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Parents and volunteers demand solutions after Howard’s Healthy Choices eviction at Briggs Library
Summary
Community members, parents and program volunteers told council that Howard’s Healthy Choices was locked out during an active summer program at Briggs (Greenwood) Library; speakers said children were sent home mid‑day and urged council to help secure another site so summer and after‑school programs can continue.
Multiple parents, volunteers and organizers told the Trenton City Council on Aug. 7 that Howard’s Healthy Choices was evicted from Briggs (Greenwood) Library while children were in the building, leaving parents to scramble for childcare and forcing the program to suspend its summer programming.
Tonetta Howard, program director, said staff had appropriate licenses and had long run summer and after‑school programming at the location. “I was in that building for 5 years with no heat or hot water. I put the heat and hot water in there for those 5…
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