Compliments for Dayton

Richard Florida and The Creative Class Exchange: Who's Your Chi-Pitts?

We were working with 30 community catalysts in greater Dayton a couple weeks ago and I was blown away by what's happened in downtown Dayton. It’s a more interesting and exciting place, filled with arts and restaurants and renovated houses and buildings. But too how these thirty catalysts, black, white, young, old, Hispanic, Latino, how much they cared about making their city better. And I think that's the kind of thing you see in parts of Ohio and Illinois, there's this incredible sense that people care, and I think unleashing that energy in people is really key.

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Good Friday Pilgrimage for Social Justice

100 march in annual Good Friday pilgrimage

DAYTON — Carrying a small cross with "GREED" written across it in big block letters, Migwe Kimemia stood in front of downtown tax preparation business that offers high-interest tax anticipation loans and talked about payday loans, predatory lending and other business practices that impact the poor.



Kimemia, who works on poverty issues for the American Friends Service Committee, said payday lenders charge interest rates that exceed 300 percent annually and trap desperate borrowers into taking out new loans to pay off old ones, which sinks the debtors deeper into poverty.


"Due to the corruption of the system, the process becomes a form of indentured servitude between borrower and lender," Kimemia said. "Jesus calls us to a higher level of justice."

The stop at the tax preparation business was one of 14 on the annual Good Friday Walk for Justice and Peace that took place Friday, March 21, at Courthouse Square.

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Holocaust Remembrance TONIGHT, 10 Mar @ 1900

Campus Organizations

The Holocaust is now more than half a century in the past - but it is still very much with us, in the way it has affected the children and grandchildren of its victims and of others connected with one of the most horrific events in world history.

The Sinclair Holocaust Remembrance Committee was formed in 1987 to encourage the study of the Holocaust, to foster understanding between different cultures, and to work against racism and ethnic prejudice. Since its inception the committee annually brings to Sinclair high quality speakers and programs to achieve these purposes.

(This is a free event, and open to the public).

Historic Bike Tours

Dayton park announces historic site bicycle tours

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park has released its schedule of bicycle tours of historic Dayton sites for this summer.

The "Bike with a Ranger" program, sponsored by the National Park Service, provides a healthy and environmentally friendly way to explore Dayton's history. The casual tours are paced so participants can socialize as well as learn.

Rides will alternate on the first and third Sundays of June, July, and August. The tour on the first Sunday of each month is a moderate to easy ride on mostly bike trails approximately 10 miles long and two hours in duration.

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