Lakes Region Community Developers Celebrates NeighborWorks Week

​During a week-long celebration of neighborhood improvement activities nationally recognized as NeighborWorks Week, LRCD tenants came together at eight different Lakes Region Community Developers (LRCD) properties to build or re-plant community gardens.
 
During NeighborWorks Week (June 3-10), LRCD and hundreds of other NeighborWorks America network organizations across the country, celebrate the successes of communities and how NeighborWorks organizations empower people to achieve their goals.
 
LRCD Executive Director, Carmen Lorentz said, “Community gardens have definitely become a spring tradition at LRCD. After a long winter, residents enjoy getting together to work on their gardens. We love empowering our tenants to grow their own food and build community through gardening.”
 
The LRCD properties who re-planted or built new community gardens this year include: Harvey Heights and Pinecrest Apartments (both in Meredith), Ames Brook Apartments in Ashland, Lochmere Meadows in Tilton, Harriman Hill in Wolfeboro, and River’s Edge, Batchelder Street School, and Elm Street in Laconia.
 
LRCD is part of the national NeighborWorks network, an affiliation of nearly 250 nonprofit organizations located in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Throughout the year, NeighborWorks network organizations empower people to take steps to achieve their goals, such as make their community safer, find and maintain secure housing, and ensure financial stability, which leads to thriving, healthier communities.  In 2022, the NeighborWorks network managed 204,916 rental homes across the country, and constructed, acquired and preserved 13,159 rental homes. 

Photo Caption: Residents at Harvey Heights in Meredith construct a raised gardenbed for the new community garden.

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