Dear Oakwood Register

Thank you for your generous support of the Giving Strings orchestra. You put so many good articles and pictures in the paper throughout the summer. We raised over $3200 for cystic fibrosis patients. You helped us touch the hearts of many children.

Sincerely,
Clara and Ingrid Hofeldt

Support Strides 5K Walk

On Saturday, Oct. 20, the Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk Team will be participating in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides for Breast Cancer Walk, which begins and ends at the Dayton Dragons Stadium at 10 a.m.

The Strides 5K Walk is all about giving hope to those fighting breast cancer. It’s about survival and raising support to save more lives. It’s about protecting those we love. And it’s about remembering those for whom the answers did not come soon enough.
Please join us as we join an incredible group of people who are determined to live in a world without breast cancer. Please contact Leigh Ann Fulford 294-3816 if you are interested in joining us.

Also mark your calendars for the Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk on May 10, 2008.  It will be our 7th CARE Walk and we hope it will be our biggest and best ever.  

Thank you for your support, and Remember:  We are STEPS from a cure!

The CARE Walk Team

To Whom It May Concern

Again with much amusement I read the comment on the impact of DMHA. If 25 years isn’t enough time, then I don’t know what you want. For crying out loud, look around people. Check the crime stats for Dayton’s 2nd District for the past five years. Check and see what the call load is there since DMHA started tearing down the projects.

When they started tearing down the projects they moved a lot of these people into apartments on Wilmington Avenue and on Shadowlawn. It is now drug infested. Only an idiot or someone with an agenda would have the nerve to even suggest that it will not be a problem. Everywhere these people go is a problem.

I live in Patterson Parkside. I call it that thanks to those wonderful folks at DMHA. Since they have moved in the neighborhood, I have caught two people having sex along the bike path that parallels Shroyer next to the Kwik’n Kold. I have caught one vagrant that lives in Oakwood in the new projects, urinating in the bushes and has himself been arrested 31 times. My neighbor was approached by someone along the path who tried to sell him drugs. None of this had ever occurred prior to their arrival. So once again welcome to the neighborhood, DMHA.

Jeffery Holmes
Patterson Park

Danger in darkness

As the days grow shorter, we leave the house in the dark and return in the dark.  Too many times, a movement at the side of the road turns out to be someone walking their dog or children walking down the road.  Please make sure to wear white clothing, a reflective vest, a blinking light - something to make sure that you or your child is seen.  Several main roads in Oakwood are without sidewalks, are very hilly and curvy, and are dimly lit. Just as you would fasten a bike helmet onto your child, please make sure that they are as protected when walking at night. Several years ago, someone I knew lost her life while taking a walk by the side of the road at night, and I think of her each time that movement at the side of the road resolves itself into a person whom I might have missed seeing.

Regards,
Amanda Korb

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October 16, 2007
Volume 16, No. 42

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