A Detroit tradition, the 17th Annual ARISE Detroit Neighborhoods Day will take place on Saturday, August 5 from sunup to sundown throughout the city's neighborhoods. The event highlights the work of community groups and churches as they perform cleanup projects, neighborhood picnics, health fairs, and youth activities taking place in neighborhoods all over the city on the first Saturday in August and involving thousands of volunteers.

ARISE Detroit founder and Executive Director Luther Keith says those same groups work hard all year long organizing block clubs, cleaning up neighborhoods, plant...