Outreach Center Lauded on Its First Anniversary
More than 600 people, including Mayor Richard Riordan and Police Chief Bernard Parks, attended a ceremony Friday to mark the first anniversary of a community outreach program.
The program, operated by Betty Price from the Crenshaw Christian Center, has provided food, clothing, toys and job training to more than 500 families in neighborhoods near the center, on South Vermont Avenue near Manchester Avenue.
Price told the crowd gathered at the center that she started the program “because I have a desire to restore this community.”
Kahlid Shah, executive director of Stop the Violence, Increase the Peace Foundation, credited Price’s program for providing services to keep about 400 at-risk youngsters from joining gangs.
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