More signs of renewal and hope

Tonight Ellen and I attended the monthly meeting, at Saint Francis Center, of the newly formed Reservoir Hill Neighborhood Association which was formed by a group of formerly disaffected members of the Reservoir Hill Improvement Council. There were about 15 of us present. The focus was on tapping into a federal Healthy Neighborhood fund that could potentially be worth up to $5 million dollars. The goal is for the group to identify a number of houses in Reservoir Hill for rehabilitation and sold to new residents. Some ideas for recruiting prospective buyers. We also discussed the upcoming Reservoir Hill Garden Tour and the neighborhood clean up preceding that.

On an even more positive note, the trees I mentioned in the previous post were put into the ground. It looks nice.

There was a bit of an excitement a bit past midnight this morning. A fugitive involved in a high speed chase by the police hit another car at the corner of Eutaw Place and Whitelock, right outside our house. The car that was hit was pushed onto the sidewalk and took down the corner post of the fence that was just recently repaired. The fugitive tried to run but was wrestled down by some cops. The unfortunate driver of the other car had to be taken away in an ambulance.