--today i heard
the bad...
- focus on cleaning up the housing [slumlords, lmha, section 8 housing, vistula] in the neighborhood would help how the neighborhood is perceived!
- vistula's dumpsters are overflowing again!
- rehab/demolish abandoned houses.
- neighborhood should do a petition to bring houses to the attention of the city.
- city needs to pave streets in this area. Erie, Ontario, Michigan, Champlain, Chase, Chicago, etc...
- gangs are a problem
- drugs are a problem
- the way the media, like channel 11, or the blade portrays the north end-- their unwillingness to cover anything good... helps keep the perception of the neighborhood as one that's bad.
- teens-- we need to have something safe for them to do
- teens--we need to have someplace safe for them to go
the not so bad...
- many residents in the north end are proud of their homes, and of the neighborhood... but
Do you have any ways to help solve these things?
Do you have any ideas for what we need to do next??
TEENS????? WHAT do YOU think????
3 comments:
Channel 11 should certainly be on the Board. The exposure and involvement could go far to alleviate some of the taboos about the North End. As is customary in any news program the bad news gets top billing. It has to do with the morbid sense of curiosity that is in us all. The North End is rich in history, style, tales of how it all came to be. Other cities have turned around areas that are more blighted than the North End. It confounds me to think Toledo is not willing to get on board.
maybe we could pull on their "COMMUNITY OF CARING" -- IF THEY REALLY CARE, WHY haven't they been at the neighborhood table in the past 10 years??
I do believe that with a concerted effort MOST of the media in this city can be mobilized and involved. I am not counting on the Blade to be among them.
The North End is rich - in ways suburbanites will never understand. Its' people are genuine, proud, diverse and patient. They are innovative, interested, interesting, eager, willing, committed, friendly, and formidable. It's a shame that the area and its residents get overlooked or passed over when it comes to city services and positive recognition.
I am not a North Ender - but what happens there effects the entire city, and I DO live in the city. I care about my city. And I am a perpetual dreamer - an ever-hopeful soul that believes that if we work together we can achieve anything we want to. The key is WANTING to - and being willing to keep on plugging along.
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