Hello Dean Highlanders,
Happy Monday. We’re making real progress on Hillcrest Park but from here on out it only gets more difficult.
The empty lot is in a beautiful spot.
There’s no way we’re the only organization dreaming up plans of what to do with it. Our rivals are going to be better funded, better organized, and well-drilled. They won’t necessarily see “service, advocacy, and fellowship” as ideals to be followed or respected.
These rivals might try to give us some crumbs of green space and expect us, as unorganized private citizens, to be grateful for the meal.
Your humble Dean Highland Neighborhood Association board wants you to know it is thinking and worrying about these things so that you don’t have to. Today, the board is announcing the official unveiling of the Dean Highland Conservancy Initiative.
This Initiative, if done with grit and determination and a servant-leader mindset, can not only stand up to outside interests but also get us — and future generations of Wacoans – a world-class city park on the entire 14-acre lot.
It starts with service. Not just any service. But service built off the bi-monthly cleanings that we have been doing at Mitchell Park. Service throughout all the different parts — rich, poor, light, dark – of Dean Highland. We are going to shape ourselves into an effective, organized, inclusive, and formidable neighborhood association by pursuing a policy of kindness and neighborly love.
The launch of our the Dean Highland Conservancy Initiative is this Saturday, March 14th, beginning at 10am. We are going to hit our alleyways hard, starting with one in the south of the neighborhood in between Ethel and Homan:
You can just park on the side of the streets from 26th through 29th. This is Dean Highland on a Saturday morning. Bring gloves and a mask if you’ve got ’em.
Here’s what we’re up against, but it’s also important to remember that this is what some of our fellow Dean Highlanders have been up against for years without an organizational advocate:
This is how we cut our organizational chops, Dean Highland Neighborhood Association. Yee-haw. Catch you on Saturday morning, and bring a neighbor!
Please shoot questions, or RSVP, to us via email: deanhighlandwaco@gmail.com.