CARROW NEEDS VOLUNTEERS

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

All,

Carrow Baptist church needs help from neighbors.  They want to offer the Egg Roll (aka Easter Egg Hunt) for our neighborhood youth, but their coordinator just had major surgery.  They have a new coordinator, but are looking for about 5 volunteers to help on event day.  They have offered this for our neighborhood chlidren for 40 years, and want to continue the tradition.  WILL YOU HELP?  

Also, if they have donations of cupcakes or regular cakes, they'd like to offer a cake walk.  

PLEASE VOLUNTEER - Contact Don Alcorn at 497-8563 or email him at dwalcorn@cox.net.

HRT's "The Tide" Park and Ride Construction

FROM HRT:

March 9, 2011

To:        Residents and Business Owners surrounding the
Newtown Road Park & Ride area
Subject:    Construction of the Newtown Road Park-and-Ride area

Construction of the Newtown park-and-ride area is now starting, beginning with the placement of silt fencing around the construction area. This is one of four park and ride locations along the 7.4 mile light rail route. E.V. Williams is the contractor hired by Hampton Roads Transit to construct the Newtown park-and-ride lot area, bus feeder turnaround area (located near the station), updating sewer and water lines, lighting, landscaping, etc. This work is expected to take approximately 2 months.

Construction access to the site will be primarily from Kempsville Road to Bangor Avenue.  At times access may need to be from Houston Avenue.

Phase I: Private utility relocations which will include demolition and replacement of sidewalk, curb, gutter and streets. This will include new curbing and gutter on the west side of Bangor Avenue.
Phase II: Park-and-ride construction which will include demolition of some sidewalks and streets to allow for water and sewer installation; grading; and repaving and remarking of streets.

Traffic Pattern Changes: Private utility relocations and park & ride construction will require changes to the traffic patterns on and around Kempsville Road and Bangor Avenue during this time period.  Requests to modify traffic patterns are carefully reviewed so that, to the extent possible, considerations are made to accommodate the residents and businesses within this area.  Residents along Bangor Avenue, Houston Avenue, and Cleveland Avenue will always have access to their homes.  Residents and businesses within this area will be notified of traffic pattern changes with as much notice as possible to ensure continued access.

Traffic patterns will change with the closing of Bangor Avenue to outside traffic that generally uses Bangor Avenue to access Curlew Drive and South Newtown Road.

Utilities:  Service interruptions, with the exception of an emergency, will be planned and anyone affected by a planned utility service interruption will be given advance notice to allow for proper preparation.
Construction:  Hours of construction will be from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM Monday through Friday, with no work going on Saturday and Sunday.  Please note that schedule is subject to change.
Communications: For questions and concerns, Marie Arnt, Public Outreach Coordinator for Hampton Roads Transit, can be reached at 222-6000 ext. 6291 or by email at marnt@hrtransit.org.

Mark Your Calendar - Sea Level Rising Listening Sessions

Money Mart on PA Rd. and Cheyene

Report# 2011009186

Neighbors,

You may have been hearing on the news about several business robberies (mostly convenience stores) in Virginia Beach and elsewhere. Our VBPD has stepped up patrols around convenience store locations throughout the area. I have witnessed unmarked vehicles, as well as the standard VBPD vehicles in the area.  However, the league has asked for an even heavier presence in our area, and the Mayfair area.

On Wednesday, the Money Mart on the corner of PA and Cheyenne Rd. was robbed at gun point by a black male wearing a partial mask. He fled on foot down Cheyenne into the Mayfair townhouses. When more information comes available, I will send it out.

Please pledge to call in ANY suspicious vehicles (get license plate#) or activity AS SOON AS IT HAPPENS! The non-emergency number is 385-5000. However, if you see something IN PROGRESS happening, call 911! Quick communication is vital in catching these criminals. It takes an entire community and the VBPD working together to police our streets.

If you saw anything suspicious on Wednesday, call the Robbery Detective in charge, Det. Marafka. His office number is 385-4101 and ask him by name. Please note above the Report #.

Thank you.

P.S.
Last week, we finished physically mapping out all 1400 homes into blocks (10-20 homes each), and are working on getting the block numbers assigned and in database form. However, if you have not already done so, please email the league (cafcivicleague@yahoo.com) your name, email address, address and phone number. We will refer to the map and let you know the house numbers you will be assigned.

In the future, Ginny Passaris (409-5105), the head of the NHWatch for our league, will be the one that you coordinate NHW efforts once the database is established.

If you have any questions or would like to assist in transferring map information into a database, my phone number is 714-2772.

Thank you again.