Great News!

 

This came in our e-mail today:

 

 

The Broken Window Theory At Work:

 

If you think your beautification efforts at the park have gone unnoticed, they have not.  The best result is that it has inspired others in the community to expand on what we started.  I was contacted by Officer Juanita Edwards who used to be the Resource Officer at Lake Shore Middle School and is now attached to the security division of Parks and Recreation.  She also mentors/sponsors a Girls Club at Lake Shore which is now an IB school and they are very excited about doing a service project.  We met with Officer Edwards at the park today and she wanted our input as to what further improvements we wanted done at the park.  We are going to work in conjunction with her and the Girls Club to do atleast these following improvements:  She will get possibly 20 Crepe Myrtle trees to be planted, more mulch for the playground and around the trees, paint to cover the graffitti on the pavilions, and she will see about getting the school to work with us on dragging the ball fields.  Officer Edwards also wants to build a lasting relationship with our group for future projects.  Aaron is going to have some drawings and we would like your input at the next meeting as to where you want the trees planted. We are hoping to do this work in early November.  Good job LAPS members.

Way to Neighborhood Watch!

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=169425&catid=3

I think this criminal's number is up thanks to the neighbor who took his picture on his cell phone. Way to look out for your neighbors, good job!

LAPS Rally Day!

Want to know more about LAPS - who we are, what we do, how you can join? Come see us at the LAPS Rally Day up at the Bayview Park this Sunday, October 3rd at 1:00. There will be free hot dogs and lots of great information available, we would love to see you there! We will also be doing our quarterly cleanup of our adopted highway during this time.

LAPS Board Elections

We are electing officers for the LAPS Board this month and every vote counts! Put Monday, September 27th on your calendar for the next LAPS General Meeting. 6:30 p.m. at the Lake Shore Women's Club. 

LAPS Monthly Meeting this Monday

Be sure to put Monday's meeting on your calendar, it's going to be a good one. Our business sponsor this month is Hoggwild Fabrications, they are located on the corner of LakeShore and Blanding and they build all manner of things metal including trailers and smokers. They'll be bringing us some tasty samples of smoked pork that they're going to cook up in one of their smokers. We also have lots of planning to do for the remainder of the year and we need your input so we hope to see you at the Lake Shore Women's Club at 6:30 on Monday the 27th.

Another Quality Project...

...brought to you by LAPS! We finished up the park project! Of course, there is alway stuff left that can be done but the dirt and mulch are spread, the fence line is clean and ALL of the posts have been primed and painted and it looks fantastic.

Looks pretty good, huh? Thanks to Carla Bathurst for going over and above the call of duty and to Paul Grant, Aaron Ricker, Kathy Stark, Betsy Clark and Winston for getting it done today. Great job everyone! More pictures are over on our facebook page. 

Don't Let it Win!!!

This is the remainder of the giant dirt pile that we have battled all morning. It's stubborn and determined but we are more so! Come help us finish it off tomorrow evening at 5:00 (Sunday). 

We had a great time this morning and got a whole lot done up at Bayview Park. All of the posts are primed, some are painted in their new bright yellow, the fence perimeter has been cleaned and the trash cans are emptied. We still have to defeat that dirt pile and get it spread so we can spread the mulch in the jungle gym area and we need to finish painting the rest of the posts from the park area down to the corner at Hamilton. If you weren't able to stop by and lend a hand this morning you're still MORE than welcome to come up tomorrow evening. The more hands on deck, the faster we will get it done! Plus it won't be as hot so there's that. 

Kudos to everyone who came this morning and worked so very hard. We got a great start on this project. Thanks to Carla Bathurst, Melanie Homer, Paul Grant, Lee Webster, Jacob & Katie O'Brian, Cynthia Segraves, Betsy Clark  Susanne Ward and Kathy Stark. Great job everyone! You can see more photos on our facebook page. 

Cleanup Reminder!

Just a reminder that we'll be cleaning up and painting at the Bayview Park tomorrow morning (Saturday) at 9 am and we need lots of help to get the job done well. Hope we can count on you to lend a hand even for a little while. We can do amazing things when we work as a community together!

Silver Alert Cancelled

Apparently the report I heard was true and our neighbor has been found and is safe. http://wokv.com/localnews/2010/03/silver-alert-issued-for-missin.html

Neighborhood News

We got these in our e-mail today. Let's keep looking out for each other folks.:

Just thought you might want to let the rest of the neighborhood know that the 4600 block of Colonial was the victim of a couple of attempted car break-ins last night.  Don't know if they got anything out of the other vehicle, but they didn't get anything out of mine.  Yes, we both were guilty of leaving the cars unlocked (totally out of the norm for both of us) but that just means that someone is going around trying door handles to see what they can find.  


Also (I have an unconfirmed report that this gentleman has been found) - 


Hey there, I just saw this article on the Times-Union's website. Apparently there is a silver alert for an elderly man who lives on Riverdale. Please pass this information along, so everyone can be on the lookout.  Thanks!Rachel
 
   The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has issued a Silver Alert for a West Jacksonville man who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Carroll Farrell Padgett of the 4600 block of Riverdale Road was reported missing by his caretaker. Police said the 89-year-old thinks he lives in Clay County and may be in that area.

Padgett is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about 170 pounds.

He was last seen northbound on Blanding Boulevard from Clay County driving a brown Buick LeSabre with a Florida tag of G113AV.

Jacksonville police ask anyone with information to call them at (904) 630-0500 or (904) 630-2627.

Bayview Park Cleanup

We're headed up to the park area up by Bayview Elementary (on Lakeshore Blvd at Hamilton Street) to spruce it up this Saturday morning. We'll be cleaning up the fence area, edging around the sidewalks, painting the concrete poles (using Bayview School colors!) mulching the jungle gym area, dragging the baseball fields... you get the idea. And we need YOU!!! Help us make our neighborhood a better place for all of us. We'll meet at 9 am, bring your rakes, shovels and such. Drinks will be provided. It shouldn't take too long to knock it out if everyone who is able can come and pitch in.