Greater Wards Corner Partnership Meeting this Thursday
June 24, 2008
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Task Force invited to hear light rail presentation Thursday at 8 a.m.
June 24, 2008
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Partnership Executive Committee set goals for 2008-2009
June 23, 2008
The Greater Wards Corner Partnership Executive Committee will be recommending the following goals for the 2008-2009 fiscal year at our June 26th Partnership meeting :
- Create a Community Development Corporation (CDC) in partnership with Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority.
- Ensure the continuation of medical services at De Paul Hospital.
- Support a Light Rail Station at Wards Corner
- Assist in partnering with schools, churches, businesses and civic leagues to improve programs for our children.
The Partnership will meet this Thursday, 7:00 p.m. at the Norfolk Workforce Development Center (201 E. Little Creek Road, next to Kroger) to discuss and vote on these and any additional goals that may be brought from the membership.
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Litter Baskets Initiative to include Wards Corner
June 16, 2008This month’s Civic Connection, produced by the City of Norfolk, mentions Wards Corner in an article about a Litter Basket Initiative.
Litter Baskets initiative – Public Works has purchased a number of litter containers that will be placed in high litter areas throughout the city. There are criteria for selecting the locations. The new containers were selected by Design Review and are similar to those in use downtown and along 21st Street. Waste Management will empty the containers 3 times per week. In the past, we have had a limited number of wire baskets for litter. These will be phased out. The first area where we will be adding containers will be Ward’s Corner. John Deuel and his staff have been working with the businesses. We are exploring ideas of limited advertising on the containers. This has been a combined initiative of the Norfolk Environmental Commission and staff and Waste Management.
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Wards Corner does well in the Best of Hampton Roads-2008 Norfolk Winners
June 12, 2008The Greater Wards Corner Area can be proud of the showing of businesses, professionals and schools in the Best of Hampton Roads-2008 Norfolk Winners. They are as follows:
- Best Private School – Gold – Norfolk Collegiate School
- Best Private School- Silver – Norfolk Christian Schools
- Best Breakfast – Gold – The Pancake House
- Best Buffet – Bronze – Number 1 Chinese Restaurant
- Best Chinese – Bronze – Kin’s Wok II
- Best Chinese – Bronze- Number 1 Chinese Restaurant
- Best Supermarket – Gold – Farm Fresh
- Best Supermarket – Bronze – Kroger
- Best Chiropractor – Gold – Wards Corner Chiropractic
- Best Dentist – Gold – Konikoff Dentistry
- Best Gym/Fitness – Bronze – Norfolk Fitness and Wellness Center
- Best Local Florist – Gold – Norfolk Florist
- Best Local Florist – Silver – Farm Fresh
- Best Used Book Store – Gold- Book Exchange
- Best Animal Hospital/Vet Center – Silver – Friendship Veterinary Hospital
- Best Financial Planning Company/Tax Service – Silver – Jackson Hewitt
- Best Retirement Center – Gold – The Ballentine
Congratulations!!!!
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Councilman Williams supports funding for Wards Corner before St. Paul’s Quadrant
June 11, 2008
The Partnership had predicted the day would come when the proposed St. Paul’s Quadrant Plan would jump into first place over The Greater Wards Corner Comprehensive Plan which was approved by City Council on December 21, 2004. To date, there has been very little implementation of The Greater Wards Corner Comprehensive Plan. Pilot Online reports the unveiling of this huge new downtown project which will relocate as many as150 low income households in one fell swoop. To his credit Councilman Don Williams thinks Wards Corner should get funding before St’ Paul’s. Williams said,
We need to do things in a pecking order,
Mayor Fraim was quoted as saying,
We have several competing interests we’ll have to sort through.
But in a city as large as ours, we should be able to do several large projects.
We shall see if the Mayor puts as much effort in his support for Greater Wards Corner as he puts in Downtown.
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It was too good to be true
June 8, 2008Denby Park has been relatively quiet lately as far as gun violence is concerned, but early this morning that quiet was shattered. Police Dispatchers were called at 3:45 a.m. to report a shooting in an apartment in the 300 block of E. Little Creek Road. Pilot Online reports
When officers arrived at the complex, they found a man suffering several gunshot wounds inside an apartment, Amos (police spokesman) said. The man was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital with injuries that were considered life-threatening.
Amos said no suspect or motive information was available shortly before 4 a.m., Amos said.
The Wards Corner Partnership has repeatedly expressed its concern about the apartments in the 300 block of E. Little Creek Road. If there was ever an example of social blight, the 300 block would be the picture in the dictionary.
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Two Wards Corner book merchants are experiencing increased sales
June 7, 2008According to Pilot Online, The Book Exchange and Bargain Books are experiencing better sales this year in spite of the downturn in the nation’s economy.
two used-book stores in the Wards Corner section of the city – Bargain Books of Virginia and The Book Exchange – are doing better this year.
John Knight, owner of The Book Exchange, estimates a 20 percent jump in business. “We try to continuously make the store better and turn the inventory over a lot,” he said. The economy “has had a neutral effect. We might get more of some people and less of some other people.”
Lynn Howard bought Bargain Books in November 2006 . “My business increased,” she said, “but I think it was more because I was getting more new books in. We’re finding more and more new customers.”
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Task Force invited to hear light rail presentation
June 6, 2008
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Red Sector P.A.C.E. to host speaker on hurricane preparedness
June 6, 2008The Norfolk Police Department 3rd Patrol Division Red Sector P.A.C.E.
Meeting Friday, June 13, 2008 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM
At the Norfolk Workforce Center on E. Little Creek Rd. next to Kroger. Come to the meeting have lunch and listen to Scott Mahone from the Norfolk 911 communication center speak on
“Hurricane preparedness in your community”.
We hope to see you there !
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Councilman Wright asking for joint meeting to discuss light rail
June 2, 2008
Norfolk City Councilman Randy Wright is asking assistant City Manager Nancy Johnson for a joint meeting of the Mayors’ Wards Corner Task Force and Ocean View Task Force at the new Mary D. Pretlow Anchor Branch Library in Ocean View on June 26th. Councilman Wright will make his first presentation on the “Tide” to Ocean View. Look for times in a future post. Any route to Ocean View should include a rail station in Wards Corner. It is important that all concerned citizens attend this meeting.
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CrimeView Community
May 21, 2008
The Norfolk Police Department has launched Crime View Community, an interactive crime mapping website that allows residents to view certain crime statistics by location and time.
CrimeView Community is an interactive crime mapping program that allows the user to search the City of Norfolk by address, civic leagues, police precincts as well as proximity searches to landmarks in the City of Norfolk for certain types of crimes that have occurred over the previous one hundred twenty days.
The website works remarkably well. You can search by civic league, police precinct, sector, planning district, ward, or zip code. Unfortunately they did not include a way to search the entire Partnership/Taskforce area with one search. Nonetheless, everyone is encouraged to utilize CrimeView to stay informed of crime in their area.
Click Here
To Enter CrimeView Community
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Elderly woman’s car crashes into Wards Corner Rite Aid
May 20, 2008Pilot Online reports that an elderly woman was taken to a hospital after her car hit the Rite Aid store on the northwest corner of Granby Street and Little Creek Road. It is suspected that the lady hit the gas pedal rather than the brake. The 86 year old woman suffered minor injuries and the building was undamaged.
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First Annual Hurricane Preparedness Luncheon
May 16, 2008
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Downtown section of light rail $14.7 million over budget
May 15, 2008
Several years ago, H.R.T. came to a meeting of the Greater Wards Corner Partnership asking for our support of light rail for Norfolk. We were promised that the second leg of light rail would run through the Wards Corner Business District with a light rail station at the Wards Corner H.R.T. Bus Transfer Station. The Partnership gave its overwhelming support for the light rail project.
For light rail ridership to be successful, lateral bus lines must be near a rail station. Wards Corner would be a natural. Now, we hear that the second leg of light rail will take a different route to the Naval Base; most likely from downtown, past ODU along a Hampton Boulevard route to the Naval Base.
Today, Pilot Online reports that the downtown section of the light rail project is $14.7 million over budget. There is only $29 million in contingency dollars for these kind of events. The downtown section has already eaten up half of the contingency money. Councilman Randy Wright is Council’s representave to H.R.T. Please email him at randy.wright@norfolk.gov if you are concerned about this overage.
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