No one is degenerating your concerns; the problem is you are expressing them in an inappropriate forum. This is about a community festival and the resounding success of it, not about your personal issues with Randy Peragary. Your complaints had nothing to do with my decision as to how many police officers and security guards attended. The number of police depends on the street closure; the number of security guards depends on the number of entries and exits in my beer garden. We chose to pay for and bring out sound meters solely to prove we are not a sound issue, and we did. If you truly have a problem with Randy Pergary, don’t take it out on a charitable community festival, go get a good civil lawyer and approach them in the manner the situation needs to be addressed. Leave our community events alone! Hope you enjoyed the clowns.

Vito, I take from your statements regarding my event, that you were obviously not there, or that you just enjoy telling stories. Which ever side of the fence you land on, I find your statements offensive and undermining. I created and successfully produced an enjoyable family friendly event that I was proud to have my own family attend. I do not appreciate you lying about the average age of the attendees or the lack of children's events. My nieces enjoyed the clowns,art projects, playground, Popsicle & hot dog vendors, dunk tank and music. The mural art contest in no way mirrored graffiti, in fact the theme of the mural contest was EQUALITY. Attendance wasn't low on Sunday nor did it overtake the park, quite the contrary. We did much better than expected and I partly have you to thank you for that. It happened that all of the media you called did come to see what was going on in the park. They reported on a pleasant family event, briefly touched on your complaints and then aired a story promoting my event. Please understand I am not interested in, and will not tolerate your attempts to take away my right as a resident, and don't forget also a neighbor (that's right I don't live very far from you) to enjoy the amenity's in my neighborhood with all of the other residents that live there. I am sure you could have learned a thing or two if you had actually gone to the event and took the time to actually speak to the artists, vendors, musicians, family's and staff instead of holding up in your home and calling me on the cell phone every few hours asking me to turn down the music. Oh, one more thing; I went to your house to check the sound, strange but I just couldn't hear a thing.......... P.S. Its bad karma to speak poorly about your neighbors in a public forum. Much Love, SJ