2007 Wish List for Fitchburg

Things I would like to see for Fitchburg

2007 could be a year of new beginnings. It starts here.

A newspaper devoted exclusively to the city of Fitchburg.

Fitchburg Pride begins weekly publication January 26, 2007. Be sure to patronize its advertisers!

A full service community hospital, complete with a 24/7 Emergent Care center.

Fitchburg residents can begin by supporting the facility already in place.

When your physician prescribes X-rays, mammograms, labwork or outpatient tests, remember to request that it be scheduled at the Burbank campus. Better yet, make the call yourself to the Burbank Outpatient line and request an appointment. It's usually quicker to get the appointment than at the Leominster campus, lines are shorter, and you'll receive a friendly greeting from the Burbank campus staff.

If you build it they will come ... if you keep coming, they will build it. Make it profitable for HealthAlliance to utilize and develop the Burbank Campus. It's close, it's convenient, using the Burbank Campus provides jobs in Fitchburg. And using the Urgent Care Center at Burbank frees a bed for a true emergency at the Leominster campus.

A city-wide network of active Neighborhood Watch Groups to observe and report suspicious activity to Fitchburg law enforcement authorities

Leominster residents united to form Neighborhood Watch groups and crime was drastically reduced in several formerly troublesome neighborhoods. Leominster police didn't do it alone. They did it in co-operation with fed-up citizens.

Neighborhood Watch participants are NOT vigilantes, nor are they quasi-police officers. What they are are residents who meet occasionally, develop a consistent plan for contacting police when they observe suspicious activity, and who work together as a group to call police attention to problems in their neighborhood.

By working together as a concerned group of residents within their own neighborhoods under the auspices of a nationwide network experienced in citizen-police interaction, Neighborhood Watch CAN make a difference. Drug dealers, gangs, thieves and other criminals do not stay where they are not wanted.

Anyone interested in participating in the FSC neighborhood contact me at reallyrachel@verizon.net

Ok, your turn. What would you like to see that will contribute to overall quality of life in Fitchburg? Why? How?

Shalom