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Books read by Brynford Book Club

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Evening by Susan Minot
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safren Foer
Half the Sky
Hungry Hill by Carole O'Malley Gaunt
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Ines of My Soul by Isabelle Allende
Mission Song by John LeCarre
Olive Kittredge
Peace not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Glass
The Help
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Women by T.C. Boyle
The World Without Us
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Wicked by Gregory Maguire

The Brynford Park Community Association met at the Brynford Bible Church April 21

Items discussed:
Motion to amend bylaws: change meetings from Tuesdays to Mondays. Motion passed.
Treasurer's Report
Neighborhood crime: several cars have been broken into on neighborhood streets. Make sure you don't leave anything valuable in your car.
Funding for neighborhood beautification & playlot improvements. Wonders Montessori donated $200 to the project in addition to the $500 grant we've received from the Edward M. Marx Foundation.
Neighbors on Kedvale have organized a Kedvale Block Party for July 19. We are still discussing whether to host an entire neighborhood party.
Organize neighborhood watch, phone tree & block captains
Organize neighborhood clean up for May 17
Land management committee updates

Brynford Land Management Committee

The Land Management Committee met April 3, 2008 to set goals and get organized.
The committee will
* educate the community about land management issues affecting our area, providing information from multiple points of view
* inform the community about land management decisions occurring in our area
* notify the community when voting will take place on land management issues
* encourage community involvement in beautifying, improving and maintaining our neighborhood and the surrounding areas
* survey neighbors about how they use the surrounding natural areas and how they would like to use these areas in the future

What you can do when crime occurs on your block

Call 911.
We are going to begin organizing a telephone tree at the April 21 neighborhood meeting to reduce crime and vandalism in our neighborhood.
With a telephone tree, you call 911, then you call a neighbor. The neighbor calls 911, and so on...
Why is it important to call 911 and then call a neighbor?
* When more people call 911, it provides more information to the police.
* When more people report a crime, it says the neighborhood wants to stop crime in the neighborhood.
* When more people report a crime, it means more attention from the police for your neighborhood.
Please sign up for the neighborhood phone tree to help make our neighborhood a safer place to live.

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