DPNC MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
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****No Summer Meetings****
Next Meeting Date: Monday, September 17th 2007
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Deer Park Baptist
Church Fellowship Hall
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THE ANTLERS’ SPREAD
The Voice of the United
Estates of Deer Park
Official
Publication of the Deer Park Neighborhood Council
Vol.
10 No. 30 June 2007
GET OUT AND VOTE
Many of you will
remember that the last city council race for our district was won by a single
vote. How will you feel if you fail to vote in this election, only to find that
the candidate of your choice lost by a single vote?
The election is
Thursday, June 14. We will be voting in two races: Douglas and Summey are
competing for Mayor, while Hilton and Jameson are competing for City Council
Representative for District 3. District 3 includes, but isn't limited to, Deer
Park, Northwood Estates, The Lakes, and The Elms.
Deer Park 1A,
2B and 2C all vote at A. C. Corcoran Elementary School. Deer Park 2A votes at
Northwood Recreation Center. Deer Park 3 votes at Alice Birney Middle School.
All of you are voting reasonably close to where you live.
However, many people
in Deer Park 1B will be having to go further from home to vote, to the Ladson
Elementary School. This includes those who live in The Elms and on Dantzler,
Shadow from 78 to Deerwood, Donner, Blitzen, Fernwood from 78 to Deerwood, part
of the 78 side of Deerwood, Wheaten, Nevonna, Gable, University Boulevard, the
University Boulevard side of Storen, and perhaps some other
locations.
FREE BUS AVAILABLE: Please note that Bobby
Jameson arranged with the Mayor to provide a frequently-running bus for
those in Deer Park 1B who do not wish to drive to the Ladson
Elementary School voting location. You may catch the bus either at The
Elms or at the Low Country Free Will Baptist Church at 2770 Shadow Lane.
PRESIDENT'S CORNER
by Julia Long
Many thanks to Linda
Vetter, our Crime-Watch chair, for arranging our May speaker on crime
prevention and safety. If you are interested in the door alarms, child ID kits,
high-quality pepper spray, and other home protection objects that many of us
purchased at the meeting, give Linda a call and let her know.
Here are just a few
of the many, many safety tips we learned:
1. If women go
grocery shopping alone or with small children, they should always ask for a
clerk to help carry out the groceries. There are criminals who
deliberately target women in grocery store parking lots, knowing they will be
focusing on what they are doing and not noticing a stranger approaching. To assure
that one of the young baggers will always be glad to accompany you to your car,
tip three dollars, enough to make it worth their while but not so much as to
make it appear you are carrying a lot of money.
2. Keep your cell
phone charger plugged in next to your bed, not in some other room, so that
you have quick access to the phone in the middle of the night.
3. You are
likely to be better off to refuse to get into a car with anyone trying to force
you to do so, as the person is less likely to commit violence against you in
public.
Also, the Post and
Courier June 7 article "North Charleston candidates talk about taxes,
growth, crime" had a number of suggestions for lowering the crime rate in
the city as a whole. For example, the District 3 section of
the article reported, "Councilman Bobby Jameson said crime watches and
neighborhood involvement are key to keeping crime down. Opponent Coakley Hilton
said crime is a symptom of boarded-up communities that look like they condone
crime, and more time and effort should be spent making neighborhoods look
better."
By the way, as I
live in Deer Park 1B, I'll be riding the bus to vote. Hope to see some of
you. But no matter how you get to your polling place, get there. Please,
please don't fail to vote for the candidates of your choice. If you live in the
1B section of the Deer Park neighborhood and can't make it to the bus, or
if you live elsewhere in Deer Park and have no way to get to your assigned
voting location, feel free to call me immediately. Please
don't force me to hear only when it's too late that you would
have voted, but didn't because you lacked transportation. Voting is
a great privilege that many other people in the world don't have. Let's take
advantage of it, even if voting takes some effort.
Garbage Pick-up Schedule Key Personnel
Garbage: Every Wednesday City Council District 3 Robert Jameson 824-1500
Leaves/Grass: Every
Wednesday County Council Rep Tim Scott 797-3065
Large Trash: Every
Wednesday Neighborhood
Crime Linda
Vetter 303-2331
(
please note that Thursday Watch
Representative
will
be pick-up day when City N. Chas. Dispatcher 745-1015
Holiday falls on Mon., Tues., Wed.) Housing
Director Darbis
Briggmann 740-2560
SPEED Team Reps. Paul
Schofield 745-1069
Ethan Bernardi
Recyclables: every other Thursday Code
Enforcement Jerry
Groover 740-2671 June 14th, June 28th,
July 12th CAC
Representative Sarah Collins 553-0288
Membership Linda Brinson 553-8832
Board of Directors
President Julia Long 797-0893 Newsletter Distribution Jimmy
Mitchum 553-0665
Vice
President Dennis Isgitt 797-2455 Jim
Driver 553-0768
Secretary Linda Vetter 303-2331 Bill
Lusk 553-1348
Treasurer Linda Brinson 553-8832
Board Mbr. elected Wheeler Tillman 442-9435 Newsletter Susanne
Azevedo 572-2321
Board Mbr. elected
Susanne Azevedo 572-2321 Disaster/ Preparation James
Brown 553-4329
Board Mbr. Apptd. Audrey Carpenter 553-7768 Sick &
Sunshine Susanne
Azevedo 572-2321
Board Mbr.
Apptd. Mary Hutson 553-4451 Voter Registration Douglas
Azevedo 572-2321
Past
President Robert Jameson 824-1500
