Strategy for Marketview Heights revival calls on residents to pitch in. Georgia Nesmith attended one meeting and they pulled her right in.

Now she’s a full-fledged community activist, caught up to her ears in an effort to revitalize one of Rochester’s most troubled neighborhoods.

Several changes to the proposed Canal View apartment complex were approved last night by the joint town/village planning board, but some taxpayers still are concerned about the project, which will be built at the site of the old Riverside Apartments along the Erie Canal.

The 36-unit senior housing complex was originally to be accessed from Elm Street, but under the revised plans that were approved last night, the old Montezuma Street entrance to Riverside will be used.

My dear friend, the Rev. Ivory Simmons, who lived from Dec. 31, 1933, to June 1, 2002, was a minister, social activist and civil rights advocate.

He worked tirelessly for his entire life on behalf of the dispossessed.