He's Pulling His Weight: Making Letters

David on Portsmouth Drive is a neighborhood hero. He attended one Association event in the Summer and actually won a $20.00 Home Depot gift card during our Walking Nights raffle. He decided to use this gift card to buy wood in order to carve out new letters for the Southeastern corner of Croydon & Mather where the "Cordova Towne" letters were never replaced after a car accident 2+ years ago. So he traced the letters from the Northern side so that the font for the Southern side would be exactly the same. Anyway, while on a walk last night around 6pm, I ran into David and I was blown away at how great the letters look and how far they have come along. He had mentioned that he was planning on doing this, but I had no idea that he was actually moving forward. He is just about finished with the letters and so they will soon enter a priming and painting stage. Then we will need someone with experience in masonry to hang them (after we make sure to converse with the City and get the okay to hang them of course).

David is truly "pulling his weight" for the neighborhood. He is applying his abilities for the sake of everyone. He is a great example. Imagine a neighborhood in which everyone found simple ways to benefit the community. Wow.

The picture above is a cell phone image of the letters, in which you can see that the new letters resemble the font of the old ones (and they are not old and crusty like the current letters).

As far as timing, please be patient in order to see these letters hung. David is doing this in his spare time. It would be great to see them hung by Beautification Week (April 20-26, 2008), but we'll see. And maybe the landscaping project will be complete by then too so that new flowers can coincide with new lettering.