A Blue Night Downtown

Just received a heads-up from the events coordinator at Destinations Booksellers. It looks like they are reviving their once well-received public issues gatherings.

On Thursday, January 10, at 6 p.m., the store will be hosting a contingent from the F.O.P., calling the event "A Night With the F.O.P." Store owner Randy Smith will be the moderator (a first I think. Randy was never part of the program during the old symposiums).

The panel will consist of line officers selected by the lodge and its leaders, addressing a "proposition" put forward for the event. Questions from the audience may be permitted during the main event, but a formal Q&A will conclude it.

The proposition, still being drafted, will pose a hypothetical, still being drafted, but based on comments gathered during the past three and one-half years. We'll post the formal proposition later, but we understand that it will challenge the officers to declare what they would be able to do for public safety in New Albany if they got everything they were asking for. I'm sure it will be put more diplomatically than that, but we'll see.

If you've got an interest in government, safety, hygiene, enforcement, streets and traffic, and police/community relations, plan to attend this get-together.