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Our cover this month promotes history. Many of you have heard the expression “History repeats itself.” and may agree some of the most powerful historical images around the world are bridges. Bridges are associated with power and change. They must be strong and are built to connect people and places to promote change and communication. They bring people together and in doing so they change our history and our future.

The name of the image on our front cover this month is “Rivet From the Bridge.” I ask you to pause and think for just one moment. (more…)

Dear SMRCA Friends, this month’s cover deserves explanation. The image you see represents strength and power. It is DIVERSITY.

In February we celebrate Valentine’s Day, and is Black History Month. It is when we respect the history of our African American, Caribbean and Black residents. Let’s not stop here. Please join me in celebrating all our diversity and the incredible power present in South Middle River.

Diversity and power are within each of us, individually and together. We’re unique, but share things, regardless of how different we feel from each other or appear on the surface. I ask you to consider what we share and not how we are different. We share needs to feel safe, be heard, to feel good. We must look at each other as a team, with qualities that when alone, are silent, but when together are deafening. We must as a community, combine our strengths to overcome our weaknesses. (more…)