One for the good guys! -
Chris Marshall of the Broke Spoke Bicycle shop and a
long time member had his shop broken into and the
thief got 3 bikes and some odds and ends. The thief
broke in again, but this time Chris was inside with
a phone in one hand talking to a 911 dispatcher and
a gun in the other hand. Fortunately for the thief
the police arrived before he broke in. The burglar
ran but was later caught and with blood samples, he
will probably go away for a while. The guy who was
caught is a one man crime wave. He has caused a lot
of problems in this area before. He also has a long
record in Las Vegas for the same crimes and has been
in jail here many times. Hopefully they will put him
away for a long time. Chris is asking for
restitution, which means this guy can not get off
parole (that is if he ever gets parole), until he
pays back every cent he stole, both in merchandise
and physical damages.
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CRA News - There
has been two meetings with the 7th Avenue CRA and to
date we have signed all agreements with the County
and we should be "legal" to start
conducting business that benefits 7th Ave. Most of
what we can do right now is restricted because we do
not have our own administrator to get our ideas in
action. But there are some immediate quick victories
we can achieve such as street clean up, anti
graffiti, cleaning off the many different light
poles, cleaning up bad sidewalks, getting after
people who have serious zoning violations, etc. When
we get an administrator and secretary and a place
for an office we can get our a newsletter and get a
closer liaison with all the business people. There
are 240 businesses and 151 building building and
land owners who need to be contacted every time we
have something of interest.
On October 21, from 5 - 7 pm, we will have a
workshop regarding our budget and the things we
would like to accomplish over the near term. The
meeting will be held at the Edison/Little River
Center, 150 NE 79th Street. We would like to see our
business people there to comment on our proposals.
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Farmers Market - An
idea that is getting a lot of attention over the
past few years in areas that are trying to promote
neighborhood awareness and cohesiveness, is a fresh
foods program and farmers market that happen for 4 -
5 hours each weekend where local produce is sold and
flowers and home made crafts are offered. This is a
wholesome way to introduce the public to the area
and local people have an opportunity to intermingle.
Many large cities are having a lot of success with
this urban farming idea.
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Graffiti Alert - There
is a new graffiti tagger in our area and if you are
experiencing any problems, give us a call as we have
a crew that will block it our for you with a special
paint that will not let the tagger's paint bleed
through. For those who do not know the difference
between a graffiti tagger and a Graffiti Artist, an
artist puts up a defined illustration, where as a
tagger puts up an almots illegible word or words and
he is usually gang connected where as the artist is
usually not. Getting it off you building within 24
hours is very important because it takes the tagger
that long or longer to get his friends together to
brag about his work. After a while they get tired of
playing our game and move on.
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