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Neighborhood Holiday Season Social Gathering Notes North Park Estates Neighbors gathered at Johnson’s place on 11301 Eubank. Approximately thirty adults and ten children attended the Christmas season meeting. From seventeen families that signed in, most appeared to be neighbors that were not apparently members of NPENA. The sign in sheet listed eleven new names and phone numbers, eight of which provided e-mail addresses. David Nuhn opened the meeting with focus on need for neighbors to get acquainted. Two Officers presented a Video on Neighborhood Watch, followed by response to questions. The video presented details of how to organize a neighborhood watch and helpful suggestions in looking after neighbors’ interests. (Those details will be presented on Security page of web site when available). One of the points illustrated was Block Captains maintaining profile sheets of families, with emphasis on need to know daily habits of neighbors and telephone contact numbers for use in emergency.
The police officers attending the meeting were James Hellums, Senior Police Officer, Northwest District Representative and Gizette Gaslin, Senior Police Officer, North Central District Representative. Both provided a business card indicating address, phone, and internet addresses. Copies of these cards are displayed on NPENA web site security page: http://www.main.org/northpark/security1.htm Of special interest was the announcement by Officer Hellums that any incident that draws suspension warrants a call to 911. Officer Hellums advised not to confront strange persons but call 911 if suspicion of wrongdoing. After the fact calls of any incident should be reported by dialing 311. Officers stressed that neighbors were the eyes and ears as extension of the police Department and anything suspicious, being out of the ordinary, should be reported. The police officers emphasized that North Park Estates is located in "IDA Sector" with North Border at Palmer Lane, East Border at I-35, West Border at Mopac, and South Border at Anderson Lane. Holiday decorations were
judged and winners who received prizes were: 1. Highest wattage display: First house on right when entering NPE at
Lamar entrance on North Bend. 2. Most original: Dan Ruiz at the northwest corner of Circle
Bend and North Bend. 3. Holiday spirit. Georgen’s
house on northeast corner of North Bend and Eubank. Photos of the winners, as well as
other images of lighted homes will be on display from a link on the home page
of NPENA Web site and will be available using naviagation button “Dec16event”
at http://www.main.org/northpark/#CURRENTNOTICE The following e-mail was transmitted to the families who signed in
at the December 16th meeting: Re: http://www.main.org/northpark/security1.htm. If you are receiving e-mail notice as result
of providing your e-mail address at this meeting, welcome! If that is the case, your name has been
added to e-mail distribution list for special neighborhood notices. We also encourage you to use the web site
forum, http://www.main.org/northpark/index.html#forum. The following was extracted as summary
of the meeting on security page: The December 16th Neighborhood gathering in
conjunction with Holiday decoration contest focused on neighborhood
security. Two Officers presented Video
describing Neighborhood Watch organization.
Neighbors met neighbors at this social occasion.
I-35, West Border at Mopac, and South Border at
Anderson Lane.
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