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…
Read MoreBy: John Wolfinger Score One For Off-Duty VaHi APD Officers!! The following report was posted on many of our neighborhood message boards, but since this report reaches many who are not members of these boards – I felt it was well worth repeating. This is the narrative from the Zone 6 report with my comments…
Read MoreBy: John Wolfinger More Beltline Safety News I would like to share with you this excellent latter penned by APD Lieutenant Jeffery Baxter, head of the new Path Force Unit, which is responsible for BeltLine patrolling and safety measures and sent to Street Captain Kay Stephenson who is also a BeltLine Trees Atlanta arboretum docent. Since this…
Read MoreBy: John Wolfinger Apple Pickings Thanks to the unfortunate incident involving the CNN newsperson having her cell phone snatched from her hands on Piedmont Avenue in Midtown – this whole nation-wide plague of cell phone snatchings has really driven home the point that it is not prudent for pedestrians to display personal electronics while out in…
Read MoreBy: John Wolfinger Successful Neighborhood Cleanup Report Thanx to a small but determined group of folks, there was a lot of trash, litter and obstructive vegetation cleaned up last Saturday. Read the story at https://vahi.org/keep-vahi-beautiful-group-holds-successful-clean-up-event/. We had a lot of VaHi business participation – thank you to these folks. If you would like to help organize a neighborhood-wide business…
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