Message from CONA President Barbara Heck

Paris Hamilton death - the City remembers

Thank you for attending our CONA meeting last night and listening to our speakers. Each speaker gave various ways to help with this terrible tragedy. We all want to remember and honor 8 year old Paris Whitehead-Hamilton who was killed in a senseless drive-by shooting. We all know that what affects one neighborhood affects us all.

Here is the first list of options and the contact information that was offered and discussed last night. I am working on the second list and will add to this one as we receive more information.

Thank you for sharing this information with your neighborhood. Thank you for giving generously of your time. Thank you for helping those neighbors and those neighborhoods greatly in need our our assistance.

St Petersburg Police Department
SPPD needs your help. Contact them with any information about this terrible crime. SPPD encourages everyone to report anything they see. Let's get the criminals off the street. Call 911 or the non-Emergency Line at 727-893-7780 or use Text Tips at 727-420-8911.

City of St Petersburg
Please share resources and volunteers. Reach out to other less fortunate associations and help where you can. You can coordinate through CONA or Neighborhood Partnership. Susie Ajoc 727-893-7356. susan.ajoc@stpete.org

Community Garden Outreach
Constructing Florida friendly landscaping and front yard gardens to raise produce along Preston Avenue and in other sections of Bartlett Park. Andrea Hildebran at Green-Florida. 727-643-7189. org<http://www.Green-Florida.org>

Bartlett Park Crime Watch Citizens Daylight Patrols
Join with Bartlett Park Crime Watch to walk various streets in their neighborhood. Tom Tito
bartlettparkneighborhood@gmail.com

Connecting the Dots Campaign
Sourthern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Sevell Brown 727-327-0085 sclcflorida@aol.com

April 25th March 10AM - Bartlett Park to Campbell Park
NAACP is sponsoring this event. Please come and march to show your support of both neighborhoods. At the end of the march in Campbell Park there will be many opportunities to sign up to volunteer. Ray Tampa.rtampa001@tampabay.rr.com

Campbell Park - restart their neighborhood association
Help is needed to restart this association. Please volunteer your time and energy to help our Campbell Park neighbors.

Use automatic assault rifle to commit crime - automatic life sentence
Council Member Wengay Newton is taking lead on this. Contact him for further details.