Almeta Crayton's Community Programs

Throughout Black History Month we will be recognizing some incredible Black women who served our community with distinction but left us too soon. We begin with the indefatigable Almeta Crayton (1959-2013). If Almeta's only contribution to the community was her annual Thanksgiving "Everybody Eats" event - an event that fed hundreds upon hundreds of families each year - that alone would make her worthy of high honors in our community's history. But she was much more than that. She represented the First Ward on the Columbia City Council for nine years. In that role she worked tirelessly to help her central city constituents receive the solutions they needed, always "paying it forward", and as she liked to say, "Telling it like it is." Her legacy lives on today through Almeta Crayton's Community Programs