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Westminster-Canterbury has loaned us their lovely Westbrook Room for our meetings. The room has a long conference table and seating for perhaps twenty. This is nice place to do important work.
Henry Briggs, the real estate agent who runs the Shirley Manor, evicted the drug dealer there, put up the "No Trespassing" signs, and put his own name on the new sign out front.
Capt. Larry Beadles at the Third Precinct also goes on our list of Good Friends. His community relations officer, Doug Wacker, attended the meeting on June 29, where we told him the Shirley manor dealer's Olds had been parked, broken down, at the Shirley Manor for over a month. Wacker went right out an placarded it. When the car still was there on July 1, he had it towed.
We hear the towing was quite an event. By all reports, the neighbors lined the curb, smiled, and nodded their heads as the vehicle slid onto the car hauler and departed the neighborhood.
Doug was at the July 22 meeting, where he received a Certificate of Tow from the Association (for providing a tow to a guy who really needed it). Capt. Beadles also sent along two bike cops who are working our neighborhood: Dexter Gaston and Steve Dunfee. We liked these guys and we liked their attitude. Even better, those of us who drove home down MacArthur from the meeting liked the sight of Dexter and Steve interviewing our dealer and his buddies out on the sidewalk.
There is some really Good News in this. Beadles plainly wants to work with the neighborhood, and he plainly is willing to hear and act on what the neighborhood wants to be fixed. This is a different relationship, folks, and it holds a lot of promise.
Last updated 02/24/02
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