Response #1 to Stuck in the COW

For a link to the post, click here.     Sorry the blog was taken down on December 23rd , but I was able to copy all of it.   Here is  a section from the post in question:

Same thing with the Chandler Street NRSA. Bill Randall (another Worcester loud mouth) Takes a good thing and ruins it by sucking all the credit. It's a good thing they are doing, cleaning up the streets and getting local kids to work. However Bill doesn't deserve the pat on the back he gives himself. In fact he neglects and even looks down on the other NRSA's around the city for the work they do.

I have spent alot of time, with no pay, to make the Chandler NRSA the most successful NRSA out of the 5 programs in the City of Worcester.   this is not just our opinion but has in fact been has asserted many times by Dennis Hennessy , that we (Chandler Street) has been the most aggressive and successful NRSA. I am very proud of the work that we have done. Am I patting myself on the back?   Yes.   

I have, however, always maintained that it has been a group effort.   Andy Serrato,  Paul Collyer, Rich Kazarian, Arthur Mooradian, Al Maykiel and many others put much time and effort into this.  In fact the main reason that it was the most successful was that their was an actual collaboration of businesses, unlike any of the other 4 NRSA's.

Maybe we should look at the results of other NRSA's like South Worcester that had no businesses involved and even had an employee (paid), who was in charge of it.   .  It was the least successful of the 5 NRSA's.   In fact a majority of the monies were never even invested back into the neighborhood and most recently one of the employees (may have been a sub-contractor) co-ordinating the housing portion has had bribery charges filed by the FBI.

Any time anyone wants to sit down and compare the results of a bunch of guys volunteering their time to make the Chandler NRSA successful, versus the failed results from South Worcester, I am available.    I do not look down at the other NRSA's , but feel the success of the Chandler Street NRSA, run buy a bunch of loud mouthed businesses who were not paid one penny and volunteered their time, should be an example for the other NRSA's to emulate.