I would like to publicly thank many of you from this list who have contributed to our legal appeal against the variances issued to the Market Street Mission. I would also like to thank the roughly twenty-five people who showed up at our recent meeting.
Unless our appeal is successful, the Market Street Mission will open its Shelter and Soup Kitchen in the heart of our city, on the "Chat & Nibble" Block, at the corner of our most destitute neighborhood - Southwest Asbury Park. Possibly by the end of this year. The mission initially plans to serve meals to 100 people per day. And just as they do at other food pantries & soup kitchens around town, vagrants, alcoholics & addicts will loiter in the area waiting for handouts. They will break bottles, they will panhandle, they will litter. The quality of life in this city will be negatively impacted, especially for our friends and neighbors who live near the central part of town. Prisons around the state will have the Market Street Mission on their referral list for inmates with no where to go. Vagrants from other towns will be directed to Asbury as they have been for years. This is not scare mongering. This is simply what will happen if the mission opens. Please join us in our appeal. If you would like a STAND UP FOR ASBURY! sign placed on your lawn, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you would like to send a contribution to help fund our appeal, please send it to: Stand Up For Asbury P.O. Box 643 Asbury Park, NJ 07712 Checks payable to "Stand Up For Asbury!" Thank you very much for hearing me out. Best regards, Paul Vail Second Avenue ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/Y2tolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
