These are all signs that WE DON'T NEED THE OBS FESTIVAL IN OBSERVATORY ANY LONGER !
So come to the Obs Civic Assoc meeting tonight Nicole, and air your feelings. I'm going - see you there. On Dec 8, 5:19 pm, Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My husband and I are relatively new to Observatory but have lived > through two fests. I don't understand in a neighbourhood that try's > so hard to combat crime, vandalism and loitering that once a year we > write an open invitation to the world to come and do what they want > to, to our beautiful neighbourhood. > I've heard about two muggings during the fest one in which the guy > pointed out to the police officers on duty who robbed him and they > said they can't help him they're busy. The other my next-door > neighbour who usually walks around ob's at night, decided this was a > bad idea and got an escort, was confronted by quite a few men who > relieved her of her cell-phone. > What I'd like to know is, who benefits? Do our parks get up-graded, do > we get more police on the streets, are the streets cleaner? I haven't > seen it. So what is the point? > The idea that a few businesses increase their profit margin before the > end of the year at the expense of every single person who lives in > Obz. > Every weekend we have to put up with loud music coming from the clubs, > cars driving past my house with thumping base at 3 am, drunk loud > people walking past without a thought that above everything this is a > residential neighbourhood. So why do we have to put one weekend aside > every year to invite people to do this x100 at our expense and close > our roads off as-well. > And to put the cherry on-top the whole event wasn't particularly well > organised. The stalls at the market made a lot less money then they > had in the past (some didn't even cover their expenses), the market > was dusty, there wasn't any decent toilet facilities (who want's to go > to a porta-potty a thousand drunk people have been to before you), > they couldn't get water or food near-by, there weren't enough > dustbins, alot of people thaught that they had to pay to get into the > market and totally circumnavigated the market. The band stand on main- > road cut off all the other businesses behind it. There was no usual > community vibe, it was all sectioned off. > > So what is the point? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
