Jazz in the Park
Gathering Point Community Council is getting elderly retired citizens out of the house and onto park grounds at Brown Memorial Park, located on the city’s South Side at 634 E. 86th Street. This free event is the 3rd installment of Gathering Point’s initiative of getting the elderly active and out into the sunny weather. The Seniors Jazz in the Park is personally one of my favorite events we do, it is always a pleasure to talk and dance with seniors because they offer me their
More Senseless Police Shootings in Baton Rouge Over the Weekend
The police community and three more families mourned this past weekend after another senseless police shooting took place in Baton Rouge. Officers Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola were stripped of their lives as the back-and-forth violence in our nation continues. Just days after the Dallas and Georgia incidents, we are hearing more of the same in the news. It’s hard for me to even put into words how downright disappointed I am with how things have been goin
Gathering Point Founder Richard Wooten Condemns the Recent Police Shootings in Georgia and Dallas
I'm saddened and frustrated that members of the Dallas, Texas and Valdosta, Georgia communities have taken out their anger regarding the recent shootings of two unarmed Black men by police by retaliating with violence. It's hard to sit and talk about this because it's happening so fast and seems unreal,” says Wooten, founder of Gathering Point Community Council. I've served for 23 years as CPD officer before retiring last summer, and been one of the leading experts working to
