The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) presented Maurice Pitts Johnson with a Community Service Award during last week.
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The challenges of restoring African-American cemeteries that have fallen into disrepair was discussed at a program at Delta Arts Center last Thursday.
Photo by Todd Luck Carly Dunno (front) volunteers at the Diaper Bank with other city employees for the city’s Martin Luther King Jr. Helping Hands Day. BY TODD LUCK THE
Photo by Maurice Pitts Johnson Special to The Chronicle On Saturday, Oct. 15, the youth from Ardmore Baptist Church volunteered to help clean the Happy Hill Cemetery at the request
Happy Hill Cemetery Friends invites volunteers to help clean up the historic Happy Hill Cemetery, on Saturday, May 21 at 9:30 a.m at the corner of Willow and Pitts streets in Happy Hill. Help is also needed on May 28, The group has been working for years to restore the historic cemetery, located in the city’s oldest black community, which was hit hard in last week’s severe weather and is now littered with downed branches and trees.
(pictured above: Volunteers work at Happy Hill Cemetery last Thursday.) More than five dozen Mormon teenagers aided in the arduous
