Comments on: Organize A Neighborhood Block Party and Meet Your Neighbors http://www.kensavage.com/archives/neighborhood-block-party/ Ken Savage Writes About Technology, Music, TV, Movies in Boston Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: deb niehuus http://www.kensavage.com/archives/neighborhood-block-party/comment-page-1/#comment-70037 deb niehuus Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:15:09 +0000 http://www.kensavage.com/?p=986#comment-70037 What do you do if you currently live in an area of a city that is overrun with drug activity, poverty, domestic violence alcohol abuse, thefts, child abuse/neglect ... and various and sundry crimes and (as one police officer put it) "scumbag" activities? Should one forge ahead anyway and hopefully one of the invitations will land in the hands of someone outside this ilk? It's pretty bad but there are pockets of good, law-abiding types. I'm thinking if I were to actually attempt to throw a block party, it could possibly jar some of these individuals into better behaviors and possibly better social outcomes. Or, it could get me killed, if not seriously maligned. Any thoughts? (no joke here!) What do you do if you currently live in an area of a city that is overrun with drug activity, poverty, domestic violence alcohol abuse, thefts, child abuse/neglect … and various and sundry crimes and (as one police officer put it) “scumbag” activities?

Should one forge ahead anyway and hopefully one of the invitations will land in the hands of someone outside this ilk? It’s pretty bad but there are pockets of good, law-abiding types. I’m thinking if I were to actually attempt to throw a block party, it could possibly jar some of these individuals into better behaviors and possibly better social outcomes. Or, it could get me killed, if not seriously maligned. Any thoughts? (no joke here!)

]]> By: Eric Nagel http://www.kensavage.com/archives/neighborhood-block-party/comment-page-1/#comment-69241 Eric Nagel Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:20:33 +0000 http://www.kensavage.com/?p=986#comment-69241 Funny you should write about this - our block party is in a week - right after I get back from Boston. My poor wife will be scrambling at the last minute to get things together while I'm away! Funny you should write about this – our block party is in a week – right after I get back from Boston. My poor wife will be scrambling at the last minute to get things together while I’m away!

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