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Posted By Mike Orren in The One That's Not About Music on March 19, 2006

Longtime readers of my old blog will remember that one of the big turning points in the creation of our business plan was my visit to a meeting of The Ferguson Road Initiative.

Now, it looks like their efforts on behalf of my own hyperlocal neighborhood are beginning to take shape:

Press Release

To: All media and press

From: Ferguson Road Initiative (FRI) representing the 2 Points Weed and Seed communities

Date: March 22, 2006

RE:

Councilman Leo V. Chaney, Jr., District 7

&

Ferguson Road Initiative

invite you to attend the

2 Points Weed and Seed Town Hall Meeting,

Thursday, March 30, 2006, 6:30-8:30pm

Bishop Lynch High School

9750 Ferguson Road

Dallas, TX 75228

Councilman Leo V. Chaney, Jr, and the Ferguson Road Initiative will be hosting a Town Hall Meeting for residents, businesses, faith communities, and schools residing in the Officially Recognition, Department of Justice 2 Points Weed and Seed neighborhoods.

The purpose of this meeting will be to outline the strategy of Operation Weed and Seed, understand how crime is impacting communities in the Buckner/Peavy area, and to learn ways that people can work together to Weed-Out crime and Seed-In positive development and activities.