Month: February 2011

High Paying Jobs Can Be Filled By You

A unique opportunity for training exists in the Austin neighborhood, available at low cost. There are exciting, high-paying manufacturing  jobs going unfilled due to a lack of skilled workers, even in this economy. Manufacturing is an exciting and growing industry, where companies create high-tech, complex products like wind turbines and airplanes. Manufacturing companies have po0led…

West Side Needs Fair Allocation of Police Services

After listening to an investigative report on WBEZ, 91.5 FM (National Public Radio), our president was motivated to make an unplanned visit to the Police Board Meeting. The report pointed out that the North Side aldermen and constituents were very vocal and actively demanding their share of police services. In contrast, they pointed out that the…

Spring Cleanup Planned for March 19th

On Tuesday, February 15th we continued our development of plans for our work this year. Our focus at this meeting was the beautification of our community.  Members volunteered to share the work to make our neighborhood more visually attractive. This effort is being led by Jane Shirley and. Marvin Marshall.  Our first project is the…

BGA Citizen Watchdogs and CANA Sound Alarms Over 911 Response

    Hey Watchdogs!   Check out the latest Watchdog Wall Post!   http://watchdogwall.bettergov.org/     Ron and Serethea Reid came to the Citizen Watchdog Training Session in Austin.  Now, they’re making news and making a difference as they fight for faster 911 response times in the Austin neighborhood.      What have you been…

CANA’s work was featured on FOX evening news on Monday.

Click on the link below to view. http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/austin-neighborhood-police-response-times-911-chicago-cops-20110131      The filming took place at the January CANA meeting as well as at the January Police Board meeting. If you weren’t there you missed an opportunity to speak out to the entire city of Chicago about the issues we face in Austin.   You never…