Community garden offers free, healthy food to neighbors

Daniel Carson Fremont News-Messenger
Published 5:01 PM EDT Sep 25, 2018

Roger Hart of Micah House grows a community garden on May Street in Fremont to feed healthy vegetables to neighborhood residents for free. Molly Corfman/The News-Messenger
FREMONT – From the May Street Community Garden’s 14 raised wooden garden boxes built on a small, previously abandoned lot, neighborhood residents can take their pick of free broccoli, green beans, eggplant, red potatoes and nine varieties of peppers.

It’s the brainchild of Roger Hart, director of the nonprofit Micah House, on the opposite side of May Street.

As Hart talked about the community garden Monday, May Street resident Ezekiel Jones walked up and asked if there were any banana peppers left.

Roger Hart of Micah House grows a community garden on May Street in Fremont to feed healthy vegetables to neighborhood residents for free. Molly Corfman/The News-Messenger
When Hart began working on his community project earlier this year, Jones acknowledged he wasn’t sure if the garden would be a hit with residents or survive the foraging of wild animals.

“But it’s working out,” Jones said, as he filled a white container with a couple handfuls of banana peppers.

Hart purchased the 120-by-30-foot May Street lot, located at 520 May Street, from the Sandusky County Land Bank last year.

A deadly fire occurred in 2013 in a house on the lot where the garden is now located.

Brenda Shorty, 42, and her 2-year-old daughter, Vinesha Darden, died in the November 2013 May Street house fire.

In 2016, the city tore down the abandoned, fire-damaged house.

Roger Hart of Micah House grows a community garden on May Street in Fremont to feed healthy vegetables to neighborhood residents for free. Molly Corfman/The News-Messenger

Hart said the lot had been up for sheriff’s sale, but it didn’t sell. He said he approached the county land bank about the property and purchased it last fall.

This spring, Hart began work on building the community garden.

Seven different sponsors donated $150 apiece for soil and wood used for the 4-by-8-foot garden boxes.

After building the boxes at home, Hart brought them to May Street in April and began filling them with soil.

He received a donation of 10 yards of horse manure and combined it with 10 yards of compost to make soil for the garden boxes.

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Hart planted various vegetables, fruits, and herbs in the boxes.

Through word-of-mouth, neighborhood residents learned about the garden and initially went to Micah House to pick out food to take home.

Roger Hart of Micah House grows 9 types of peppers for May Street neighborhood residents, including jalepeno, from left, sweet banana, cayenne, anaheim chile and serrano. Molly Corfman/The News-Messenger

In the last month or so, neighbors have come to the garden and started picking their own herbs, fruits and vegetables, Hart said, including basil, cucumbers, tomatoes, and red-hot ghost peppers.

“The response in the neighborhood has been very good,” Hart said.

Some neighbors have already asked Hart to plant collard greens.

Hart said he’s open to suggestions on what to plant and plans to add between six and eight additional garden boxes to the May Street garden.

He said he wants to poll neighbors next year before he plants to find out what worked and what new fruits and vegetables residents would like to see growing in 2019.

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Lunar module going on tour

moon hoax proofYou might want to see the lunar module in person and compare the size of the space suit and size of the astronauts helmet + inflated space suit with the large airpack on the back (extending to behind the helmet) with the dimensions of the lunar hatch/door/opening. Has this been explored? How on earth (or the moon!) could a large space suit and all that equipment (backpack in back, camera in front) get through a small hatch opening? Wish I knew the module dimensions –maybe if you visit the module you can figure it out…or maybe there’s the specs online…anyone check that out?

Young entrepreneur helps clothe the homeless in Las Vegas

Eighteen-year-old Dylan Sanglay, who created his own clothing company and uses proceeds to buy clothes for the homeless, poses at his home in the Sunrise Manor area of Las Vegas on Sunday, Aug. 26 ...

By Mia Sims

On his way home from school one day last September, Dylan Sanglay noticed several homeless men walking along the street. He wondered how he could make their day.
“I’d just gotten out of school and I had a bag of clothes I was about to donate to Goodwill,” Sanglay said. “Instead of donating, I thought I’d use it as a chance to inspire my sister.”
He took the clothes out of the car and gave them to the men. Their smiles, Sanglay said, sparked something inside him. For his birthday that October, instead of a celebration, he wanted to be of service to his community.
“I organized a bunch of clothes — men’s, women, kids, everything — and I went downtown,” Sanglay said. “I started giving them one by one to all the homeless individuals who were out there. After that, I started doing it every month.”
Now, Sanglay partners with nonprofit organizations such as Project 150, Convoy of Hope, CARE Complex and Help USA to provide clothes to homeless adults and youth. Sanglay’s community work is only a portion of what he does as an aspiring entrepreneur. He buys clothes for the homeless using the proceeds from his clothing company Dsigner_etc., a clothing line he started via social media.
“I buy new and used trendy clothing from stores like Goodwill and Savers,” Sanglay said. “I get a lot of support from my customers. They either pay me through PayPal or in person and I deliver the clothing to them. It was easy for me last year because a lot of my clients were in high school so I’d sell though there. I’m going to market my way to college now.”
According to his mother, Lisa Lopez Sanglay, 47, Dylan has always had an entrepreneurial spirit — even in third grade when he would ask her to buy lollipops so he could resell them.
“He’s always had that drive,” Lisa said. “He’s not your typical 18-year-old. He knows what he wants. And he always focuses on a bigger picture. When he and his sister were younger, I would take them to Catholic Charities and when I volunteered, I made sure they signed up with me. I’m from the Philippines. I’ve seen the worst of it. I always wanted my kids to stay grounded and see how fortunate they are.”
A recent graduate of the Southeast Career Technical Academy, Sanglay graduated with a 4.1 GPA majoring in sports medicine and was offered 11 full-ride scholarships at schools across the country. He’s a freshman at UNLV, studying kinesiology and plans to keep juggling the duties of his clothing business and community service.
“My overall goal is to make a difference in the world,” Sanglay said. “I want to expand this business throughout the world and inspire those around me, mainly the youth. The youth are our future. I just want to be a role model.”
Contact Mia Sims on msims@reviewjournal.com. Follow @miasims___ on Twitter.

(Source: https://www.reviewjournal.com/life/fashion/young-entrepreneur-helps-clothe-the-homeless-in-las-vegas/ )

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A “private passenger” has signed up for a trip around the moon aboard SpaceX’s BFR rocket-spaceship combo, company representatives announced via Twitter this evening (Sept. 13). SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk will fill in the details Monday (Sept. 17), during a webcast that begins at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT on Sept. 18). You can watch the SpaceX moon shot webcast live here, courtesy of SpaceX.
SpaceX’s giant Mars vehicle has a crewed moon mission on its docket.
A “private passenger” has signed up for a trip around the moon aboard SpaceX’s BFR rocket-spaceship combo, company representatives announced via Twitter this evening (Sept. 13). SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk will fill in the details Monday (Sept. 17), during a webcast that begins at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT on Sept. 18). You can watch the SpaceX moon shot webcast live here, courtesy of SpaceX.
Musk may already have given us a clue about the private space explorer’s identity. Somebody on Twitter asked Musk if he was the passenger, and the billionaire entrepreneur responded by tweeting an emoji of the Japanese flag. [The BFR: SpaceX’s Giant Spaceship for Mars in Images]
(Source: https://www.space.com/41822-spacex-bfr-rocket-moon-passenger-flight.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180914-sdc )

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