There’s a fundraiser this evening for the Transportation Alternatives and Groundswell Mural Project, which are sponsoring a traffic awareness mural project along Third Avenue. It takes place from 6PM-8PM. There’s a mural preview at the corner of 3rd Ave & Butler St at 6PM and refreshments at 7PM at Sheep Station, which is located at Fourth Avenue and Douglass Street. The suggested donation is $50, and it’s for a great cause. The project was inspired by the tragic death of James Rice–who was struck and killed by a Hummer at Third Avenue and Baltic Street on his way home from pre-school in February–and many other children that have been injured and killed by cars. We go to the copy & paste for a description from the sponsors:

This summer Transportation Alternatives is collaborating with Groundswell Mural Project to honor children who have been killed by cars and trucks along 3rd Avenue and to win pro-pedestrian street changes that will prevent future tragedies. The Groundswell project team is an outstanding youth group from the Third Avenue corridor community that has worked under the guidance of acclaimed social activist artists Christopher Cardinale and Nicole Schulman. For seven weeks, they have researched traffic calming strategies and in turn designed and are now painting a large-scale mural. The mural is the centerpiece of an ongoing campaign for safer streets along the 3rd and 4th Avenue corridors.

The project is close to completion, and we are close to meeting our fundraising goals! Please join us on Monday night as we meet the artists and preview the mural. We’ll then adjourn to Sheep Station for refreshments.

If you’re interested in lending a hand, you can RSVP to Brooke DuBose at ped (at) transalt (dot) org. The actual mural dedication will be coming up on August 28.

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