Welcome to the first post. Eventually this will be the source of the news relevant to our street.What this blog becomes is up to everyone on the street. The more input the better. A great example of a neighborhood blog is the North Primrose Ave Residents Alliance. It illustrates nicely how a blog can be used as the clearing house for all the fun stuff as well as concerns that affect a neighborhood. A blog is a much more effective way to get a lot of news out quickly and eliminates the time needed to print and distribute fliers.
Our first and most important news bit to discuss. In the last few weeks there has been some criminal activity. It started about a month ago when my boys and I confronted someone up here who fled when we asked what he was doing up here.
Subsequent to that 4 families representing 5 cars were burglarized. Some had contents such as a GPS, Ipod or camera taken from their cars. Burglary's happen and its very easy when we drop our guard and not take basic precautions like locking doors. The concern is that we have people prowling about the street after dark which needs to be monitored and reported better.
Neighborhood Watch works and is a great way to control crime. Our first meeting is coming. Renee Chan has agreed to be our block captain. The Chan's have also opened up their home for the first meeting. Thanks Renee! I will help her as needed. There is no doubt that we can prevent these occasional prowling and thefts from escalating and bring them to a halt.
Monrovia Police Officer Percy will be present at our first meeting to explain how it all works and what we can do to help them. Past experience with Neighborhood watch is that controlling crime is a two way street. MPD will share with us what we can do to observe and report what we see as well as tell us what trends are going on so we can be extra diligent. It is a partnership and MPD will help us make it work.
Mark your Calenders:
Neighborhood Watch Meeting
Wednesday March 26, 2008
7PM
211 Poinsettia Avenue
There you go the important stuff to get this going. For this blog there is so much we can do. We can run polls and decide what additional things we want to do as a neighborhood to make things better. We can even use it as a tool to determine what issues we want to bring to City Council to improve things for all of us. You decide and let us know.
You can even write things up for us to post directly here via cut/paste. Its the neighborhood blog so what is important to you needs to be heard!
Thanks in advance for your help!
4 comments:
Thank you Frank for setting up this communication tool for us to use to share important information. I look forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday for our first neighborhood watch meeting. I know together we can make a difference!
Renee
You bet, but like everything we do around it its together so why can't we make a difference with the prowlers.
Thanks Renee for being our block captain. Also to you Frank for helping to organize!
For those of you who don't know me, this is Roberto from 220. I think I'm the only non-married person on the block, but my partner, John, is here all the time.
See you at Wednesday's meeting. Maybe we can start a block directory with phone numbers and emails so we can reach each other in cases of emergency.
Great Idea Roberto, it has been a long time since we had the neighborhood roster and contact information.
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