The leader of Alive Community Outreach – a Fort Wayne nonprofit that's cultivating a community of nonviolence – initially pictured a small event to celebrate its fifth anniversary, but the number of key people who helped the organization reach this milestone quickly added up.
"It's a pretty big list of people," said Angelo Mante, the nonprofit's founder and executive director.
Instead of the intimate event Mante imagined, Alive will celebrate its anniversary Tuesday with a 300-attendee breakfast at the Clyde Theatre, 1808 Bluffton Road.
The ticketed event will happen during Peace Week, which Alive will also commemorate with a community vigil on Saturday that honors victims of violence. Other plans include highlighting Martin Luther King Jr.'s principles of nonviolence throughout the wee