Basketball in Morningside Park
The first ever Morningside youth Basketball game with
Muncie
City Police Officers was held in
Morningside Park on Saturday May 27th 2000.
Morningside Crime Watch had been wanting to get area youth involved in organized activities in Morningside Park and invite some Law Enforcement Officers.
The first Basketball Game was a joint effort of Morningside Parents headed by Jeff Hurst, with the arrangements with Police and advertizement coordinated by Morningside Crime Watch, (the same two groups who co-sponsored our, first in many years, Morningside Park Y2000 Easter Egg Hunt).
On hand from
MPD were the following Police Officers ;
The weather was great and overall it was a good day for
Morningside to launch its first ever Community Oriented Policing Basketball event with these fine Officers from the
Muncie Police Department.
We were hopefull that our Morningside youth would have a donation fulfillment of their own uniforms (with Morningside Team identification), like we have been discussing, but although it has yet to transpire we still hold hopes that someone or a buisness sponsor might step forward with such a donation.
- Our Second Basketball Game with Muncie Police Officers was conducted here in Morningside Park on Saturday 12 August 2000, with the same MPD Officers.
- Our Third Y2000 Basketball Game with Muncie Police Officers was conducted here in Morningside Park at Noon on Saturday 16 September 2000, with the same MPD Officers.
- These Basketball Games were continued in 2001.
- Our first game with MPD in 2002 will be Saturday 4 May 2002.
- If they can get some players assembled, we hope to arrange a Basketball Game to be held at C.O.P. Shop # One, located across the street from Central High School, on the north-western edge of McKinley Neighborhood, and games held at other C.O.P. Shops located in other Muncie neighborhoods.
If you have a group of youth who would want to play Basketball with ours from Morningside, just drop our Morningside Crime Watch an e-mail
at morningsidecw@aol.com
This 28 May 2000 page was published and is maintained by Ervin Davis and LAST up-dated on 29 April 2002
