I just got a telephone call at home from Jon Morgan, who heard from Edith Floyd earlier today.

The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People has approved the grant proposal for the purchase of the neighborhood tractor. Time to make a call on John Deere.

Edith is already going full-tilt to line up contracts for snow removal and mowing with the city, and for plowing neighborhood gardens with Greening of Detroit, and Mark Gracely, director of Mt. Olivet Cemetery, met with her this morning to help put together the list of what exactly she will buy with the initial grant disbursement.

It is exciting to see plans already beginning to fall into place now that Edith has the funding for the tractor. She didn’t waste any time lining up the purchase and the business she hopes will follow.

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