Homewood Community Days Seeks To Curb Violence, Encourage Community
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - There have been countless calls to end to the violence in Milwaukee, where fires burned this weekend.
Here in Pittsburgh, the people of Homewood are trying to curb the problems in their own backyard.
For 12 straight years, the Homewood A.M.E. Zion Church has organized the Homewood Community Days.
"It is an effort on behalf of our church to reach out to the Homewood community -- encouraging community and ending violence," Stanley Dennison said.
The idea behind the event is to focus on the positive things going on in Homewood and on the people who call it home.
"There's games down the street for the children. There is face painting, There's music. There is food. It is going to be wonderful fellowship," Dennison said.
The family-friendly event featured young and old joining together to celebrate what is right and not what is wrong.
They hope the church's message of hope will spread from their sanctuary out into the streets.
"We all know the situation in our community with the violence and the gun shooting violence and all of those kinds of things. We just want to set aside a date to encourage people to put down their weapons of violence and take up the spirit of brotherhood," Dennison said.
They hope that by giving back and sharing all they have with their neighbors, the violence will stop.
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