“Maiden Trail” Awarded a “Love Your Block” Grant From the City Congratulations to the dedicated and hard-working St. Charles Avenue residents whose homes back up to the alleyway between their backyards and PDL Avenue (now dubbed Maiden Trail) for applying for and receiving a city grant for improvements to what they envision becoming a well-used walking and…
Photos courtesy of Kay Stephenson. Virginia-Highland resident, former VHCA board member and VaHi Safety Team director John Wolfinger has been named APD and Atlanta Police Foundation Citizen of the Year for 2013. Wolfinger was presented with a plaque by Mayor Kasim Reed and APD Chief George Turner at the foundation’s annual “Crime is Toast” Breakfast…
Editor’s Note: Photos appearing in this article are courtesy of Lynn Melin. The Virginia-Highland Safety Team held its annual street captain gathering on Saturday September 14 at the Church of Our Saviour on N. Highland Avenue. By all accounts, it was a well-attended and informative half-day session with over thirty street captains on hand. John…
Thanx to Street Captains Kay Stephenson and JD Christy for volunteering (at short notice) to appear with me on an interview with Morse Diggs from channel 5. We were able to show that our neighborhood watch system is completely unlike the one in Sanford, Florida.
On March 29, VHCA safety chair John Wolfinger and neighborhood watch street captains Kay Stephenson and JD Christie were interviewed by FOX 5 about how to best react when seeing suspicious activity: See something – say something! Watch the video here or at the FOX 5 site…