ALLAN W. GARSKE 3101 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Md 21218
MAIL: Box 27442, Baltimore 21285 EMAIL: agarske@hotmail.com PHONE: (410) 499-2401
WEBLOG: allan366.tripod.com/CV/
October 20, 2008
Mary Pat Clarke, Baltimore City Council, 14th District
100 North Holiday Street, Baltimore, Md 21201
Dear Mary Pat,
On August 2, you sent an Email to Major Ross Buzzuro, Commander of the Northern District City Police asking him to investigate my situation with the possibility of relocating me out of my current and longtime Charles Village home.
I have not heard from Major Buzzuro and have had to keep a combination lock on my apartment door to keep my Charles Village drug and occult neighbors out. Since it became apparent that I might have to leave my apartment where I have been a tenant for the past 25 years, I began to withhold my rent money.
On October 15, I attended Baltimore City Rent Court and may shortly be evicted from my apartment and thus become homeless
My problems with the Charles Village community date back to the late 1970s when I briefly dated a young woman who returned to her original boyfriend, an individual by the name of David Mills who is still active in the Charles Village. Although I was disturbed by her action, I had to let her go. I would not be blackmailed and I was busy caring for my teenage son Erick whom you know. So far as I was concerned, his interests came before those of anyone else.
In order to strengthen the Charles Village community, I approached the Charles Village Civic Association (CVCA) and offered to change their CHARLES VILLAGER newsletter from a letter size publication into a controlled circulation advertising supported tabloid size newspaper. With the assistance of Sandy Sparks, then a graphic designer, this I did do. Samples of both versions of THE CHARLES VILLAGER are on file in the Maryland Room of The Enoch Pratt Free Library. I edited this first new version of THE CHARLES VILLAGER from 1980 to 1982. At that point Pam Kelly, then an assistant to Mayor William Donald Schaefer, became CVCA President. In the meantime, as an entrepreneur, I had begun to publish THE CHARLES STREET PAPER, a free 15,000 copy newspaper covering the arts in the Charles Street corridor and Baltimore city generally. I was able to publish 20 issues before running out of money. Copies of THE CHARLES STREET PAPER and other Baltimore publications I have been involved with have been donated to The Enoch Pratt Free Library but are not on file.
In 1993, the CVCA which had been losing money on THE CHARLES VILLAGER for years invited me back to revive the newsletter. With the assistance of a part time ad sales person this I did do. When the salesperson became ill, it became apparent to me that I could not handle both editorial and sales and so had to resign as editor. As a result, while the newsletter continues to publish and retain the format I established in 1980, it has been years since I have been responsible for the content.
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I am not a Baltimore native. I came to the city in 1966 to serve as public relations director for the Maryland Association for Mental Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the State mental hospitals and promoting treatment in Maryland communities. I had previously worked as public relations director for the Brooklyn (New York) Tuberculosis & Health Association. I earned a Journalism degree from the University of Minnesota in 1961 and was stationed with the US Air Force in England from 1954 to 1958. I have been a resident of Charles Village for most of the 40 years I have lived in Baltimore and have been a tenant at my present address for the past 25 years.
From 1970 to 1989 I was employed by the Baltimore City Department of Social Services initially as public relations director for that agency. At that time, City Councilwoman Agnes Welch was employed by the same agency as a community worker. In 1989, I was fired from State employment for refusing to perform porter’s duties.
In an attempt to protect myself, I am sharing this letter with a number of officials whom I have contacted concerning my situation. I will also post this letter to my weblog at allan336.tripod.com/CV/.
Any assistance you can give me will be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Allan W. Garske
CC: Mayor Sheila Dixon; Baltimore City States Attorney Patricia Jessamy; Baltimore Police Commssioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III; Deputy Commissioner Anthony Barksdale; Lt. Colonel Richard Hite; Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. Attorney District of Maryland; Steven J. Hess, Law Enforcement Coordinator & Victim-Witness Manager, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maryland
