{"id":4765,"date":"2014-05-27T21:29:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T04:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2014-05-27T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T04:29:58","slug":"stapletoniongmail-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=4765","title":{"rendered":"Block Captain Relieved of Duties After Suggesting Dry Block Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"Block<\/a>Conservatory Green Block Captain Anne Walker has been an ideal block captain. She has kept her neighbors informed on community meetings and updates, helped initiate acquiring neighborhood watch signs<\/a>, as well as organized a team for the annual Stapleton Kickball Tournament<\/a>. \u201cShe has been basically everything you can ask for in a block captain,\u201d said neighbor Julia Dillingham. \u201cShe simply made a mistake that you really can\u2019t recover from. Is there a chance she could lead us again? Certainly, but not in the near future.\u201d\n\nThe irrecoverable mistake that Dillingam is referring to is Walker\u2019s recent suggestion for the upcoming block party. \u201cShe sent everyone an email suggesting that we have a dry, or alcolhol free, block party,\u201d said neighbor Keith Kouremetis. \u201cIt did not go over well.\u201d Neighbors first had to figure out if Walker was kidding. \u201cShe is a pretty serious person, but I still thought she had to be joking about this,\u201d said Kouremetis. \u201cSo, I emailed her back and kind of said, \u2018ha, good one\u2019 to test it out. But, she emailed back and said she was serious.\u201d\nWalker declined to be interviewed, but neighbors say she listed reasons as to why she thought a dry block party was a smart idea. \u201cShe mentioned a handful of reasons such as having the kids see the adults drinking, people not staying up in the alley until 1AM, and no one telling inappropriate stories from when they were younger,\u201d said Dillingham. \u201cBut, collectively, those reasons are almost the same reasons we all enjoy the block party, aside from influencing our children to drink.\u201d\nAfter a brief email exchange of the residents on the block, minus Walker, the Block decided to remove Walker from her block captain responsibilities. \u201cWe did it very professionally, through a brief to the point email,\u201d said Kouremetis. \u201cWe let her know her and her family are still very much a part of this block, but maybe her leadership was out of line with that of the constituents.\u201d Kouremetis is serving as the interim block captain until a decision can be made on a permanent captain by August. \u201cOur focus right now is in having a great block party with lots of booze,\u201d said Kouremetis. \u201cAfter that, we are just taking things one step at a time.\u201d\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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