Every year on National Night Out, our Block Club updates it's list of neighbors which includes phone numbers and emails. Not all of the houses have emails, but a lot do. All who put their names to the list get a copy and several of us bother to put those emails into our computers and use that list for such things as birth announcements, moving (both comings and goings) and strange goings ons such as shots fired, stolen bicycles, folks found peering into garage windows, or up to mischief, ringing doorbells at odd hours, etc. Many a time those emails have been responded to with gratitude. At least on this very local scale, especially during the winter months when we don't see each other over the back fence or walking by our front porches as often, the email connection has helped us stay connected with each other and, sadly, the unhappier goings on of our block, which is better than nothing, and could someday turn out to be vital. The example someone gave of the South's evacuation was a good one. If only we could be sure it would never be sold or used for commercial or fiendish purposes. Like fundraising. Barbara Nelson Seward -- Barbara Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared with what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
