Historical September–October 2000 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Please accept all of our apologies for the tardiness of this issue. Those of us who work most closely on this newspaper no longer have the time we did a decade ago to devote to reporting, writing, editing, and production.
We need some new blood to come forward and assist us in getting the paper to you. We’re a friendly group and we’re open to suggestions of any kind. Although much has changed since the founding of this paper, there’s still a need to share information and publicize events. Many younger people have become part of Skinker DeBaliviere and we would love to have a few work with us on a one time or reoccurring basis. Our contact numbers can be found on this page. Let us hear from you. Otherwise, I have numerous gripes in this autumnal season but it would be very boring for me to kvetch all the time. Too often we seem to oppose and complain.
This is probably a vestige of the times when the neighborhood had to fight and fight ingeniously for its very survival. That makes us wary of new developments.
We don’t want the stability we have achieved threatened in any fashion. But, it would be nice to see more efforts like the playground or the community gardens which bring people together to produce new assets for the neighborhood. And, perhaps, those from outside our borders who place new demands on our enhanced but vulnerable neighborhood ought to study its lessons.
If they could appreciate how much has been accomplished, maybe they could be more sensitive to our fears and hopes and our quality of life.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September–October 2000.
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