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Operation Live Link Expands to Columbia Heights
with Help from
Jim Graham and MPNA
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Operation Live Link
is a unique program that MPNA first piloted in
the District in Mt. Pleasant. The program is a
close collaborative partnership between the
Metropolitan Police Department and local
non-profit civic associations.
With help from MPNA and
Councilmember Jim Graham,
new sponsor,
Northwest Columbia Heights Community Association,
expanded Operation Live Link to cover the
northern part of
Columbia Heights.
Operation Live Link provides the community and
police with a crime prevention and crime
fighting tool that is effective at addressing
quality of life-related crimes as well as major
crimes such as drug activity and felonies. It
provides you direct connection to the LiveLink
cell phone of an officer assigned to patrol our
neighborhood. Simply dial 202-689-4277,
202-689-4278, or 202- 689-9913
after you first dial 911 and make your report.
This tremendous crime-fighting tool is at your
fingertips. Add the Live Link cell phone numbers
to your cell phone!
The neighborhood non-profit civic association
that sponsors Operation Live Link purchases cell
phones for as many officers as necessary to
cover a 24 hour day, 7 days per week and pays
for the cell phone service. Officers are
issued cell phones and are assigned to cover
Operation Live Link while on duty in the
neighborhood.
When a neighborhood resident sees a crime in
progress or suspicious activity or has a crime
tip--and first makes a call to 911--they can
then directly call the Live Link cell phone of
the officer on patrol to report the
crime/suspicious activity. Since the officer is
in the neighborhood already, there is a good
probability that he or she can respond
immediately to the call.
Many quality of life related crimes are
non-emergencies and thus given low priority
through dispatch. By the time an officer
is assigned and responds, the activity most
likely has ceased and the perpetrator has moved
on. Yet these non-emergency crimes greatly
impact quality of life in the neighborhood.
Operation Live Link changes all that.
MPNA needs funds to keep LiveLink in Mt.
Pleasant.
Please consider giving to help us fund this
program.
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Change We Can Believe In! Become an ANC
Commissioner
This fall, the city will hold elections for new
ANC commissioners.
It's time for a change here in
Mt. Pleasant. Do you have it in you to run for
office and move the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood
forward over the next two years? If so, you only
need the signatures of
25 registered voters in your
Single Member District to be placed on the
November ballot.
It's Easy to Do!
Declare your Candidacy
here
Mail form to:
District of Columbia Board of Elections and
Ethics
441 4th Street, NW, Suite 250 North
Washington, DC 20001
*Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Nominating petitions available (90 days before
the election)].Signature requirements: Petition
must contain the signatures of not less than 25
duly registered voters who are residents of the
Single Member District from which the candidate
seeks election.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Deadline, by 5:00 p.m., for filing of nominating
petitions, petition supplements and
"Declarations of Candidacy" 60 days before the
election.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
GENERAL ELECTION DAY Polls are open from 7:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Vote the Status Quo or Vote for Change.
If
you want to keep things like they are, then do
nothing.
Mount Pleasant will face great
challenges in the near future, especially on the
commercial strip with
empty storefronts that must
compete with the rapid
economic revitalization
of Columbia Heights.
Then there is the
library renovation,
transportation alternatives, and
the dynamic new leadership in the DC public
schools. How will all of these and other coming
changes affect our neighborhood, and who will be
our voice? Can we actually elect
commissioners who are able to relay a unified
Mt. Pleasant vision and our neighborhood's needs
clearly to elected city officials, the executive
branch, and boards and commissions? Is it
possible to elect a Mt. Pleasant ANC that
carries us forward as a neighborhood?
We won't know, unless we have a choice.
This is a great place to live, raise families,
as well as connect with diverse cultures. We
won't know, unless we have a choice.
You can make a difference.
This is a great place to live, raise families,
as well as connect with diverse cultures. Be a
part of it! Run for a seat on the Mt. Pleasant
Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC-1D).
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MPNA held a fundraising event at the home of
Dana Keeney and
Paul Young in late June. It
was a beautiful evening, and we extend our
warm thanks to Dana and Paul for their
generosity and hospitality. We also thank
those who generously responded to our
fundraising appeal.
It was really heartening to welcome new
supporters as well as long-time members that
evening, neighborhood residents who are
truly committed to working to make the
quality of life more enjoyable for the
people of Mt. Pleasant.
However, we still have to find ways to raise
more funds and recruit new members and
volunteers, so we can continue to make this
happen. It is our greatest
challenge-and we can't achieve it without
you.
We need your financial and other support to
continue to do all that we do. Take a
look at our pictures from
National Night Out. Look at
the faces of the children. Are they
worth your support, so MPNA can continue to
sponsor programs like National Night Out,
and our
spring Egg Hunt, winter
Holiday events, and Operation Live
Link--another first for Washington, DC.
Operation Live Link delivers great benefit
to everyone who lives here. It provides you
direct connection by cell phone to police
officers on the beat in Mt. Pleasant-a
tremendous crime-fighting tool! Your
twenty-five dollar membership donation can
help keep this and other MPNA efforts going.
Larger donations are very welcome, too.
So, please support the Mt. Pleasant
Neighborhood Alliance. Renew your membership
or join MPNA today! We really need your
help.
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National Night Out 2008
The evening started off a little scary with
dark clouds hanging over Lamont Park.
But after 10 minutes of rain, the storms
moved on and neighbors and officers
from MPD came out to enjoy a fun-filled
evening during the National Night Out
celebration in Lamont Park.
There was face-painting by Mt. Pleasant's
own David Greenfield, chalk drawing and
really cool bubbles for the kids.
Children and adults also danced and clapped
to the Puckerland Band, who put on a superb
show. But don't take our word for it.
See for yourself! View the
Mt. Pleasant NNO 2008 Slideshow.
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ABC Board Makes Decision on Don Juan's ABC
License Requests for Karaoke
After 3 months of deliberation, the ABC
Board recently announced its decision
regarding Don Juan's Restaurant. Excerpts
from the Board's decision follow:
1. The Application filed by Don Juan
Restaurant to terminate its voluntary
agreement with MPNA in its entirety is
denied.
2. The Applications for both an
Entertainment Endorsement for Karaoke and
the Renewal of the restaurant's Class "CR"
license are approved.
The Board also imposed the following
conditions on the Applicant's license:
1. The Applicant shall be permitted to have
karaoke and dancing until 1:40 a.m. on
Sunday through Thursday and until 2:40 a.m.
on Friday and Saturdays.
2. The Applicant shall be permitted to have
roaming mariachi bands until 11:00 p.m. on
Sunday through Wednesday; until 12:00
midnight on Thursday; and until 1:00 a.m. on
Friday and Saturday;
3. The Applicant shall be permitted to
charge a cover.
The applicant has until August 30 to submit
a security plan to the ABC Board for
approval.
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Restaurant Week is This Week! August
11-17
Join us this week when nearly 200 of
metropolitan Washington, DC's finest
restaurants offer awe-inspiring,
multi-course meals prepared especially for
this gourmet event.
Destination DC and the Restaurant
Association Metropolitan Washington are
proud to present the 13th Washington, DC
Restaurant Week from August 11-17.
Lunch:
$20.08 for a three-course fixed-price meal.
Dinner:
$35.08 for a three-course fixed-price meal.
Beverages, gratuity and tax are not
included.
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Mount Pleasant Discussion Forum Keeps
Growing
Pssssst! Did you just hear a big boom?
Do you have a yard sale coming up? Want to
post an event--Need
a babysitter--Share
your nanny--Find a housekeeper--Organize a
parents' coffee?
Or do you just need a place to let off some
steam? You've clearly come to the right
place!
The Mount Pleasant Web Discussion Forum
is an independent neighborhood forum and a
place for people to speak out about Mount
Pleasant issues.
Over
1,660 forum
contributors have posted over
19,100 comments to date.
The forum has helped many people locate
places to
live, find reliable
contractors, sell stuff,
or review
crime stats. Or they've
talked to police about crime and safety
issue, read
ANC resolutions, and
commented on the
transportation study
alternatives.
The forum also has a
Lost and Found section
that's been incredibly successful.
And there's even a place for local
Restaurant Reviews.
Visit Us
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Hello from Neighbor's Consejo!
 Neighbor's
Consejo is a social agency focusing on the
prevention of homelessness.
We have served 1,458 individuals in case
management; made
874 referrals to government
agencies and other community
organizations for specialized services;
placed
235 clients in jobs; helped
156 individuals graduate from ESL/ Computer
classes; given out 692
blankets during hypothermia
events; and assisted/aided 100 families
displaced due to the Mount Pleasant fire.
Even though our work is strongly funded and
our dedication does not waiver, it is a very
difficult period for us. We have had to
reduce some staff in this time of high
demand for our services and, at the same
time, continue to provide quality
services.
Visit us:
http://www.neighborsconsejo.org/
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Please feel free to send us an
email at
admin@mtpalliance.org
and visit our website at
www.mtpalliance.org.
Happy End of Summer!
Sincerely,
The Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Alliance
Board of Directors
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