Articles About community building

• Full house, full bellies at Community Thanksgiving

  By Matt MindeNovember 30, 2017

  

  The annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner, organized by the Yellow Springs Interfaith Council, completed its 12th year in crowded splendor, hosting over 250 people.

• BLOG–Enacting MLK’s Beloved Community: Yellow Springs Edition

  By Aaron Maurice SaariSeptember 21, 2017

  

  What began with a community meeting in 2015 is culminating in a six-week journey this fall. Do we have the communal will to be in significant relationships with refugees and Muslims in the greater-Dayton area? 

• Community Solutions’ 63rd conference — A focus on climate solutions

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 13, 2016

  

  The 76-year-old Community Solutions will hold its 63rd conference, “Climate Crisis Solutions: Charting a New Course.” The event dates are Friday–Sunday, Oct. 21–23. Seventeen local, national and international experts will speak.

• Forty years of making connections in Yellow Springs

  By Audrey HackettApril 21, 2016

  

  Larry Gerthoffer, better known as Larry Electric, has been a “fixture” of Yellow Springs for more than 40 years.

• Kindness and caring in Yellow Springs, 2014

  By YS News StaffJanuary 1, 2015

  

  For this holiday edition of the News, staffers asked readers to respond to the question, “What acts of kindness and caring have you witnessed in the village during 2014?” I am grateful for the kind acts of love and kindness shown to me from a very cool villager named Nick Cunningham. My family is sort […]

• Yellow Springs village peacemakers of 2013

  By YS News StaffJanuary 9, 2014

  

  In December, the News, inspired by a suggestion from the Human Relation Commission’s Linda Rudowski, asked villagers to name local residents who had acted as peacemakers or had helped to create harmony in the community in the past year.

• 2013 Community Thanksgiving Dinner

  By Susan GartnerDecember 5, 2013

  

  The ninth year of Yellow Springs community Thanksgiving dinner was a huge success, thanks to the combined efforts of many people.

• Parties bond neighborhoods

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 18, 2011

  

  Organizers of the annual neighborhood block parties want participants to have a good time. But beyond that, they aim to strengthen the ties between those who live close to each other in Yellow Springs.