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Mayor's Entourage Walks Camp Street
From a Third Floor Window
I spied Mayor Cicilline, Chief Dean Esserman, Director of ONS Rita Murphy, Councilman Kevin Jackson, Lt. Schiavulli, and unidentified others walking down Camp Street toward Jenkins Street and back.
What a hot sweaty day to be walking Camp Street.
My guess as to what brought this motely parade out on such a dismal day is that, although according to the Providence Journal, the Mayor's office had no comment on Ms. Baver's letter that was published in the Letters to the Editor section on the back page of the Metro Edition section of Friday's paper, the Mayor did wish to make a statement.
Although why he was walking this section of Camp Street remains a mystery when Ms. Baver's letter clearly indicted the section of Camp Street that lies between Rochambeau and Cypress, especially the section between Grand View and Cypress, as being problematic.
Whatever. I guess Ms. Baver's letter got the Mayor's attention, and if he takes her plea to heart, that can only be a good thing. City officials need to hear from Mt. Hope citizens.
I urge other Mt. Hope residents and especially GCCC members to write to the Mayor and to Pro Jo and support Ellen's courage in speaking out about the problems in Mt. Hope.
It will be interesting to learn Mayor Cicilline's and Councilman Jackson's response.
Will they deny that Mt. Hope has a problem with drug dealing?
Will they deny that there has been a rash of car break-ins and home invasions?
Will they claim that Camp Street is a lovely street with no urban blight in the block where the Men's Pride banner hangs and the Ministry's cast-offs block the sidewalk?
I hope that it will not be the usual stonewalling, denial of obvious facts, the pandering to political correctness that is traditionally used to cover up inaction.
I hope it will not be business as usual.
We live in a new Mt. Hope and the old rhetoric will not be acceptable to Mt. Hope's current electorate.
This is a time for action.
Irene Twomey
Posted at July 1, 2005 09:10 PM
A clebrity is born again out of GCCC as Namma makes the pages of ProJo today, Tuesday, the 5th of July, complete with a photo op and all.
"PROVIDENCE -- When Naama Gidron and her husband, Peter Wuhrl, decided to buy their first home in Providence last year, they started out by scouring the area for a single-family house."
See if this link works, but there is no picture in the online version. You'll have to shell out 50 cent if you wish to view the photo.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20050705_5multi.1fefceb.html
Way to go Namma
Posted by: John at July 5, 2005 02:42 PM
Naama is a national celelbrity! Copy and paste this link to see her picture.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Aox4XsYnJV0J:www.tucsoncitizen.com/inde
Posted by: Irene at July 8, 2005 11:57 PM