Elyse Kalfus sent in the following:
Special Notice
The Greater Wards Corner Partnership will hold our meeting on Thursday night June 25th, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. at the Workforce Development Center (next to Kroger) 201 East Little Creek Road. This will be our last meeting until September.
Although we will not be meeting during the summer, it doesn’t mean that we will not be working to try and make Wards Corner a better place; and keeping involved with what is going on in the city and the things that affect us all in this area. We ask that everyone make a special effort to attend Thursday’s meeting, even if you have never attended a meeting before, so that we may bring you up to date with some of the important issues that will make a Big difference in our area come September.
We hope to see you on Thursday,
The Executive Committee
Categories: The Greater Wards Corner Partnership
We received the following invitation from RJ Luce, President of the Denby Park Civic League:
All,
Please consider coming out this Saturday the 20th of June to 550 East Little Creek Road (Oakdale Presbyterian Church) where we will be doing some yard work, and general things to help improve the look of the 500 block of Little Creek Rd. We will have tools or you can bring your favorites with you. Pizza and drinks will be provided, we are asking the civic league members to bring a desert (cookies or the like). The Junior Civic League will be providing assistance. We would like to thank the city of Norfolk for assisting with this event. Hope to see you all there. Any questions please call 404-8072 or 237-2815.
RJ Luce
Civic League President
Categories: Uncategorized
Officer Curtis Jackson and Officer Catrinna Swenson wrote:
Our next sector meeting will be on June 12, 2009 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM at the Norfolk Workforce Center located at 201 E. Little Creek Rd. next to Kroger.
Our speaker for June will be from the Norfolk Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards
(Once known as the Internal Affairs Division)
Come join us for a light lunch and great community partnership
Also come said good bye to MPO Beverly Hubbard, who has retired from the police department after 26 yrs.
We will see you on June 12, 2009!
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Norfolk Police, wards corner
The following was in the Sunday, May 17, 2009 edition of the Compass (Virginian-Pilot):
MOST CITY LAND ACQUIRED WAS IN DOWNTOWN
by HARRY MINIUM
City Councilwoman Theresa Whibley represents the city’s affluent west side, including much of downtown, but you can’t say she’s not interested in other parts of the city.
Commenting on the city’s land acquisition revolving fund, from which the city has spent nearly $13 million in recent years acquiring 13 properties, Whibley said:
“It disturbed me that all of the acquisitions are in the downtown area. None of them are in Ocean View or Wards Corner. It’s frustrating that we can’t do more at Wards Corner.”
From the former St. Mary’s Infant Home to the Red Carpet Inn side on Tidewater Drive, 12 of the 13 properties were indeed in or near downtown. Another was a tire store on Hampton Boulevard near Old Dominion University.
Purchases from the revolving fund are paid for by land sales, such as the recently authorized sale of $2.9 million of city land around a Norfolk reservoir in Virginia Beach to the Beach. Once the check from the Beach clears, the fund will have a balance of $4.8 million.
City officials said they have no current plans to buy more land in Wards Corner or anywhere else.
Categories: City Of Norfolk · Virginian-Pilot · blight
Tagged: Theresa Whibley
Beverly Sexton, resident of Denby Park, wrote in notifying us of another shooting in Denby Park. The shooting and robbery occurred in the 300 block of E. Little Creek Road today, Wednesday, May 6th, during the mid-morning hours. One person was taken to the hospital for treatment. It is believed he was shot in the shoulder or arm.
Categories: crime
Tagged: crime, Denby Park, robbery, shooting
Denby Park Project Focus Newsletter
Denby Park Project Focus Newletter Page 2
Categories: Project Focus
Tagged: Denby Park, Project Focus, wards corner
WAVY TVis reporting that an arrest has been made in the Wards Corner Business District homocide that took place in front of DelVecchios Pizza on Virginian Drive. The suspect in the murder of 19 year-old Micheal Bridges is Terry Ryan Robinson. Robinson has been charged with Murder and Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Felony
Categories: Wards Corner Crime
WAVY TV is reporting a shooting in the 7500 block of Virginian Drive at 7:30 p.m. that has left one male dead. More info will be posted as the story develops.
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Norfolk Police, wards corner
Beverly Sexton wrote in about gunfire in Denby Park:
Shooting is in the air. Not spring is in the air. Last night [Friday, 4/24/2009] between 10:30 and 11:00 I was coming home from a dinner party. I turned down Galveston and got almost to the stop sign at San Antonio and bang bang bang and plus I saw the flash from the pistol down in the 300 blockof San Antonio. I stoped in the middle of the street and grabbed my cellphone and called 911. It seemed like forever just ring ring ring. I started saying bad words and they finally answered. After I get home I guess it was not over cause I go out on my back deck and bang. Just one shot. Guess this person had target practice cause he hit his target. My point is the weather is getting warmer and the meanest will come out. In these trying times we really need our police to be out protecting us and let them work overtime or whatever it takes to protect the law abiding citizens of this city which we live in.
Categories: crime
Tagged: crime, Denby Park
Wards Corner Now has received the following email from Mason, Robert G. McBride:
I take great pride to write this letter as a member of the “Masonic Temple”. I grew up living on Burleigh Ave, when “Wards Corner” was the “Times Square of the South”. When I was attending Granby High school I met a group of young men playing ball on a Saturday morning. I asked them if I could join in and play, they said yes it was during this time that I found out they belonged to the Masonic order called “DeMolay”. It was a christian organization for young men. It was the beginning of my masonic journey. I attended Talbot Park Baptist Church, and was a member of Troop 12 Boys Scouts. Archie Dail was the Scout Master and a Freemason. I was Married in the church by Dr. Honts. In 1970 I joined the Masonic Lodge Ruth#89,and have been a member for 39 years. I have served as Wor. Master 3 times, District Deputy Grand Master in 2007. I belong to two lodges in Scotland, as well as The Royal Order of Scotland. Masonry is the largest Philanthropic organization in the world. Masonry gives over 2 million
dollars a day to charities. The Shriners hospitals of North America, provide services at no charge to any race color or creed. The Masonic Temple would never disgrace the city of Norfolk, or Wards Corner, nor allow a guest to do anything that would tarnish our reputation. Please take the virtual tour on the web site. Please come and take a personal tour of the building. There have been many great masons within the Wards Corner community, Mr. Ken Perry owner of the Dollar Tree, Mr. Aubry Graham post master, Mr. Earl Gresham, Mr. Nash Satterfield, Judge Walter Hoffman, Judge Hal J. Bonney, the list goes on.
I hope that you will consider the motion before you and approve it. I can assure you that the Masonic Temple will not be disrespectful in any manor to our neighbors.
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Masn, masonic temple
Wards Corner Now has received the following response from Gary Gouge, Building Superintendent of the Norfolk Masonic Temple:
In response to the letter about turning the Masonic Temple in to a drinking establishment. It is not our intention to do any thing of the kind. Our Grand lodge prohibits any mason to sell alcohol at our temple. We host wedding receptions and small sporting events as a fund raiser to help us keep the doors open. In applying for the special adult exception use permit. It was my thought to allow a cash bar provided by the renters in that the wedding here are usually small. But because of the controversy we have decided to drop that. NO Alcohol will be sold on our premises. In regards to not going to the civic league, I had attended the wards corner civic league meeting on feb 23 09. I had gone to the Wards Corner Task force meeting and they had no objection. I will be attending the next civic league meeting.
Sincerly,
Gary Gouge
Building Superintendent
Norfolk Masonic Temple
Categories: Uncategorized
The Virginian-Pilot reports:
A man was shot and killed this morning at an apartment complex on East Little Creek Road.
The shooting was reported at 2:52 a.m. in the 400 block of E. Little Creek, said Karen Parker-Chesson, a spokeswoman for the police department.
She said the man was found inside an apartment building at the address, but she didn’t know any other details.
The man, described by Parker-Chesson as unidentified, was pronounced dead at 3 a.m.
No arrests have been made, she said.
The Pilot’s article: Man shot, killed on E. Little Creek Road in Norfolk
Categories: Virginian-Pilot · crime
Tagged: Denby Park, murder, Oakdale Farms
On Monday night, WardsCornerNow.com received the following email from Tim Smith, a past President of the Talbot Park Civic League:
Well this one slipped right by…
How can the city even entertain allowing someone to fill out a permit to sell alcohol right across from Granby High School. Talbot Park does not need anyone selling alcohol in it’s neighborhood.
If the Masonic Temple is allowed to get a permit to sell alcohol then a precedent will be set and there will be no stopping the decline of Talbot Park. That is all we need is a drinking establishment in Talbot Park. Drunk driving, peeing in the bushes in your yards, trash in your yards, loud music, loud cars racing up and down our streets and don’t forget the gun play we have all read about in our local bar parking lots.
Good one Norfolk, this one should look real good on Norfolk’s plan to get people to move here. It should play out real good in the papers also.
I’ll be there for the public hearing, I just hope I’m not alone.
See below:
CITY PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA APRIL 23, 2009 The Norfolk City Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on April 23, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber, 11th Floor, City Hall Building, Civic Center, Norfolk, Virginia to consider the following applications: REGULAR AGENDA
3. NORFOLK MASONIC TEMPLE, for a Special Exception to operate an Entertainment Establishment with alcoholic beverages on property bounded by Granby Street to the east, Brackenridge Avenue to the south, Colonial Avenue to the west, and Oxford Street to the north; premises numbered 7001 Granby Street.
Maps, plats, and other information concerning the above proposals may be seen at the office of the Department of Planning, Room 508, City Hall Building, Norfolk, Virginia 23510or you may telephone (757) 664-4752. All interested parties are invited to be present at the time and place noted above. Frank M. Duke, AICP Executive Secretary VP April 9 & 16, 2009 20051402
from The Virginian-Pilot classifieds : Legal Notices: Public Hearings : Posted 04/09/09
Categories: wards corner
Tagged: wards corner
Elyse Kalfus sends in the following invitation:
Don’t Miss this Next Meeting of the Greater Wards
Corner Partnership: Learn the Details about
ReEnergy’s proposal to Buy Debt-strapped SPSA!
Greater Wards Corner Partnership Meeting
Thursday April 23rd, 7:00 p.m.
Workforce Development Center, 201 E. Little Creek
Rd. (next to Kroger)
Guest Speaker: Larry D. Richardson, President,
ReEnergy Holding
R.S.V.P. 587-7975
No names needed, just a number count
Beverages & Heavy Deserts will be served
Newport News pays less than $40.00 per ton in
Tipping fees for garbage pick-up and yet in Norfolk we
are being ask to pay $170.00 in Tipping fees retro-
active to February, and this is after they plan to sell off
assets and pay down the debt.
Bring your questions, see how this will effect us all.
You are encouraged to bring any problems from your
neighborhoods to this meeting. Working together we
will get our problems solved!
Categories: Uncategorized
