Volunteers clean up Peeples Street in Atlanta; join forces with Wells Fargo

By Yvette Caslin
Jun 08, 2013
11:00 am

Sofiya Erman stands on the front porch of her home on Peeples Street. Erman utilized the NeighborhoodLIFT program to purchase the home in Atlanta's West End neighborhood. Volunteers were on hand cleaning up Howell Park and surrounding homes during the NeighborhoodLIFT Beautification Day in the West End. The event was sponsored in part by Wells Fargo. — Sofiya Erman stands on the front porch of her home on Peeples Street. Erman utilized the NeighborhoodLIFT program to purchase the home in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood. Volunteers were on hand cleaning up Howell Park and surrounding homes during the NeighborhoodLIFT Beautification Day in the West End. The event was sponsored in part by Wells Fargo.

NeighborhoodLIFT^SM Beautification Day Coming to Historic West End Neighborhood

Volunteers to landscape and spruce up Peeples Street

Around 50 volunteers collaborated to spruce up and plant flowers along Peeples Street in Atlanta’s Historic West End on June 4 as part of the 30^th annual national NeighborWorks Week. Four non-profits, Invest Atlanta, Trees Atlanta, two neighborhood associations and Wells Fargo pitched in.

(L-R): Ashani O'Mard, with The Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, cleans the front yard of a home on Peeples St. in Atlanta along with Monisha Thomas with Metro Brokers and Hillary Wiley with NeighborWorks America during the NeighborhoodLIFT Beautification Day in Atlanta's West End neighborhood. The event was sponsored in part by Wells Fargo. — (L-R): Ashani O’Mard, with The Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, cleans the front yard of a home on Peeples St. in Atlanta along with Monisha Thomas with Metro Brokers and Hillary Wiley with NeighborWorks America during the NeighborhoodLIFT Beautification Day in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood. The event was sponsored in part by Wells Fargo.

The groups named the work day NeighborhoodLIFT^SM Beautification Day to highlight the millions of dollars in down payment assistance still available to boost homeownership in the city. Three homeowners on Peeples Street recently used $15,000 each from the NeighborhoodLIFT^SM program to buy their houses.

The beautification event was part of a celebration during which NeighborWorks® America and its network of local organizations mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers in a week of neighborhood change and awareness all across the country.