Do We Care About Our Community?
I want to know what is being done about the graffiti on the Salvation Army, located on Pechin Street. Or how about the graffiti on the low-income houses on the same street, not to forget in many more places in the Roxborough area. No one has addressed this issue to my knowledge. Why? It is everyone's issue.
Have you heard of the broken window theory? If you have, then you know where I am going with this... If not then I will explain...
A window is broken on an empty house. Someone repairs the window, but the window breaks again, and yet someone repairs the window. This shows those that life in the area comes through: Even though the house is empty, we care. If the window is not repaired, then we are showing those same people that we don't care. And before long it won't just be the window—it will be graffiti, trash, and anything else you want to add to the list.
So I ask you: Do we care about the area in which we live or do we just not care?
Eugene Boz
10:10 am on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Instead of walking by it everyday and doing nothing, call 311 or 215-686-1776 and file a service request with the streets department to clean it up!
Chris
5:46 pm on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Eugene thank you for your comment however I believe that you missed the meaning behind the blog. I do not walk through the streets of Roxborough and hope that when I see the recent decay that has accrued in this neighborhood that someone else will take the initiative to call the local streets department and file a complaint. What I do hope is that by addressing this ongoing issue that individuals like myself will take the initiative and volunteer there time to turn this neighborhood back into the gem I remember.
Lee Ann
11:14 am on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
That is the problem YOU are not willing to call but THINK someone else should. Thai ts how these problems start to get out of hand. If you are not willing to take the time out of your busy schedule to call or to find out how you can help instead of expecting everyone else to take care of the problems. How about you write in your blog how you went to every single civic meeting in the community and what these people do everyday and don't get paid for it. How they take time away from their families to take a phone call from a concerned citizen or the one who is only calling to complain and not help. Motivate your readers by telling them what the people that run the civics and the people who volunteer with them do for this neighborhood.
Chris
2:09 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Lee Ann thank you for your comments to my blog. However if you are sugguesting that I am the problem you are sadly mistaken. It is a wonderful commitment that you have for this community if you are volunteering your time as you mentioned in your post. As I mentioned to Eugene in my reply is that my hope is to motivate the residents in this community by bringing to their attention what has happened to this area and not brag about my commitments and hours spend in volunteering to enrich this neigborrhood.
Lee Ann
2:17 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Never said I was the one giving up my time. I said go to the meetings and write about the people who do. Just bringing attention to a problem is not going to motivate people.You have to let people know where to go and who to contact. Give people the information they need. Don't just bring an issue up and hope that motivates someone. Some people just want to fix the problem but don't know where to go.
Sam Fran Scavuzzo
2:42 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Hey, everyone. I think we're all on the same page that we want the vandalism to stop and some action needs to be done on the grassroots level. To report any type of graffiti people may call 215-686-0000 or visit http://www.phila.gov/antigraffiti/removalform.html
Mike
5:25 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sam:
I wanted to thank you and the staff at Patch for tipping off NBC 10, about the graffiti vandals in our neighborhood. I agree with your comment listed below Sam:
"Hey, everyone. I think we're all on the same page that we want the vandalism to stop and some action needs to be done on the grassroots level. To report any type of graffiti people may call 215-686-0000 or visit http://www.phila.gov/antigraffiti/removalform.html";
Chris
5:26 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Well said Sam!!!
J.
5:46 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Well said Sam and Chris:
Would it spoil some vast internal City plan if the powers that be, caught and arrested one of the vandals wreacking havoc in our community by causing millions of dollars worth of damage when you also consider the cleanup costs. Not to even mention the cost to the taxpayers and business' in zip codes 19127 and 19128. It's not thousands of teenagers out of control running around with spray cans. These vandals leave their signatures on the property they destroy. When one of these vandals is finally caught and if he is 18 years or older he will be charged as an adult whether anybody want's to call them kids or not. In the north east section of the City recently the Police locked up a graffiti vandal 40 years old.