VICTORIES!!

This month our Young Leaders Received Several Victories.  One Victory took one day and the other took the better part of a year.

Picassos with a Piece of Chalk

In May a group of Metanoia's older students entered the North Charleston Arts Festival's Sidewalk Chalk Competition and won first place in the group category.  They earned their category by doing a three panel design portraying this year's Young Leaders Program theme song title "Strength, Courage and Wisdom."

Spruill Ave. Speed Goes to 35 Mph (and more)

Last summer student's in Metanoia's CDF Freedom School held a community march to have the speed limit lowered along Spruill Ave.  Although the march had resulted in the lowering of speed limits elsewhere in the community and the placement of flashing school zone lights on Spruill the SC Dept. of Transportation was reluctant at first to lower the speed limit.  But thanks to Metanoia's continued advocacy and the help of Mayor Keith Summey, Councilman Michael Brown and Councilman Kurt Taylor, we received news in April that the speed limit would indeed be lowered to 35 mph and that has now been done. The SC DOT has also agreed to put four way stop signs around Chicora Elmentary to make the neighborhood even more safe.  Thanks to an initiative that was begun by our Freedom School Scholars and continued by many community leaders our neighborhood is now safer for everyone.  Special thanks to the SC DOT as well for their cooperation and willingness to listen to the communities' requests for further assistance.

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