by Joe Newman
The list serve can keep you up to date on all things Montford, from the seriously important to the kinda silly. Take a look at two of the biggest items from the month of May.
- Postings on safety and security from Montford’s Neighborhood Watch as well as individual residents. More and more, our neighborhood is using the list serve to spread the word about incidents of personal and property crime. According to Officer Katie Beane, the key to stopping crime is neighbors helping neighbors. Why not get with the program and get on the list serve?
- A pointed discussion of the sale of Greenlife Grocery to Whole Foods. Residents didn’t mince words as some decried a sellout to insensitive, large-scale capitalism—a company based in Texas, of all states!—while others defended the food selection at Whole Foods and, indeed, the boundless virtues of the free market. It was a very Montford debate, friends and neighbors.
Now here’s a quick sample of the rest of the May action, in no particular order:
- Requests for help locating lost dogs and cats.
- Information on an anti-graffiti painting project under the Chestnut Street bridge.
- Reports from the I-26 Working Group that is pushing hard to protect our neighborhood.
- Offers of free tomato plants.
- Requests for your vote for Asheville as BeerCity USA. Hey, our city won again!
- Free for the asking: large secretary’s desk, vintage 1960s.
- Postings from the City of Asheville on everything from bus routes to a women’s Ultimate Frisbee workshop to the WNC Nature Center’s assistance with the Gulf oil spill cleanup.
- Notes from the Montford Neighborhood Association on the music and arts festival, monthly neighborhood meetings, and much more.
As this issue of the newsletter went to press in early June, a debate on enforcing noise ordinances in our neighborhood was underway. Once again, very Montford.
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