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the mueller neighborhood association newsletter NEWSLETTER THE MUELLER NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
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National Night Out: A Mueller Tradition Multi-Family Mueller
SUMMER 2016 • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 3
Apartment Living
By Cynthia Cammack
National Night Out (NNO) grew out of the efforts of one man in the Philadelphia suburbs. As a community volunteer working to coordinate neighborhood watch and police efforts, he realized ¢ Vicky Bergin the many neighborhoods struggling to do the same thing needed husband and efforts. I sold our 2011National and moved into an a way tomyunite their Inhouse 1981,inthe Association in the Mosaic, intendingto to provide live here community only while of Townapartment Watch (NATW) was founded we looked a house in the Mueller Community. We looked watch groups the for necessary information, resources, and assets to stay informed, interested, involved, motivated the at houses for several months. Weand examined floorwithin plans and community. In 1984, NATW introduced NNO. The first annual spoke with realtors. But in the end we came to the conclusion Nationalthat Night Out involved million we no longer had it 2.5 in our heartsneighbors (or backs) across to take 400 on communities in 23 states. and constant maintenance work associthe responsibilities NNOated enhances the ownership. relationshipBybetween and used law with home that timeneighbors we had gotten enforcement while encouraging a true sense of community. It to our three-bedroom apartment. Though smaller than our provides a great opportunity to bring police and neighbors together under positive circumstances. Over the past 36 years, NNO has grown to become a celebration beyond just front porch vigils and symbolic efforts amongst neighbors to send a message of neighborhood camaraderie. Neighborhoods across the nation host block parties, festivals, parades, cookouts, and various other community events with safety demonstrations, seminars, youth events, visits from emergency personnel, exhibits and more. NNO takes place the first Tuesday in October each year and now involves over 38 million people across 16,000 communities. Last year in Austin, over 450 neighborhood parties took place. Police officers, firefighters and EMS visited many of these, sharing and learning from neighbors. In Mueller, several blocks get together each year for NNO block parties. These have ranged from intimate front yard gatherings, dessert parties, and potlucks with a few neighbors to this year’s event at the Overture with lions, tigers, unicorns, a bouncy house - and Elvis. Austin fire and police department staff have dropped by, including the police chief. Neighbors still talk about stronger connections they made, and neighborhood kids will remember these gatherings as happy traditions to carry on. MNA block captains often play a big role in organizing these parties - contact your block captain to be part of the fun next year. Copyright © 2019 Peel, Inc.
previous house, it was plenty of space for the two of us. We renewed our lease in 2012 and have renewed it every year since. My husband Bob and I grew up in New York City… in the Bronx. There were, and still are, only apartments in the Bronx. We didn’t know anyone who lived in a house. In 1952, when some of the old apartment houses were torn down, then rebuilt to make way for new-fangled residences, it was a significant cultural upheaval for the Bronx. These residences were called Condominiums… and they carried with them the rights of ownership. But whether we called them “conCourt 2they Pluswere Camacho NNO by Danresidences McAtee dos” Garden or apartments, still up-and-down with smaller living spaces. We still had all of the working, schooling, educational, entertainment, shopping life spread out noisily at our feet in what we called “the city.” Frankly, we loved growing up in New York. For us, city life held everything we could possibly want. We knew that when we got home from National Night Out with AFD by Troy Robertson work, we could leave the noise, crowds, dirt, AND Continued on p. 7
2016 Epiphany meal at
Mueller Mosaic with friends and neighbors, from left to right: Martha Ward, Douglas Newton, Carol Parks, Sharon Roberts, Kathleen Hayden, Shirley Wofford, Vicky Bergin, Aralyn Hughes, Terry Jervis and Connie DiCesare. Photo by Rosa Shultz.
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