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| 2 Aug Why Have A Street Fair? Tuesday, August 7th is this year's "National Night Out". The Lincoln Village Neighborhood Association, LVNA, is hosting our third annual event for National Night Out. This will be the second time that LVNA has selected to sponsor a Street Fair. So what is "National Night Out", and why host a Street Fair on a late weekday afternoon? For many years, as people poured into new suburbs or moved into strange cities in search of work, there was a trend of folks not knowing who their next door neighbors were. There were a lot of reasons for this: TV (and later the Web) was where people spent their nights instead of on their front porch, people worked in many places across a metro-region instead of in just one or two major factories in a smaller town, kids were bussed to different schools instead of all attending the same local school. The reasons added up to neighborhoods without connection between living on the same streets. To fight that trend a Midwest group envisioned a night were folks would turn off their TVs and step out on their front lawns and wave and Heaven-forbid, actually speak to their neighbors. This was the birth of the National Night Out movement. Many places with Neighbor Watch programs elected for block parties. Some had pot-lucks, most just made do with letting the kids play in the street while the adults chatted. Lincoln Village is roughly a 1 mile by 1 mile space with more than five thousand souls. We are a very diverse group of residents, coming form every corner of this world. It seemed the best approach to continue to build a sense of community for us, was for LVNA to host a Street Fair. It isn't a State Fair with a big midway (although we do plan one game plus the popcorn and snow cone machines). Half our space will be filled with information tables devoted to city agencies or other government partners. Much of the rest will have local vendor showing you their goods. At the core, this is a time and place for people who live side by side, to come out into the light of day and have fun, side-by-side. Hope to see you there, having fun, and enjoying your lIncoln village neighbors. - Kevin Jenkins |
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| 18 June 2007 Cross Walk to the Park I think there should be a cross walk leading to the Lincoln Village Community Park by the Romford Way and Vanguard Drive entrance and some speed bumps along Vanguard Drive, because kids walk across Vanguard Drive to the park and I've seen kids almost get hit there. Vanguard Drive is a busy street that a lot of kids walk on going to A.M. Winn Elementary School and to the park. I see cars speeding down that street every day. The city has done lots of work on that street, but what we really still need is child safety (namely -speed bumps, cross walk, and "stop" sign). Thank you. - Lili (last name with held) |
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| Tell Me Why? Can anyone tell me why I and my neighbors are mowing & weeding our lawns on Redstone Drive when the house for sale at 9953 Redstone Drive has weeds so tall a tiger could safely hide among them? - Karen Colbourn |
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| So Sound Off. Tell us what is on your mind about Lincoln Village. Here are the guidelines: - To have your views posted in Sound Off send them in an e-mail to Admin@LincolnVillage.org - Make certain to have "Sound Off" in the subject line. - Include your full name at the bottom of the e-mail. - If you wish to use a pen name for Sound Off postings you may do so, but we still need your real name on the bottom of the original e-mail. Here are a few suggestions: - Try to limit yourself to one page per topic. - If you have multiple topics to chat about, send in one posting per topic. - If you are extra mad, upset, or ticked off when you write your contribution consider waiting until the next morning before you hit the "send" button, because once it's here it's fair game for posting. The Administrator's policy - I will post nothing that is illegal. - I will edit words and phrases that I don't want people under 18 years of age reading on this site. - If you ramble, I will edit you to less space. - Graphics, attachments and images don't always work on this website as well as on your pc at home. I reserve the right to trash them, rather than post them. - The website is about Lincoln Village. Postings should be of a local nature. (Lincoln Village - great! Rancho Cordova -usually ok. Sacramento County or the metro region - try the Bee. Anything of a state wide, national, or international nature - no way, get real people.) - I will TRY to post items the same week your email is sent. (Remember, I am not getting paid to do this, it actually cost me time and money, so bare with me.) - The Administrator reserves the right to add any other policy points he/she needs to. |
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