[RP TownTalk] Calvert Park

[Andrew Farrington]

I have posted pictures here - http://castironskillet.blogspot.com

  -A


On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Andrew Farrington wrote:

> Kira,  Thanks for posting!
>
> I have not seen Calvert Park in anything but good shape, but then I 
> guess I haven't climbed the steps in a few months.
>
> Today I stopped on my way home at the hardware store for graffiti 
> remover, and obliterated the ugly three-way race-war from the phone box 
> in front of Gepetto's.  I guess I just wanted to brag.  And now I have. 
> Cleaning up condoms sounds like less fun.
>
>  -Andrew Farrington
> 4605 Queensbury Road
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, kira branson wrote:
>
>> I am wondering what can be about the Calvert Park area alongside 
>> Riverdale road nearly across from Riverdale Elementary.
>>
>>  Being a nice day I took my lunch from school to the park by the river, 
>> something I will not do again anytime soon.  Aside from the trash 
>> scattered about, which seems absurd considering the amount of public 
>> trash cans, I lost count of the condoms laying about and relationally 
>> lost my appetite.
>>
>>  I guess it is a good thing that condoms at least are being used but I 
>> doubt the park is an appropriate nor legal venue for these activities.
>>
>>  I know fences, clocks, parades and politics...thoughtfull growth and 
>> development topics are part of this community but down past the 
>> historic neighborhoods and brick paved sidewalks, around where the 
>> surviving feral hens, cocks and other wild things live, there extends 
>> the town of Riversdale and even though we haven't entirely figured out 
>> how to integrate different cultures and socio-economic groups in 
>> Riverdale let alone the world, to ignore the separateness and 
>> coincidentally condom refuse is to prevent the wholesome growth and 
>> development of this whole community.
>>
>>  What can be done about the nocturnal orgies occurring in the park, 
>> should it be a concern for the image of River dale and the healthy 
>> living conditions of the people in the surrounding apartments. Is it a 
>> reflection of some underlying issue that should be dealt with by our 
>> whole community.  In my opinion it is hard for a community to have a 
>> healthy self-esteem when it is surrounded by trash reflecting self and 
>> communal disrespect.
>>
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