Farwest Detroit Civic Group

Farwest Detroit Civic Group

Farwest Detroit

This neighborhood was once, as much of Detroit was, farmland. After World War II many of the returning soldiers needed homes to go along with their new jobs. Communities sprang up quickly, as did this one. My home was built in 1947, and most of the others 1945 and on, until, there were almost 1,300 homes in this area. Many police and fire personnel bought homes here, being one of the furthest from downtown at the time, and thus the sobriquet, Copper Canyon was bestowed upon our community. Much has changed here over the years, but it is still a relatively quiet community, sans the usual urban blight, and a good place to live. The local civic association was started around 1947, and still continues until this day.

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About our association

Mission statement

The Farwest Detroit Civic Group was created to ensure that the nearly 1,300 homes in this area, would have an alternative to the fluff of the existing association, and be told the truth about our community. To build it up, to make it safer, to bind us together as a cohesive force to combat the crime which has sprung up in the last decade; to control the blight of empty homes; and to make our neighborhood a clean, safe are once again.

Ideas

To create pickets, which will be covered by the media, and protected with the police, to give the drug houses and criminal element a clear message that we want our neighborhood back, and they have to go! To create a rally, to again, send a clear message to crime-doers that they are not welcome.

The existenf Association

To try and convionce the existingAssociation members that we, and they must work together for the common good, so that in fact, we are not two distinct entitys, but one, driving force of concerned citizens.

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