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EnrichLA in FrontiersLA.com!
FrontiersLA.com has included this Sunday’s EnrichLA event in their “Harvey Milk Day Celebrations” article! If you would like to be part of this great event, join us at RFK Community Schools located at
701 S. Catalina St.,
Los Angeles, CA 90005
“On Sunday May 20, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Stuart Milk, founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation and nephew of Harvey Milk, will host the 3rd Annual Harvey Milk Day of Service at Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools.
At the first commemoration in 2010, Villaraigosa pledged to honor Harvey Milk through a day of service every year to acknowledge Milk’s legacy of community engagement. This year’s We Serve LA” project—held in conjunction with Gay for Good, Enrich L.A., FAIR, Latino Equality Alliance, UCLA Family Commons, Wilshire Center Business Improvement District, principals, teachers and students from the Los Angeles Unified School District, among others—will paint commemorative canvas murals, build two sets of edible produce gardens to be used in educating parents and students alike about nutrition and sustainability, and complete a campus wide clean up at Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools.”
“Children today are not doing so well eating-wise, and we think one of the reasons why is they don’t know where food is coming from,” said Thomas O’Grady, director of Enrich LA.
Students create, maintain and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
“My favorite thing to eat at this garden is radishes,” said Colby Flores, a 7th grader from Thomas Starr King Middle School. “We grow tomatoes. We grow lettuce and a lot of herbs.”
For press information, please contact:
Tomas O’Grady
tomasogradyenrichla@gmail.com