VaHi Safety Team Report: March 13, 2014

March 14, 2014

By: John Wolfinger Fulton County Sheriff’s Citizen’s Academy Sheriff Ted Jackson has announced a new session of his Sheriff’s Citizen’s Academy starting on the evening of 4/23/14 and continuing on Wednesday evenings for 6 weeks. I was a graduate of the first of these sessions a couple of years ago and I highly recommend it.…

VaHi Safety Team Report: August 12, 2013

August 13, 2013

By: John Wolfinger Burglar Alarm Registration City Council has passed an ordinance requiring all of we residents and businesses to now register our burglar alarm systems to get hold of all of the false alarms that APD responds to.  http://www.ajc.com/news/news/police-atlanta-residents-businesses-must-register-/nY7Bm/ The registry site is available at www.crywolf.us/atlantaga/ or by calling 1-855-725-7102. I’ve registered mine online and it only takes…

VaHi Safety Team Report: June 17, 2013

June 18, 2013

By: John Wolfinger APD and AFR News AFR just announced recently that 29 new firefighters were graduated from the training academy on 6/4/2013 – but no word as to whether this number of graduates is enough to keep up with retirement and resignation replacements.  I hope that it is. APD has released an informative LGBT YouTube…

VaHi Safety Team Report: April 3, 2013

April 4, 2013

Neighborhood Cleanup – Save The Date 4/13/2013 Going along with the “broken windows” theory of crime prevention (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory ) our Keep Virginia Highland Beautiful group, an off-shoot of the Safety Team initiative – will be leading a neighborhood-wide cleanup session Saturday 4/13.  Read the details at https://vahi.org/Keep-vahi-beautiful-group-sets-date-for-spring-clean-up-seeks-volunteers.  If you would like to join the Team St. Charles…