Carol Dean

Hi, my name is Carol Dean known as sister Dean and Miss Carol in the community. I have lived in the community ever since I was little grew up in the community. And just I just loved it just love that wonderful place to live. And like Miss Mary was saying my sister would like she was saying the fact you know, everybody knew each other, you looked out for each other, you know, just a lot of love.

Just being in the courts, everybody be barbecuing when the holidays come. It was just like a family. You know, and that's how it was. I work at Taft high school, and work with the kids and most of the kids I have now, are the kids from the people we knew, we have their kids now. we know people in the community, we can call they parents or guardians, if they're not doing what they're supposed to do to try to, you know, mend that gap. Or someone they can feel comfortable with that they can come to, you know, and talk to and where we can let the parents know and talk with them. And so they can kind of, you know, get a little hold on everything.I'm a person in the community love the children. Okay, and I love it. And one of them can walk in the room and I can look at him. And I say you got to be some kin to blah, blah, blah. And they say yeah, that's my mom. You know, that's my aunt, cuz they look just like him.

We still we do the Vacation Bible School. We have done it for years in the summertime, where we have a four days out of a week, in the month of JulyAnd we get them together in this car, backyard Vacation Bible School, and we'd be right out where they live that so they don't have to travel, going out alone crossing the street, we right there. And they love it.

It was a village as they call the village real life village. I was in Lincoln court Miss May I think was in laurel holmes i think. You know? And so it just it was an experience and I love that's why I haven't moved I love to West End.