Letter to Charles Village Apartments listing damages done in apartment was written on the advice of Officer Rill of Northern District Police (H803, phone 410-396-2455) who visited my apartment with her partner.
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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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Allan W. Garske to Mary Pat Clarke, October 20, 2008 , Page 2
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
FW: Your Call Friday August 1, 2008 | |
From: | Clarke, Mary Pat (MaryPat.Clarke@baltimorecity.gov) |
Sent: | Sat 8/02/08 8:34 PM |
To: | Buzzuro, Ross (Ross.Buzzuro@baltimorepolice.org) |
Cc: | agarske@hotmail.com |
Dear Major Buzzuro,
I have known Mr. Garske (and his son, Eric) for years. I do not quite understand what is wrong, except that he is in danger. Could you please help investigate and let us all know if we should be relocating this gentleman from his current and longtime Charles Village home. Thank you. Mary Pat
From: Allan Garske [mailto:agarske@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:20 PM
To: Clarke, Mary Pat; rklatte@shaw.ca; allan_garske@excite.com
Subject: Your Call Friday August 1, 2008
Saturday, August 2, 2008
To: Mary Pat Clarke, Baltimore City Council, 14th District
From: Allan W. Garske
Cc: rklatte@shaw.ca, allan_garske@excite.com
Dear Mary Pat,
Thank you for your call Friday expressing concern over my situation and offering to help.
On Friday afternoon, I placed a call to Lt. Col. Hite at 443-984-7366 and received a message that no one was in but that my call would be returned. I have not heard from anyone as yet.
I checked with the office of City States Attorney Patricia Jessamy and was told that they still have a program which was responsible for relocating Harwood activist Mrs McAbier out of her home after she made numerous complaints regarding drug activity in that neighborhood. While I have not been firebombed my apartment has been entered repeatedly, practically daily after my first contact with Lt. Col. Hite and other harassing action has been taken against me. As a result, I have withheld my rent on the possibility that I may need the money to relocate.
I have also made contact with Mayor Dixon’s new CARE program which is charged with relocating older adults in danger of becoming homeless. They are sending me a list of possible housing which I should receive Monday and also will have their social worker call me on that day. Their telephone numbers are (410) 396-2273 or (410) 396-4932.
Allan W. Garske
3101 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3420 • Mail: Box 27442, Baltimore 21285-7442
(410) 880 - 2483 • agarske@hotmail.com • Weblog: http: allan366.tripod.com/CV/
December 26, 2007
Rod J. Rosenstein
United States Attorney
District of Maryland
36 South Charles Street, 4th Floor
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Dear Mr. Rosenstein,
Recently I was referred by you and Congressman Elijah E. Cummings to meet with Steven J. Hess of your office to discuss my ongoing problems with the drug and occult community in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore.
My problems continue and have reached a point where I feel I have to seek relocation out of my apartment where I have been a tenant for the past 25 years and the neighborhood where I have lived for most of the 40 years I have been in Baltimore.
One of the people with whom I have been having problems is an individual by the name of David Mills who was identified to me by Baltimore Homicide Detective Donald Worden as a person of interest in the unsolved 1989 murder of Johns Hopkins coed Bridgette Phillips. He was also in the vicinity when Rouse employee Keri Sirbaugh was murdered. The Cold Case Unit of the Homicide Division of the Baltimore City Police Department is familiar with both cases.
I know that the City of Baltimore has successfully relocated families out of areas of danger and I will seek similar assistance. It may be that I should be relocated not only out of Baltimore but out of the State of Maryland.
I am writing not only to inform you and the persons copied in this letter of my situation but also to suggest that the criminal environment in the Charles Village neighborhood may merit investigation and possible prosecution by your office. I can think of at least one Federal law which may be violated. As you may know, Charles Village is one of the neighborhoods adjacent to the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University.
Sincerely,
Allan W. Garske
CC: Congressman Elijah E. Cummings; Mayor Sheila Dixon; Patricia Jessamy, Baltimore City States Attorney; Mary Pat Clarke, 14th District Baltimore City Council; Steven J. Hess; William Brody, President, The Johns Hopkins University
ALLAN W. GARSKE
3101 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3420
agarske@hotmail.com Weblog: allan366.tripod.com/CV/
Phone: (410) 499-2401 MAIL: Box 27442, Baltimore, MD 21285-7442
INTERNET & COMPUTER
Familiar with Macintosh computer. Using Internet, created Email list of press, politicians and community groups to receive news releases and weblog opinion pieces.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Establish positive ongoing relationships with press. Anticipate and function effectively in "crisis" situations. Press contacts have included U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Network News, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Washington Post.
Assisted in creating educational programs for the Maryland General Assembly, Baltimore publics.
As public relations director for Baltimore City Department of Social Services produced A Child Is Waiting TV program to recruit foster care and adoptive homes. Arranged for and produced radio program on city social services.
As state-level public relations director for the Maryland Association for Mental Health counseled Maryland county and city mental health association chapters on publicity and fund raising.
PRINT MEDIA
Develop design and content for annual reports, brochures, magazines and newsletters, advertising supported when appropriate. Supervise writers, photographers, designers, printers, advertising staff. As an entrepreneur published The Charles Street Paper, advertising supported monthly tabloid size arts paper with 15,000 free circulation in Baltimore city.
In order to strengthen Baltimore's Charles Village community, as volunteer changed The Charles Villager newsletter into tabloid size advertising supported neighborhood newspaper with 5,000 circulation.
Editor for trade magazines Airport/Services Management, International Projectionist, Greater Amusements and TV Times, a television listing magazine similar in format to small TV Guide
EMPLOYMENT
Baltimore City Department of Social Services
Maryland Association for Mental Health
Brooklyn Tuberculosis & Health Association
Minnesota State Department of Business Development
EDUCATION
Journalism BA, Radio-Television Specialty, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Associate BA, Devils Lake Junior College, Devils Lake, North Dakota
MILITARY
US Air Force Weather Observer stationed in England near London.
Allan W. Garske agarske@hotmail.com Weblog: allan366.tripod.com/CV/
3101 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3420
Phone: (410) 499-2401 MAIL: Box 27442, Baltimore, MD 21285-7442
June 21, 2007
Steve Crouch
Charles Village Apartments
2508 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Dear Mr. Crouch,
Enclosed please find my check for my June rent plus a payment on arrears.
I am also enclosing a list of damages done to my property over a period of time. I have been advised to supply you with this list by both the Baltimore City police and by Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc. In the future if there is any evidence of tampering or unauthorized entry in my apartment I will obtain a police report immediately.
I will be clearing my apartment by disposing of or donating many of my belongings. As I do so, I will also be cleaning.
Sincerely,
Allan W. Garske
Allan W. Garske agarske@hotmail.com Weblog: allan366.tripod.com/CV/
3101 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3420
Phone: (410) 880-2483 MAIL: Box 27442, Baltimore, MD 21285-7442
June 21, 2007
To Charles Village Apartments
Damage done in apartment:
KITCHEN:
1. Handle broken on floor fan
2. Task chair smashed
3. Torchiere lamp twisted till cord becomes unsable.
BATHROOM
1. Mirror broken
2. Sewing center broken
3. Cardboard dresser demolished
LIVING ROOM
1. Computer hard drive accessed
In a recent column in the Gazette newspapers, communications consultant Barry Rascovar compliments the performance to date of Mayor Sheila Dixon and notes "a prosperous Baltimore is in everyone's interest in Maryland."
Rascovar is also a participant in WYPR 88.1 FM Radio's Wednesday morning politicial commentaries at 6:34 and 8:34 AM. His column can be viewed on Gazette.Net.
Email To Marc Steiner Show, WYPR - April 13 - Your Show Today on State Group Homes for Children
(NOTE: The Steiner show was discussing BALTIMORE SUN articles on State Group Homes For Children)
As a former public relations director for the Baltimore City Department of
Social Services, I know how difficult it is to recruit homes for foster care
and adoptive children. As part of our recruitment efforts, I even produced a
weekly TV program titled "A Child Is Waiting".
Since that time, I believe communities have changed and recruitment is
undoubtedly more difficult. I suggest the State consider State operated
group homes administered by State employees who would certainly be paid less
than private administrators. You don't have to call them orphanages.
As public relations director for the Maryland Association for Mental Health,
I helped close State mental hospitals. I wonder if those facilities could be
put to use as children's homes. Some of them had rural locations but there
is nothing wrong with that.
The important point made in today's BALTIMORE SUN is that these problems did
not originate with the Ehrlich administration.
Email to Steiner Radio Show on Proposed Convention Center Hotel
From: Allan In Charles Village
I am against the proposal to build a new city financed convention center hotel. If the demand existed, the private sector would be interested.
Better we have a temporarily underused convention center than a large new hotel and convention center that both need to be filled.
Baltimore might market to smaller conventions combining convention attendance and family vacations.
An interesting promotion might be:
WE’RE NOT WASHINGTON D.C. BUT WE’RE CLOSE ENOUGH (AND WE’RE CHEAPER)
with a list of things a family can do while the father (or mother) attends their convention.
O'Malley Vs Duncan on Schools
An August 19 column by Barry Rascovar in The Gazette community newspapers calls schools key in governor’s race. The entire article may be viewed at www.gazette.net in the archive of Rascovar's columns.
Barry Rascovar is a strategic communications consultant. His Wednesday morning commentaries can be heard on WYPR, 88.1 FM.
The Gazette publishes 35 weekly newspapers in Maryland including a subscription-based weekend edition covering business and politics throughout the state. Part of the Community Newspaper group of Post-Newsweek Media Inc., a division of The Washington Post Company, The Gazette has been publishing weekly newspapers in the Maryland suburbs since 1959. Internet address is http://www.gazette.net/aboutus/