Leadership is crucial for the viability of good neighborhoods. Residents volunteering for block watches or neighborhood associations are the backbone of the community.
People getting involved in neighborhood activities is the single most important factor in maintaining the area's quality of life. If residents gave four hours per month to helping their neighbors, it would produce amazing results.
Becoming a neighborhood leader and making a difference can be achieved by the following options:
Forming a neighborhood association
Leading a Block Watch
Hosting a block party
Initiating a hospitality group
Organizing clean up projects
Assisting the elderly with property maintenance
Offering rides to immobile residents
Alleyway clean ups
Volunteering at local schools and churches
Hosting a boy or girl scout troop
Coaching team sports
Barry Morris Goldwater Memorial in Paradise Valley Republican conservative patriarch Barry Goldwater, a former Arizona senator and presidential candidate, died at the age of 89. "Mr. Republican" to many in the GOP, Goldwater was "a conservative's conservative." Outspoken and earthy, he was never afraid to call things as he saw them. Goldwater was elected to the Senate from Arizona in 1952. He served there until 1964 when he became the Republican candidate for president. Goldwater spelled out his political philosophy in a famous line: "I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." As a columnist George Will put it: " The geometry of his face the planes of his strong jaw and high forehead-replicated the buttes and mesas of the Southwest, and the crows feet that crinkled the corners of his eyes seemed made by squinting into sunsets." Goldwater was the last U.S. senator to be born in the continental U.S. territory, two years before Arizona became a state.
The people we spend the most time with and know the least about is... our neighbors next door. Make a point to visit your neighbors, it is the one thing that takes the least amount of effort and can make the greatest impact on the community
Neighborhood Leaders
