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Selwyn Park unifies to improve neighborhood
Reinvigorated residents enjoy living in 1940s community
By Reid Creager
By Reid Creager
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Selwyn Park residents enjoy their fifth annual block party on Sept. 22. From left: Sarah Hayden, Tim Rupar (neighborhood association president), Cynthia Snyder, Russ Heydorn (treasurer), Erin Heydorn (secretary), Sarah Reymann, Sharon Jones (vice president), Ricky Jones, Tabitha Carnes Warren and Scott Warren (board member at large). REID CREAGER
Selwyn Park residents enjoy their fifth annual block party on Sept. 22. Front row, from left, neighborhood association treasurer Russ Heydorn and secretary Erin Heydorn. Back row from left: Sarah Hayden, Cynthia Snyder, Tim Rupar (president), Sarah Reymann, Sharon Jones (vice president), Ricky Jones, Tabitha Carnes Warren and Scott Warren (member at large). SELWYN PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
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Shortly after Tabitha Carnes Warren moved to the Selwyn Park neighborhood, she noticed something that was missing in other places she’s lived.
“There’s a real sense of community here, a sense of real neighbors,” said Warren, who moved to the area three years ago. “I know from experience that this isn’t the kind of feeling you get in a lot of places.”
She was talking on Sept. 22 at Selwyn Park’s fifth annual block party, which was designed to help further unify and organize the 220-home community that’s bordered by Park Road, Seneca Place and Little Hope Creek. The neighborhood, which dates to the late 1940s, is building a sense of shared purpose that has some exciting momentum.
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