The Lake Sarasota Community Blog

This Thursday, March 1: Everyone's welcome to our quarterly meeting in the main building at Alliance Church at 7 pm: 7221 Bee Ridge Rd, north side of Bee Ridge opposite Chaucer. Make your voice heard and meet some neighbors!   The proposed agenda: Community concerns Voting to renew our license Spring community garage sale date Fresh Start FPL Power line placement on Bee Ridge Bus Stop at Allan Place The men of Alliance Church want to know about any needy residents again. Note that the meeting will be in the Main Building.

CONNECT February 2018 The Impact of Neighborhood Relationships Social Disorganization Theory was developed in the 1940s by two criminologists, Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay. The modern theory proposes that crime prevention is significantly impacted by our social networks. A willingness of neighbors to trust one another and to intervene in a problem situation can help balance residents when other factors are tipping the scales. In a June 2007 article written for Old Dominion University's Quest, professors Ruth Triplett and Randy Gainey outlined three causes for the impact: Knowledge of our neighbors gives us the feeling that we have a responsibility to watch out for them. This same knowledge tells us when someone is out of place or something inappropriate is going on. Caring neighbors are more likely to agree upon common problems and work together to solve them. We've recently engaged in multiple conversations about a grassroots desire to form or strengthen neighbor...