Posts Tagged ‘Pogo Park’
‘We’re in a crisis’: Richmond tests public health innovation in health care desert
Richmond residents’ access to health care is limited, and the situation is not improving. Policies at the state and federal level have put providers in dire financial straits, and access to emergency and primary care does not look good for West County. But proponents of a new approach to public health, one that’s being tested in Richmond, say that health is more than just health care. This new municipal ordinance, called “Health in All Policies,” treats the city planner as the city’s doctor. But in Richmond, where many people have trouble getting access to a medical doctor, will this prescription for the city as a patient be effective?
Read MoreTales of Two Cities Podcast: Play & Self-Care
This episode of “Tale of Two Cities” explores the topics of play and self-care.
Read MoreNonprofit Vision to Learn gives Richmond kids free glasses during a recent screening event at Pogo Park
Vision to Learn, a nonprofit that provides free glasses and screenings to children, partnered with Pogo Park to screen over 200 children’s vision in August and September, providing 91 kids with free eyewear for the new school year.
Read MoreTransportation Commission approves grant to better Iron Triangle
The California Transportation Commission approved a $6 million grant for a plan to improve Richmond’s Iron Triangle neighborhood. Known as the Iron Triangle Yellow Brick Road Walkable Neighborhoods Plan, the project aims to improve streets notorious for high crime and blighted conditions. Pedestrians and bicyclists would get safer, cleaner pathways to schools, parks and churches. The paths would be…
Read MoreElm Avenue, a street for kids to play
Pogo Park is working to create an open, artful space on Elm Street for kids. And it could be a weekly thing.
Read MorePogo Park and Richmond police win national award for community partnership
Local non-profit organization Pogo Park and the Richmond Police Department has won a national award for their collaborative work in transforming and improving the Elm Playlot on 8th St. and Elm Ave., becoming one of 11 winners out of 560 applicants nationwide.
Read MoreCandlelight vigil for Lincoln Plair honors a giving spirit
Until his death, Lincoln Plair would show up each morning at 8 a.m. at the Elm Playlot in the Iron Triangle to pluck broken glass, syringes and other dangerous debris from the sandbox where local kids play. Then he’d leave his daily mark: a series of geometric patterns in the sand, “like a little Zen…
Read MoreIt’s a go for Pogo
A Richmond organization wins crucial $1.9 million to completely rebuild Iron Triangle playground.
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