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The Rancho Cordova Police Department would like to set up acommunity meeting with the Cordova Towne neighborhood regarding the recent crime activity residents have been talking about on the neighborhood eGroup (in the Cordova Towne section of the neighborhood). We will meet at 6:00pm on Wednesday January 11, 2012 at the  Rancho Cordova Police Department, Canfield Conference Room, 2897 Kilgore Road Rancho Cordova CA.

Topics to be discussed will include developing NeighborhoodWatch groups, status of the investigation and crime reporting. This is important for the entire White Rock area since what happens in one portion of the neighborhood will effect the entire neighborhood.

Thank you everyone for coming out to the ribbon cutting this week. Please see photos from Andy Gee and a video below. Let’s keep moving forward. Our neighborhood will only be as strong as the communication is among residents.

This was a job well done and truly a community effort. Thank you everyone!!!

Thanks to Mike Rumsey, Sheri Johnson, Sue Quackenbush and Glen Stamps, the Mills Park Drive project was wrapped up. They just finished laying down rocks minutes ago. Earlier this morning Sheri, Sue, Ryan and Vice Mayor David Sander laid down the cloth barrier. We DO NOT need to meet tomorrow because this project is FINISHED!!!! Thank you to those who planned to be there. We hope to see everyone at the ribbon cutting ceremony on 12/14/11 at 1pm (Wednesday). This is a big win for the neighborhood. Residents chose to deal with a huge safety issue and have beautified the entrance to the neighborhood!!

Thank you for your support!! This is an amazing example of what it looks like to get results as a team and really think through a problem together as a neighborhood

The pipe sticking out of the ground in the photo should eventually be removed. It is a PG&E pipe and City Hall has been working closely with PG&E to relocate the pipe.

Here are two opportunities to help finish the Mills Park Drive project. This is the final push. Please consider getting involved and note the ribbon cutting will be on December 14, 2011 at 1pm. We’ll have a few elected officials and residents speak. It should be good!!!

FRIDAY at 9am – 12/09/11:
We have decided to install the weed barrier on Mills Park Drive tomorrow. Can anyone come out to assist for an hour or two at most? If we had 5 more people, it would really help. It turns out the rocks are going to be delivered tomorrow afternoon, so it’s critical that the weed barrier is in place before then. If you have a shovel, please bring it since we have a tad of digging to do. We could use one wheelbarrow too. We’ll meet at 9am TOMORROW – 12/08/2011.

SATURDAY at 9am – 12/10/11:
This Saturday, December 10, 9-11am, we’ll meet at the site on Mills Park Drive to spread rocks over the weed barrier (LOTS OF ROCKS). If we can get 10-15 people to volunteer, this will be a piece of cake. So far we’ve had just a few responses. We could really use some wheelbarrows to move rocks as well as some shovels just in case. If you can bring one of these items, please do so.

Remember the ribbon cutting is Wednesday, December 14 at 1pm at the site of the new sign.

We are thrilled to have the new neighborhood entrance sign on Mills Park Drive installed. We are incredibly grateful for Ainor Signs stepping forward to help make this happen. Without there kind donation of the sign, we would never have been able to afford a sign of this caliber.

Thank you to everyone and residents in particular who have been involved in this effort over the past year. Residents voted by 98% to knock down the old pillar and build something in its place. Great work team!!!

Today we had a wonderful group of residents and locals come out to clean up the site of the future sign (to be installed in a few weeks we hope). Not only did we do a ton of weeding and debris removal, but we also built a fence and walked quite a distance along Folsom Blvd to clean things up. Amazing work everyone!! A special thank you to Councilmember Ken Cooley for sweating with us for several hours. Thank you also to the City of Rancho Cordova and Allied Waste for making a large garbage bin possible.

Today our neighborhood became stronger.

Thank you to Larry Stafford and several volunteers from the Cordova Church of Christ for taking the initiative to replace the fence behind where the new sign will go. It looks outstanding and we sincerely appreciate your gift to the community. The church funded this beautification effort as a way to help our neighborhood and they deserve big thanks. The fence will be painted on Saturday during our neighborhood “clean up” mentioned below. Come on out to paint everyone.

Will you be there on November 12?

We are very excited to have a new sign coming toMills  Park Drive. Our neighborhood voted to knock down the old pillar, and we all worked so hard to raise money to pay for a new sign. Now it’s time to team up to clean things up before the sign gets installed.

Show up to Mills Park Drive & Folsom Blvd on Saturday November 12 from10am-1:00pmto help clean things up. We’ll provide water and some snacks. Come for any amount of time during the three-hour block. Please bring gloves if you have some, and be ready to work together with neighbors to make things look great. Let’s pick up garbage and debris, remove weeds, paint and do whatever else we can. We’ll also need some rakes, shovels and hoes just in case. Also, we’ll need paint supplies (brushes, tins, rollers).

All ages are welcome. It’s up to us to make our neighborhood beautiful.

We need help with the following:

1. Volunteers: Please consider coming. We could use 25 people easily.
2. Supplies: rakes, shovels, hoes, paint brushes, paint tins, paint rollers.
3. Garbage Bin: Any connection to get us a huge trash bin donated?
4. Trash bags.

Saturday, November12 10am – 1pm

Larry Stafford of Cordova Church of Christ is hoping to install the new fence behind the site location so we will be able to paint the fence on that Saturday.

Each of us can play a small role in making this a success. Please get involved so we can move forward to help the corner of Mills Park Drive & Folsom Blvd look wonderful.

We have great news!! City Hall has given us the green flag to move ahead with our plans for the sign. A few days ago they approved the design that Ainor Signs graciously donated to us.

What happens now? If all goes well, we’ll hope to install the sign in mid-November to early December. Before that though, we do need some help with several things. Here are four ways to get involved. Don’t be shy. This project will ONLY happen if we get the following things done:

1) Pass out flyers: We need a group of people to canvas the neighborhood to pass out flyers in the neighborhood. We may do two rounds depending on what we need to communicate.

2) Plan the celebration: We need help planning a party to officially welcome the new sign (we’ll invite media too). It would be great to have one resident volunteer to help be the planner and then others volunteer to help with logistics. This is not a major block party or huge undertaking, but rather something low-key and connective to sip on drinks and eat a bit. If nobody steps forward, we’ll axe the idea.

3) Fence installation crew: We need a few more residents to help install a new fence on the property behind where the sign will go. Thank you to those who have volunteered already. This will be the backdrop to the sign.

4) Clean-up help: We need a handful of residents to help clean up the general area surrounding the sign. There is quite a bit of debris. It would be ideal to have 5 people volunteer.

Thank you for your support. Let’s keep moving forward. Please join the eGroup if you live in the neighborhood. We need residents to talk with each other, report crime and stand strong together.

Big news and opportunities. Would you consider helping out with something below?

1) New free sign: After we worked so hard to raise $5,000, we are elated to announce a company in Rocklin has stepped forward to donate a sign after seeing our story on News 10. Thank you Ainor Signs!!!! Sue Q & Ryan L went over to their HQ yesterday and we are very excited to be working with Ainor Signs. They will cover all costs except for permit fees, an engineering report (around $500) and any cost to prepare the site. We hope to have a stellar design by the end of the week, and hopefully City Hall will expedite the approval process too. The sign will be metal-based instead of concrete. The sign will definitely have two posts and be off the ground in order to promote safety. Basically, this company’s generosity has essentially doubled our impact as we now have the sign taken care of and we have $5,000 to spend in the neighborhood. A committee of residents can decide in the future how to spend this money (only to be spent in the neighborhood). Thank you to everyone who donated!!! Your money will sow life back into the neighborhood.

2) Tag line needed: We need to get a tag line over to the company by Friday. We’d like to put some sort of saying on the sign that helps explain what our community is about and who we are (and/or who we want to be). Basically, if you could sum up our neighborhood in one phrase, what would you say? This phrase will be in smaller font at the bottom of the sign. It could be something that mentions community pride, proud residents or something to that effect. If you have something to suggest, now is the time to make your voice heard. We have to get something in by Friday, so if nobody suggests anything, then we will pick.

3) Two table volunteers needed: We do need a few people to host a neighborhood table at White Rock Park on 10/08/2011 from 10-2pm. Can anyone serve the neighborhood in this way? You would only stand behind a table with flyers and answer basic questions.

4) Fence help: We need some help in the next month or so to replace the wooden fence on Mills Park Drive and Folsom Blvd (behind where the sign will go). We already have permission from the home owner to do this. Our goal is to create a nice backdrop for the sign.

5) Digging holes: We need a few people to step forward to help dig holes at the site. Rather than pay a company big bucks to do this, why don’t we have a few residents or locals dig a hole themselves. This will need to be done in the next month or so.

6) Passing out flyers: We will need some volunteers to pass out flyers in the next few weeks. We’d like to walk around the neighborhood to announce the new sign and have residents sign up to help out in various ways as well as announce an installation celebration (TBA).

7) Planning an installation party: Can anyone help pull together a neighborhood party? We’d like to celebrate after the sign is installed.

If all goes well, we will have the new sign installed by mid-November. Please considering pitching in a few minutes to help complete this project. This installation cannot happen unless we have volunteers.

We have a ton of great items left for the last day of our community yard sale. This will be a “Blowout Sunday” where you can expect great deals and “name your own offer” on bigger items. We are doing this sale to help raise money for a new concrete neighborhood entrance sign after a tragic incident led to the removal of the existing neighborhood entrance pillar. Please come out to show your support and get some great deals.

2958 Mills Park Drive Rancho Cordova CA 95670 8am – 5pm on September 18, 2011

The yard sale is here!!! Thank you to Sue Q and so many Mills Park Drive residents and others who pulled together to make this happen. Thank you to everyone in the neighborhood and from all over Rancho Cordova who donated. A special thanks to FCCP, the Cordova Community Council and Cordova Church of Christ for tables, marketing and handling some logistics. The sale will go from September 16-18 from 8am-5pm at 2958 Mills Park Drive. If you have not yet seen the incredible amount of donated items or the amazing organization that Sue Quackenbush and neighbors put together, watch these videos: (Video # 2 today) and (Video # 1 yesterday).

How to Get Involved over the next 3 Days:

1) Come buy something at the sale (or just come to say “hi”).
2) Volunteer a few hours to help with logistics. Yes, we could still use help.
3) Write a tax-deductible check to “Cordova Community Council”.
4) Be on call for any details that may arise that need immediate attention.
5) Invite your family and friends to the yard sale.
6) Share a video link above via email or on Facebook.

It takes a whole lot of hard work to get things done in the community. Change never happens without intention. Thank you again to all those who have planned, donated, prayed and sweat to make this a reality. Thank you also to those who have not yet done anything, but will soon arise to integrate into the stream of community life. Let’s work hard to raise $2,500+ so we can get a new sign, and thereby rebrand our corner after such a tragic situation.

Sincerely,

Ryan L & Sue Q

Here is the latest video. We have SO MUCH STUFF.