Crime Watch Election Results
The Crime Watch meeting tonight was a great success. Approximately 80 of your fellow residents attended and elected officers to the new Sangaree Crime Watch.
The crime watch officers are:
- Chairman - Brad Green
- Vice Chairman - Joe Cornish
- Treasurer - Chris Hall
- Secretary - April McDevitt
Chris Hall, Joe Cornish, Brad Green and April McDevitt
The media was very interested in the Sangaree community’s activities. Reporters from the Berkeley Independent, The Post & Courier, Count on 2 News, and Live 5 News all attended. We will post links to the reports as they come in.
Channel 2 News cameraman films the action at the Sangaree Crime Watch meeting.
Also, every resident who attended the meeting was given a small postcard to fill out with their information and how they would like to participate in the crime watch. We received a lot of responses and several residents spoke with the officers privately with offers to help.
We would like to thank every resident who attended and voted. The Sangaree Crime Watch is a good step towards fighting the crime and vandalism in our community.
A special thank you needs to be said to the Palmetto Land Baptist Church and their ongoing support. They have generously allowed us to use their meeting space for free.
Update: The news stories about our crime watch election is starting to show up on the Intertubes!
- Live 5 News - Story with video
- Berkeley Independent - Newspaper coverage with photo
Brad Green said,
March 17, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
Thank you to everyone who turned out for the vote.
We are begining the work now and hope to be contacting you soon to ask for Block Captains and other participants.
Thanks again to all who have helped ot get us here.
Keep Up The GREAT Work!!!
- Brad Green
Dee Barrera said,
April 2, 2007 @ 10:48 am
Hi,
I attended the 1st meeting at Palmetto Baptist Church.
Although I had to work late that evening I arrived late to the meeting but I think from what
I’ve heard a lot of issues were addressed.
I live in Sangaree Gardens and mentioned the enormous amount of teens wandering the streets at night near my subdivision. I believe that most of them live in those apartments
behind my home. We now have 2 low income apartments to deal with.
Unfortunately, they are in my back yard. Kids from those apartments have cut a large hole in the fence that seperates the Sangaree Gardens subdivision from the town access road and the apartments, and are now using that hole in the fence as a “cut thru” to the neignborhood. One Friday night, my husband and I came upon a group of younger
children (ages 9-12) attempting to start a “campfire” in the woods behind our home, which we squashed. When police were called, it took forever for them to come and of course the kids had all ran away by then.
We have a couple of renters new to our neigborhood who don’t seem to care about anything. They have a portable basketball hoop perched on the green by the mail boxs and have no intention of moving it, so we have to drive around that and children playing in the road to get to our driveway. Don’t we have rules about things like that?
I expressed an intrest at the meeting to help out with the crime watch and even filled out a card but no one has contact me yet.
Here’s my info if Ican be of help.
Dee
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