“Yes! Weekly” Article On Glenwood
An excerpt from an article named Fixing Glenwood in the December 11th edition of Yes! Weekly, a local paper.
“Last year people planted peppers, corn, tomatoes, zucchini; we tried cucumbers but they didn’t work out,” says Scarbrough, a prominent member of the neighborhood association, watching her children fiddle with the lights in her car as they wait for her and UNCG students David Smith and Marie Cox to finish raking dried leaves from the garden, which is demarcated into sections by stakes and chain-link fencing. A 20-by-4-foot plot in the garden is available to Glenwood residents for $15 a year, and among its growers is the local Food Not Bombs chapter, which is one of the tenants at the Hive (an acronym for History Information Vision Exchange), a community center intended to improve relations and communication between Glenwood residents. Susan Burkholder, a volunteer at the center, hopes the Hive will become a resource for the neighborhood.
“We hope to branch out and see which needs in the neighborhood can be met.” She is more optimistic in her outlook than some of the other Grove Street tenants. “I’m really excited about the energy and projects that the GGNA has come up with. I think they’re on a great track. [Grove Street] has potential to become a hub if we could get a coffee shop or a small restaurant, a place where folks could connect and feel more rooted.” While Burkholder feels the other Hive tenants have high hopes for Grove Street and “a real willingness to bring it alive,” there’s some question of what to do or how to go about it.
Check out the whole article here and be sure and look at the photos to see some of the Glenwood Presbyterian Youth!
