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Coalition members celebrate Dorr streetscapeBy: Journal StaffThe Toledo JournalOriginally posted 8/3/2010 Members of the Dorr Street Coalition gathered last week along Dorr to commemorate and celebrate two recently completed traffic islands on the boulevard.Jimmy Gaines, executive director of Organized Neighbors Yielding eXcellence, said the concrete and brick islands represent the latest positive development in an ongoing effort to revitalize the Dorr corridor.”This is the place to do it. This is the place we want it,” he said.Among those joining Mr. Gaines were city council President Wilma Brown, Department of Neighborhoods Director Kattie Bond, Toledo CDC Executive Director E. Mickens, City Plan Commission Director Calvin Lawshe, Toledo Urban Federal Credit Union CEO Suzette Cowell, and several area pastors.”I’m very pleased with the Dorr Street Coalition and all the people here who have come together and have worked on this,” Ms. Brown said.Ms. Bond pronounced the islands ”beautiful” and thanked, among many others, her staff for preparing an application for funding. Federal funds totaling $250,000 paid for the project.Thirty-eight self-watering planters line the islands. They also feature old-fashioned street lights that are adorned with ”Dorr Street Corridor” banners that include logos of local businesses and organizations .Mr. Lawshe said Dorr Street ”deserves the kind of attention that the city is committed to giving it.”Ms. Mickens noted that over the years Toledo CDC and ONYX – whose boundary is Dorr Street – have brought millions of investment dollars to their respective communities.”We care about what is being developed here,” she said. ”It’s worth it. The people are worth it. We care about the people and the neighborhood.”

Coalition members celebrate Dorr streetscape
By: Journal Staff
The Toledo Journal
Originally posted 8/3/2010 

Members of the Dorr Street Coalition gathered last week along Dorr to commemorate and celebrate two recently completed traffic islands on the boulevard.
Jimmy Gaines, executive director of Organized Neighbors Yielding eXcellence, said the concrete and brick islands represent the latest positive development in an ongoing effort to revitalize the Dorr corridor.
”This is the place to do it. This is the place we want it,” he said.
Among those joining Mr. Gaines were city council President Wilma Brown, Department of Neighborhoods Director Kattie Bond, Toledo CDC Executive Director E. Mickens, City Plan Commission Director Calvin Lawshe, Toledo Urban Federal Credit Union CEO Suzette Cowell, and several area pastors.
”I’m very pleased with the Dorr Street Coalition and all the people here who have come together and have worked on this,” Ms. Brown said.
Ms. Bond pronounced the islands ”beautiful” and thanked, among many others, her staff for preparing an application for funding. Federal funds totaling $250,000 paid for the project.
Thirty-eight self-watering planters line the islands. They also feature old-fashioned street lights that are adorned with ”Dorr Street Corridor” banners that include logos of local businesses and organizations .
Mr. Lawshe said Dorr Street ”deserves the kind of attention that the city is committed to giving it.”
Ms. Mickens noted that over the years Toledo CDC and ONYX – whose boundary is Dorr Street – have brought millions of investment dollars to their respective communities.
”We care about what is being developed here,” she said. ”It’s worth it. The people are worth it. We care about the people and the neighborhood.”