Posted on 07/25/2015 6:29:18 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
FERGUSON Tiahesia Palmer was checking out some of the free services, but her son wanted a haircut.
So the Ferguson resident signed up Isiah, 7, to get his head shaved at the haircut tent at Saturdays Day of Hope. He took off his ballcap and sat silently while a woman with the Elaine Steven Beauty College cleaned up around his ears.
Palmer smiled. Wearing an I-heart-FERG T-shirt, she was happy that her community had attracted the event.
Hundreds attended the festivities at Forestwood Park in Ferguson to receive free goods and services. The city and about 40 local churches, other agencies and Convoy of Hope, a Springfield, Mo.-based organization, coordinated the event.
About 600 volunteers signed up to help. They distributed more than 1,000 pairs of shoes, 5,000 bags of groceries and 10,000 bottles of water. Peppy volunteers said, Good morning, and asked, How are you? as part of an effort to offer residents a stress-free day.
The family-friendly event follows a year of stress in Ferguson, following the fatal shooting Aug. 9 of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer. Protesters continue to call for the resignation of Mayor James Knowles III after a recall effort failed in June. A new interim police chief was announced last week, after the citys chief resigned in March in the wake of a scathing report by the Department of Justice.
With red-and-white striped tents, Saturdays event had a carnival-like atmosphere. Music played while kids jumped in a bounce house and threw balls at jugs.
Attendees were treated to a variety of complimentary services, including giveaways, health screenings and job services. There was even a free lunch: hot dogs with pepper jack cheese, chips and a drink.
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Just look at those poor, starving people. /s
Well at least they’re taking care of their own and past time...but this will be short lived for they’re really rewarding terrible bad behavior....they burned they’re town and now hand out the goods...after a lot of them looted stores...so the pattern is established..again...and will repeat in the future.
Wonder how many would show up for Volunteer day?
Too bad we don't have an honest press... it would be interesting to know... I was going to guess Soros was behind this... hidden.. but not so hidden it couldn't be discovered.
Akin to giving the native Americans blankets and beads.
You misspelled Gibmedats.
My wife is a retired school teacher and about 35 years ago she worked in a small Oklahoma town that believe it or not had no black children, lot of Cherokee, no black.
A missionary preacher and his wife came to town with two black children they had adopted and there was a meet and great that I attended.
Believe it or not when I went to speak to the children the first word out of their mouth was, "What did you bring me?"
Gibmedats. I’ll practice!!!
Helps if you don’t burn down all your business and make the rest decide to leave.
I was joking. I almost wrote - ‘My haircuts are free. Everyone says I overpay.’
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