community center
a building or other place in which members of a community may gather for social, educational, or cultural activities.
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Even slowed by age, Rosa Wilson made it to church and to the community center several times a week, though the coronavirus pandemic had prevented her from attending in the past 10 months.
Couple who died in Petworth fire recalled as dedicated to church and community | Peter Hermann, Dana Hedgpeth | January 22, 2021 | Washington PostIt fit snugly that when Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith, a favorite of his teachers back at Amite High, won the hallowed trophy Tuesday night, 100 or so people gathered in the community center, his parents right up front.
Heisman winner DeVonta Smith puts tiny town of Amite City in the spotlight | Chuck Culpepper | January 7, 2021 | Washington PostBack in 2012, the folks who run the beautifully restored Old Naval Hospital, a community center in Southeast Washington, paired up with the Library of Congress to plan a new literary program.
I didn’t think I understood modern poetry. The less I tried to get it, the more I came to love it. | Ron Charles | December 4, 2020 | Washington PostThe LGBTQ Community in Des Moines Des Moines has a thriving and diverse LGBTQ community which it supports with a number of resources and community centers.
Des Moines : Come and See All that The Capital City has to Offer! | LGBTQ-Editor | November 22, 2020 | No Straight NewsThe other challenge is that museums cannot become community centers.
The court house is now the Anthology Archive and the firehouse is a Chinese community center.
Pryor Dodge's Two-Wheeled Obsession Is Now a Museum of Bike History | Anthony Haden-Guest | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Our house became a kind of community center for deported gang members from L.A.,” said Rose-Avila, picking up the story.
And the local LGBT community center she runs, she says, is in danger of losing its lease and will have nowhere else to go.
Just last month, Frazier Glenn Miller opened fire on a Jewish community center shouting “Heil Hitler.”
Macklemore, the Grammy Winning Rapper, Is a 9/11 Truther Who Likes to Play Anti-Semitic Dress-Up | Emily Shire, Marlow Stern | May 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA gunman with longtime white supremacist and anti-Semitic associations opened fire at a Jewish community center.
Passover Week Hate Crimes Evoke Horrible History | Thane Rosenbaum | April 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe collective interests of any modern community center in industrial efficiency.
The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein VeblenOn one occasion, the library was made a buzzing community center by a series of bombs that were set off in the street.
The Library and Society | VariousThe term "community center" is here used in a literal sense of being the center of the activities of the community.
The Farmer and His Community | Dwight SandersonAs the community center is the nucleus of the community life, let us first consider the village plan.
The Farmer and His Community | Dwight SandersonAs a result it is almost always necessary to traverse two sides of a square in order to reach the community center.
The Farmer and His Community | Dwight Sanderson
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