An event about neighborhood safety in Tatnuck

Joyce Kimball and Eric Goldstein have organized a "community safety meeting" following a couple of violent incidents in the Tatnuck Square area. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. tonight (April 20) in the Tait Room at St. Luke’s, 921 Pleasant St. “This isn’t going to be us talking about these incidents,” Eric S. Goldstein said. “We want to get people together and make them aware that there’s stuff going on.”

The article in the Telegram today was pretty confusing about the purpose of the meeting and why it is being organized. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the events in question to really elaborate.  Some of the commenters mentioned that Goldstein's son was a victim in one of the incidents.

At one point in the piece Goldstein is quoted as saying, "Stuff like that never happens on the West Side.”
Well, the summer of 2007, when my family moved back to Worcester, my husband and I took our kids to dinner at Tatnuck Square Papa Ginos. As we sat at our table with our 3 year olds, a bunch of regular neighborhood kids began to wave knives around right behind my son's seat. I was horrified and scared.
Several people I mentioned this to pretty much said things like "what do you expect" and "that's why we go to Holden." I really got the impression then that Tatnuck Square was not very safe and lots of people know it.

Since my children have started school, we have returned to Papa Ginos on occasion and my kids attend a lot of their after school activities in Tatnuck Square. We play regularly at the playground at Flagg Street and it always feels safe...but I think it's pretty naive to believe that anyplace is truly "safe" anymore. Kids have become desensitized to guns and knives and the injury they cause. And there have ALWAYS been bullies.

I think it's a good idea to organize a meeting like this, but I think it's unfortunate that it wasn't well publicized. I haven't seen any signs up and it's not like they sent fliers to the local schools or anything. We'll see what happens.