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Neighbors at odds over a sidewalk in the Oak Forest community
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Oak Forest residents at odds over sidewalk
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A youth fitness program called Teens on the Run, started by Oak Forest resident Lucy Cain and her husband, Greg, in the summer of 2011 at T.C. Jester Park, is getting a reboot.
âTeens on the Run has been dormant since 2017 due to family health issues, but the program was still listed on the internet,â Cain said. âI still had people contacting me if the program was available.â
A neighbor who is involved with another nonprofit told Cain about an internship program at the University of Houston.
âHe suggested that I apply because he thought Teens on the Run is a good afterschool program, especially for middle schools,â she said. âI completed the needed forms and was pleasantly surprised that they provided an intern, Aledrian Kemp, to help me restart the program.â
She just did not know if the fix she hoped for would come to fruition.
Mendez, a Frank Black Middle School parent and member of its parent-teacher organization, is among the school stakeholders who have advocated for increased traffic-calming measures on the north side of the Oak Forest campus, which is bordered by 43rd. She said the four-lane thoroughfare has been a danger to students who walk or ride bicycles to and from the school, both because of the prevalence of speeding and the lack of a traffic signal, stop sign or crossing guard on that part of 43rd.
Mendez said last December that she hoped a hybrid pedestrian beacon, which is a flashing yellow light that turns red when activated by a pedestrian who wants to cross the street, could be installed. But around that same time, she said she was told there wasnât enough traffic in the area to warrant such a measure.