Historical May 1996 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Seldom can I recall a more tumultuous and confusing spring in Missouri.
The last vestiges of winter weather – particularly temperatures – have held on with great tenacity. Many of our flowering trees – and even the daffodils – were damaged by winter’s repeated return.
Now things are greening, but under seemingly interminable gray skies. Many of you turned out for Brightside’s Blitz on Saturday, May 4 despite the rain. And many of you accomplished what you set out to do: vacant lots cleaned and cut, alleys cleared of debris, bulk trash appropriately set out and picked up. Thanks to the many dedicated block captains and other volunteers.
We saw you, drenched, delivering trash bags, flowers, mulch, tools. You’ve earned a big round of applause! Special thanks also to our Neighborhood Stabilization Officer Jackie Wellington and AmeriCorp volunteer Amy Gronquist, who gave of their personal time to help coordinate efforts from the SDCC office. Other notes . . . Students at St. Roch are working diligently on a school-wide project as part of the 1995-96 school year theme of “caregivers.” Led by the eighth grade, each class has selected a tree species which they would like to plant at a site within the Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood. “Caregivers” – of the neighborhood, of the environment – will have the opportunity to visit their tree and help tend it and its immediate environs. Congratulations to St. Roch and to all parties involved. Watch this space for further information.
With my diploma in hand, I am proud to report that your SDCC Executive Director is a graduate of the St. Louis Police Department’s Citizen Academy. Modeled after the actual training offered to our City’s police recruits at their academy, the class provides participants with an overview of the kind of information police officers bring with them as they patrol our streets.
While the time commitment is intensive (six weeks, two nights per week, 6 to 10:30 p.m.), the experience is unique.
The next class. forms this fall.
For more information, contact Laure Porterfield, 862-5122. Why participate? the academy is required of any neighborhood interested in establishing a Mobile Patrol and graduates earn the privilege of riding once a month with officers in their neighborhood.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, May 1996.
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