Three civic activists each win $7,000 and recognition of their efforts to improve the metro area in the second annual Detroit 2020 Awards from WXYZ, which announced the recipients online Tuesday.
More than 100 people wrote in to nominate someone who is working to make the Detroit region a better place to live, work and raise families.
These winners will be featured in a half-hour program at 7 p.m. Thursday, hosted by Stephen Clark and Carolyn Clifford:
- Gary Wozniak: He's president of RecoveryPark, which focuses on job creation projects such as a program to increase the availability of fresh food. He's part of an effort to create indoor urban farms and tilapia farms in Detroit and Highland Park. Goals include using abandoned land and uplifting neighborhoods.
- Riet Schumack: She runs the Brightmoor Youth Garden, where adult volunteers train young people to grow vegetables, sell them at a market and share the profits. Schumack, co-founder of Neighbors Building Brightmoor, began the garden as a way to fight blight, drug trafficking and prostitution in her west side community.
- Terry Grahl: She created Enchanted Makeovers, which upgrades long-stay homeless shelters for women and children so they become more stimulating, educational environments that inspire personal change. She has developed reading programs for kids, sewing programs for their moms and other opportunities for women and children.
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