Small Town

John Mellencamp had it right in his song "Small Town" If you don't know it, get that I-Pod working!

According to North Beach staff, the beach this summer had thirty one thousand visitors, yes 31,000 visitors. Pretty impressive and perhaps very profitable for the Town of North Beach.

Private businesses did not fair as well as the beach and it was not for lack of merchandise or the every ready friendly greetings of our shop owners and restaurateurs. While NorthBeachNeighborhood.com over the winter months tries to analyzes how to route this beach traffic to our local shops and restaurants, bear in mind that this is your town and these are your neighborhood shops. If we do not support them during this Fall and upcoming Winter months, some will not be here for next summer's beach traffic. Even if you can't make a purchase or buy a meal, let our shop owners know that you care about each and every one of them and also that you care about the fact that they are our shops and restaurants. This is what being a good neighborhood is all about. If you have not met the owners, stop in and make an introduction. You may be pleasantly surprised just how interesting our shop owners and restaurateurs are. They may also get to learn something about your background and interest as well.

We will be making a concerted effort to profile each business and restaurant within the 20714 Zip Code in the weeks and months to come with the hope that a facet of each owner or a history of each shop can be captured as well. Similarly, your impressions from your visits can be posted in our Neighborhood News-Announcement section.
Give it a try.

This is your town. This is your neighborhood. This is North Beach.

Chili Anyone?

Sometime today, you will be able to see and download our very effective and marvelously productive State Delegate Sue Kullen's award winning Chili recipe. You may have already tasted her Chile at the Polar Bear swim events on this North Beach's New Years Day event. It is coming to you with limited conditions. Make it exactly as dictated and give Sue credit for this marvelous creation, by extending her a smile, a hand shake, or a big North Beach hug whenever she visits. Contributions to her political campaign or publicising her positive contributions throughout our wonderful neighborhoods would also be a nice gesture.

Think you have a great Chili recipe? Think the neighborhoods could benefit from a Chili Cook Off? Send me your thoughts. This is another way for us to be good neighbors and to bring our neighborhoods together. Reluctant to post a recipe with a response posting, e-mail it to me @ijlaw@aol.com or send it to my P.O. Box 213, North Beach,Maryland 20714. You can also post it directly to the recipe section of this website to insure you receive proper attribution.

Thanks again Sue and a very big North Beach Neighborhood "h...........ug" to you.
This is your town. This is your neighborhood. This is North Beach.

Coming Together As A Neighborhood

As evidenced by the wonderful turnout for last Sunday's "Celebration Of Our Neighborhoods" event and the opportunity to "Meet & Greet" Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, (see website-Neighborhood News regarding this event), and the recent substantial involvement of residents in current events involving North Beach, there is a strong desire among our neighbors to be heard and to become involved in each others lives and global community issues. As this dynamic moves forward , there will be no detractors. Efforts to silence those promoting better utilization of town funds, responsiveness to resident's questions and complaints and other quality of life issues, will be unsuccessful.
While the adage" We Cannot Undue History" comes to mind, the adage "You Are Either The Cause Of The Problem or The Instrument For Solution" is a more potent statement for living, working and/or playing in this wonderful community of ours known as North Beach.

Today and each day hereafter is "Day One" for the betterment of North Beach Neighborhoods, and we only get one chance to do it right! Anything less than a total commitment for excellence in stabilizing our infrastructure, code enforcement, ensuring safe streets, a drug free community, aesthetically pleasing streets capes, better utilization of funds, and maintaining a healthy environment is unacceptable. Efforts by those to inhibit this effort has no place in this great community of ours.
This is your neighborhood. This is your town. These are quality of life issues.