{"id":483,"date":"2009-03-14T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/?p=483"},"modified":"2009-03-14T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T13:45:00","slug":"uml-community-discussion-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"UML COMMUNITY DISCUSSION SERIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><strong>COMMUNITY DISCUSSION SERIES AT UML<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Six Tuesday Evenings, from 7:00 \u2013 8:30 p.m.<br \/>Coburn Hall, Room 205   (2nd Floor)<br \/> (On the corner of Broadway and Wilder Streets, on UMass\/ Lowell\u2019s South Campus)<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, March 24 &#8211; Karon Bergeron, Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce<br \/>\u201cDowntown Businesses and Student Involvement\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Tuesday, March 31 &#8211; Victoria Fahlberg, ONE Lowell<br \/>           \u201cMinority Representation and the Voting System\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, April 7 &#8211; Lynnda Ignacio &#038; Paul Belley, Pawtucketville Citizen Council    <br \/>               \u201cPreventing the Threat of Local Flooding\u201d<br \/>     (two presentations)<br \/> Christine Tabak, Merrimack River Watershed Council <br \/>            \u201cDeveloping Public Awareness about Water Quality\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, April 21 &#8211; Elaine Pantano, Riverside Community Council  <br \/>\u201cHow Can We Create a Trash-Free Neighborhood?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, April 28 &#8211; Taya Dixon Mullane, Lower Highlands Neighborhood Group  <br \/>  \u201cBuilding Neighborhood Participation and Trust\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, May 5 &#8211; Diane Waddell, Living Waters Ministry of Hope <br \/>            \u201cHelping the Homeless outside the Shelters\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Our discussion format:<\/strong>  All presenters will describe a specific community problem dealing with their topic. Written problem statements will be available ahead of time on request. At the discussion sessions, the emphasis will be on generating the best practical responses to that problem from audience members.   <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All are welcome to attend and contribute their ideas.  Please spread the word!  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For questions, or further information, please contact Dr. Bill Berkowitz, Dept. of Psychology, UMass\/Lowell, (978) 934-3655,  <\/span><a href=\"mailto:Bill_Berkowitz@uml.edu\" target=\"_blank\" ymailto=\"mailto:Bill_Berkowitz@uml.edu\"><span>Bill_Berkowitz@uml.edu<\/span><\/a><span>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMUNITY DISCUSSION SERIES AT UMLSix Tuesday Evenings, from 7:00 \u2013 8:30 p.m.Coburn Hall, Room 205 (2nd Floor) (On the corner of Broadway and Wilder Streets, on UMass\/ Lowell\u2019s South Campus) Tuesday, March 24 &#8211; Karon Bergeron, Greater Lowell Chamber of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/?p=483\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,138,12,44,17,137,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-problems","category-discussion-series","category-downtown-lowell","category-homelessness","category-lowell","category-transitional-housing","category-uml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}