Village Life Section :: Page 79

• New discussions to start — Finding ways to face race, together

  By Megan BachmanDecember 20, 2018

  

  An adapted model calls for diverse groups of eight to 12 people and a facilitator, who meet in two-hour sessions over six weeks, with a different topic each week, from implicit bias to inequity. National and local statistics will be explored and take-home exercises offer more opportunities to learn. At the model’s heart, however, is sharing stories.

• YS mother focuses family’s Christmas on helping asylum seekers

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 10, 2018

  

  The ongoing tense situation at the U.S.-Mexico border and the critical circumstances of as many as 15,000 Central American people seeking asylum in the U.S. at the Tijuana port of entry — part of the so-called “migrant caravan” — is sparking deep concern among Yellow Springs residents who are spearheading humanitarian aid responses and working to raise wider awareness about the crisis. 

• See what’s happening this Holiday

  By YS News StaffDecember 6, 2018

  

  Shop, dine, give and enjoy local activities around the holidays in the village.

• Home, Inc. senior apartments— A closer look at developer

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Created in 1989, St. Mary Development Corporation grew from a partnership between a Catholic nun and a Centerville parishioner. Within a few years, they had purchased their first site for affordable senior housing. For the pending Yellow Springs project, Home, Inc. will provide most of the service component.

• Dementia caregiver support group offered

  By YS News StaffNovember 30, 2018

  

  As part of an effort to support the growing number of local families with a family member experiencing dementia, the Dementia Friendly Yellow Springs Project, in collaboration with the United Methodist Church, will host a caregiver support group meetings on Tuesday, Dec. 4.

• Planning Commission — Varying views on senior apartments

  By Megan BachmanNovember 22, 2018

  

  Last Monday’s Village Planning Commission meeting was standing room only as villagers aired their thoughts on Home, Inc.’s proposed 54-unit affordable senior apartment building between East Herman and East Marshall streets. 

• Sidewalk slur evinces racism

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Last month, a newly poured block of concrete was defaced with a racial slur at the corner of Wright Street and West South College Street.

• #YSGivingTuesday to return

  By YS News StaffNovember 19, 2018

  

  The Yellow Springs Community Foundation and the YS Giving Tuesday Committee are spearheading the third annual #YSGivingTuesday event. Held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving that kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.

• Two-hour delay this morning

  By YS News StaffNovember 15, 2018

  

  Two-hour delay.

• New grants for Agraria —  Kids get the dirt on soil education

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller often used a metaphor to illustrate how small targeted actions can move massive systems. Fuller noted that the “trim tab,” a tiny mechanism of a ship’s rudder, can change the ship’s course with a minute movement. At the Agraria Center for Regenerative Agriculture, soil is seen as that “trim tab.”