Former mayor and local leader Richard Jackson accepts a proclamation in honor of Black History Month from Mike Skidmore, Ottawa mayor, during the commission’s Feb. 7 meeting. “When you talk about black history, it’s like a salad bowl,” he said. “It takes a little bit of everything to make a salad. It takes a little bit of everything to make this country, to make this community, to make the city go. We’ve all come over on somebody’s boat. When you stop and think about it, your ancestors, many ancestors, they all came over on different boats, but it takes all to make this country great.”City of Ottawa
