Making Meadowview: Episode 5 Coming Soon!

11/14/19 • -1 min

The team is still working on the next episode of Making Meadowview. So far, you’ve met people facing big community problems in south Sacramento. Next, we'll introduce you to Margarita Chavez. The retired grandma patrols her neighborhood and is determined to rid it of overgrown lawns, illegal trash piles and other eyesores. But what do her neighbors think? Find out next week.

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Making Meadowview: Healing From The Crack Epidemic

Rolanda Wilkins grew up in Meadowview and lived through its crack epidemic in the 1980s. Now, she dedicates her life to empowering neighborhood girls, some of whom may be working through residual effects of the crack epidemic’s “lost generation.”

Next Episode

Making Meadowview: Welcome To Margaritaville

Margarita Chavez has the best house on the block. At least, that’s how she describes it to all who come to visit her in Detroit Park. She wants all of her neighbors to feel that same pride in their home. So Chavez patrols nearby streets to report neighborhood ills; trash, stray dogs and overgrown lawns. She’s a familiar voice to the city’s 311 operators — a squeaky wheel who knows how to get things done, for herself and her neighbors.