Monday, June 8, 2015

Kevin D. Thompson, the Post beat reporter for Lake Worth, does it again

Mr. Thompson does it again. Another very interesting and well-balanced article; this time about the murals at Tuppen's. This may be in tomorrow's paper so don't want to give anything away. Subscribe to the Post or go buy a paper tomorrow. By the way the paper now costs $1.50 for the daily edition.

If you have good news you want to share with Mr. Thompson here is his contact information:
kthompson@pbpost.com
Twitter: @kevindthompson1
561-820-4573

There's still the matter of the Post's news blackout of the NAPC. Michael Readling recently had a wonderful article about the community efforts in Wellington that sound a whole lot like what the NAPC is doing in Lake Worth:
     There are around 60,000 residents of Wellington and, sometimes, engaging each and every one of them can be difficult [emphasis added], if not downright impossible for village officials.
     So, in a nod to the way things used to be, Wellington Community Services has found a way to get its message out to as many people as possible. In this age of emails and Internet, the department is turning off the computer and unplugging itself as it hits the streets.
     Hearkening back to a time when town meetings were the norm, Wellington residents are invited to join staff from Community Services, Code Enforcement, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s department and other local agencies to neighborhood-specific talks about what’s going on around them.
     These Neighborhood Watch meetings began Wednesday and will continue weekly, in different neighborhoods, into October. This year, the meetings will be held in community buildings in the neighborhoods, or the village’s Community Services Building, in an attempt to avoid early evening rain showers.
The NAPC, of course, is not a government entity but rather citizen volunteers that rallied together to improve our City one neighborhood at a time. It really is an incredible story that needs to be told by the City's newspaper of record.