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Visit our Webpage!!
:: 215-627-0057
Our mission is
crime prevention through police support, education, awareness and a
street presence.
Board of
Directors
for 2008-09
Officers
Joel Palmer, Pres.
Nathan Snyder, Vice
Pres.
Ric Hayman,
Treasurer
Tally Brennan,
Secretary
Board Members
John Smyth
Greg Pastore
Janet Pinkerton
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Help Support BVTWs
Activities!
· Anti-Graffiti
· Parking · Zoning · Community Information and
Support (Parks, Recreation Center, Library)
BVTW is a volunteer
organization. None of our members receive compensation for their service.
Your involvement and contributions are essential to our success and the
quality of life in our area.
YES! I SUPPORT BELLA VISTA TOWN WATCH, INC.
❑Individual sponsor $25
Name:________________________
Address:______________________
Phone: _______________________
Email:_________________________
Mail to: BVTW, PO Box 63955, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Make checks payable to BVTW, Inc.
Donate
via PayPal! Go to www.bvtw.org
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your friends and neighbors connected to BVTW!!
HOW
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the "Subscribe Me!" link they
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WHY
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Important numbers
Police-Fire-Ambulance
DIAL 911
Philadelphia Police Department, 3rd District
11th & Wharton Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19145
215-686-3030
South Street Police Mini Station
905 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
215-922-6706
Narcotics Activity Form
(Anonymous)
Abandoned Vehicles
215-683-CARS
Sanitation Violations
Streets Department
Bulk Trash, Hazardous Waste, Potholes, etc.
215-686-5560
Licenses & Inspections
215-686-2463
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Neighborhood Resources
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Charles Santore Library
Free Library of Philadelphia
932 S. 7th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
215-686-1766
Hours
Mon & Wed 12-8
Tue, Thu, Fri 10-5
Sat 1-5 (through 6/28)
Sun
closed
PROGRAMS:
Managing your
Money:
Spirit Financial Group will instruct basic budgeting and
saving on necessities
- When: Monday, Sept. 22 an 2pm
- FREE
Windowsill
Garden:
Community gardener/environmental educator Liz Dailey of
the Philadelphia Horticultural Society, discusses all about growing &
maintaining an indoor garden throughout the winter.
- When; Monday, Sept. 29 from 6:00-7:00 pm
- FREE
Sweet, Delicious
Stimulants: A Brief History of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate
Discusses the introduction of coffee, tea and chocolate into the Western
world.
- Courtesy of the Penn Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
- When: Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 2pm
- FREE
Book Discussion
Series.
Be the first of 30 max to join a series featuring contemporary American
Memoirs:
Rebecca Walker's Black,
White, and Jewish
Esmeralda Santiago's When
I Was Puerto Rican
Firoozeh Dumas' Funny
in Farsi. A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Frank McCourt's 'Tis:
a Memoir
Wed evenings, 6 - 8pm, on 9/17, 10/15, 11/12, & 12/10
Books are free
Must register for all 4 sessions.
Light refreshments provided
Call Janet Puchino to register - 215-686-1766
Program courtesy of the PA Humanities Council
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Palumbo Recreation Center
10th and Fitzwater
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215) 686-1783
The Palumbo
Recreation Center is opened Monday through Friday, from 1:30pm to 10pm,
and Saturday, from 9am to 4pm. The facility is closed Sunday. During the
year, fields, outdoor basketball courts, and the tot lot are accessible
Saturdays, from the close of the facility until a half hour after
sundown, and Sundays, from about 9am to a half hour after sundown, via the
Fitzwater Street Gate. For program information, please stop in the
office, and any of the program staff will be glad to answer your
questions
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ZONING
MEETING!!!!
Place:
Palumbo Recreation Center (10th & Fitzwater)
Date: TUESDAY,
July 15, 2008
Time:
7:30pm
801-821
Washington Ave. (2nd MEETING)
Request: Application for catering hall with dancing and
live entertainment as part of an existing restaurant with take-out.
735
S. 11th Street (Through to Clifton St.) (2nd MEETING)
Request: Relocation of lot lines to create 2 lots from 1
lot, for complete demolition of all structures on lots, and for
construction on each lot of a 4 story 1 family dwelling (44'-1"
high) with roof deck and interior garage.
937
Hall Street
Request: Application for the construction of a
7'-0" x 13'-4" 1-story addition at the 3rd story level as
part of an existing 1-family dwelling.
601
Washinton Ave.
Request: Application for new 3-story construction with
ground floor retail & 2 apartments above.
Sponsored
by: Zoning Committee, Bella Vista Town Watch, Inc.
Queen
Village Zoning (Border Property)
Meeting at
Weccacoe Playground Building (400 Block of Catherine), 7:30 PM,
September 16, 2008
Propietors
wish to install outdoor seating and tables on the sidewalk of
their restaurant
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Bella Vista
Crime Report -A regular report of crimes occurring in our neighborhood
and locations near by compiled by the Crime Prevention Committee of
BVTW
During the period August 12 to August 26, 2008, there were two
robberies, one aggravated assault, no burglaries, three thefts,
and two thefts from auto in Bella Vista.
Robberies
- 8/23,12:40 a.m. - 7XX East Passyunk. Three
pedestrians robbed at gun point by two black males, one 5'11"
tall, 160 lbs., one bald.
- 8/26, 8:45 p.m. - 9XX South 10th Street, Two boys
were robbed by 3 black males, late teens, on mountain bikes who
stated that they had a gun.
Aggravated Assault
- 8/16,4:08 a.m. - 7XX South Street.
Domestic. Gun fired. Two arrests made.
- 8/16,2:30 p.m. - 10XX South 8th Street. Handbag
taken on bus.
- 8/25,1:30 p.m. - 6XX Washington Ave.
Wallet taken while victim sitting at bar.
- 8/26,1:00 p.m. - 6XX South 7th Street. Purse
taken from table next to open garage door. Credit cards,
glasses, keys, cell phone.
- 8/12, 9:00 p.m. - 9XX Bainbridge. Window
broken. Cell phone, change taken.
- 8/13, 4:00 p.m. - 10XX South Street. Window
broken. GPS taken.
please note: This report has been compiled by
abstracting police district weekly crime stats. Every attempt has
been made to insure the accuracy of this report.
- Captain's Town
Hall Meeting. Nov. 6th (time TBD), Palumbo
Recreation Center, 10th and Fitzwater Streets. Moderated by
Captain McDowell.
- Captain McDowell will hold a Working Group
meeting related to South East area of our neighborhood crime
issues focused specifically on dealing with the derelict
properties on 5th and Reese Streets, on October 7th (Time TBD), at
The Courtyard Apartments at Riverview. Details to follow.
- BVTW attends the 3rd district PDAC
meetings (Second Tuesday of every Month, 6:30 at 11th and Wharton,
email nsn...@bvtyw.org if you want to also attend, new volunteers
welcome!!!) and can follow-up (after reports have been made)
if neighbors are unclear/unsatisfied on the outcome of reported
events.
CRIME TIPS/REPORTING CRIME
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Captain Joseph T. McDowell, Commanding Officer of the 3rd Police
District, invites 3rd District residents and business owners to use
his e-mail address, Police...@phila.gov, to send him crime tips
directly and anonymously. (This is not an alternativee to 911 for
crimes in pogress or other reporting methods listed below)
- Captain McDowell emphasized he wants neighbors to
send him detailed facts about what they observe-not feelings or
suspicions.
- He will review tips sent to him via email and, if
warranted, have 3rd district officers gather their own information
establishing probable cause needed to make an arrest or file a
criminal complaint.
- The police will not be able to give neighbors
information about ongoing investigations, but will notify them of
any resulting arrests and crime patterns for public safety
awareness.
Street Safety!
- If confronted by a robber (armed or not), DO NOT RESIST. GIVE UP
YOUR PROPERTY. Don't give up your life. It is
better to be an uninjured victim of a crime than to resist and
potentially be harmed. Your valuables can be replaced, You and
your health cannot.
- Immediately after the incident occurs, report the
crime to the police. Try to describe the attacker accurately. Your
actions and information can help prevent others from becoming
victims.
- See the Philadelphia
Police website for important
personal safety tips.
- Keep good records of all credit card information at
home or in another safe place. The reason for this is because if
you are victimized, you can immediately start the process to shut
down the credit cards and put a fraud alert on your social
security numbers.
- As always, please report all incidents of crime and
suspicious activities to 911
and keep an exterior light turned on all night to brighten the
street.
REPORTING CRIME - The first
and most important step:
- Crimes in Progress, Victim of Crime, other Emergencies,
Suspicious activities etc.: call 911 (They will prioritize,
forward to the correct units for response)
2 other alternatives for non-emergencies:
- Quality of Life, Ongoing situations etc. that are
not emergency and not specific to a single event - Roll Call
Complaint:
http://www.ppdonline.org/rpts/rpts_rollcall.php or call the 3rd District: 215-686-3030
- Narcotics related activities:
http://www.ppdonline.org/rpts/rpts_narcotics.php or 215.685-4135 (for South district)
- Narcotics investigations often take some time
to come to a resolution and the best thing neighbors can do is
report as much as is known through the listed contact information
so that the police may focus their efforts properly and so the
investigation ends in prosecutions/property seizures etc.
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PALUMBO
RECREATION CENTER
Recycling
improves in the City of Philadelphia and Bella Vista. Philly is
Now Single Stream! Single-stream recycling is now city-wide! So
join in and put cans, glass, mixed paper, plastic containers and
cardboard out at the curb in the same recycling bin. It's more than
putting your recyclables together. It's a city working together. Learn more
Please visit Palumbo Rcreation Center during regular hours to pick
up a new recycling bin (while supply lasts) .
GRASS
SEEDING/AERATING!!!!
The capital
improvements continue at Palumbo. The outdoor basketball courts
have just received new back boards, rims and nets. The soccer
field repair work has been completed. More updates to follow.
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Committee
Reports
Zoning: See
above.....Zoning meeting dates are usually the second Tuesday of
each month...exact fall dates to follow....contact the zoning committee for
more information.
Communications: Help
us with our newsletter, webpage,
"News of Bella Vista" emails by joining the
Communications Committee, contact Janet Pinkerton for
more information and to volunteer.
Crime
Prevention: BVTW continues to patrol the
neighborhood and welcomes new/old friends to join us on "New
Member Night", Wednesday Evenings at 9:00 PM, meeting at the
South Street Ministation (905 South Street). More details at our webpage
or email .
Beautification
(Clean-ups and Anti-graffiti): We
welcome additional volunteers
to assist in these efforts and please call in any graffiti following
these procedures:
For Graffiti
attacks, a few things that can be done
1.
Call the police or
file a roll call complaint to get a report on File.
2.
Call the City for a
free power-wash or paint over of large tags at 215-685-9556 option 3:
supply as much info as possible. It usually takes about 3-5 business
days for the city to come out. Note: the city only uses a limited
number of colors.
3.
For small incidents,
mailboxes etc, BVTW can offer you to use the paints we get from the
city to cover the tags.
4.
Getting tags removed
quickly is important to prevent a proliferation
Finance: BVTW accepts
donations via PayPal - visit our webpage
for more information.
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Neighborhood
Activities
PNA and
Riverfront Planning
As we head in to the summer of 2008, the
Philadlephia Neighborhood Alliance (PNA) has continued to provide
support to our elected officials in their efforts to re-site the
two casinos (Foxwoods and Sugarhouse). On the good side, it
has been almost two years and the casinos have not broken ground at the
proposed riverfront sites. On the not so good side, the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court continues to side with the casinos on nearly
every court decision and the barriers to construction continue to fall,
one by one. Visit the PNA website (http://www.phillyalliance.org/)
to find out ways you can stay informed and write your politicians or
contact us at jpa...@bvtw.org to help BVTW.
(10th and Carpenter Streets)
See Webpage
for more information
See Webpage for
more information
Palumbo City
Park (700 Block of Catherine)
The newly formed
group, Friends of Palumbo Park, encourages neighbors and users of the
park located adjacent to the Fleisher Art Memorial on Catherine Street
to join in its monthly Palumbo Park Clean Up, slated for 9am to
approximately noon on the last Saturday of each month.
Neighbors and
park users are invited to bring rakes and lightweight shovels -- the
park has plenty of trees but no grass -- and stay as long as they can
or are able.
The old Amoco
station at Sixth, Passyunk and Christian is no more....This small
triangle of land has sat vacant for several years. Now an
enterprising group of Bella Vistans is lobbying hard to turn this spot
into a permanent green space.
With full cooperation of the owner, area residents have stripped the
park of trash and vegetation and backfilled and leveled the uneven
surface with city-supplied clean dirt. Another neighbor, Anthony
Marinucci, has dispatched a concrete crew and dug up and replaced the
broken concrete on the Queen Village side. On an ongoing basis,
neighbors turn out on regular Philadelphia More Beautiful clean up days
to maintain what is now just dirt.
Plans are in the works to ask the city to acquire the lot. It
would be held by the Neighborhood Gardens Association, a Philadelphia
Land Trust in perpetuity as a green space for Bella Vista residents to
enjoy. Group leaders have met with Councilman DiCicco, who has
initially favored the idea and is exploring whether Neighborhood
Transformation Initiative funds might become available. Terry
Mushovic of the Neighborhood Land Trust (which holds title to parks
like this) has offered support if the city is able to acquire the land.
In the meantime, plans are being drawn for two pathways to cross the
lot and for large planted areas with trees, plants, and shrubs in an
attractive and low maintenance design.
The group now has a website and is seeking volunteers, and
contributions to help fund the improvements needed (like water access)
[www.friendsoftrianglepark.org]
If you want to become part of a project with lofty goals and ambitions
and with the possibility of decades of payback, please sign on
at the web page
Bel Arbor Tree Tenders:
Caring for New Trees
Are you the
owner of a new tree (planted in the last four years or so)? Help your
tree not only survive, but flourish, by watering it regularly.
New trees need at least 15 gallons of water once a week (20 is
better) Watering slowly and deeply is the goal. An easy way
to measure 15 gallons is to get a used 5-gallon bucket (joint compound
buckets, for example). Hammer or drill several large nail holes
in the bottom, place it in the tree pit next to the tree, fill the
bucket with water, and let it slowly drain. Move and fill the bucket 2
more times. You can also purchase a treegator (green plastic bags, or
if watering with an exterior hose, be sure to let the water dribble
slowly to avoid run-off. Unless there has been a steady rain for
several hours, you should water once a week.
Mulching your
tree not only keeps down weeds, but also helps retain moisture.
Just don't create a mulch "volcano" mound. Put
down a 2"-3" layer of mulch, but keep it a few inches away
from the trunk of the tree (bark needs to be exposed to the air).
Please also mark
your calendars for these clean-ups in 2008.
- August 23 (see
your Block Captain)
And stay tuned
for a Fall BVTW/PMBC clean-up (date tbd) email cle...@bvtw.org for
more information.
Single Stream
Recycling is active in Bella Vista!
Including Cardboard and #1 and #2 Plastics!
2008 Bella Vista
Curbside Recycling Schedule -
(Schedule below f
or areas with
every-other week Recycling, parts of Bella Vista have weekly
collection)
Thursday Pickup
unless indicated
Sept. 25
Oct 9 and 23
Nov. 6 and 20
Dec. 4 and 18
GLASS (rinsed
out), ALUMINUM CANS, #1 and #2 PLASTICS (check bottom of container);
MIXED PAPER and CARDBOARD (nothing food soiled) CORRUGATED CARDBOARD
(flattened and tied).
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