New Chauncey Neighborhood
Second Annual Soup Dinner and Square Dance:
No Experience Necessary
On Friday, February 1, our annual Soup Dinner and Dance
will be at Morton Center (6-8
pm). Last year the soup was
amazing & the dancing was
lively! As they say, “The more
the merrier.” That's where we
hope you come in! Please
come for a good meal and fun
with friends. You don't have to
square dance if you don't want
to, but we know we're going to
have fun at it! Many neighbors
last year found learning from
our dance caller, Barry Rubin,
easier and more fun than they
thought. Barry and his fellow
musicians will provide LIVE
MUSIC and family-oriented fun
for all.
The cost is: $5 per individual,
$10 per family, OR bring soup,
salad, bread, or dessert to
serve 10 people. Drinks and
paper goods provided.
An Evite will be mailed out very
soon. If you are planning to
attend, please let Tami know
by Wednesday, January 30.
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JANUARY 2008 NEWSLETTER
Young and young-at-heart enjoy the square dancing at the 1st Annual Soup and Square
Dance, February 2006, at Morton Community Center.
You can RSVP to the Evite, by
emailing
[email protected] or by
calling Tami at 743-3980. When
you RSVP, please tell us how
many are coming, if you are bringing food (& what kind), if you prefer NCNA not use your picture in
its website and newsletter, and if
you are willing to volunteer. We
need help with set up, cleanup
and taking money at the door.
UPCOMING EVENTS
• January 30, Wednesday—Deadline to RSVP for Soup/Square Dance
• February 1, Friday 6 pm—Soup Dinner/Square Dance, Morton School
• March 28, Friday—Deadline for Boiler Blast Job Requests,
www.purdue.edu/boilerblast
• April 5, Saturday, 9 am—Clean Sweep and Boiler Blast
Boiler Blast Volunteers
Help Neighbors with
Home and Yard Jobs
Boiler Volunteer Network will join
with NCNA again this year in its
annual Boiler Blast event. New
Chauncey Neighbors can take this
opportunity to request one or more
students to come to their house on
April 5th to work on a job of the
resident’s choice. Possible jobs
may include indoor or outdoor
work such as painting, cleaning,
raking leaves, yard work, washing
cars, etc. The event is an important opportunity for Purdue students to give back to the community by volunteering.
(See Neighborhood Volunteers on page 5)
JANUARY 2008 NEWSLETTER
NEW C HAUNC EY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC IATION
West Lafayette Police Department Captain to be NCNA Liaison
lem HUD housing areas, where
drug and other criminal activity
are on the rise.
• School Zone Traffic Enforcement needs to be more strictly
enforced to reduce the chance
of the horrible incident that
took place in Lafayette.
WLPD Captain John Walker has
stepped up to be the New
Chauncey Neighborhood liaison to the West Lafayette Police Department. Since he has
adopted us, we thought that it
would be nice to get to know
him a bit better and here is
what we found out.
John earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Leadership and Supervision from Purdue and is a graduate of the
Indiana Law Enforcement
Academy. Before joining the
WLPD in 1993, John was an
Indiana State Excise Officer for
two years. He is a Board Certified Instructor through the Law
Enforcement Academy and has
been an instructor there for the
past 13 years. He specializes
in Defensive Tactics and General Law Enforcement topics.
John is also a certified instructor in RAD (Rape Aggression
Defense Training) and is certified in SWAT, Less Lethal and
Chemical Munitions, Police
Bike Patrol, Internal Affairs and
Community Oriented Policing
School. He is a veteran of the
U.S. Marine Corps and is currently a Captain in the Indiana
Army National Guard. He
served a year in Afghanistan as
the security chief for the Commanding General while in
country.
What Can We Do To
Help?
John has been married for
more than 17 years and has
two sons, Blake and Matthew.
He enjoys coaching baseball
and football. He and his sons
like to fish and John loves all
types of water sports (water
skiing, knee boarding, wake
boarding, etc.). He and his family attend The Blessed Sacrament and participate in activities there as well. John has
learned over the years to leave
his work at the office and
works hard to keep it that way.
John identified the following
areas that the WLPD plans to
improve:
• Work closer with our
neighborhood associations
• Formulate a better plan to
address the increase in vandalism that takes place
throughout the city.
• We must also continue our
strong presence in our prob-
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Information is the most important
asset you have. Please keep John
and the Department informed of
suspicious activity that takes
place in the New Chauncey
Neighborhood. It’s up to us to be
the Department’s eyes and ears
as they cannot always be here.
Final Thought
John enjoys his community contact the most – after all as he
says, “you learn so much from the
people that you meet on the
street. That’s what policing is all
about and where police work originated, walking the beat.”
If you would like to talk with John,
please feel free to call him directly
765.775.5212, but emailing him
at [email protected] is the best way to
reach him.
JANUARY 2008 NEWSLETTER
NEW C HAUNC EY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC IATION
Name That Architectural Style
This new regular column will feature a different architectural style each time, and will be presented
along with one or more pictures. See if you can guess this issue's style…
Beginning around 1905 until about 1930, this style emerged and became the dominant style in American
domestic architecture. This style originated in California and spread nationwide through pattern books and
architectural magazines containing the work of Charles and Harry Greene. This style was popular because it
was inexpensive, fashionable, and generally of modest scale. Features of the style include simplicity of detail and massing (or size), roofs with exposed rafters and knee braces, and façade surfaces of stucco, wood,
or rubble stone. Porches, normally under an extension of the main roof, were integral parts of this style.
Have you guessed yet? The architectural style featured is BUNGALOW. The origin of the term bungalow has
its roots in the Indian province of Bengal. The common native dwelling of that geographic area has the same
root word as the province, bangla or bangala. For examples of this type of architecture, turn to page 4 where
you will see three bungalows located at 210 W Stadium, 342 Lawn, and 460 Maple.
Information for this article was found in "The Resource Guide" by Wabash Valley Trust for Historic Preservation, publication date 10/06.
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WWW.NEWC HAUNCEY.ORG
Neighborhood Volunteers
NCNA Garden Group to form
(continued from page 1)
Purdue is expecting greater student participation
this year and job requests are needed! This service
has been under-utilized in the past. Help the student volunteers by engaging them in a project at
your home. They are willing to assist you in many
ways. If you are not sure your job would be appropriate, please submit your request, and Boiler
Blast will contact you.
An NCNA neighborhood gardening group is forming, whose purpose is to help neighbors share
garden plans, ideas, and even plants. If you are
interested in learning more, contact Harlan Day at
743-1197 or [email protected].
To request a job online, go to the Boiler Blast at
www.purdue.edu/boilerblast and click on “Job Requests”. Job request forms are due by March 28th,
but the sooner the requests are received the better. Neighbors who have used Boiler Blast volunteers in the past have been very satisfied.
Boiler Blast student volunteers will also assist in
picking up trash in the alleys and along the streets
as part of our annual Neighborhood Clean Sweep.
“Please thank the young boys who came to our house
this morning. They are outstanding young men and
excellent ambassadors for the university. We appreciated their hard work and nice manners. Boiler Blast
is a great program!”
——-NCNA resident
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Thank you for
supporting your neighborhood!
Your contributions to NCNA help support the
newsletter, Halloween parade, beautification
projects, and other great events in the
neighborhood. Please send a check today.
Suggested dues are $25.00. Please mail your
check to P.O. Box 2633, WL, 47996. Thanks
for helping make things happen!
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Never doubt that a
small group of committed people can
change the world.
Indeed, it is the only
thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead
P.O Box 2633
West Lafayette, IN 47906
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