Mt. Hope News
John M. Twomey
Greater Camp Concerned Citizens
Spring Initiatives & Announcements
Dust off your thirsty for spring boots for surely winter’s darkest days are behind us, and spring is just around the corner.
Greater Camp Concerned Citizens President Horace Mabray and Treasurer James Edward Mulcahy recently announced the receipt of a gift in the sum of $5000.00 from Carol L. Hill to fund our Iola Mabray Student Achievement Awards. Ms. Hill is Horace Mabray’s sister and Iola Mabray’s daughter. The Iola Mabray Student Achievement Awards have been awarded annually to deserving Mt. Hope students since 1995. Under the new funding it will be renamed the Iola Mabray Awards of the Greater Camp Concerned Citizens. Iola Mabray lived and worked in Providence’s Mt. Hope neighborhood for over half a century. Mrs. Mabray worked in primary education and was a community activist and an advocate and activist for quality education.
Mt. Hope Website
Greater Camp Concerned Citizens will soon launch a website serving the Mt. Hope community: mthope-eastside.org. The website prominently features a weblog discussion forum for residents to keep up with Mt. Hope matters and to comment on and discuss issues relevant to the community. The site serves as a one stop clearing house of links to city and state government, local print and electronic media, as well as GCCC minutes from our meetings, updates on our initiatives, and community announcements. Many thanks to members Roy Kao and Oriana Diaz for contributing their web developing skills. Please visit early and often and put in your two-cents worth.
Dues Due
GCCC has gone to annual dues for ease of record keeping. Member dues for 2005 should be paid by the end of February. For more info call Irene at 640-8076 or Jim at 751-9838. Annual dues are $15.00.
GCCC Business
Our organization intends to expand in the year 2005 and to that end we will be electing officers and creating several new positions. One such considered position will be Member’s Secretary. The Member’s Secretary will work to expand our membership base by forming a team to actively recruit both individual and corporate members. This Secretary will also help manage our member list and help with mailings, meeting announcements, and minutes.
Another considered position will be Political Liaison or Government Liaison a person whose task it will be to report to the membership on the activity of our elected and appointed city and state officials in all matters pertaining to Mt. Hope, such as city, state, and federal funding in Mt. Hope, legislative activity affecting Mt. Hope, and maintenance and enforcement issues relevant to Mt. Hope. This position requires the ability to learn one’s way around City Hall and the ability to gather information effectively.
Our next meeting will be dedicated to GCCC internal affairs: developing organizational goals, an agenda, rules of order, and elections, all for the express purpose of enlisting more members in a more active role in the Greater Camp Concerned Citizens.
Autumn Meeting
GCCC presented awards and letters of appreciation to three Police Officers working in Mt. Hope on foot-patrol. Patrolmen McKusker, Bento, and Richards each received a token of appreciation and the hearty thanks for a job well done from residents of Mt. Hope. The presence of these young police officers walking the Mt. Hope beat has made a wonderful difference in our community.
Lt. Kohen,1 District 8 Commander stressed how important it is to log in a call to the police whenever you experience or witness a crime-related problem. The police refer to these as "calls for service" and use these stats as means of identifying problem areas on which to focus.
We also covered in the meeting the many successful GCCC initiatives undertaken over the previous months. Still outstanding are the need for a few more crosswalks to be painted on upper and lower Camp & Pleasant. They have been promised for the spring.
Easter Egg Hunt Fund Raising
Horace Mabray has been busy raising money for the GCCC annual Easter Egg Hunt held each year in Billy Taylor Park. We award prizes to children after the hunt. Local area businesses proved most generous. Of course, more contributions are always welcome, so if you wish to donate, call Horace at 751-6707.
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