Westcott Community Center

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During Summer, every Wednesday from 2 p.m till 6 o.m, there's is pop up farmer's Market outside the community center. There are a few stalls that offer fresh organic fruits and vegetables. They also sell homemade jams, pickles, salad dressing etc. The farmers (sellers) are really sweet.

Patrick Sgroi

I have only ever been here for shows of the alt/screamo variety... that being said, you can really rage and get wild when confined to that small of a space with so many people. It's like a big basement, like literally that's it. The band I've seen were 10/10, the space? Not so much.

Will Juntunen

I go to meetings because I feel I have a civic duty. I have the idea that I'm on assignment from an editor who doesn't even have a desk or a name. Oh yeah, Jean Paul Sarte wrote that to be authentic, one must have a project and be willing to "reveal being". I'll have to reread Being and Nothingness written by Jean Paul again to see if I finally understand it. To see if I can actually quote Sartre without shame. Last night's meeting gathered in the Wescott Community Center, a busy place that hosts a senior citizen's lunch daily, hosts classes for karate and drawing from life and presents a farmer's market in the warmer months. The building reminds me of an old fire station or a little, two-story brick elementary. What was the title of the meeting? Resist, Divest and Invest? A financial planner plus a community bank plus a program officer from the community foundation arrived to talk, using a slideshow made with an online program. Beware of illuminati chatting you up with slideshows. Ha Ha. The planner works selling funds like Calvert and Parnassus, companies that invest in companies that pass an environmental and ethical sniff test. Wells Fargo, for instance, got dumped by Parnassus when Wells Fargo went through an ethics crisis, opening ersatz accounts for clients and booking unneeded, unrequested loans. The officer from the community foundation didn't talk much and didn't have to say much. Oldest money in the city rests in the community chest, billions of it. Old money doesn't have to say much when it speaks loudly by signing checks that could not possibly bounce. The foundation grants five percent of that wealth to organizations in the region and complies with the law. The bank started life in eighties when concerned people wanting to pull money out of anything that looked like South African Apartheid. And now South Africa has a government that looks like the population of South Africa. At the end, the call to action came. The Reinvest Central New York Alliance wanted pledge cards signed, saying how much we would divert from the bad economy into the good economy, investing with the planner, moving our payroll direct deposit to the community bank and making a donation to the community foundation. Already two and a half million dollars of the five million dollar goal for the campaign had been diverted. Well, I admire the enthusiasm, but I just set up a hefty 401 K withdrawal and I didn't see a Calvert or a Parnassus in the choices offered by T. Rowe Price. And my direct deposit becomes available a day early, thanks to my current bank. And last, I knew everyone at the community foundation in Muskegon. This officer might be the first sign I've had that real people work in the offices of the foundation, a lovingly restored building on the north side of Fireman's Park. Once the building served as a mansion for a wealthy family and maybe a private club after the family moved out and onward. I've visited for a writers group and a presentation on buying houses from the land bank. I have wanted to go to the book awards at the mansion but the ticket price gave me pause the last two times. So I wanted to know. If I signed this card, what happened?

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