New Community’s Environmental Services Department marked the completion of a busy season of building inspections from government agencies by hosting a decadent barbecue to celebrate the team’s accomplishments, Supervisor Bryant Hall said. Held on the lawn of New Community Roseville Senior, the department, which is under the direction of Wayne Gravesande, director of Environmental Services, took a rare moment to bask in the relaxing atmosphere of the festivities, which included a spread of food such as chicken wings, garlic shrimp, fish, ceviche and ribs, among other dishes.
For more than 50 years, New Community Corporation has walked the walk of social justice, helping residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement. After all, NCC was birthed from the literal ashes of the civil disorders of 1967 by a core group of Black community leaders and White allies, including a young priest named William Linder. Together, they modeled through word and deed the moral principle and reality that Black Lives Matter.
Today, just as in 1967, NCC joins in solidarity with all those who seek justice and an end to police brutality and racism.
