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An Emergency Model for Other Neighborhoods

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I just wanted to share what one Culver City neighborhood is doing.

Lindberg Park has been working to coordinate CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) and Neighborhood Watch for disaster preparation.

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The CERT coordinator and Neighborhood Watch captain (Tim Martinez and Ira Diamond, respectively) have been meeting and organizing.

The immediate goal is to raise $1,800 to purchase non-perishable supplies to serve the entire neighborhood.

Now this is a laudable goal, but the reality is that not every resident will or can donate cash. So the next step was to have a neighborhood garage sale which brings neighbors together, raises awareness about the topic, and raises money for the supplies. The sale is this Saturday, from 9 to 3, at Lindberg Park.

Of course our neighborhood would like to publicize the garage sale, but that is secondary to the bigger concept, which is developing and providing a model which can be adopted by other neighborhoods in Culver City.

Ms. Beagles-Roos may be contacted at jebero@hotmail.com