(Received 7/11 from Cynthia Cooke)

Jack!

Hope it's a great summer...

Several glitches exist here complicating formation of the Neighborhood Association:
+ some older residents want exclusivity for only home-owners
    -the area experiences growing diversity and rental homes
+ one individual wants to dictate policy and control information communication
    -wants to do the above, & set up the slate of officers
    -wants to exclude the commercial enterprises along Bardstown Rd
        -maybe they could form a Business Association

Walter Munday is working on this with Leah Pepper/Ellen Call.
Maybe there's a way to work with these home-owners?

The first thing to note is that the easiest staple crops to access here are maize, millet, and rice. Yam is also fairly accessible although it seems to be more expensive in the North. Other crops you may hear about are sorghum, cassava, cowpea, and soybean. It’s possible to get these on market days, but after three weeks I’m yet to eat any of them. This may be (and quite likely is) different for other parts of Ghana. The most common fruits here are Mango and grapes though I’ve seen lots of banana, melon, pineapple, and orange as well. Only a little plantain grows here though it’s fairly common in other parts of Ghana. I’m not really sure if avocado is a fruit but I’ve seen them being sold (though I haven’t tried any yet). The common vegetables are tomato, onion, pepper (hot pepper and some sweet peppers from Burkina Faso), Okru (which is a green vegetable that you use the stock of and which I don’t know how to spell. This is the case for many of the other dish names so I’ll write them how they sound), and some other leafy vegetable that I’m yet to identify. Some other notable crops are bean and groundnut.

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