Bulletin: Some Important News

Hello, everyone. I have some news I need to share with all of you, and it's not good, unfortunately. This is not about my family's financial situation, but it is still important. I just wanted to let you all know that I may not blog for a few days, or perhaps maybe even a week or two. My mother is really sick with something (we're not sure what it is) and she was taken to the hospital this evening by ambulance. I am waiting to hear about her condition and will be going to the hospital if she is admitted, and will stay with her.

I just wanted to let you all know that in case you might be looking for posts but don't see them. Also, to the ANA -- I am going to try my very best, and I think most likely I will, to show up to the positive loitering event on Thursday at Diversey and Ridgeway. But family comes first, especially when it's your mother.

Please keep my mother in your thoughts and prayers. I pray for all of you and our neighborhoods each and everyday. I will see all of you soon.

Thank you,
Tim (AKA Timmy) Granzow
Avondale/Logan Square Crime Blotter

Update, 4/29/13: I want to thank everyone for their concern, thoughts and prayers. My mother was released from the hospital Thursday evening and she is doing a lot better than before. She has no major health issues, thankfully. She had severe anemia, which was the main reason into her hospitalization, but that has been treated and she now has medicine that will continue to improve her health. Most of all, our relationship has gotten so much better and it was beautiful to see my family all come together in this time. I am thankful for life, and going through this has taught me to be thankful at all times because life is way too short to be mad or upset constantly. I want to thank all of you again for your support and encouragement. Without you guys, and my church family, I wouldn't have gotten through this.

Important Announcement -- PLEASE READ

Hi everyone. I have some awful news for all of you, again. Once again, my family has ran into major financial troubles. This time around, we're able to pay our rent, but we will have no money to pay any our of our bills, due to someone in our "family" cutting off a government check from us (no, not Social Security this time). So as you all know, with that comes this news: the blog will have to stop. It will not happen immediately, but it will happen.  We're excepting everything to be off by the 1st of May unless my mother, or even myself (because I've applied to places), gets called [back] to work. Basically at this point, we're praying for a miracle.

Once again, I am so sorry to deliver this grim news. This has been the 3rd time in just under three years I've had to do this, and I know to all of you it seems like I'm just crying wolf, but really, I'm not. Our finances have been bad for years now, but times like this is when they sink at an all-time low. So, unfortunately, I will also have to end my involvement in the community once this whole thing takes effect.  I am so sorry, everyone. I really wish there was a way I could continue the blog and be involved.

I will come back if and when our situation improves, but until then, I will have to end the blog once we run out of money. I would just like to thank everyone for ALL of the support over the last three and a half years, all the great things some of you have done for me, and just everything. You don't know much I appreciate all of the support. You guys will forever be in my heart. So on that note, I am going to tell all of you to please, please, please, please keep up the good fight for the community, and I hope to be back soon. Love to all, and God Bless.

Sincerely,
Timmy

Important Announcement -- PLEASE READ

Good evening, everyone. I have a very important announcement to make to all of you, and it is not a good one. I wish it would be, but alas, it's not. This is regarding Beat meetings in the community and my involvement in them. This is also regarding me posting addresses.

I have decided that, as of tonight, that I will NOT be in attendance of Beat meetings anymore, unless it's my own CAPS meeting, or if I have at least three requests from the neighbors on a particular Beat. I am sick and tired of having CAPS leaders come in my face only to yell and scream at me at these meetings just because some of you are COWARDS and refuse to tell ME a problem you have with MY blog. Why is that everytime someone has a problem with the way I do things on here, they take it up with the police and CAPS leaders? Why can't you just address me? It's way beyond frustrating, as this isn't the first time I've had this happen to me. I'm getting real tired of coming to every meeting only to have something said to me, negatively. And the latest accusations I've had thrown at me are making me thinking about just stopping this service to all of you, and stop being involved in the community altogether. I do not go to meetings only to get screamed and yelled at, period. If I want to be yelled and screamed at, I would apply for a year-round school. Do any of you realize know how this makes me feel, when you go behind my back and do this to me? This isn't the first time, but it will be the last time. If I have one more accusation thrown at me by a CAPS leader, I will stop everything I'm doing with the community. And this blog will end. I can promise all of you that. You all seem to think I'm required to do everything I'm doing or something. Nope. I do this out of my own time because I care. I could always find other hobbies, and stop caring, though. I have a personal life, too.

This issue is related to people having an issue with their "addresses" published on their Beat meeting posts. Well, guess what? If it was your address, you definitely should've made that clear to me. Talk to me after the meeting or something. All of you have my email address, some of you are on my Facebook fan page, and hell, some of you have my cell phone number. Let me know. But do not go behind my back and report this nonsense to CAPS leaders. That will only make me lose support of CAPS and will trigger me to leave all of this community work behind. And it certainly will prevent me from coming back to any future meetings.

Since we're on this topic, also effective tonight, I will no longer publish reports from ANY Beat meetings on this blog. If you do really want to hear about what happened at your CAPS meeting, you will have to email me and leave your first and last name with me, so I can talk to you more about your request. NO exceptions. If I deem your request to be acceptable, then I will email you about what happened at your CAPS meeting. If you can't do that, then you will have to attend your next CAPS meeting, or find someone else who will report meetings not under any conditions. But I will have no more Beat meetings posts up here, period. I'm not going to get yelled and screamed at about this nonsense, ever again, because if I do, someone will have to take over this blog, because I'll be done with it.

Once again, just so we're clear, if ANYONE has a problem with my blog, you need to email me first and talk to me about it. If you don't get anywhere with me, then talk to your CAPS Facilitator and the police. But don't go behind my back and report me for some nonsense that I could've easily taken care of.

I'm sorry I have to come off this way, but I am beyond pissed that I'm hearing about this again. I am honestly hurt by some of you folks, especially the ones who went behind my back and reported me. If you are reading and you're one of the people who have reported me to the "authorities", I'm going to ask you to stop reading my blog. Just go if you don't like what you see here. End of story.

Timmy