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My Possible Eviction‏

From:	Allan Garske (agarske@hotmail.com)
Sent:	Tue 12/09/08 7:44 PM
To:	mayor@baltimorecitygov.com; marypat.clarke@baltimorecity.gov; egarske@sbcglobal.net
Bcc:	allan_garske@excite.com

After today I may become liable to eviction from my apartment. I have been working with my landlord, Charles Village Apartments, and his representative Steve Crouch (Phone: 889-1546) to pay off my arrears and relocate. Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke has been assisting me in this matter.
 
You may recall that I have been in touch with you and elected officials recently about my problems with the drug scene in Charles Village.
 
Any assistance you can give me in delaying my eviction by the Sherriff's Office until I can settle this matter would be appreciated.
 
My phone number is (410) 499-2401 should you have any questions.

 

Police Contact

On week of November 3, 2008 received call from Officer Gibson of Northern District police who may have been reSsponding to Mary Pat Clarke's Email of August 1. Email address: douglas.gibson@baltimorepolice.org, phone 367-8491.

Sent him an Email suggesting we meet at my apartment at 3101 Guilford Avenue so that I could show him damages done and perhaps obtain a Police Report. He did not show and has not contacted me again. So far as I know he is community relations officer for Northern District police.

National Service: A Thought For The New President
15 December 2005 10:47 EST | Posted by allan366

PICKS & FINDS: James Salter
James Salter seems more like a European writer than an American. The author of six novels, his erotic “A Sport and A Pastime” was selected as a title in The Modern Library in 1995. His short story collection “Dusk” won the Pen/Faulkner Award in 1998 and in 2000 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Never a best seller, he has been honored for his style perhaps as much as anything else and has made a living through teaching and film work. A graduate of West Point, he flew more than 100 missions during the Korean War.

“Gods of Tin”, (Shoemaker and Horn, Washington, D.C., 2004, Edited and introduced by Jessica Benton and William Benton) is a narrative of Salter’s Korean War experience including sections from his novels and memoirs as well as sections of a journal he kept during the War.

Salter writes:

“You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried with you into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.”

Large numbers of the latest Soviet fighter, the MIG-15, flown mostly by Russians, challenged American control of the air. For American fighter pilots, the tour was 100 combat missions.

The War began in 1950 when North Korea invaded the south. A bit later, a friend of mine, tiring of junior high school in North Dakota, attempted to dynamite our school. He was given the choice of reform school or joining the Marines.

He chose the Marines and as a large boy, was named BAR man of his squad, carrying the large World War I assault rifle. When an overwhelming number of Chinese “volunteers” crossed into South Korea, my friend took part in the American retreat, exchanging his BAR for a lighter Garand and finally carrying a light carbine. He spent some time walking with the brains of his best friend frozen on his face.

The War was easier for me. Unable to afford to continue college, I was unable being eligible for the Draft to find a full time job. I enlisted in the Air Force and as an Air Weather Observer found myself in a war room under an English hill, plotting weather maps for bomb runs we helped plan daily into Russia.

My friend survived his first tour of duty, was discharged, came back to North Dakota, spent a few weeks driving a motorcycle around town, an Indian girl on the back, then reenlisted. I sometimes wonder if he has survived our wars between then and now.

It is worth noting that the North Koreans twice occupied the South Korean capitol of Seoul.

Over the recent Thanksgiving holiday a Baltimore television station had repeat showings of the superb 1989 film “Glory” starring Matthew Broderick as a young white Civil War officer leading America’s first unit of volunteer black soldiers portrayed by such actors as Denzel Washington, Andre Braugher and Morgan Freeman. As much as anything, it is the story of the creation of a fighting unit.

It is presently shown as part of American military training.

When I went through basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, I found myself with a cross section of America including Southerners with whom we refought the Civil War an argument which could always be ended by saying to the man in the bunk beneath us: “Well, we won”, leaving him grumbling.

Also with us were pachucos with their black baggy pants with the silver stripe down the side and their temporarily greasy haircuts, always telling each other what to do to their mothers.

As part of our training, we were shown the 1943 film “The Ox-Bow Incident”, about the lynching of three cowboys suspected of the murder of a rancher. When the men were suspended strangling, a lyncher stepped forward with a rifle and put two of them out of their misery, leaving the third, a Mexican played by Anthony Quinn, to die slowly.

Our instructor mentioned that Quinn was left to die horribly because he was Mexican, and thus began for many of us an education about discrimination.

Some of us continued in the military but many, like Salter, left to return to civilian life. But for many of us the military was a transforming experience, and one that many young people are poorer for never having known.

However and whenever our present war in Iraq is resolved, it might well be worth considering some form of national service for young Americans, whether basic military training or some form of civilian service like the Peace Corps or the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s.

Such service might be rewarded by a modified version of a G.I. Bill helping to finance perhaps two years of Junior College or training in a technical school, helping to close what seems to me a growing gap in American education.

And in an America where I see the races growing apart, such a program might help to bring us together again.

 

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Letter To Charles Village Apartments
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.

Letter To Mary Pat Clarke

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

Rod Letter

• Thursday, 3 January 2008
  Rod
  

  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 

  
  

   

  Posted by allan366 at 10:34 AM EST

Resume

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letter To Landlord

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

Baltimore's Crucial Election

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.