  Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 2799 Registered: 10-2003 |
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20061125/NEW S01/611250326/1003/NEWS01&temp late=printart | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 622 Registered: 02-2004 |
Putting the kiddies to work. | ||
Yvette248 Member Username: Yvette248 Post Number: 214 Registered: 10-2006 |
I guess all of our teenagers really aren't rebellious and on drugs.... In a hulking brick colonial overlooking the Detroit River, Detroit high school seniors Justin White and Ervin Goldsmith smoothed a clay-like glaze on old window sashes while their classmates Karl Murphy and Marco Johnson worked to restore decades-old plaster walls. The house they were repairing Wednesday is at least 130 years old and sits among rows of similar crumbling buildings with sinking rooftops. | ||
Chub Member Username: Chub Post Number: 430 Registered: 11-2003 |
"Murphy, 17, a senior at Henry Ford High School, said he stared drop-jawed when he saw the crumbling fort structures before his first class." "I wondered how it got to be in this condition," he said, adding, "I feel privileged to work on it." I'll tell him how it got to be in that condition, plain and simple, the City of Detroit owns it, that's how. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 58 Registered: 10-2006 |
Repairing plaster work is a very specific and unique skill. There aren't very many people in the world that do the plaster decorative work that exists in detroit buildings any longer. I am sort of surprised that they could teach it in a class or whatever at the high school level. Gotta give DPS its due. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 152 Registered: 11-2005 |
I'll tell him how it got to be in that condition, plain and simple, the City of Detroit owns it, that's how. And then you'll tell him that the City of Detroit is this way because its tax base fled for the suburbs, right? | ||
Jenniferl Member Username: Jenniferl Post Number: 344 Registered: 03-2004 |
Regardless of how the Fort Wayne buildings got to be in that condition, I see a sign of hope in these kids. They care about the buildings and they're learning how to fix 'em. If only more DPS students could enroll in a program like this one... | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 169 Registered: 11-2005 |
And only if DPS could get funding for more programs for more kids. Maybe we can get Prop. A repealed. Hmm... | ||
Dillpicklesoup Member Username: Dillpicklesoup Post Number: 247 Registered: 05-2006 |
a city not interested in its past- doesn't have much of a future- hooray for these kids- | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 74 Registered: 10-2006 |
How is this thread making it over the "Selling Detroit's past to pay for its future" thread | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 173 Registered: 11-2005 |
I dunno, Paul, I thought it was an interesting post when I posted it.  |
