{"id":128,"date":"2010-01-10T00:22:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/?p=128"},"modified":"2010-01-10T00:22:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T19:22:43","slug":"january-9-2010-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"January 9, 2010 update"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROPOSED ELIMINATION OF LOCAL RIDE-ON BUS SERVICE<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Montgomery County officials say that, in order to help close the large budget gap, they are considering cuts in bus service, including the weekday service of Route 36 that connects our community to the downtown Bethesda Metro station. A public forum will be held to address this and other proposed cuts in service on Monday, February 1, starting at 6:30 p.m. and ending after the last speaker at the Executive Office Building Cafeteria, Terrace Level, located at 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, Maryland. In the case of inclement weather, the public forum will be held on Tuesday,\u00c2\u00a0 February 2.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0The WBCA Board would like to know your views and whether you would like our association to take a formal position on this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Please email your opinion to Sandy Vogelgesang (everest.associates@erols.com<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, if you feel strongly about this issue, do sign up to speak at the public forum on or before January 25 by furnishing your name, home address, telephone number, and email address to the Division of Transit Services, Ride On Public Forum, 101 Monroe Street, 5th<\/sup> Floor, Rockville, Maryland 20850.\u00c2\u00a0 Comments can be written, faxed or emailed to the Division of Transit services by COB, January 29, at the address just noted or faxed to 240-777-5801 or emailed to mcdot.rideonpublicforums@montgomerycountymd.gov<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Individuals who sign up to speak must bring two printed copies of their testimony for the record.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

POLICE ALERT ON CONTINUING DAYTIME BURGLARIES<\/span><\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0 Detectives from the Montgomery County Police 1st<\/sup> District Investigative Section continue to investigate recent daytime residential burglaries that have occurred in the Potomac and Darnestown areas and that appear to be related.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the burglaries have occurred on weekdays during the daylight hours.\u00c2\u00a0 In all of the burglaries, force was used to gain entry into the house either through a window or a door.\u00c2\u00a0 In each burglary, jewelry has been the target of the suspect(s).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Residents are reminded to lock their doors and windows and make sure that their garage doors are secure when they are not at home.\u00c2\u00a0 Residents are also asked to notify their neighbors, and encouraged to have a caretaker stop by the house when they are away for extended periods of time.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, residents are encouraged to use timers on their lights, radios, and televisions, and to hold their mail and news subscriptions while they are away.\u00c2\u00a0 The police ask that all residents report any and all alarm calls immediately when alerted of alarm activations at their residence.\u00c2\u00a0 Officers will immediately be dispatched to check the residence.<\/p>\n

Report suspicious activity, vehicles, and individuals promptly to the police by calling the non-emergency number at 301-279-8000.\u00c2\u00a0 A detailed description of the suspicious person or vehicle is extremely helpful.\u00c2\u00a0 Descriptors may include race, gender, clothing-type, and hair color.\u00c2\u00a0 Obtaining the vehicle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s color, make, model, tag number, and direction of travel will also assist responding officers.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyone who may have information about these residential burglaries and\/or the involved suspect(s) is asked to call the 1st<\/sup> District Investigative Section at 240-773-6084.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

COUNTY MEETING ON SENIOR FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES:\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>The monthly meeting of the Montgomery County Civic Association \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the umbrella organization of civic associations to which WBCA belongs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c will focus on what several nearby neighborhoods are doing to help seniors and others continue to live in their homes and enjoy more community support.\u00c2\u00a0 The meeting will be held on Monday, January 11<\/span>, 7:45-10:00 PM at the County Council Office Building (first floor auditorium) at 100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville.\u00c2\u00a0 Free parking in adjacent County garage.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The one-hour\u00c2\u00a0 program will start about 8:00 PM and will be followed by question period and reports on other County issues.\u00c2\u00a0 All citizens of WBCA welcome! \u00c2\u00a0For more information, see www.montgomerycivic.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PROPOSED ELIMINATION OF LOCAL RIDE-ON BUS SERVICE:\u00c2\u00a0 Montgomery County officials say that, in order to help close the large budget gap, they are considering cuts in bus service, including the weekday service of Route 36 that connects our community to the downtown Bethesda Metro station. A public forum will be held to address this and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general","category-seniors","category-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westbradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}