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.