With only six people in attendance, a major theme of the first Neighborhood Watch meeting for West Avenue was getting more people to attend. Residents of West Avenue held their first Neighborhood Watch meeting after two slayings that happened just a week apart in June. George Wangemann, a resident of West Avenue and the city councilman for Ward 4, said he knocked on 250 doors in the neighborhood encouraging people to attend, and 20 to 25 said they would.