rogers prior to her passing and i remember initialing we proposed it was a mixed project including 40 percent of the units affordable to low income residents. this was a program that was favored by ms. rogers and many in the community but in the end the agency wanted them to be condo. we met with ms. rogers to discuss the change (laughter) shall i pray now? (laughter) she agreed to support the project spitting of her own personal desires to see something of significance to be developed in the western edition by black folk as rooerd townsend refers to us and she supported our efforts to support that project. the connection of those two points in history for me is the recognize that i follow the path into business and for that was with regarded with the opportunity to work on this project. to create a one hundred affordable senior units in the western edition dedicated to mary rogers pr i m eternally grateful for the opportunity to witness her leadership and her passion and
prepared remarks you know the rooerdz are able to a.d. live but i ve got to write my stuff down so i can be clear. so i want to thank you all for coming out today to celebrate the grand opening of the mary rogers senior center. i was home last time and before i went to bed i was trying to put together the words to say. i thought about it for the last several months. and i decided to frame it with a couple of points of history in my life. the first thing when i i was a teenager and attended a career day in philadelphia and learned with r what an architect does. i realized immediately that s what i wanted to do and went home and told mom and dad. my schooling prepared me for the education but the passion for redeveloping neighborhoods you such as the western edition was god-given. it s been fulfilling over the last thirty years. the second point of my personal history is when we were asked by the members of this community to undertake the development of the filing more site. i
across neighborhoods and across races and the whole city. he does it with music and love our director of the chinatown reverend. wow. we ve got a lot more reverend s. they were involved in the community outreach and we did pretty good but reverend where are you hiding rooend a.m. most brown. it s in the spirit of calculation we rebuttal this with the additional community. you all raise our hand if you ve met mary. you you know why she - you know, this is like a feast i didn t community project. we need to celebrate on this day. reverend brown townsend please come forward offering you re fine over there. i heard from reverend mccrepe he did a heck of a great job. we have supervisor and the mayor. the mayor is in a rush but reverend cal jones is something for green to give us the invocation i have a wonderful high school called balboa high school. we were in the same class but i couldn t play football lord have mercy i placed football and i m praying pr it s a blessing to s
personal desires to see something of significance to be developed in the western edition by black folk as rooerd townsend refers to us and she supported our efforts to support that project. the connection of those two points in history for me is the recognize that i follow the path into business and for that was with regarded with the opportunity to work on this project. to create a one hundred affordable senior units in the western edition dedicated to mary rogers pr i m eternally grateful for the opportunity to witness her leadership and her passion and her commitment that she dated in working for this community. i want to read a brief list of the folks who helped to make this project happen and to recognize the numerous individuals and thank them for their work. first faye paulson of yorba exposure. now that you ve clapped could you hold your applause for everyone else after i ve finished the list. mohammed and ms. jones all the folks at kay hill our architect team and all
side third paint and we figured out if preachers can get together we can do things across it or this city. we must continue the work that s been doing. we need to work on housing but i have to work on my brothers and sisters coming out of the prison. we all did something that we should have gone to jail. but the grace of god and so that s it. so we got to continue we ve got more work to do and we thank god. reverend mcwhy a he s here. all right. that s good let s pray. god we thank you now as we come and celebrate this time together. first of all, lord we thank you important the great souls mary rogers lord she fought a good fight lord. many of us were complainant but she was there taking a stand and we finally, there s woke up to what should he was talking about pr not trying to be over 24 but trying to change the way what we leave and god the way she wanted us to live was to love everybody we thank you for this building and this building represent what mary studio for god p