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Happy Holidays and Stay Safe This New Year
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By Aaron “Wally” Barger, Resident since 2012
From the fourteen Neighborhood Watch Block Captains and nearly 300 homes in our community, we want to wish you a safe and wonderful New Year!
We started the Neighborhood Watch Program in the Blackhawk HOA community in early 2018. Our objective has been to work closely with our local police department and to learn as much as possible about home-security and personal safety.
Our Neighborhood Watch program offers safety information through neighborhood meetings with local police officers, crime prevention safety officers, fire/earthquake emergency preparedness personnel, and other first responders.
Neighborhood Watch is an excellent means by which information can be shared through meetings, workshops, literature, and other direct forms of communication.
Beginning in 2020, we will launch a “Be 1 of 6 on Your Street” program. We have learned that the best way to reach people in our neighborhood is to start by explaining how a few simple safety/ security tips can protect your home and family. Policeman, firemen, and other first responders believe that community involvement is highly successful. This is especially true if a number of homeowners are involved in a network that shares information, holds an annual block party, and assists one another by watching out for each other’s homes.
Your assistance in this effort is absolutely essential. The Blackhawk Neighborhood Watch Block Captains are asking you to contact the neighbors on either side of you and share phone numbers, email addresses, and any other useful information. The next step is to invite the homeowners across the street to do the same. This puts more eyes on each other and your homes, especially when one of you is away. By extending your network beyond your six properties you are broadening the formal networking system. Expanding the network is a necessary approach to mitigating a potential urgent situation on your block.
Neighborhood Watch Block Captains are available to assist you in learning more about home and personal security. If you have any questions, please call me at 925-708-9349 or email me at aaron. barger@yahoo.com. You can, also, contact the County’s Crime Prevention Unit, ask for Le’Reina Skidmore at 925-313-2512 for additional information or to schedule an orientation meeting.
