Five Points/East End Neighborhood Community Watch Meeting

Five Points/East End Neighborhood Community Watch Meeting, Thursday, November 19, 6:30, at Burgard Apartments on Chestnut Street.

With assistance from the Mifflin County Communities That Care organization, Chuck Dicken, a familiar name and face with Neighborhood Block Watch Groups, will join us in the revival of the Community Watch initiative of the Neighborhood. We may be joined by Officer Eric Ettinger, Crime Prevention Officer with Mifflin County Regional Police and we will have a representative from the US Census who will explain the advantages in encouraging our friends and neighbors to respond to the decennial census.

Also, a big thanks to the Mifflin County Housing Authority for providing space for our meeting at Burgard Apartments, 120 Chestnut Street.

http://www.mcrpd.org/SupportServices/BlockWatch.htm

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Public Meeting Tonight- June 27, 2009

FIVE POINTS/EAST END

Public Meeting

6:30 p.m., Monday July 27, 2009

Grace United Methodist
101 Logan Street

Everyone's welcome


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View From the Neighborhood

As a new resident in the Neighborhood, I'd like to report some things about the experience so far:

• My family was able to buy a beautiful home with a lot of room and character at an amazing price
  
• We are able to walk to work (and to stores, restaurants, movie theater)
• We've met a few neighbors and most have been welcoming
• It's been quiet and peaceful
• While some neighboring properties are beautiful, some are neglected and empty

To date, we love living here. In addition to being extremely pleased with the affordability of the house, we are happy with the neighborhood and its proximity to the downtown. I would encourage people to consider taking a look at the Neighborhood- especially young couples and families. There's work to be done and room to grow. Possibilities abound. There are some great features to build around and some obvious concerns to address.

It's Time.



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Resolutions for the New Year

Invariably, one of the most desired resolutions is to lose weight. While that may be a most admirable and hopeful goal, we offer a unique twist on this common objective: placing your mail on a diet. Through the leadership of Senator Jake Corman, we were able to register on a No Call List to eliminate or reduce calls from telemarketers, potentially keeping us and our loved ones safe from fraud and other malicious schemes. Now, through sites like optoutprescreen.com we can register with the Consumer Credit Reporting Industry to "Opt Out" or if you prefer "OptIn" for receiving offers of credit or insurance. You can also call a toll free number 1-888-567-8688 to register to stop receiving prescreened offers of credit. I have registered my mail through this service and have cut my amount of "junk" mail substantially. The choice is yours entirely but it is thought and widely communicated through Neighborhood Watch efforts that cutting these offers and other articles containing personal information can decrease the likelihood of identity theft while also decreasing your impact on the environment.
Forest Ethics, a non-profit organization believing that individuals can make a positive impact to stop harmful impacts on the environment, estimates that it takes 100 million trees to make the amount of "junk mail that arrives in American mailboxes each year, an amazing amount of waste that could be stopped with our individual actions. Even if you are skeptical of these numbers (I am personally outraged at this senseless use of precious resources!), think about your own family and how this simple action may make a positive difference in saving time to sort, or toss this unwanted intrusion on our lives not to mention the cost of disposal.
Resolve to make your life simpler and greener, you will be pleased with the results.
Let us know if you have taken similar steps and the outcomes of those initiatives.

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Happy New Year!

Lewistown rang in the New Year in grand style with a replica bag of local favorite Hartley's Potato Chips being dropped from the United Fire & Rescue ladder at Monument Square on New Year's Eve. The second Annual celebration, organized by Community Partnerships RC&D featured a proclamation by Lewistown Mayor Deb Bargo with recognition to Hartley's Potato Chips and special thanks to the Lewistown Fire Department for their participation. A large crowd braved the frigid and windy conditions to ring in the New Year replete with fireworks over town.
Now, It's Time to live up to those resolutions we set for 2009! We will be sharing some of these with you and how you can make a difference in your own life and that of the Neighborhood and community.

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