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Fairmont Groups Team Up to Clean Up
Posted Saturday, November 14, 2009 ; 06:27 PM | View Comments | Post Comment
Updated Saturday, November 14, 2009; 07:27 PM


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The neighborhood clean-up is the first step in the Safe Neighborhood Program.

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FAIRMONT -- The Fairmont community is working together to clean-up the city.

Project Safe Neighborhood is a collaboration between the Fairmont Police Department, Fairmont State University, and Pierpont Community and Technical College.

Officers and FSU Fraternity members hit the streets between Locust and Walnut Avenues picking up trash and cleaning.

Organizers say the area was targeted because of it high crime rate.

The next step is forming a neighborhood watch group in the area.

Students at Alderson Broaddus College also spent Saturday cleaning.

Around 65 students participated in A Good Day of Service.

They spent three hours picking up trash, weeding gardens, raking leaves, and washing windows at businesses and homes on Main Street in Philippi.

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Robby M. Humes
11/25/09 at 6:21 PM
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I would like to report on something I just witness in the city of Fairmont City building on Nov 25, 2009, I was given a ticket for left of curb in the 200 block of Walnut Ave on sat Nov 20, 2009. After I looked at the ticket I noticed that the city ordnance was recorded incorrectly on the ticket, it was recorded as 367.01 where it should have read 361.07. I went to the city office of Fairmont on Nov 25, 2009 to see what the fine for this is and commented about the city ordnance being recorded incorrectly on the ticket. What happen next shocked me and made me wonder about the honesty of the police in the city of Fairmont. The City clerk of the court of Fairmont went to talk to the Lt. of the police dept. on duty, who came out and said he fixed the ticket, upon looking at the ticket I found that he had wrote over my carbon copy the right city ordnance. I was then given a speech about being a crack down between 4th St. and 7th St., Walnut St. to state route 19, and to talk to the city clerk of court about paying this ticket. during the interview the police Lt. in my opinion talk to me like he was smart aleck little punk, rather than with the common curtesy one gives to another human being in any civilized society, this action on top of anther incident with the police of Fairmont that happen approx. 4 month ago when the police dept. awoke the whole 200 block of Walnut Ave between 2:00 am and 3:00 A.M. to find out who owned a horse trailer that has been left open for several days, I understand that it is a difficult situation being a police officer in this city but I would also like to remind them that the title of police does not give them the right to act as one might think about in a socialist or nazi government or without the respect to the average citizen. These actions so far as I have seen in the city of Fairmont by its police dept. makes me more afraid of the police in this city than the criminal element they are here to protect us from.


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