CSC News: Pahokee mural unveiling with former NFL players
Former NFL players and Pahokee hometown heroes Rickey Jackson and Antone Smith joined community leaders on Tuesday at the unveiling of a mural painted by the community’s children that celebrates their city’s culture, resiliency and creativity.
Twenty-seven children brought the mural to life this summer, guided by a team of teaching artists. The mural, facing the football practice field, is a collaboration of the City of Pahokee, football coaches and Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County. The mural is part of an ongoing CSC effort to pair teaching artists with Palm Beach County youth for community art projects.
Besides the NFL players, speakers included Palm Beach County Commissioner and Vice Mayor Sara Baxter, Belle Glade Mayor Keith Babb and CSC CEO Dr. Lisa Williams-Taylor.
Click here for footage of the event, as well as clips from the speakers.
For more information, contact Christy Potter at 561-472-4679 or Christine.Potter@cscpbc.org.
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The Council is a local, special-purpose government created by Palm Beach County voters in 1986 and reauthorized in 2014. For more than 30 years, it has provided leadership, funding, services and research on behalf of the county’s children so they grow up healthy, safe and strong.
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