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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Rev. Patrick H. Young, Pastor of First Baptist Church
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Rev. Patrick H. Young, pastor of First Baptist Church, testifies in support of the Queen's Future/Metropolitan Park proposal, emphasizing the economic benefits it would bring to the community. He describes the current economic struggles in the area and argues that the project would provide much-needed jobs and economic revitalization.
- Highlights the church's food pantry serving 1,000 families weekly, demonstrating the community's economic needs
- Characterizes the area as an "economic desert" that desperately needs the "fresh water" this project would bring
- Argues that the project will provide living wage jobs and hope for the community's future
Rev. Patrick H. Young
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you, councilman Riley, and it's good to see you again.
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And to all those who share on this on this committee, I am Patrick Young, pastor of First Baptist Church.
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Our church has a tremendous food pantry.
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I will call it the free grocery store for a thousand families that meet us every Saturday, and they stay from Friday to to Saturday twelve noon preparing to get their food that we serve them every Saturday.
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I know firsthand what's going on.
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I hear all this opposition, but it's interesting that they don't feel the pain of the people in my community are feeling with a lack of living wage jobs and a lack of being able to deal with what I call a food desert where we are in.
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But not just a food desert, we are economic desert.
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And because we're economic desert, this project brings fresh water in a desert that's desperately and starving for some fresh water economic.
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In light of our climate we're in right now, this project is just come at just at a nick of time because we don't have an economic uncertainty and this economic new economic COVID that we're dealing with now with this administration.
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This wonderful project will bring a lifeline to those who need hope and need help in our communities.
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And I wanna encourage you to support this.
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I support it because it make economic sense, it make a life living sense, it make a transforming sense, and it makes a better sense for our community that desperately needs a facelift, and community that desperately needs an economic lift, and a community that desperately need someone who cares for their future.
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And that's what Queen's future does.
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It cares for the future of those in our community.