A tentative date is in the works for an informational meeting.
The Kendall County Sheriff’s office announced that Boulder Hill may be getting a Neighborhood Watch program. Sheriff's Deputy Brian Harl said community policing deputies spoke with Boulder Hill residents about initiating a neighborhood watch program and said, “they seemed very interested and recognized the need.” A tentative date will be set for an informational meeting, to take place at the Oswegoland Park District Civic Center, to provide information on how to start and maintain a neighborhood watch in the community. Those interested in being an active participant of the watch can contact Deputy Schmitt for more information at (630) 553-7500 extension 6686 or through email at zschmitt@co.kendall.il.us. Harl said the Sheriff’s department …
The National Sheriffs' Association has awarded the three-year-old Fairfield Way/Foxmoor Neighborhood Watch program third place in its annual Awards of Excellence competition.
For three years, residents of the Fairfield Way and Foxmoor subdivisions have participated in a successful Neighborhood Watch program, the first one on the west side and the largest in the village of Montgomery. According to those who live there, the program has made the neighborhoods safer and brought them closer together. And now those efforts have been recognized by the National Sheriffs’ Association—the Fairfield Way/Foxmoor Neighborhood Watch program just won third place in the NSA’s annual Awards of Excellence competition. Police Chief Daniel Meyers presented the award to Trustee Stan Bond, who worked to organize the Neighborhood Watch program three years ago and serves as its president. But Bond waved aside any notion that the award…
The west side program - now in six west side subdivisions - has been shown to reduce crime and bring neighborhoods together.
Before he was a village trustee, Stan Bond was just the new guy in town. He and his wife Marion moved into the Foxmoor subdivision, on Montgomery’s west side, in 2004. At that time, he said, incidents of vandalism, loitering and other petty crimes were “skyrocketing.” So three years ago, he helped to start a Neighborhood Watch program, the first on the west side. It took a year, he said, to get to 70 percent of the homeowners in Foxmoor and Fairfield Way to join up. But now, he says, 78 percent of Fairfield Way is on board, and 74 percent in Foxmoor. The neighborhood is safer, he said, and reports to the police have dropped down to “almost nothing.” And more than that, the program has brought the neighborhood together. With more than 670 …
mike ellison
3:09 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tell you what Richard and G'sMom. Give me your address and I'll come and vandalize your property just like the kids do to our properties. Be sure to have your kids in the front yard so that they can listen to what I have to say. I won't use any words other than what the little sailors do in front of our house. Let me know how that works out for you. more ›