Church workers’ safety the focus of seminars By Donna Swicegood | Statesville R&L

The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office is planning two seminars aimed at church workers and volunteers.

The first workshop will be from 1-3 p.m. Feb. 9 and is called “Safety for church workers.” It is aimed at secretaries and other staff members who work at a church.

Lt. Rick Eades, crime prevention officer and Star Barbaro of the Governor’s Crime Commission will address topics such as basic personal safety and being aware of one’s surroundings.

He said the seminar will also focus on what to do if you are a victim of a crime.

The second workshop will be from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 27 and is for church greeters, such as ushers and deacons.

Eades will be the instructor, and the workshop will focus on various security issues and how to react in the event of a problem.

This workshop is especially for those who are the first person who parishioners see when they come to church.

Both workshops are free, but advanced registration is required.

Eades said a place to hold both workshops is not set, but anyone interested in attending will be given the complete details at the time of registration.

Each workshop is open to about 100 people.

To register for the church worker seminar, call Eades at (704) 924-4035 by Feb. 5, and the registration deadline for the second seminar is Feb. 18. Call Eades for more information on either seminar.

Mooresville Police Department will be holding their 2nd Citizen’s Police Academy beginning December 15th.  I highly recommend this class to all residents.  You truly learn to appreciate what our Police force does on a day to day basis to help keep us as safe as possible.  It teaches you many “citizen based” self-protection skills as well.  The following is the message from the MPD.

We are going to have the 2009 version beginning December 15, 2009.  Applications can be picked up at the front desk of the Police Department Monday thru Friday 8:30 to 5:00.  If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending please talk to them and encourage them to join.  More information can be found at www.ci.mooresville.nc.us .

Thank you for your interest in “Helping to Keep our Community Safe” -

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays -
Bernice Scott – C.W. Captain

The Community Watch team will be posting all future Crime Watch bulletins on the Member Forums. You have to be registered and logged in to view our private forum. Only Linwood Farms residents are allowed to register. We encourage all residents to join the forum to help keep all lines of communication open in our community.

Have you heard of or witnessed suspicious activity in Linwood Farms? It’s very important that we keep our Community Watch Captain and team abreast of everything that’s going on in the neighborhood. If you are aware of any suspicious or criminal activity in or around Linwood Farms, please use our Send an Alert form on this site to send a message to the Community Watch Captain about that activity. The Community Watch Captain will then post your alerts in our private members’ forum, so that everyone can be aware and vigilant in our fight against crime.

Mooresville Police and Fire Departments as well as the Mooresville Rescue Squad were present and actively talked with residents and children about safety. Tours20of the various vehicles was provided along with various momentos of their visit. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. and Cannon Pharmacy, both local businesses, provided homeowners information about Children Identification, Home Owner Insurance, Health and Safety related information about medications, blood pressure, etc. TaeKwondo America was again present this year, performing various exhibitions of “safety moves”. Our very own Linwood Farms Nature Club members provided Arts and Craft related projects for children along with information related to the project they were working on. Target Superstore, graciously donated the double-size sheet cake for this event. Our Linwood Farms Social Committee helped with set-up/clean-up and handled the Lemonade and Popcorn.

The event was well advertised in many media, including, front page coverage in the Mooresville Tribune, the Linwood Farms Newsletter, and the Linwood Farms Website as well as posters announcing the event, and hanging in the neighborhood for a week prior to the event. We were pleased and appreciative of those families who did take the time to come out for this e vent, geared to informing residents of safety matters within their community, only approximately, 20-25 families were represented and that included the Community Watch Team members; the Social Committee Members, who assisted with the event. That was less than 5% representation of the entire community. The Community Watch Team will continue to work on bring new SAFETY RELATED Information to the residents. If there is something specific you would like to discuss, we invite you to attend a monthly meeting. Please contact: Bernice Scott 704-664-2047 for date and time. Thank you everyone who assisted visited our Linwood Farms Safety Day.

Duke Energy services the street lights in our community and they make it very easy to report an outage.  If you need to report a street light that is not working, just cut and paste the link below into your web browser and complete the web form.  Duke states it will generally complete the repair within 3-days of notification.  Be prepared to provide the nearest physical street address.

Duke Energy Outdoor Lighting Repair Form

https://mdenote1.duke-energy.com/custweb/customerservice.nsf/LP?OpenForm

Don’t miss this year’s event in the pool parking lot on August 5 from 7pm to 9pm. More details about our event HERE