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Crime has fallen citywide from 1,302 incidents in 2008 to 880 incidents in 2014, according to the mayor's office.Today, there are block parties in the West Ward. Crumbling homes have been snapped up, dusted off or rebuilt. In the West Ward, it's always two steps forward and one step back, said Larry Porter, who in 1990 bought and refurbished an old bar and turned it into Porters' Pub.Porter says more and more people are driving over the hump <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=True-Religion-For-Babies>True Religion For Babies</a>  on Northampton street meaning the imaginary line on Northampton Street where downtown ends and the West Ward begins to visit local restaurants.'Wonderful place to grow up'The West Ward is bounded east and west by Sixth Street and 15th Street respectively, south by the Lehigh River and north by Bushkill Creek. About 16,000 of the city's 26,000 residents live there.Unlike College Hill, which grew around the Lafayette College campus, the West Ward grew from Easton's natural outgrowth of the city's first 1,000 acres.Business owners built more palatial homes on the western outskirts of the city, Holden said. For example, local silk mill owner Herman Simon first owned a home in the West Ward before building his more extravagant mansion now a historic landmark on North Third Street.Working-class people built row homes and more modest single-family dwellings to fill in the gaps, Holden said.When she was growing up in the West Ward, families still lived in those homes. It was a wonderful place to grow up, she said.Local artist Anthony Marraccini graduated from Easton Area High School in 1989, and for the past two years has lived at a home at Sixth and Ferry streets on the edge of the West Ward.Years ago, Easton's downtown was more of a problem spot, Marraccini said, and the West Ward, while always working class, didn't have such a bad reputation.Panto didn't grow up in the West Ward, but he attended a West Ward school and played basketball as a youth there.It wasn't perfect, he said, but people didn't wave guns. Today, the housing vacancy rate is about 50 percent higher in the West Ward than in the rest of Easton, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Families who live in the West Ward tend to make less money than their counterparts elsewhere in the city.Nearly half the properties in the West Ward are rentals, according to the survey. And many residents say one of the biggest problems the <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=Gucci-Glasses>Gucci Glasses</a>  neighborhood faces is absentee landlords who let properties deteriorate or allow too many tenants to live in one spot.Panto said the violence commonly isn't caused by residents of the West Ward. Rather, out-of-towners use the city's proximity to Route 22 to zip into town, sell drugs and leave.Marraccini says the problems of the West Ward are part of the natural evolution of cities. I think it's a combination of things, Marraccini said. The rise of suburbia. Gradual decline. You're left with what you're left with. Fighting 'Sleaston' Be good friends with your neighbors, Micki Katz told the crowd at the Easton Area Community Center on Monday night, even if they're carrying guns. A few of the dozens of West Ward residents who'd poured into the Washington Street building chuckled.Katz, 72, lives on 13th Street.She says she sees people with weapons and drugs, and urban violence near her front stoop. I call it Sleaston, she quipped.Her survival tip: Treat your neighbors with kindness. They won't shoot you then, she said.Holden and Sophia Feller, the West Ward Neighborhood Partnership's urban agriculture coordinator, organized the meeting in the wake of the shootings. Holden said she wasn't sure what to expect. But when she arrived at the community center around 7 p.m., a crowd had already formed at the door. West Warders of all stripes filled seats in the community room. There were veterans like Katz, <a href=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Jimmy-Choo-South-Africa>Jimmy Choo South Africa</a>  who seemed to have mastered a gallows humor about the neighborhood. Younger residents, artists who'd bought old row homes and cleaned them up, also joined in the discussion, mingling with the West Ward's working class.The city sent its own retinue that included Panto, Administrator Glenn Steckman, Easton Police Chief Carl Scalzo and Captain Scott Casterline. We're here to listen to you, Panto told the crowd.They discussed rebuilding the local neighborhood watch. Some residents talked about the need to install more porch lights to illuminate dark spots. Others talked about adding speed bumps to public thoroughfares (not legal, Panto said) or adding stop signs to every crossroads in the West Ward to slow traffic.Steckman told residents how to lodge complaints on the city's website. Police officers talked about doing more to increase their visibility.
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Lakes CLEAR (Pierce) : Folks looking for a change from trolling, can try anchoring in water about 45 feet deep. Look for fish 25-30 feet <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php> cheap gucci</a>  down. Use a small orange still-fishing spinner tipped with a maggot and a red egg. HARTS: A few crappie are being caught. Try using a red- or yellow-and-white crappie jig. People are catching yellow perch using a worm fished under a bobber. The catfish action has been slowed by warm water, but should pick up soon. LEECH: The trout action has been good to very good. Brook and rainbow trout are hitting scud, Carey Special, mayfly emerger, bloodworm and caddis patterns. The best surface action has been midday. MINERAL: The trout action has improved. Most people are still fishing off the bottom. Use a combination of a worm, marshmallow and a Power Egg on a 4-foot leader. RATTLESNAKE: The fishing has improved as the cool nights have lowered the water temperature. Try fishing black or maroon leeches in the deep portions of the lake. WASHINGTON: The fishing has been good in the waters of Magnuson Park in Seattle. People are catching lots of yellow perch and rock bass, and the smallmouth bass action has been very good as well.Rivers COWLITZ: The action has been fair, based on state creel sampling. Anglers are landing a mix of chinook, coho and steelhead, but the numbers of fish have not been great. GREEN: This has been one of the best rivers right now for consistent catches of nice, bright coho. Anglers are having success fishing in the morning with eggs. PUYALLUP: Some fish <a href=http://www.alportico.net/prodotti/christianlouboutin-sale.jkmsw.php>Christian Louboutin Outlet</a>  are being caught, but the action is far from red hot. SNOHOMISH: People making the drive north had some success over the weekend. Most people are drifting jigs under a bobber, while others are using spoons. YAKIMA: The fly action has been very good in recent days. Look for the trout holding in seams and pools in the middle of the river, now that flows are low. There have been hatches of caddis, yellow mayflies and crane flies. Terrestrial patterns like grasshoppers, ants and beetles also are effective.Salt water FLY FISHING: The beach action is starting to pick up as the coho are returning, especially along the eastside of Puget Sound at spots like Browns Point and Dash Point. Some fish also are being caught in the Tacoma Narrows. Try using bright, sparse flies 3-4 inches long, such as a stinger Clouser. SEKIU: The coho fishing has been good since the weekend. NORTH SOUND: Daniel Lejnieks won the Edmonds Coho Derby s $5,000 first prize with an 11.15-pound fish. There were 331 fish weighed in during Saturday s derby. SOUTH SOUND: People are catching far more coho than chinook in <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/michaelkorssonline.php> michael kors bags</a>  the Tacoma area, just not in great numbers according to state creel sampling. The salmon fishing in the Olympia area has been slow. WESTPORT: The action since the weekend has been mostly for coho. Charter boats are running north about 15 miles from the harbor mouth, then heading west about 8 miles in water about 150 feet deep. The tuna action has slowed as the fish have moved south and far offshore for now.
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Contributors: State Department of Fish and Wildlife, washingtonflyfishing.com, The Evening Hatch, Anil Srivastava at Puget Sound Fly Co., Westport Charter Boat Association, John Keizer at saltpatrol.com, washingtonlakes.com, Doreen Douglas at Mineral Lake Resort, Don Wells at Harts Lake Resort & Deli. Jeffrey P. Mayor: 253-597-8640

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Contributors: State Department of Fish and Wildlife, washingtonflyfishing.com, The Evening Hatch, Anil Srivastava at Puget Sound Fly Co., Westport Charter Boat Association, John Keizer at saltpatrol.com, washingtonlakes.com, Doreen Douglas at Mineral Lake Resort, Don Wells at Harts Lake Resort & Deli. Jeffrey P. Mayor: 253-597-8640
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