Deer Park Neighborhood

GOOD DEEDS IN DEER PARK

Nov 18, 2008

Getting hit by a hurricane ?– who would have expected that to happen in Deer Park? But that is when the best comes out in our neighborhood. Many neighbors turned this event into something good ?– without power, there was the opportunity to slow down and connect with the people you wave to every day but never seem to have time to talk to. People who had never met before helped each other clear storm debris and cut up trees. Every street has a happy storm story. That?’s what a good neighborhood does ?– and it makes us proud to be a part of Deer Park.
Deer Park Board Member Lenore Hemming had power while her neighbors did not, and hosted Breakfast in the Alley. As the owner of Rocko?’s Rewards, a home business that makes all natural dog biscuits, she had the oven capacity to cook a lot of food. Around 50 people were served a hot breakfast and fresh coffee, all in the relative comfort of the alley behind Sherwood Avenue. More meals were taken to neighbors that could not make it out. Lenore?’s brother had lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, and when he arrived in Deer Park, all he wanted was coffee that didn?’t require getting dressed and driving, and Lenore wanted to provide the same thing for her neighbors.
And the good works from Deer Park go on even when there is not a crisis. Deer Park President Tim Darst celebrated World Car Free Day on Monday, September 22nd. Started in Europe in 2000, this event has since spread to 1,000 cities. Tim decided to make this day into a fundraiser for Family Scholar House, an organization that helps single parents earn college degrees. Since this group provides bus passes for its clients, Tim decided to get pledges for his 200 mile trip around the area on TARC, and raised $2,200 in pledges.
Good deeds happen every day in Deer Park ?– that is what makes it such a great place to live.


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