Wards Corner Clean-up

June 9, 2008

Laura Thom writes in with the following reminder about the upcoming clean-up on June 14:

Come join the fun with members of the Wards Corner community as we come together this Saturday, June 14th for our quarterly Wards Corner Clean-up.  Meet at North Shore Sports & Physical Therapy, 7419 Granby St. (next to ATC Fitness) for coffee & pastries 8-8:30 am. Trash bags, safety vests, gloves, refreshments & water provided.

Please call Laura Thom at 489-5820 to register.

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Warrants issued for 2 men in Denby Park shooting

June 9, 2008

Pilot Online reports that warrants have been issued for the arrest of two suspects in yesterday’s shooting of a man in the 300 block of E. Little Creek Road. The suspects frequent Ashlawn Drive in Monticello Village and the “Texas” streets in Denby Park. The Wards Corner Partnership has identified both these areas as socially blighted since 1997. To date, the City has done little to help the good citizens of Denby Park and Monticello Village.

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Cradock is taking Cradock back

June 9, 2008

The Virginian-Pilot has an article about how the residents in Cradock are taking their neighborhood back. The activism has caused a 49% decrease in property crime when comparing the first five months of 2007 with the same period in 2008. The article: Cradock residents encouraged by drop in crime

Tim Smith, Talbot Park resident, wrote in with the following:

Someone needs to contact this man and find out how he did this and how we can do the same here in Wards Corner and the neighborhoods around.

I said it before, get 25 to 50 people together and with a pair of uniform police officers, pick random Friday & Saturday nights each month and walk back and forth from Wards Corner to Southern Shopping Center (through the neighborhoods)from sunset to sunrise.

Write down ALL license plates of cars entering and exiting; make yourselves seen and show the people that live in this area that we are taking our streets back. Force the criminal element to move out of our area cause their customers will not want to be seen by us.

As the story shows below, IT WILL WORK but people need to get involved. We have enough civic leagues in the Partnership Area we would only need one or two deticated people from each neighborhood to be willing to work together. We could even move around the Partnership Area after we clean up the hot spots, keeping the criminals off guard like they do to the police.

I live in Talbot Park, contact me at timsmith114@cox.net.

Remember, we are the only ones that have our best interests in mind and developers do not like to invest in declining neighborhoods. No back room deals; no vote for this & I’ll vote for that; no Ward boundries, just our actions; in our neigborhoods; our results; our rewards.

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