DPNC MONTHLY NEWSLETTER [MAILING LABEL] When: Monday, March 17th, 2008 Time: 6:30 p.m.: Topic: Setting up Neighborhood Crime Watch Place: Deer Park Baptist Church Fellowship Hall
Official Publication of the Deer Park Neighborhood Council
Vol. 13 No. 37 March 2008
President’s Corner By Julia Long
WARNING: We have had considerable crime in our area the last few months.
Do not open your door to strangers, especially in the evening. Call the police at once if a stranger comes to your door after dark with a request to come inside your house. There have been several events in the last week or two in Deer Park of a pair of men giving odd reasons to try to enter someone's house: an offer to do a free carpet cleaning that would take "just a minute" and an offer to sell the homeowner paper towels.
There are some people going around our streets stealing from cars. Remember to lock your car no matter how soon you plan to be going out again. Pull your car in as far from the road as you can get it. If you have a garage, use it. If you have a fence, keep your gate closed at all times to give the impression that there may be a dog in the yard. If you have outside lights, keep them on at night, please, at least until this crime gets under control.
Also, if you see a stranger at night in your yard or your neighbor's yard, call the police. There are people who are stealing any loose items left out in the yard, and people who are destroying expensive AC/heating units, especially larger ones, to get a few dollars worth of copper to sell. Deer Park churches might consider shining motion-detector lights on their units at night and/or putting protective locked fences (perhaps with alarms) around the equipment. Those thieves have focused so far mostly on the larger business or medical office units, and at least one church that we know of, but as people with the largest units get more careful, the thieves could target homes.
Do not challenge or confront anyone! That is for the police to do; they are the experts so we must let them do their job. If the police check on a call you make and find out the suspiciously-behaving person is harmless, the police will not blame or criticize you for having made the call. The police need all the help they can get with descriptions and patterns of suspicious behavior. If you have friends and neighbors who don't get our newsletter, warn them to be on the lookout too. We all need to work together to make our neighborhood safe again. REMINDER – Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale Event "Friends of the Library" is having its first book sale, along with other great activities, in our area on March 15 & 16, at 10 Storehouse Row on the old Naval Base. It is sure to be an exciting event. FOL Members Only Hours: Sat, 8-10a.m. Open to the Public: Sat. 10-6p.m. and Sunday 12-5p.m. If you need more information, contact Barbara Kingsbury at 805-6978, or the website: www.ccpl.org
2008 Clean City Sweep By Chandler Schwede
The Clean Cities Sweep will be held this year between April 20 and April 27th. Exact details will be coming in next month's newsletter. We will be working to beautify an area in our community, and your help is greatly needed!!! We have been very successful in the past, but we can only do so with your help and participation. Mark your calendars, and look for more information to come!!!
Otranto Library Contact person: Paul Bryan, Pre-professional Librarian: 572-4094
In celebration of National Library Week, April 14-April 19, 2008, you are invited to stop by the Children’s Department and have fun at the special craft table. Celebrating Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, at 4:00 p.m., Otranto will feature a Kids’ Gardening Series. This is the first program in a four-part series presented by the Charleston Area Children’s Garden Project, an affiliate of the Clemson Research and Education Center. Executive Director, teacher and gardener, Darlena Goodwin will host the series’ kickoff by assisting children in building a raised garden bed for a butterfly garden at the library. This event is for all ages. Our Preschool Special of the month is Spiders and Flies and Worms, Oh My!. Join the Otranto Children’s Staff for this delightful puppet show. There will be “bug-a-licious” stories, songs and plenty of audience participation. This wonderful event is scheduled for Wednesday, April 23, at 10:30 a.m. Young adults are invited to a fun-filled Karaoke Night, Thursday, April 24, at 6:00 p.m. Teens will sing and dance in friendly competition with a prize awarded to the winner. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Just like Spring, Otranto will have a sense of growth in its adult programming with a new book discussion, featuring the title The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. It is the story of Lily, a fourteen-year-old white girl and her black housekeeper set in 1964 South Carolina, a time when racial tensions were inflamed by the civil rights movement and white racists’ frequently violent responses to it. Join us for a lively discussion of this poignant and compelling book on Thursday, April 17, beginning at 6:30 p.m. We are also offering a new computer class on Microsoft Word Basics. This class will take place on April 3 at 11:30 a.m. and Thursday, April 17 at 3:00 p.m. You will learn how to enter and format text, change margins and line spacing, and copy and paste text. Saving and printing tips will also be discussed. Experience with a PC and mouse is necessary. Please pre-register for this class at the Reference Desk or call us at 572-4094. Look forward for information in the next issue about Summer Reading programs for all ages and the North Charleston Arts Festival programs at Otranto. Membership Dues
Membership Dues of $10.00 annually are always received any time of the year. If you wish to mail your check in, make your check payable to Linda Brinson and mail it to 2510 Gable St., N. Chas., SC 29406. If you are not certain whether or not your dues are up to date, please give Linda a call at 553-8832. Ten dollars per year is a small amount to pay for monthly updates on community activities, events, programs, and many matters of concern to each of us. Even if you do not attend the monthly meetings and desire at least to receive the newsletter, please get your dues paid.
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 Rep. Doug Armstead 745-1069
Recyclables: every other Thursday Code Enforcement Jerry Groover 740-2671 Mar. 20th, April 3rd, 17th 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
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