ABC 12 – WJRT – Flint, MIEdgar Carter - Person of the Week
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(11/18/11) -- We all want to feel safe in our homes and our communities, but how many of us are willing to step up to the plate to make a difference? Our Person of the Week IS stepping up.
For Edgar Carter, coaching youth football and basketball is about more than sport.
"Kids are hungry for attention, especially the young boys," says Carter.
For him, coaching is about guiding young people through life. As a father, he coached his son in these same sports. Then the unthinkable happened in April. His son was murdered at age 20.
Coach Carter and his wife don't know who took their son's life, and on a billboard on Clio Road, he offers a reward for information. In the meantime, he keeps coaching.
"I can bet 20 cents to the dollar, all the culprits that did the violent crimes, they had no love, so they couldn't understand what love was and they couldn't understand what a loss is. And when a community allows their children to reach that point, the community itself is failing,"he says.
We met Coach Carter through the Community Action Group, a grass roots effort to stop gun violence.
For his individual efforts to make a difference in his community, through coaching and his career as a juvenile probation officer, we recognize him as ABC 12's Person of the Week.
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