Neighborhood Hi-Light: 2014 Review

The year 2014 was a pretty good one for WPNNA. We committed the year to civic service, community activism and engaging our youth.



In January we hit the ground running with volunteering for a day of Service in honor of Martin Luther King at Walter P. Carter Elementary School. In the early spring we reclaimed a community dumping ground by cleaning it and establishing a compost site there for the Gather Baltimore markets we hosted. In the late summer we fought a proposed liquor establishment in the neighborhood, held the 2nd annual National Night Out event, organized youth community clean ups and restarted the prayer walks into the fall.

We look forward to what 2015 has in store and working with community members to make this a great place to live, work and play!!!!!!!!

Department of Public Baltimore City Calendars 2015

The Baltimore City Calendar has been mailed to residents homes. The calendar contains reminders of when the city offices will be closed for holidays, election days and the special trash/ recycle collection days. Also a new feature of the calendar this year- it list the street sweeping days.

* We ask that if you received the street sweeping signs, from the community meeting, that you place them up in your block.

Happy New Year !!!

Neighborhood High Light: Greening Project- Part II

In April 2014 Wilson Park participated in Community Building Volunteer Day. Our Project area was the 4400 block of Alhambra Ave- adjacent to the Willow Ave Playground. That lot had been used as an illegal dumping ground for 20 -25 years. In April, we re-purposed the lot as a neighborhood compost depot.

(Bottom to Top: before, midway, after)

Although community support for maintenance and upkeep lacked, a local boys mentoring group stepped up and cleaned and cut the site and will continue to do so. Special thanks and shout out to Acts 4 Youth (operating in Guilford and Walter P. Carter Schools). It's never too early to teach and instill the ideals of community responsibility and community service in our youth. After all, if we don't care for our communities (homes) who will?

Neighborhood Highlight: Kalem Umrani

In February 2014, Wilson Park Northern held a meeting for job opportunities for the neighborhood. One of the groups present was Civic Works/ Baltimore Green Careers.

One of our neighbors, Kalem Umrani, took advantage of the program and training. He now has invaluable training and many opportunities. On April 17th, Kalem Umrani, graduated.

Since graduation, Kalem has found employment. This program works !!!!!!!!

Baltimore Center for Green Careers

Project Jumpstart