Below is an email which has been sent out by the Alderman for the purpose of finding some way of dealing with the huge influx of people from other neighborhoods on Halloween night. O'Shea is on it. Give him your thoughts.
Thank you for attending our community meeting on Halloween Safety. Below, please find a brief description of what is needed from a Halloween Block Captain Volunteer. Please e-mail this information to anyone you know who might be willing to volunteer. Also, the South Side Irish Parade Committee has very generously offered the use of their white parade marshal jackets for our volunteers.
Thank you for attending our community meeting on Halloween Safety. Below, please find a brief description of what is needed from a Halloween Block Captain Volunteer. Please e-mail this information to anyone you know who might be willing to volunteer. Also, the South Side Irish Parade Committee has very generously offered the use of their white parade marshal jackets for our volunteers.
Aside from the block captains, we are proceeding with large banners. While the City of Chicago will not permit us to hang banners over the street like we discussed, we are exploring other ways of displaying them on 95th / 99th / 103rd Streets. Also, we have put in a request with the Chicago Police to strip the parking on Longwood Drive, from 95th Street - 107th Street for the day.
I will forward a draft copy of the banner when one is available. Please feel free to respond with any other ideas or suggestions.
Thank you,
Matt O’Shea
Halloween Volunteer Block Captains Needed
This year, a group of concerned residents are organizing efforts to promote and enforce a community-wide 7:00pm trick-or-treat curfew throughout our neighborhood. We are looking for volunteer block captains to help with this effort. Block captains will be asked to do complete the following simple steps to help ensure a safe Halloween:
· Distribute window signs (sample attached) to every home on the block & ask neighbors not to answer the door after 7:00pm.
· Identify two homes on the block to purchase & display larger yard signs promoting the 7:00pm end to trick-or-treating.
· Stand outside after 7:00pm on Halloween night and politely inform people that trick-or-treating hours are over.
The 19th Ward will provide window signs and make yard signs available for purchase; all block captains will be provided with a white jacket (generously provided by the South Side Irish Parade Committee) and large Halloween Volunteer Block Captain sticker to wear that evening. We will also be producing larger banners to put at the entry points to the community promoting area trick-or-treat hours.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Matt O’Shea at mattoshea@the19thward.com. Thank You!
so what
ReplyDeleteThink of all the candy, man!
DeleteAnd why is this only an issue for 95th to 107th? What about other parts of the Ward? Do those of us who live elsewhere in the Ward matter?
ReplyDeleteTell the alderman.
DeleteI did!
DeleteIt really has gotten to the point of ridiculousness. I know who the local kids are and I answwer the door only when i can see someone I know. Otherwise the door is closed and noone answers. It is time those poor neighborhoods figure something else out. They are now ruining it for the kids in our neighborhood. I am not spending another dime on these kids frome elsewhere. The real kicker is when the fat mama comes up and asks for candy too -I tell them straight out that it is for kids not adults - so no.
ReplyDeleteThey view it an another entitlement.
DeleteWill there still be ample parking for the vans and buses that bring the visitors to Beverly...pronounced (BEVly)
ReplyDeleteVans and buses? These people already live all over bevly!!! Why they need buses they have their $60,000 SUVs
DeleteThey actually managed to ruin holloween? What's next the Easter egg hunt? Oh yeah, never mind.
ReplyDeleteWe can't cancel Halloween, we can only hope to contain it. Some honest suggestions as to how the neighborhood can be kept under control would be appreciated. The ignorant comments are an embarrassment to the neighborhood as a whole. "These people already live here", "these people drive $60,000 SUV's". These people aren't going anywhere and if you're not prepared to learn how to live with it, then move out.
ReplyDeleteThese people aren't the ones who live here.
ReplyDeleteliving by ridge park is a real problem. yes we see big vans and huge SUVs disgorging huge groups. I just shut my porch light off and hang a sign that reads " will not answer door after 7pm.
ReplyDeleteThese are little children. The parents are bringing them here for one evening a year because it's safe. Can you blame them?
ReplyDeleteYou are right and no I don't blame them- but Halloween trick or treating has always been a neighborhood event. The people dropping vanloads of kids in our neighborhood need to figure out something else to do. Their churches should hold Halloween parties and have candy there. You cannot blame us for being annoyed by this intrusion (and yes in some areas it has become a ridiculous intrusion if not invasion) We are talking about hundreds of kids....Candy is EXPENSIVE and I for one do not feel like providing yet another freebie. Not to mention the oftentimes intimidating effect these LARGE groups of kids (and also teenagers) have on all the kids around them. Again it is not our responsibility to provide Halloween candy and the use of our streets for kids from the ghetto. Sorry.
DeleteAnd..a lot of them aren't little.
ReplyDeleteY'all bees racistes!!
ReplyDeleteYep! You got a problem with that
DeleteHalloween Volunteer Block Captain sticker to wear that evening. We will also be producing larger banners to put at the entry points to the community promoting area trick-or-treat hours. chicago banners
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