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A law enforcement friend of mine once advised that the best way to deal with crime or the threat of it is not fear but anger.  He said this in the context of protecting our homes and neighborhood, not venting irrational emotion. Thanks to all who are attentive and communicative of activities that look suspicious or criminal.  One of the best deterents of crime is active neighborhood watch. 

This morning around 5:30 AM I went to walk my dog, which I often do at this time of day. There was a dark car (small sedan) parked in front of our house that I had not seen before, and I thought that is strange.   I turned up Bellemore towards Kenmore and before I got to my neighbor's driveway I heard a noise from up the streeet and saw the head of a person in a dark shirt near 108 Bellemore, which was also unusual. 

I headed back inside my house and with all lights out watched to see if the person continued down Bellemore.  (I dont usually do this but something felt odd this morning.)  After a few minutes I saw two tall lean white young males dressed in all black run to the car parked in front of my house.  They drove off without any car lights turned on.

Unfortunately I did not get the make of the car or license plate number. 

Julia McNeal Smith at 103 Bellemore  

I currently have a Verizon  Blackberry and get an extremely low signal inside my house. Outside on the porch-- no problem. Step inside the back door-- signal is too low to make a phone call. Does anyone else have the same issue with Verizon wireless?  Does anyone use Sprint wireless and get a consistently strong signal inside the house? Thanks for your feedback, Kara Keehan

Dear Neighbors:

1. Beginning next week, July 13th, your weekly trash & recycling collection is changing to:

        Trash pick-up on TUESDAY

        Recycling-only pick-up on THURSDAY

2. Baltimore City recycles more items than ever, read below what items are accepted curbside.

    PLEASE NOTE ADDITION OF MILK CARTONS & ALL PLASTICS CODED #1 - #7 !

4. Please do not use plastic bags--clogs the single-stream sorter machines.

5. Place recyclables in trash cans, yellow bins, plastic tubs or boxes.

6. Any questions, feel free to email Laurel Peltier at laurel77@comcast.net, or call 311.

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Baltimore City Accepted Curbside Recycling Materials as of June 2009

1. ALL Paper plus milk cartons and juice boxes

•           All colored paper such as printer paper, and school papers.

•           All types of mail including envelope plastic windows.

•           Books, both hardbound and paperback books and telephone books.

•           All newsprint types.

•           Paper folders.

•           Magazines and catalogs.

•           Cardboard and corrugated boxes. Take out plastic or foam.

•           Food boxes (cereal, cookies, crackers, etc). Trash plastic bag.

•           Cardboard egg containers.

•           * NEW* Milk, juice or soup cartons.

•           * NEW* Juice boxes.

2.   Plastic Bottles and containers coded #1 through #7 on the bottom, caps & lids o.k.

3.   Metals

•           Aluminum cans

•           Tin and steel cans

•           Empty aerosol cans

•           Tin foil (clean)

•           aluminum pie pans

3. Glass- Rinsed bottles and jars.

We received following information, please everybody be aware:

"Wednesday night (Dec 17) we were walking our dog at 9PM on Melrose and observed 5- 6 young guys trying to break into Bryn Mawr School, it was very frightening, it was definitely  young men, they looked college age, and when my husband pulled out his cell and called the police they spotted us and took off in a big dark silver/grey or black SUV, a very large one, like a Suburban that would hold all of them-but I could not identify the make or tag. They were spread out on the side of one of the buildings at Bryn Mawr, each one trying to get into  the  different doors and then fled together."

If you have any information on this, please call the police.

Dear Neighbors, I hope everybody had lots of fun at the Turkey Bowl.
We found some items when we cleaned up:

1 pair blue ski gloves with leather palms
1 blue folding chair in its bag
1 pair black tights

Anyone claiming them can call Bryan Koerber at 410.435.2899.

Dear Neighbors,
here is how you get into the private Owners Section:

enter your email-address (if you ever got a letter from us, we entered it into the system for you)
enter your password: if you don't have a password yet, click the "forgot password" button and you will get to a page where you can create your own password.

If you never provided us with your email-address or would like to change the email-address, please email me bengel_home@verizon.net and I will enter you into the system.

Enjoy

Dear Neighbors,

please take your time and browse through our website, there are some changes and additions.
We added a private Photo Gallery with pictures from our Halloween Parade 2008!

You need to be logged in to view the slideshow. Have fun!

If you want to add your own pictures or have poblems with you login please contact us (bengel_home@verizon.net or 410-532-6633).

If you want to be able to view the private section and/or get announcements from the Home Owners Association, please provide an email address and contact us.

Best regards
Barbara Bengel

Because of today’s rainy weather, we have postponed the Orchards Halloween Parade and Party to SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 AT 3:00 PM.

The parade will begin at the corner of Bellemore and Kenmore roads at 3 PM. The magic show will begin at 3:30 PM in the Peltier family’s backyard at 4 Bellemore Road .

Please be aware of the changed times!

Hope to see you there