Three vacant lots in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area have recently been offered for sale at reduced prices to neighbors who wish to expand their yards.
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Calvin Stuart, executive director of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, has asked HUD to let the Council or another party sponsor seven parcels of foreclosed property so that they can be rehabiliated.
The Kingsbury Redevelopment Project has all but $5000. of the $40,000. seed money needed to start the project.
Chris Thomas, a graduate student at St. Louis University, is working on a program designed to increase the use of the Operation Ident engraving tools in this neighborhood.
Rosedale-Skinker and Washington Heights will elect five new Council members in February representing specific areas.
A guide for prospective home buyers in our area is available at the Council office.
DO NOT BRING NEWSPAPERS TO THE COUNCIL OFFICE FOR RECYCLING.
The Residential Service reports that since February 1, 1972, it has been involved in the sale of 18 houses in this area.
Kingsbury Redevelopment Corporation, a subsidiary firm wholly owned by the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, is continuing work on plans redevelopment of the "triangle area"..
Beginning in the January semester, 10 students sponsored by the Ecumenical Campus Ministry at Washington University will be working for college credit in our neighborhood, particularly in the field of housing and real estate.
Electric engraving tools for marking valuables are available from the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, Inc., 6008 Kingsbury, and from the Police-Community Relations Office, 5884 Easton.
For the first time this year the crime rate for house burglaries is up five per cent in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area.
