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Good News to Go With Our Good Weather!

Neighbourhood Watch in our area is being energized with some new volunteer leadership.

In Kirkendall North, we welcome our new co-ordinator, John Nicholson a block captain on Stanley.

We also welcome our new co-ordinator in Kirkendall South, Scott Kilbey from Mountain Ave. Scott is re-activating the Watch program in Kirkendall south of Aberdeen.

Both Watch's require block captains. Let's make our neighbourhood a safer place to live.We need you so please volunteer.

Report from Kirkendall South

Our last meeting (it was also our first) in November was well attended. 

There was some discussion about the frequency of meetings.  Regular neighbourhood meetings will be held every few months, or four per year.

Kirkendall South is bounded by Chedoke, Queen, Aberdeen and the escarpment. If you have email addresses of anyone else living in this neighbourhood,
please forward this message on to them.

A few of you volunteered to be Block Captains.  I will be calling you to enlist help in distributing notices to each home in the neighbourhood.

The agenda for April's meeting is:

• review of minutes from November meeting (there are still some outstanding items)
• graffiti abatement (it's serious, it's ugly and it requires volunteer work to clean up)
• the upcoming bike race (just for discussion so everyone knows about it)
• Night Out in August (traditionally organized by Kirkendall North, but we're going to help this time)
• Community Policing Centre (a lot of spade work has been done by Richard Palmer and others. The goal is to have a location, probably on Locke St.
  staffed by both police and community volunteers.)
• Anything else that people raise (as long as it's relevant to Neighbourhood Watch).

See you on the 28th at Beth Jacob Synagogue.

Scott Gilbey
Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator
Kirkendall South
905.528.5138 

Report from Kirkendall North

At our March 5, 2003 meeting we were delighted to have one of our new police officers attend.

He spoke about the possibility of Block Captains riding along with police officers for a couple of times. He will check if that can be arranged.

Kirkendall North
2003 Executive

Coordinator: John (Stanley Ave.)

• Attending meetings at police station
• Meeting with the beat office
• Inviting guests and hosting meetings every 3 months
• Editorial Board

Past Coordinator: Sheila ( Hunter St. W.)

• Continuing commitment to co-ordinating Night Out
• Attending the superintendents meetings

Assistant Coordinator: Richard Palmer (Homewood Ave.)

• Editorial Board and writing newsletters for  lockestreet.com and Kirkendall News
• Maintaining the computer at Locke Bakery,
• Issuing Alerts
• Sending agenda by e-mail to invite community  to meetings
• Receiving & distributing flyers to the 6 main distributors
• Replying to e-mail sent to nw@lockestreet.com
• Updating computer files and compiling postings for Ryerson

Secretary: Mary (Melbourne)

• Point form items discussed
• Provide copies at next meeting or by e-mail

Treasurer & Graffiti Abatement: Norm (Aberdeen Ave.)

• Address Graffiti in our neighbourhood

Cosigner: Lilli (Jackson St. W.)

Church Liaison & School  Liaison: 
Ellen (Herkimer ) & Karen (Melbourne St.)

• Attending local schools to address issues about safety in our community

Fund Raising: Ralary (Locke St. S.)

• Fundraising
• Updating the block captain list

Some suggestions that have come forward since our new co-ordinator joined us are:

1. Joining a number of our meetings, lockestreet.com etc. with the new group in Kirkendall South.
2. Having meetings only four times a year and inviting guest speakers from the Police Department examples being BEAR, I.D. etc or a speaker about the  Cycling  events being held on Queen Street and area this May and Oct. and the concentrated  effort to clean up the Graffiti on the Bike Race Route going through our Neighbourhood.
3. Personally contacting our 63 block captains, a few at a time to invite them to meetings, to ask about their concerns perhaps change meeting times when they are at Rec Center Saturday morning with their children?
4. Policing Center on Locke Street: a renewed interest
   
5. Ride along  in police car for block captains – police are looking into this concept

Please Note:

Before our next meeting on May 7 we are going to be asking our executive to contact our block captains by phone: The purpose of the call includes:

• Phone Audit of Block Captain List
• Thank them for helping as a block captain.
• Ask if they have submitted their name list, including e-mail addresses.
• Ask for feedback

Main Block Captain Responsibilities:

• Collect names & e-mail addresses
• Update when new people move in
• Hand out NW stickers, house cards & info book
• Deliver handouts as required
• Come to NW meetings—ask if their is a more convenient time
• Send incident #’s to nw@lockestreet.com or phone John

Community Service Officer

Our Community Service Officer Joanne Serkeyn has supplied these stats for us:

Beat Stats for 681

March 1-16, 2003
Break and Enter         5
Recovered stolen Auto   1

March 17-31, 2003
Break and Enter         3
Recovered Stolen Auto   1
Stolen Auto             3
Theft From Auto         7

Officer Joanne Serkeyn can be reached at:
905-546-4906.

Our 2003 Police Officers for Beat 681

• A Squad - Constable Anthony Volpe #948
• B Squad - Constable Robin Haworth #648  & Constable Peter Hannon #793
• C Squad - Constable Carter #653 & Constable Moeller #680
• D Squad - Constable Vince Ariemma #218

These officers may be contacted at 905-546-4949 or 905-546-4948.

The 681 Supervisors are: Sgt. Glenn Jarvie  #157 905-546-4949 or 905-546-4948 S/ Sgt Scott Rastin #562 905-546-4725.

Community Policing on Locke St. S.

If you would like to help set-up please contact nw@lockestreet.com

Online Discussion Forum

LockeStreet.com has set up a Neighbourhood Watch specific Discussion Forum for community use. You can read or add your comments to existing discussions or start your own discussion topic.

Current Discussions Include:

• Graffiti
• Lighting in Alleys
• Editorial Board for the eNewsletter
• Fund Raising

This is your chance to comment on neighbourhood issues: join a discussion forum.

http://www.city.hamilton.on.ca/faqs/police/police_faq.htm

Thanks for reading another issue of The Watch and for supporting your Neighbourhood Watch!

Regards,
Richard Palmer

Assistant Coordinator,
Editorial Board,
Kirkendall North Neighbourhood Watch.

Contacting KNNW

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