Elmwood Farm

Dear Valley Neighbor:

In an effort to increase public awareness and promote public efforts to combat crime and control blight through community involvement The Valley Park Civic Association will be hosting a series of ?“NEIGHBORHOOD WALKS?” on the following dates:

Wednesday June 28th, 2006 6:30 pm
Wednesday July 26th, 2006 6:30 pm
Wednesday August 30th, 2006 6:30 pm

All walks will begin at the Valley Inn located at 4000 W. Clybourn Street and finish at the Valley Park on 42nd and St. Paul Aveune. All Valley Residents are invited to walk.

The Neighborhood Walks will involve the Captain and officers from Police District #3, Alderman Michael Murphy, and a representitive from the Department of Neighborhood Services. By meeting and interacting with us about crime and neighborhood problems these walks allow officials to have an effective communication link with us. Any Valley residents who wish to walk with these officials and other neighborhood participants are welcome. If you cannot walk the entire area that?’s been designated for that evening walk, that?’s o.k. just join us for whatever works for you!

During the course of the Walks, residents and officials can discuss problems and the needs of the Valley Park Neighborhood. This could include gang and drug activity, prostitution, graffiti, building code violations, street lighting, abandoned cars, public drinking, traffic and parking issues. These walks will bring residents together, creating a powerful network to help combat neighborhood problems.









By VPCA

A great idea!!!

Maybe this will help the recent problem of the gangs of kids from the East of here who come down to the park at night lighting off fireworks, which have ended up close to hitting houses. And then walk down the middle of St. Paul Ave acting like a bunch of animals. It's that time of year again, gotta love it!!!

By Alan

Great Idea

Looking forward to joining you on one or all of these walks. It seems as if our normal summertime problems have not been as bad so far as in years past. However I do see some issues starting to bubble up. I look forward to the opportunity to get out and join the neighborhood in these walks, and discuss what we can do to keep our neiborhood quite and safe for everyone.

I hope that more people take advantage of this opportunity to get out to walk and talk with their neighbors and officials for our district. Since not everyone has access to this web site, it might be a good idea to post a flyer at the Valley Inn.

Hope to see you all on the 28th!

-Valleyfan

This needs to stop

Yes this has become a very big annoyance. Not only are their firecrackers hitting homes, the kids involved are also trespassing on people?’s lawns and property. Many of us have to get up early for work and this kind of noise level after 9 and 10 o'clock is not appreciated. This is one issue I plan to discuss with someone in the 3rd district soon, since the majority of their loud activity is happening in front of my house. This is the same group of kids with whom we had problems with earlier this year spray painting (with spray chalk) buildings and cars. We need to put an end to all of this before it becomes a worse problem.