Eat lunch at Zest 280 and you’ll enjoy a good, healthy lunch along with a generous serving of second chances. I did. On my first visit I savored this mission-based café’s homemade Grain Bowl. It was a delicious combination of lentils, quinoa, brown rice, peppers, tomato, kale and grilled chicken. This cozy café at 280 Park Road in West … More Delicious Food with a Generous Serving of Second Chances
“To have faith in something is an inducement not to dormancy but to action. To me, faith is not just a noun but also a verb.” – President Jimmy Carter I’ve had the good fortune and honor of meeting President Carter a few times including being invited to sit right beside him at lunch on … More Faith is a Verb
Creating Hartford Collective Culture at Know Good MarketBy Drew Kozub, Leah Fuld, and Taylor Peracchio, Trinity College ’21 What does it mean to be from Hartford? What defines the city’s identity? In recent years, Hartford is developing a reputation for its amazing food truck vendors – and this is no accident. Jeff Devereux (Trinity College … More Creating Hartford Collective Culture at Know Good Market
By Mitchell Pfaff, Anna Barry, and Jack Ricciuti, Trinity College Mitchell Pfaff (Trinity College ’21) is from Westwood Massachusetts and has a growing interest in politics. Anna Barry (Trinity College ’21) is from Sutton, Massachusetts, and attended Worcester Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts. At Trinity, she is a member of the Equestrian Team and a … More Hartford Magnet Schools: A Beneficial Burden
By Preet Patel, Trinity College In the shadow of the illuminated state capitol building, hundreds of people sat mesmerized by a powerful show. Joyful laughter, sparkling smiles, and camera flashes dotted the magical landscape of Bushnell Park. Standing on stage and looking out onto people of many cultures and ethnicities, we raised and then lowered … More Illuminating Stronger Ties at Hartford’s Night Fall
by Muhammad A. Zeb, Trinity College A metropolitan area is similar to a human body, wherein each city functions as a unique organ, while the central city represents the heart. The City of Hartford — the heart of a 1.2 million person metropolitan area — is starved of its lifeblood in a region starkly divided … More Yanil Teron: Bonding the Heart of Hartford
Relationships. It’s all about relationships. Relationships are the interpersonal connections among us that build social capital. Social capital is the sum of the relationships enabling a society — a country, a city, a community — to function effectively for everyone. Social capital is bound together in networks of relationships, and networks link to connect more … More Classroom to Community at Trinity
With Christmas rapidly approaching stores are brimming with potential presents anticipating the post-Thanksgiving throngs rushing to buy the right gift for the right person. Gifts are the currency of the holidays. Given in the right spirit, gifts are important symbols expressing our love and affection for family and friends. Being on the outside looking in during … More The Gift of Dignity
What’s the opposite of welcoming? Unwelcoming. What’s the opposite of inclusion? Exclusion. Welcoming is inclusive, unwelcoming is exclusive — it’s divisive. Divisiveness is a weapon of mass destruction. It destroys families, communities, and countries. It’s a plague. It sickens, weakens, and often kills its infected hosts who refuse to realize, until its too late, that … More Divisiveness: A Weapon of Mass Destruction
July 9-14, 2017, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A week of building. A week of friendship. A week of faith. A week of changing lives. In celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary, President and Mrs. Carter brought their 34th annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project (JRCWP 2017) to several communities across Canada, with Edmonton and Winnipeg the two main … More Hartford Habitat Builds at Carter Project in Canada
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