NEW Area Coordinator!

We're sooooo excited to announce our new Area 5 Coordinator!

Jamie Duncan

She was just barely thrown in to the sharks with us, so she's a little overwhelmed I'm sure. But we're so happy to have her. And congrats to Area 5 for scoring such a great Coordinator. She'll be awesome.

On that same note, we're getting the Foxboro Apartments up and running with Neighborhood Watch as well. An Area Coordinator hasn't been decided upon yet.

Plan on attending the Big Foxboro Neighborhood Watch Meeting in April (details TBA, check back with us later) to meet Jamie, as well as other Area Coordinators and Block Captains, participate in our Open Forum, get up-to-date prevention tips from local police, and much more!

See you soon!

Break-in Prevention Tip

Read the following e-mail received from a local Foxboro neighbor on a prevention tip:
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"In addition to the padlocks in our old neighborhood we were told to buy individual door alarms. You can buy them in a pack of 4 for around $10. We found them at Ross, but Khols, Target, etc should carry them too. They just attach to the top of your door frame and when opened an alarm starts blaring. We bought them to actually alert us to when our children were escaping. :)Sometimes we couldn't hear from our bedroom door to the backdoor and these came in super handy. They have 3 settings on them 1 being the constant loud alarm, the 2nd one beeps for 30 seconds and the 3rd is the silent position. They are these tiny plastic suckers but they sure can be loud and scary and I'm sure would they have an intruder running from the area pretty fast thinking that it was a real house alarm.

They worked really well for the purpose we used them for and I'm sure it would work great as an extra precaution along with the stick in the door. etc. They can also be bought and used specifically for windows. Just a thought."

Attempted Break-in {Area 5}

An e-mail from an Area 5 neighbor:

"Our next door neighbor, 324 Birmingham, heard some noise coming from his kitchen early (6 AM-ish) this past Saturday morning. He went down, with a baseball bat, to investigate and saw a person with a ski-mask who had just opened his LOCKED sliding glass door from the outside. The person saw Russ and his baseball bat and took off. Russ called the police who came and searched pretty much every backyard in the North town-homes but didn't find anything. Russ and his family are fine, and the guy didn't break anything or get in the house to take anything. The police did say that 90% of the gates (ours included) were not padlocked, and they recommended that we all get padlocks. My first thought was if someone wants to get into a house, I don't think a fence or padlock is going to stop them. But, my husband pointed out that if they are trying to take something, say a computer or TV or anything really, they are going to have a harder time getting it over a fence than if they just took it through an unlocked gate.
You may want to remind people in our community via the blog to padlock their fence if they haven't already done so. We also put a big wooden stick in our sliding glass door to add one more obstacle."

Gang Fight at Park

Below is an email I received from a fellow Neighborhood Watcher, who received their information from a relative in nearby Foxboro area (FB2). Please read and be aware. Pass on to others. Sharing things that we witness and see is exactly what Neighborhood Watch is about. It's so important to be informed and aware. Keep it up guys!

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This is from my brother in law that lives on York. I thought it would be some good information for our next meeting. I copied below what he said.

"...did you hear that there was a "gang fight" in the park behind our house last Friday? I guess it was during the day and the guy that lives behind us that is a SLC police officer heard some commotion (as did the FBI agent on the other side of the street) and they went over to see what was going on. There were about 20 kids beating up 2 kids. They all took off but the one kid that got beat up tried to hide in his neighbor's yard.

From what they found out, there is a house on the next street over with 3 families living there. Since it is right by the park, the park has become a hang out for some gang activity

I just thought you might want to know since you are involved in the Neighborhood watch."
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Please feel free to email me or your Block Captain with things you feel should be shared with your neighbors as well.