Families & Friends 4 A Safe Panama City Beach is organizing an emergency community meeting of concerned citizens, businesses, churches, civic organizations and others to discuss several topics. At the top of the agenda is the ongoing tragedies of College/Student Spring Break, the TDC and other issues effecting the image and safety of our community and visitors. Please Read the following letter from PCB resident and ministry leader Mark Canfora-one of the founders of this concerned citizens group:
This is a request for prayer and action. Children are being hurt severely and many have died.
We are announcing a community meeting (awaiting confirmation) at Arnold High School Monday- 03/30/09 at 7 p.m.in the Auditorium in Panama City Beach (which is less than two weeks before the 4/11/09 festival @ Pier Park Amphitheater)
We will gather to discuss the festival and the 20-year tragic history of PCB college/student spring break. We will come together as a community to say No More!
A group – Families & Friends 4 A Safe Panama City Beach – has been formed and we ask you to get involved, attend and share this message with friends and family if possible.
Please reach out to your sphere of influence and contacts and relay this message. As a community of believers, families and concerned citizens we are organizing an effort to stop this annual abuse and insanity as we gather in hope, unity, prayer and action to put an end to this horrible and tragic situation.
Over the past 20 years (Police/Hospital/Sheriff records – 9 years obtained – year 2000) there have been many tragedies in excess of 50 deaths (murders, pedestrian, drowning, falls, auto) thousands of rapes and sexual assaults and nearly 50,000 of police reported crimes/incidences.
Financially: millions of dollars in property damage, litter control, and police, EMS and fire costs.
This year in the first two weeks (4 weeks remaining) of spring break alone…there has been a shooting, a knifing, and an estimated 30 plus sexual assaults, rapes, etc. and countless other police actions and involvement.
My Pastor, Greg Aldridge/Cornerstone Family Fellowship/Panama City and his wife, found a girl one morning last week in the Baypoint residential area, stumbling along the road (in a date-rape drug and or alcohol induced daze). She was partially clothed with a blanket wrapped around her. She was dumped there after she was apparently sexually assaulted by one or many abusers.
Below Are Several of Many Thousand PCB Spring Break Tragedies
Police Officer Kight Murdered Easter Sunday 2005
2008/2009…18 Yr. Old Raped/Thrown From Building/Man gets 30 Years
http://www.newsherald.com for other recent/current stories, accidents/deaths/injuries.
Please Attend the Public Meeting: Arnold High School March 30, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Also:
Please Join us at Pier Park Amphitheater for a free Celebration of Life & Family Festival
Saturday April 11, 2009 from 1-9 p.m. http://www.markcanforaministries.com/festival09/
Families & Friends 4 A Safe Panama City Beach
Mark Canfora Ministries
http://www.IveGotHope.com
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