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Return Gary Crooks Memorial Center to the Community

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Latoya robinson
6 years ago

Please give these kids s place to go keep busy and stay off the streets

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Wanda Simmons
6 years ago

How DARE you take this from PT? Gary Crooks was a resident of PT and his family. Give them BACK this community Center!!!

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Danette Edmonds
6 years ago

Save Our Community Center!

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Chapel Brown
6 years ago

Should be for the community not the city

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Danette Daniels
6 years ago

Safe our Community Center

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Dave Wooley
6 years ago

Communities need art spaces!

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Annette Febres
6 years ago

It doesn't belong to the city, it belongs to the PT Community. Return it back to the community. Is there nothing sacred anymore? I remember Gary and the pain the community felt when he lost his young life. Respect is due!

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Long over due. The center added so much to my life as a young child

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Harold white
6 years ago

Let’s keep the community center open

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Emma Holman
6 years ago

I use to go to the Gary Crooks for computer classes that's how I learned a little about computer turn Gary Crooks back over to it's community and y'all relocate somewhere else

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Anthony Walton
6 years ago

Keep Gary Crooks name on building

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Decie Benton
6 years ago

Save center for kids don’t take it away

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Thomas Lawhorn
6 years ago

We all grew up with the Gary crooks it is a major part of the P.T community. Stop taking away things to keep these kids out of trouble. The less the kids have to do with there time the more an more they end up in the streets an the more young life’s we lose to senseless violence

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MaryEllen Tatten
6 years ago

I am truly dismayed that a building that was built and intended to be a resource for children and their families is no longer serving its intended purpose. I was on the Board of Directors of ABCD during that period and I was at the ribbon cutting and dedication. Gary Crooks Center was meant to be a multi -service center serving the residents of that community.

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Lori Jones Gibbs
6 years ago

A treasure

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Richard Stamats
6 years ago Featured

As one of the staff for this original art center, I can assure you that developing children in the arts positively enhances the student and the generations that follow. Art and music have uplifted life throughout all time and everywhere. Why would we deny the spiritual nature of humankind to be enlightened.

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Geraldyne Vega
6 years ago

As a former resident and community activist of PT barnum i agree that the community center should be for the residents and have resources for residents.

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Alva Blair
6 years ago

Give the center back to the people it was intended for!!!

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Latisha Bowens Pettway
6 years ago Featured

I was born and raised in PT. The Gary crooks was a place I had to go to keep me off the streets and it gave me somewhere safe to be. Having the Art Center in the Gary Crooks, allowed us to create and be ourselves. It would be a tragedy to take the Gary crooks away from the community. The children need a safe haven with positive influences.

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Charlene Gray
6 years ago

We need a place for our children to grow, to give them a choice to be all they can be and not follow others that don't want to anything in life