Northwood News ♦ April 2005

New to the Neighborhood?

If so, we welcome you to Northwood-Four Corners-Forest Knolls!  This is a great neighborhood with many great benefits and loads of nice people.  Some of these benefits are:

• a tremendously active civic association, which successfully fought a drive-through Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco Bell franchise at Woodmoor Center and influenced the location of a Trader Joe’s store at the new Burnt Mills Shopping Center;
• new listservs, one for parents and one a crime watch (see stories);
• our fabulous wooded trail, the Rachel Carson Greenway (access at the north end of Lockridge Drive);
• the North-Four Corners Park (at Edgewood and Southwood Avenues), which will soon be expanded out to University Blvd. (see story);
• environmental activism (biannual clean-ups of the Lockridge Drive creek — see page four — and recycling 50+ percent of our trash);
• political activism (more than 73 percent of registered voters in our precinct voted in the 2004 election);
• the nearby Margaret Schweinhaut Senior Center (1000 Forest Glen Rd.);
• a network of parents with preschoolers (see story);
• an outdoor public pool with a three-meter high dive;
• Forest Knolls Elementary School (on Eastwood Avenue off Caddington), with its Communication Arts focus and total inclusion program for the physically challenged, is undergoing expansion to decrease class size;
• newly reopened Northwood High School; and
• our ethnically diverse population.   ■