((PKG)) COVID Neighbors Unite/Teddy Bears
((TRT: 02:33))
((Banner: Teddy Bears Unite))
((Reporter/Camera: Matt Dibble))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Oakland, California))
((Main characters: 2 females; 1 male))
((Sub characters: 1 female))
((NATS))
Eight O’clock
((Susan “Bernie” Bernstein, Local Resident))
I heard about this through a posting on Nextdoor. And a group in Mill
Valley has been doing the sound making or the music making in the
evenings and somebody copied a post from Marin Posting and then
mentioned it in our community and I just love the idea. So, I put it out
to the block and I said, “Hey, I'm going to be out at 8 p.m. if anybody
wants to join me.”
((NATS))
((Susan “Bernie” Bernstein, Local Resident))
And we started with five-ish houses, maybe, right in the immediate
vicinity. So, I talked to my immediate neighbors and asked them to
come join me. And it just caught on. It caught on quickly and started
spreading in both directions.
((NATS))
((Susan “Bernie” Bernstein, Local Resident))
You know, we started with clapping and I would come out and whistle
to kind of get everybody going and then people started bringing
drums and a clarinet and saxophone and banging on pots and pans
and clanking lids together.
((NATS))
Get it all out.
Okay, let’s go, guys.
((Emi Hofmeister, Local Resident))
I saw people that were posting pictures of their bears in their
windows. Then I realized that it was a thing. That night we put a
bear in our window and we went and looked around the
neighborhood to see how many bears we could find.
((NATS))
How many bears have you found, Ivy?
Ten.
((NATS))
Ivy, when you see the bears in the windows, how does it make you
feel?
Happy.
((NATS))
Where is it?
There are bears everywhere in windows and it's fun looking for them,
right? Do you like looking for bears?
Yeah.
((Brendan Moriarity, Local Resident))
I've noticed people are talking to each other more on the street and
we've made efforts to be outside more, sitting on our steps, or we put
a hammock up in front of our steps just so that we can see life on the
street. And people want to hang out and talk more now, even if it's
from six feet.
((NATS))
((Susan “Bernie” Bernstein, Local Resident))
People love it. They say how much they appreciate it. They, I think
it's a really good sense of community coming together in the evening.
We all know that we can end our day without, or we can kind of close
out the evening without it.
((NATS))
((TRT: 02:33))
((Banner: Teddy Bears Unite))
((Reporter/Camera: Matt Dibble))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Oakland, California))
((Main characters: 2 females; 1 male))
((Sub characters: 1 female))
((NATS))
Eight O’clock
((Susan “Bernie” Bernstein, Local Resident))
I heard about this through a posting on Nextdoor. And a group in Mill
Valley has been doing the sound making or the music making in the
evenings and somebody copied a post from Marin Posting and then
mentioned it in our community and I just love the idea. So, I put it out
to the block and I said, “Hey, I'm going to be out at 8 p.m. if anybody
wants to join me.”
((NATS))
((Susan “Bernie” Bernstein, Local Resident))
And we started with five-ish houses, maybe, right in the immediate
vicinity. So, I talked to my immediate neighbors and asked them to
come join me. And it just caught on. It caught on quickly and started
spreading in both directions.
((NATS))
((Susan “Bernie” Bernstein, Local Resident))
You know, we started with clapping and I would come out and whistle
to kind of get everybody going and then people started bringing
drums and a clarinet and saxophone and banging on pots and pans
and clanking lids together.
((NATS))
Get it all out.
Okay, let’s go, guys.
((Emi Hofmeister, Local Resident))
I saw people that were posting pictures of their bears in their
windows. Then I realized that it was a thing. That night we put a
bear in our window and we went and looked around the
neighborhood to see how many bears we could find.
((NATS))
How many bears have you found, Ivy?
Ten.
((NATS))
Ivy, when you see the bears in the windows, how does it make you
feel?
Happy.
((NATS))
Where is it?
There are bears everywhere in windows and it's fun looking for them,
right? Do you like looking for bears?
Yeah.
((Brendan Moriarity, Local Resident))
I've noticed people are talking to each other more on the street and
we've made efforts to be outside more, sitting on our steps, or we put
a hammock up in front of our steps just so that we can see life on the
street. And people want to hang out and talk more now, even if it's
from six feet.
((NATS))
((Susan “Bernie” Bernstein, Local Resident))
People love it. They say how much they appreciate it. They, I think
it's a really good sense of community coming together in the evening.
We all know that we can end our day without, or we can kind of close
out the evening without it.
((NATS))
