Showing posts with label crime prevention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime prevention. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Monday, May 27, 2013
Organizing a community
Master of all things BBQue, Edd Eason, provided the foundation for a great meal, and many CitySquare team members pitched in to help with the rest of the meal, serving the meal and making everything inviting and conducive to real progress on safety in the building.
Dallas police officers helped with the meeting. They left very impressed with the participation, the planning and the program. The residents of CityWalk are taking responsibility for the viability of their own community.
Way to go to everyone involved, and especially the residents who were so interested and involved!
This is a signal that a healthy community is emerging at 511 N. Akard in Downtown Dallas!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Anna Hill--community builder
Ms. Anna Hill is our partner.
She is the most important leader in the Dolphin Heights neighborhood just east of Fair Park. The new-found health and hope now being experienced in her community is due largely to her personal efforts over the past several years.
We've had the honor to work with her on an exciting mutual project over the past several weeks. She is something else!
Thank God for Anna Hill and for grassroots leaders like her all across our community. Anna Hill and others like her are key players in the work of community renewal.
Read more about this important leader and cherished partner here.
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She is the most important leader in the Dolphin Heights neighborhood just east of Fair Park. The new-found health and hope now being experienced in her community is due largely to her personal efforts over the past several years.
We've had the honor to work with her on an exciting mutual project over the past several weeks. She is something else!
Thank God for Anna Hill and for grassroots leaders like her all across our community. Anna Hill and others like her are key players in the work of community renewal.
Read more about this important leader and cherished partner here.
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
"All my adult life in South Dallas"
Wow!
Janet Morrison is right. She has lived all of her adult life in South Dallas! I hired her in 1995 and she has been making things better for this city ever since, with no sign of letting up.
The comment about where she has lived since moving to Dallas to begin her "adult life" appeared in a great Op-Ed piece that The Dallas Morning News published on Friday, October 24, 2008.
Here's how Janet begins:
Ever wonder why people in our inner cities are angry?
Since the slated demolition of the Turner Courts housing development in South Dallas, my office and our After-School Academy have moved to Roseland Townhomes, a Dallas Housing Authority property in the City Place area.
As I left my new office at 7 one Friday night, 30 to 40 people rounded the corner of the recreation center, running toward a fight. My co-worker quickly called 911 and, before I could even leave the apartments, her call had produced an immediate police response.
Within five minutes, one police car had blocked off traffic while two others jumped the curb and sped across an open lot. As I drove off, yet two more police cars rapidly approached from another direction and a police helicopter hovered overhead.
I know I should be elated by the quick response of our very capable Police Department. Instead, I was extremely angry, and my blood pressure rose each time I heard another siren.
Wonder why she was angry?
Read the entire article here.
Janet understands.
Your reactions are welcome, as always.
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Janet Morrison is right. She has lived all of her adult life in South Dallas! I hired her in 1995 and she has been making things better for this city ever since, with no sign of letting up.
The comment about where she has lived since moving to Dallas to begin her "adult life" appeared in a great Op-Ed piece that The Dallas Morning News published on Friday, October 24, 2008.
Here's how Janet begins:
Ever wonder why people in our inner cities are angry?
Since the slated demolition of the Turner Courts housing development in South Dallas, my office and our After-School Academy have moved to Roseland Townhomes, a Dallas Housing Authority property in the City Place area.
As I left my new office at 7 one Friday night, 30 to 40 people rounded the corner of the recreation center, running toward a fight. My co-worker quickly called 911 and, before I could even leave the apartments, her call had produced an immediate police response.
Within five minutes, one police car had blocked off traffic while two others jumped the curb and sped across an open lot. As I drove off, yet two more police cars rapidly approached from another direction and a police helicopter hovered overhead.
I know I should be elated by the quick response of our very capable Police Department. Instead, I was extremely angry, and my blood pressure rose each time I heard another siren.
Wonder why she was angry?
Read the entire article here.
Janet understands.
Your reactions are welcome, as always.
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