Jersey Mike

While out hanging Dice posters the other night, 31 Flavors and I spotted a scattering of little, rectangular green handbills stapled to telephone poles and hung on the door at Nonna’s announcing a meeting for a new Midtown Community group which is forming to serve the Engletown Neighborhood.

[edit: It was pointed out to me that there are varying spellings of the name - Wikipedia has it spelled  as Engletown while the locals seem to prefer Engleton

Engletown? Where the hell is Engletown? You may be asking right about now.

I wondered that too and was educated at tonights meeting- Engletown is the area between Reily and Kelker from Second to Third which sort of falls on the outskirt-ish reaches of Midtown and just on the other side of the "tracks" of Kelker leading into Olde Uptown.

The meeting agenda was relatively loose; more of a roundtable discussion than a lecture was moderated by hosts Tara and Brandy who co-chaired the group of about twenty Engletown residents. (Tara is the Tara half of the other Tara and Caleb- for those of you in the Midtown-know.)

With the rapid development of the HACC Midtown Campus in addition to the desire to band together a community and local residents concern about increasing crime and more and more blighted houses within the confines of Engletown, the community gathering could not have happened at a more opportune time and was, in my opinion, a resounding success.

Attendees from all sectors were in attendance and freely shared ideas, thoughts and concerns for their neighborhood.

More of a community organization than strictly a crime watch group, the Engletown Community Project appears to have all of the key-elements and players in place to become a valid, positive, enriching group which will certainly improve the overall quality of life within the sector of Midtown it encapsulates.

An email list has been established and will be used to communicate initial progress, initiatives, committees and goals for the group. Send an email to engletoncommunity [at] yahoo [dot] com to join the email list.

A Website will be launched soon which will likely act as something of a hub for all information pertaining to the Engletown Community Project.

So there you have it, kids. Good people getting together to share great ideas and important information.

Nights like tonight make me proud to live in this city.