Simms Hipp from the Native American Agriculture Fund; and Hope Bentley from McDonald’s. U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action (USFRA), formerly the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance, represents farmer- and rancher-led organizations as well as other leaders throughout the agriculture sector with a shared vision of co-creating sustainable food systems.

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Freeman-Wilson honored as Gary s first female mayor at portrait unveiling: My job is to open up the door so many, many more can come after

Freeman-Wilson honored as Gary s first female mayor at portrait unveiling: My job is to open up the door so many, many more can come after
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Council unveils portrait of state s first black female mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson

This is a beautiful portrait, and representative of black womanhood and leadership, Godwin said. Artist Renee Ricks-Miller, of Chesterton, commissioned the piece, he said.Â Freeman-Wilson, born and raised in Gary, obtained a law degree from Harvard University in 1985, and returned home to become city judge in 1994. In 2000, Gov. Frank OâBannon appointed Freeman-Wilson as Indiana attorney general. She won the mayor s seat in 2011, after then-mayor Rudy Clay announced he was ending his reelection campaign and threw support behind Freeman-Wilson to be his successor. Since her loss to Prince in the November 2019 election,Â she became president and CEO of theÂ Chicago Urban League.

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