We need a law enforcement approach that emphasizes and promotes straightforward, operational principles with “soft tones and hues,” and an accommodating, co-existing approach with the citizens it is designed to serve and protect. I believe women are an almost ideal psychological fit in this novel approach.
September 2004
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Food Pantry Helps Riverwest Residents
Diversity has become the theme song of Riverwest. Partly it is a catchword, but it does reflect a significant economic reality. Though some residential properties here are selling in the $150,000 range, plenty of people struggle to stay afloat financially. While coffeehouses open and expand, some of our neighbors cannot afford to put a meal on the table.
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UEC’s New Home
The Urban Ecology Center (UEC) has a new home in a $5 million, 20,000-square-foot, environmentally friendly building in Riverside Park. The building, completed in mid-July, is testament to the Center’s rapid expansion in the past four years.
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Sierra Club Launches Voting Effort
With the Presidential election just two months away, the Sierra Club’s Environmental Voter Education Campaign is organizing volunteers to talk to their neighbors about the environmental records of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and President George W. Bush….
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Giving an Old Building New Life
Nobody had any idea how much work would be necessary on the Holton Street house. Since RIC obtained the property, members have gutted it, hauled away more than five dumpsters’ worth of debris, roofed it, and drawn up a game plan to complete the rehab. In order to pay for future improvements, the RIC board of directors applied for a loan, another undertaking which required far more work than anyone predicted. That work paid off, with a $105,000 buiding construction loan approved by Lincoln Neighborhood Redevelopment Corporation in late August.
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