This is a photo of the update Vi is sharing with residents at neighborhood group meetings. As you can see, financial help is available for needed repairs. Vi shares resource information and assists 7th Ward residents and business owners with grant and program applications.
If you live in Youngstown, Ohio, please consider joining a neighborhood group. Please know that not all groups are block watches. Some groups lobby the city for new sidewalks and other improvements. Some are just neighbors - people living in a neighborhood who meet once a month to stay informed, socialize, and plan beautification and other projects. Some group members pick up trash, cut vacant lots, do little things to help make our neighborhoods a nicer place to be. When you see tended islands with flowers around a neighborhood sign, seating areas or community gardens in vacant lots, benches along a street or walking trail, nice little touches here and there all across the city - who do you think does all that? Odds are, it is a neighborhood group, just ordinary people who reside in the same area coming together to get things done.
There are 8 little neighborhood groups in the 7th Ward that fall under the umbrella of the 7WCC. Here is a chart (screenshot photo) of when they meet. It is always a good idea to call the contact person before you go just to make sure the meeting hasn't been cancelled due to weather. Some groups take a winter break.
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