We recently heard from one of our neighbors on 14th St about how successful they have been in getting the "traffic" at a neighboring house to settle down . . . completely! Our neighbors had nothing but good things to say about our Salisbury Police force ~ that they were most helpful in every way that they could be. They said that there will be instances where the police truly can not do the things we may expect, but when they can exercise enforcement they will. Our neighbors combined this effort of working with the police with an effort to work with the offending household's landlord! The landlord otherwise would have had no idea that this activity was taking place in and on their property. The landlord also visited the house and let the tenants know that their activity was unacceptable. The "traffic" at this house has ceased.
This is amazing testimony to what the grass-roots efforts can do to help in the neighborhood. Too many either complain - to one another - or turn their heads, believing that nothing can be done. Not true! We need to be involved, watching out for one another and our own segments of the neighborhood. The Old North Salisbury neighborhood is long and wide-spread: from Lafayette St. to the Spencer Town line at 17th St., from Railroad St. to Jackson St., we each have a segment of the neighborhood that is more "our own". Often, what goes on at the north end up 15th, 16th, & 17th Streets and the boulevards in between is unknown to the folks at the opposite end up by Henderson, Steele, and Miller Streets. If we each concentrate on what we can see and manage, we will be more effective as a whole.
We are grateful to our neighbors on 14th for (1) sharing this success story, (2) being proactive in managing activity in their section of the neighborhood, and (3) impressing upon us that we can each have the same success in our own areas of the community.
Thank you & congratulations on this success!
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