Celebration!

The most important part of any project is to celebrate a job well done. Public Allies Bridgeport coordinated nearly twenty workshops with youth, plus a city clean sweep, resulting in 21 cleaned neighborhoods/parks, 1 community garden, a stone etching for the garden, and two new outdoor murals. Overall, we engaged over 200 residents, and several non-profits in the area.

Present at the celebration included representatives from buildOn, Green Village Initiative, The Mentoring Institute of United Way Coastal Fairfield County, Groundwork Bridgeport, Bridgeport Community Land Trust, Cook & Grow, and of course, the Bridgeport Public Library. We also had Mayor Bill Finch of Bridgeport, Mayor Pat Murphy of New Milford (the mother of one of our Public Allies), and two mayoral candidates, Mary Jane Foster and John Gomes.

There were a lot of hands involved, and we are extremely grateful to all our collaborators. We hope you will take a stop down at the garden and check it out. Take some lettuce - it's ready!