#1 - RIDICULOUS!!! $945.00 FUND DRIVE REQUEST!!! IN OUR OPINION, ALL PERSONAL AND POLITICAL!!!

FELLOW RESIDENTS OF COPLAY. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AND ACT ACCORDINGLY.

IN OUR OPINION, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF LEGITIMATE, COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE ORIENTED FUND RAISERS IN COPLAY EACH YEAR. COPLAY SPORTS, COPLAY RECREATION & WELFARE ASSN., COPLAY LIONS, COPLAY PUBLIC LIBRARY, COPLAY FIRE DEPARTMENT ARE ALL IN THAT CATEGORY. IF WE HAVE MISSED ANY, WE WILL ADD THEM TO THE LIST.

THIS POSTING IS NOT ABOUT ANY OF THE ABOVE.


        SPECIAL NOTE!!
COPLAY CRIME WATCH, WHICH WAS RECOGNIZED AND CERTIFIED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION ON CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, AS WELL AS THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE, IS NOT AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY WITH THE LEINERJRTOWNWATCH, WHICH IS MAKING THIS REQUEST!!!

AN ARTICLE IN THE WHITEHALL/COPLAY PRESS ON THURSDAY JUNE 26, 2014, ANNOUNCED A NEW FUND DRIVE FOR NNO (NATIONAL NIGHT OUT) BY THE LEINERJRTOWNWATCH , WITH HIS CONTACT INFO.  I WILL INCLUDE THE REQUEST AS PRINTED IN THE PAPER.

SPECIAL NOTE: THE "OUR NOTE" INSERTS BELOW WERE NOT PART OF THE WHITEHALL/COPLAY PRESS ARTICLE.

$100.00 - $50.00 EACH FOR TWO BIKES FOR PRIZES 
$100.00 FOR TOOTSIE THE CLOWN (ENTERTAINMENT)
$100.00 FOR MUSIC BY D.J.
(OUR NOTE: THIS USED TO BE FREE!!!)
$75.00 FOR A 20Th ANNIV. BIRTHDAY CAKE
(OUR NOTE: LEINER,Jr. WASN'T EVEN INVOLVED WHEN CCW INITIATED NNO. HE MADE THIS POLITICAL FOR HIS PERSONAL BENEFIT.)
$40.00 FOR SODA
$90.00 FOR HOT DOGS
(OUR NOTE: THESE ITEMS WERE ALSO DONATED BY CCW MEMBERS)
$40.00 FOR WATERMELON
(OUR NOTE: WATERMELON WAS PREVIOUSLY  DONATED BY A COPLAY COUPLE. WHY THE CHANGE???) 
$100.00 FOR A MOON BOUNCE
$150.00 - $25.00 EACH FOR 6 KIDS GAMES
$150.00 FOR 5 NNO BANNERS
(OUR NOTE: PREVIOUSLY INCLUDED FOR FREE WITH $25.00 NATW REGISTRATION FEE)

TOTAL; $945.00        (SAY THIS QUICKLY)



THE FIRST THREE NNO NIGHTS DIDN'T COST THE PUBLIC A SINGLE PENNY. EVERYTHING WAS DONATED BY THE MEMBERS OF COPLAY CRIME WATCH.
THE 3RD NNO WAS RUN BY ROY & MARYANN (MAME) FISHER AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, SHANNON, SHEELIN, SHAVAUN AND KYLE.
MAME REGISTERED 250 PARTICIPANTS, AS SHE GAVE OUT NAME STICKERS. THEY SUPPLIED VARIOUS GAMES, INCLUDING A BASKETBALL SHOOT FOR THE YOUNGSTERS. ROY PRESENTED A TERRIFIC MAGIC SHOW WHICH WAS ENJOYED BY THE CHILDREN AND ADULTS ALIKE. THE FISHERS CONTACTED MANY DIGNITARIES WHO CAME AND SHARED THE EVENING IN A TRULY NEIGHBORHOOD ATMOSPHERE.  ROY FISHER PRODUCED, AND MAINTAINED A LARGE SITUATION MAP OF COPLAY BOROUGH AND, BASED ON INFO FROM THE POLICE CHIEF AT THAT TIME, UPDATED THE MAP CONTINUOUSLY TO SHOW WHAT AND WHERE POSSIBLE CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES WERE TAKING PLACE IN COPLAY AND PROGRESS MADE.
NOTE: THE FISHERS CONTACTED THE COPLAY BOROUGH OFFICIALS AND WERE PERMITTED TO BLOCK OFF COPLAY ST. FROM 5TH ST. TO CURRANT ALLEY.  SWIMMING WAS EVEN PROVIDED.  THE POLICE DEPT., THE FIRE DEPT., THE AMBULANCE CORPS, THE STATE POLICE, THE SHERIFF AND D.A.'s OFFICES WERE INVOLVED.

AND THERE WAS NO FUND RAISER REQUESTED BY COPLAY CRIME WATCH IN THOSE EARLY YEARS.
B. LEINER, Jr. CHANGED ALL THAT.

IN OUR OPINION, LEINER,Jr. IS AGAIN TRYING TO ENHANCE HIS POLITICAL IMAGE. THE GROUP HE IS AFFILIATED WITH IS THE NATIONAL TOWN WATCH ASSN., LOCATED NEAR PHILADELPHIA. 
LEINER, Jr. HAS GONE AFTER AWARDS FROM THIS ORGANIZATION FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. HE DIDN'T IN 2013, BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE WAS CHAIRMAN OF THE B.LEINERJRTOWNWATCH . NO RECOGNITION FOR LEINER JR, IN MY OPINION. 

I WILL ALSO ATTACH A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT WAS BROUGHT TO US BY A NEIGHBOR, WHO FOUND IT WHILE VISITING A CITY IN PENNSYLVANIA, CONCERNING THE NATIONAL TOWN WATCH ASSN. THE ARTICLE STATES THAT MANY STATES NATIONWIDE WERE ABANDONING THE CONNECTION TO NATIONAL TOWN WATCH FOR OBVIOUS REASONS AND WERE FORMING THEIR OWN LOCAL NIGHT AGAINST CRIME. THE ARTICLE STATES THAT THE NTWA WOULD GIVE OUT AWARDS FOR NNO, BUT DID NOT CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING TO LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH GROUPS.  AS PRINTED IN THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, THE ITEM WAS ALSO PUBLISHED IN THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. PLEASE, ALSO READ WHAT THE LATE SENATOR ARLEN SPECTOR HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE NATIONAL ASSN. OF TOWN WATCH IN THE SECOND ARTICLE.

WE, AND CCW,  HAVE NO PERSONAL INFO ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF THAT ORGANIZATION, THE NATIONAL ASSN. OF TOWN WATCH.

I DO KNOW THIS - WHEN COPLAY CRIME WATCH FIRST OBSERVED NNO, AFTER BEING MADE AWARE OF IT BY THE NOW RETIRED PA STATE TROOPER WHO INITIATED CCW IN COPLAY, WE PAID A $25.00 REGISTRATION FEE TO NATW AND RECEIVED DOOR HANGERS AND BANNERS PUBLICIZING NNO BY NATW.

NOW, LEINER, Jr. IS ASKING FOR $150.00 FOR BANNERS???  

THE SITUATION NOW IS THAT HE WANTS EVERYONE ELSE TO PAY FOR HIS PERSONAL AGGRANDISEMENT --- AS USUAL --- IN OUR OPINION.

WHY IS IT THAT NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES IN OUR LOCALE HAVE ABANDONED THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT???

THESE SAME COMMUNITIES STILL RECOGNIZE AND ARE AFFILIATED WITH CRIME WATCH, AS PRESENTED BY THE PA STATE POLICE AND THE PA COMMISSION ON CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. THEIR CRIME WATCH SIGNS, WITH AND/OR WITHOUT McGRUFF TAKING A BITE OUT OF CRIME, ARE RECOGNIZEABLE IN MANY AREAS OF PENNSYLVANIA. WHY ARE THEY NO LONGER VISIBLE IN COPLAY???
NOTE THE CCW SIGN AT THE END OF THIS POSTING.

LEINER Jr. ANNOUNCED RECENTLY IN THE WHITEHALL/COPLAY PRESS THAT HE WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION TO COPLAY BOROUGH COUNCIL, BUT WILL PURSUE OTHER PUBLIC OFFICE INSTEAD.
THIS IS THE SAME B. LEINER Jr. WHO COMPLAINED TO COUNCIL, AFTER BECOMING A MEMBER, THAT THERE WERE TOO MANY COMMITTEES. COUNCIL OBLIGED BY CONSOLIDATING AND DOWNSIZING. TO MY RECOLLECTION,  B.LEINER, Jr DOESN'T CHAIR A COMMITTEE.

TOO MANY COMMITTEES???  B. LEINER, Jr. HAS A MYRIAD OF COMMITTEES  IN HIS LEINERJRTOWNWATCH. HE ANNOUNCED A NEW ONE THIS YEAR AGAIN. 

SPEAKING OF COMMITTEES, LET'S GO BACK TO THE BOROUGH COUNCIL WORKSHOP MEETING OF DEC. 2013. THE BUILDING CODE AND ZONING OFFICER
MADE COUNCIL AWARE THAT HE HAD TO CONDEMN A HOME ON S. 9TH ST. BECAUSE OF ODOR AND FILTH. PREMISES NOT LIVABLE WITH UNSANITARY CONDITIONS.  RESIDENT HAD 12 CATS ON THE PREMISES, WELL ABOVE THE ALLOWABLE LIMIT OF PETS BY A RESIDENT. THE BUILDING CODE AND ZONING OFFICER REPORTED THAT THE RESIDENT OF THAT PROPERTY WAS A MEMBER OF THE LEINERJrTOWNWATCH FERAL CAT COMMITTEE.  UPON QUESTIONING BY A COUNCIL MEMBER, LEINER,Jr ADMITTED THAT, HE, LEINER, Jr.,  WAS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE 3 PERSON FERAL CAT COMMITTEE, BUT CLAIMED TO KNOW NOTHING OF THE SITUATION BROUGHT BEFORE COUNCIL. NEEDLESS TO SAY, WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS INTO 2014, A NEW CHAIRMAN WAS APPOINTED.  WHY AND BY WHOM ??? YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE.

PERSONAL NOTE: THE FERAL CAT PROGRAM, IF ADMINISTERED PROPERLY, COULD BE BENEFICIAL TO A COMMUNITY.

LEINER,Jr. GOT BACK ON COPLAY BOROUGH COUNCIL IN 2012.  WITHIN THE FIRST SEVERAL MONTHS, HE FILED TWO PROPERTY COMPLAINTS AGAINST JOSEPH BUNDRA, WHO HAD JUST TAKEN OFFICE AS MAYOR OF COPLAY.   THE BUILDING CODE AND ZONING OFFICER FOUND NO BASIS FOR THE COMPLAINTS.  BILL LEINER,Jr. IN ACTION AGAIN!!


WE HAVE MUCH MORE THAT WE CAN SAY, BUT  WILL HOLD THAT FOR A FUTURE POSTING. 

PLEASE, TAKE THE TIME TO THINK OVER WHAT WE HAVE POSTED BEFORE CONTRIBUTING TO AN UNWARRANTED FUND DRIVE. THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT SERVE US ALL YEAR ROUND WHICH REALLY CAN USE THE FUNDS TO BENEFIT THE YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE.

GOD BLESS,
FRANK AND ANN DICKMAN

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AND COPLAY CRIME WATCH