Often when you walk into the LAC office, after the screen door slams, there is something cooking. You may be invited to sit awhile, have a cup of coffee, share your news, or stuff envelopes with an announcement of the latest community event; or you might stop in the office to make a phone call, or sign up your child for a field trip. Mrs. Beatrice Harris, the LAC president, after chatting with you about your family, might ask you to stay awhile and help organize an upcoming barbeque for the development; or Mrs. Hallie Amey, a former LAC secretary, may stop in to talk with Mrs. Harris, first to ask about her health, followed by a strategy discussion of how to solve the basement flooding in the LAC operated on-site laundromat and convenience store. For example, in one two hour visit in late March, 1996, the discussions and work included details of an upcoming Easter Egg hunt for the children; Mrs. Evelyn Ramsey musing about her need to get away for a break; one of the youth events and the Youth Council election results; the state of the coffee (it was very old); the Women for Economic Security (WES) program; post office jobs; flyer preparation by a volunteer for a CHA-initiated communitywide event, with Mrs. Amey providing personal feedback; and debates about how the food donations for the event should be organized, which people outside the Wentworth Gardens community should be invited, and which resident will call to invite a local politician to attend.[…]