Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May (observed in 2008 on May ). It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country. It began first to honor Union soldiers who died during the American Civil War. After World War I, it was expanded to include those who died in any war or military action.
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We honor those who have died in military service to our country
May 24, 2008
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Virginia has a transportation funding crisis. We need your help!
May 23, 2008
There is a transportation funding crisis in Virginia. Below is a link to the website of “It’s time- Virginians for better transportation”. See how this crisis is effecting everyone of us.
Please Click Here for information on the transportation funding crisis and on how to write your legislators to address this pressing problem.
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Partnership Meeting Reminder
May 22, 2008The Greater Wards Corner Partnership will be meeting this evening, Thursday, May 22nd at 7:00 P.M. at the Norfolk Workforce Development Center,(next to the Kroger Supermarket) Room 210. State Senator Ralph Northam will be the guest speaker. Also there will be a short presentation on how Norfolk assesses real estate.
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Barclay Winn on Wards Corner
May 14, 2008The Cromwell Farm Civic League invites you:
This Monday, May 19th, at 7 p.m. Councilman Barclay Winn will be speaking to residents of the Cromwell Farm Civic League about Ward’s Corner and other issues of concern. The civic league meets in the Fellowship Hall of Royster Memorial Church at 6900 Newport Avenue.
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Quarterly Wards Corner Clean-Up scheduled for Saturday, June 14th
May 12, 2008
Let’s get together, have some fun and Clean Our Corner!
Join in our next quarterly Wards Corner Clean Up event, 8:00-11:00 am, Saturday, June 14th! We will meet at North Shore Sports & Physical Therapy, 7419 Granby St., next to ATC Fitness, from 8-8:30 a.m. for coffee, donuts and sign-up. This is a great opportunity to have fun and meet neighbors & business members of the Wards Corner community as we come together to Clean Our Corner! Trash bags, safety vests, gloves and refreshments will be provided. RSVP to Laura Thom: 489-5820. *Rain date- Saturday, June 21.
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VOTE TODAY!!!
May 6, 2008Americans have given their lives for your right to vote.
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Transportation Secretary to Headline Town Hall Meeting in Ocean View
April 24, 2008Delegate Paula Miller (87th District) and Senator Ralph Northam (6th District) will host a joint town hall meeting on Monday, April 28, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the new Mary D. Pretlow Anchor Library, located at 111 W. Ocean View Avenue in Norfolk.
Virginia Secretary of Transportation Pierce Homer will be the keynote speaker. Delegate Miller and Senator Northam will seek citizen input on proposals for transportation funding prior to the General Assembly’s upcoming special session on transportation.
Residents of the 87th House District and 6th Senate District are invited to attend.
For further information, contact aides Emily Zak (Paula Miller, 587-8757) or Tom Anstrom (Ralph Northam, 818-5172).
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Greater Wards Corner Partnership meeting this Thursday, April 24th, 7:00 p.m.
April 22, 2008Greater Wards Corner Partnership Meeting
201 E. Little Creek Road (next to Kroger) Rooms 202 & 204
Thursday, April 24 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Pace Report
3. Announcements
4. Guest Speaker: William W. King
Headmaster and President
Norfolk Collegiate School
5. Taskforce Update
6. Committee Reports
A. Codes and Public Safety
B. Development Committee
C. Beautification Committee
D. Public Infrastructure Committee
E. Public Relations Committee
F. City Connection Committee
7. New Business
A. Discussion of Two New Goals
8. Meeting Adjourned
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P.A.C.E. Meeting Friday, April 11th
April 3, 2008Norfolk Police Department
Third Patrol Division
Red Sector P.A.C.E. meeting
April 11, 2008 from
11:00Am to 12:00PM
Norfolk Workforce Development Center
201 East Little Creek Road (next to Kroger)
We’re have a guess speaker and a light lunch
Please come join us as we discuss community concerns and issues.
We’re see you there !
Officer Jackson curtis.jackson@norfolk.gov
Officer Hubbard beverly.hubbard@norfolk.gov
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Norfolk City Council Candidates Debate, Wednesday, April 9th
April 1, 2008The Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce Cordially Invites the Greater Wards Corner Partnership to a Norfolk City Council Candidates Debate to be held at the beautiful historic Attucks Theater, 1010 Church Street on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. There will be a 5:30 p.m. Candidates Welcome Reception with food and refreshments. The debate will begin at 6:00 p.m. The Candidates from Ward Six are Councilman Barclay Winn and Challenger Jack Stiles. The Candidtes from Ward Seven are Councilwoman Daun Hester and Challenger Dwight “Coach” McDowell. The Moderator will be Cathy Lewis of WHRV Public Radio’s “Hearsay with Cathy Lewis”. Please contact Amanda Gant at the Chamber 664-2524 to R.S.V.P. The event is free but reservations are required.
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government;… whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.” –Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789. ME 7:253
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Thank you Laura Thom for organizing the Wards Corner Clean-up
March 28, 2008
We all owe Laura Thom and her volunteers a great big thank you for their participation in last Saturday’s Wards Corner Clean-up. They collected over 40 bags of trash along the Norfolk Southern Railroad Tracks alone.
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Greater Wards Corner Partnership Meeting, Thursday, March 27th, 7 P.M.
March 25, 2008The Greater Wards Corner Partnership will be meeting this Thursday at the Norfolk Workforce Development Center 201 E. Little Creek Road (next to Kroger) at 7:00 P.M.
Agenda:
1. Introduction
2. Pace Report
3. Guest Speaker: Michael J. McKenna, President
Norfolk Police Union
4. Taskforce Update
5. Committee Reports
A. Codes and Public Safety
B. Development Committee
C. Beautification Committee
D. Public Infrastructure Committee
E. Public Relations Committee
F. City Connection Committee
6. New Business
7. Meeting Adjourned
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Codes and Public Safety Meeting, Tonight, Tuesday March 25th
March 24, 2008The Codes and Public Safety Committee of the Greater Wards Corner Partnership will meet tomorrow night, Tuesday, at 645PM at the Workforce Development Center in room 210. Please join us if you would like to work with this committee. We need more members. The meeting should last no longer than 1 hour.
Thanks,
Jim English, Chair
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Email received from Tim Smith
March 20, 2008The following email was received from Tim Smith, Wards Corner resident:
I would like to share with all of you the following event that just happen in our area that you will not hear about in the news or from the city.
On the evening of March 17, 2008, around 8:00 pm in the 200 block of Oxford Street, my neighbor was out for a walk. A dark SUV with tinted windows drove past him and turned into a driveway at the end of the block. This SUV then came back down the street past my neighbor and pulled into a driveway a few houses behind him. My neighbor heard the doors close on the SUV and then heard someone tell him to “Give it up”. When my neighbor turned around he saw two men with “hoodies” pulled up over their heads and two guns pointing at him.
That evening my neighbor had done something he has never felt he needed to do in all his years walking in Talbot Park, carry his concealed weapon. My neighbor has a permit and is trained in the use of his weapon and for some reason he had a strong feeling to carry that night. That feeling probably saved his life this week.
As my neighbor reached for his weapon one of the men fired a shot. Everyone ran in opposite directions. My neighbor was not hit but a stray bullet from the ‘would-be-thieves’ was free to do as it pleased. Naturally these two men will not be found as happens in most of these situations.
The suspicion here is that this was part of a gang initiation, to rob someone at gun point. The fact that one of the men was willing to pull the trigger tells me he was ready and willing to kill someone if need be.
This is the kind of story that goes on just about every night in just about every area of Norfolk that does not make it into the paper or on the TV news. Nobody got killed and in this case nobody got robbed so it is not news.
What is news, in the paper and on TV, are the car break-ins in downtown and how something needs to be done about it. Being these break-ins are happening downtown and the fact that we have a “reactive” form of government instead of a “proactive” form of government, I am sure there will be immediate action taken to catch these thieves who are causing havoc in downtown. All the while the tax payers in the suburbs are being terrorized by gangs.
If we are not willing to join together and take back our streets, but choose to ask our police to do that for us, than we need to insure our police force in Norfolk are second to none in Hampton Roads. Our police need to be the top paid with the best benefits and the latest equipment to fight crime.
We need to stop giving tax breaks to developers that create large dirt piles for us to look at each day or empty condos that do not pay taxes. Before we reduce our tax base our police need to be fully funded and the BEST. We need a government that is “proactive” in its approach to crime (I was at the meeting in Wards Corner years ago were the city chose to ignore the evidence of gang activity we presented to them).
The criminals have the upper hand; they have the will, focus and the stamina to do what it takes, no matter how long, to reach their goals.
The question I pose to you is “Do you have a stronger will, better focus and a superior stamina to do what it takes to keep the criminals from reaching their goal?”
If you do not, then you will be hearing more stories like the one my neighbor told me last night. Only the outcomes may be deadlier and harder to live with. The criminals win and we continue paying for our loss, maybe with our lives.
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REMINDER — Wards Corner Clean-up
March 18, 2008The following email was received from Laura Thom:
Will you please post a reminder for our upcoming Wards Corner Clean up? Originally rained out on March 15th, we will meet this Saturday, March 22nd at North Shore Sports & Physical Therapy, 7419 Granby St. (next to ATC Fitness) at 8am. Refreshments, trash bags, safety vests & gloves will be provided, and all registered participants are eligible to win a variety of prizes from Wards Corner merchants and/or the Great American Clean Up. To register, please call me at 489-5820.
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