Announcement - November 8. 2003 - NPU Elections, Security, Tour

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NPU-F Elections - Nov 17 at 7:30pm - Morningside Presbyterian Church
One of Morningside's finest, past MLPA President Dianne Olansky is running for the Chair of Neighborhood Planning Unit #F - a very important volunteer position that represents our neighborhood and area to the City.  Dianne is currently one of the MLPA reps for NPU-F and is n the NPU-F Board as Traffic/Transportation Committee Chair.  Please attend, sign in as an area resident, and raise your hand (with the color ticket you get at sign in) to vote for Dianne as NPU-F Chair on Monday, November 17th.

MLPA Public Safety/Security Patrol Announcements
This is to call your attention to the redesigned Public Safety Committee pages on the MLPA website. There are 8 new pages and additional archived pages of old information. These new pages have more detailed information about the Public Safety Committee and the Morningside Security Patrol (MSP). There are also enhanced community services pages.

You can begin your browsing here:
http://mlpa.org/Committees/Security/PublicSafetyCommittee.html

On this page you find information about the Public Safety Committee’s work, a request for volunteers, and links to other-related public safety agencies such as the Atlanta Police and Fire Departments.

At the bottom of the page, and very near the very top, you will find navigation links to take you to the other Public Safety pages.  The second page, Morningside Security Patrol, generally describes the duties and priorities of the Security Patrol in contrast to normal community policing by the APD.

 The third page, Detailed Membership Information, describes member benefits and  responsibilities. It discusses the benefits to MSP members and the Morningside-Lenox Park-Johnson Estates neighborhood. This page contains a link to the MLPA page for joining MSP and MLPA.

The fourth page, Security Patrol Officers’ Page includes our current roster of our off-duty Atlanta Police Officers. It includes some information about individual officers and about recent actions that they have taken in our neighborhood. There are links to other pages about the men and women who serve in the APD. We are proud to support the dedicated men and women who have taken on this extra duty to help keep our community safer.

The fifth page, Security Tips, contains information on how you can be proactive in preventing crime and in helping the Patrol and the APD catch perpetrators.

The sixth page, Neighborhood Crime Trends, shows a chart and graph of running crime statistics for the year.

The seventh page, Current Security Alerts, contains reports by neighbors and the police about recent incidents in Morningside as well as nearby communities such as Virginia Highland and LaVista Park.

You will also find a link to Atlanta’s Most Wanted pages. This page will be updated periodically and old alerts will be retired to the archives.

Up to this point, all the pages are updates and expansions of information that could be found on some of our old pages. We hope that you will find these new pages are more detailed and that they will be more helpful in finding the information that you specifically seek. 

Our eighth page, Community Lost and Found, is a brand new service that we are offering on a trial basis. Here you will find links to Missing Persons, the Atlanta Humane Society, and Fulton County Animal Control. More importantly, we will post any lost and found announcements that you may have regarding missing persons, lost pets, and stolen or lost items. On one hand we hope that there is not much need for this in our neighborhood. On the other hand, if it is not used at all, after a while, we shall discontinue this page.

The final navigation link that you will see is Security Report Archives. On these pages you find much of the information that we had previously published. As information ages, it will be  retired to the archives.

In the weeks to come, we will be sending out Email Blasts to the membership about crime hot spots in the neighborhood. These alerts will contain information that our MSP officers, particularly Detective Vazquez, gather from actual crime reports from our neighborhood. These lerts will be titled MSP Hot Spots. So please do not mistake this for spam. The information from these alerts will later be posted on the Current Cime Alerts page. We also continue to post information from residents
and neighboring communities as well.

Tour of Homes this weekend! It's not too late --
Five Homes-Five Kitchens-Six Chefs-Two Days Saturday, November 8 (10am to 5pm) - Sunday, November 9 (noon to 5pm)

TICKETS are $18 in advance, $23 day of, for all homes.  Tickets for individual homes are available for $8 each.  Advance tickets may be purchased at Fourteen West Realtors, 1411 North Highland Avenue; Coldwell Banker, 1370 North Highland Avenue; Harry Norman, 1531 Piedmont Road;  Kroger at Ansley Mall, and at the Hastings Garden Center.

CALL
Charla Silvia 404-815-8150 or Stephanie Marinac 404-872-0260 for more information

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