Longview Hills @ Newport Oregon

Lamp posts need your address...

ron thomas .... An Editorial Opinion..



So we see the Assistant Fire Cheif coming to the park last year and praising us for putting address numbers on our post lights. The Engineer that drove the truck said at two in the am when you are trying to find nearly invisible addresses on the sides of houses it was the greatest thing since peanut butter.


Why do so many houses still not have the numbers? Personally we worry that a life may be lost just because of a stupid address number not being visible. Even in the daytime they are highly visible. Yet here we are with a lot of homes with no visible numbers. Some have told me that they can see their numbers on their houses just fine. But we are not talking about whether YOU can see them or not but whether the paramedic can see them. Doesn't it make sense that if everyone puts their numbers on their globes and the paramedics know this is standardized they won't have to dawdle around searching for the number that you can see just fine on your house?

By putting an address number on your lamp post light you are doing two good things.

1. First, you are protecting yourself and your family with the cheapest insurance available.
2. Secondly, you are making it easier to find your neighbor's home too.

Now we suspect that some folks might harbor ill will toward the Social Club for some past grievances or because of the current leadership or for whatever reason do not want to support this effort to make our community safer. Please take a bye on those feelings just for this one thing. Then you can return to whatever stance you want but just for this one thing, putting address numbers on your globes, won't you consider doing it yourself OR letting the volunteers do it for you?

To this end I volunteer to put those numbers on your globes for a $5 donation to the Social Club. (no post painting). If you cannot afford the $5.00 donation I will do it for FREE. Just give Donna Davi (Social Club Treasurer) a call and tell her you can't afford it but would like it done and it will be done. A signup sheet will be on the Bulletin Board.

If you do it yourself you can buy it at Walmart. They come in squares. Just trim the square away with scissors and an exacto knife and align them on the globe and glue them down. If you make a mistake scrape them off and cut another set of numbers.

Finally, if you are a block captain you already have a desire to make your neighborhood safer. If you haven't done so before please talk to that neighbor that hasn't numbered his/her light yet and tell them what the Fire Cheif said.