An image of a better world
THE SAGINAW NEWSSaginaw is a place where children are fed full until they're smiling ear to ear; where all doors are open, leading the way to help and recovery; and where community reaches past concrete-covered city blocks and into cornfields.
At least that's the vision some Saginaw youths have for their city -- a vision they brought to life when they helped design a mural at Good Neighbors Mission, 1318 Cherry.
"The mural depicts our young people's vision of a better world, a better neighborhood and a better Saginaw," said Carolyn Butler, director of the mission.
With the help of two Saginaw Valley State University students, several sponsors and children from Trinity-St. John Community Center, a three-part painted mural hanging in the entrance to the mission also makes neighbors of farmers and city folk.
"What the mural was really about was community, and not just the city as the community, but the entire area," said Matthew P. Zelley, a 2004 SVSU graduate who helped design and paint the mural last summer.
"It was important that students from SVSU all the way (in Kochville Township) had a tie with the downtown mission, bringing these two communities together."
The other student artist was Clyde Araujo, an SVSU graphic design major originally from Goa, India.
With bright colors throughout, the three panels depict all shades of smiling faces, embracing, playing and helping each other.
One panel shows the families who get clothes and food from the mission and depicts the people who donate their time and goods to the charity.
Another section is linked to a corn-burning stove, an SVSU and mission cooperative effort that for three years has lowered the mission's heating costs dramatically. SVSU engineering students installed the stove, which heats the building using purchased or donated corn.
The mural shows a child holding a can of corn with large city buildings looming behind him. He opens the can and out comes a stream of events, starting with a wagon of corn on a farm, leading to power lines that light up the building in the child's neighborhood.
Zelley said the optimistic messages only have to reach one down-and-out person for him to feel happy.
"I don't have a goal of changing the world with this mural," Zelley said. "My only hope is that one person whose house has just burned down walks through the doors of the mission and feels hope, and like things can get better." v
Breanna Shepherd is a staff writer for The Saginaw News. You may reach her at 776-9688.
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