There is a group of people who are trying to improve the image of this neighborhood. It is ICAN - Interested Citizens of Abilene North. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to improve the quality of life and living conditions in these poor neighborhoods. As you can learn from this trial, there are a lot of characters who visit this area, and they are not black.
Poverty affects everything in it as well as around it.
We as citizens of Abilene should get behind ICAN and take a firm stand. We should give ICAN our full support and prayers as well as any financial assistance we can provide. We should fight crime anywhere in this town, not just in certain neighborhoods. For those of you who remain anonymous but work diligently along with this group, I say thank you. For those of you who would like to get involved, I say come along.