How to Build Community

Turn off the TV * Leave your house

Know your neighbors

Look up when you are walking

Greet people * Sit on your stoop

Plant flowers

Use your library * Play together

Buy from local merchants

Share what you have

Help a lost dog

Take children to the park

Garden together

Support neighborhood schools

Fix it even if you didn’t break it

Have potlucks * Honor elders

Pick up litter * Read stories aloud

Dance in the street

Talk to the mail carrier

Listen to the bird * Put up a swing

Help carry something heavy

Barter for your goods

Start a tradition * Ask a question

Hire young people for odd jobs

Organize a block party

Bake extra and share

Ask for help when you need it

Open your shades * Sing together

Share your skills

Take back the night

Turn up the music

Turn down the music

Listen before you react to anger

Mediate a conflict

Seek to understand

Learn from new and uncomfortable angles

Know that no one is silent, though many are not heard

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The first Mural Arts mural in East Oak Lane,

at Penn Asian Senior Services, Inc. (PASSi)

(Copies available at www.northernsun.com)

(Submitted by Peggy Runde Weston)

Oak Lane Community Action Association (OLCAA)
of East Oak Lane