We are here trying to help change a street name to C.Wilkins because this young boy helped everyone in the community. He brighten up the day for many people. We hope the community can and you can help us show him we care with this name change.
We are here trying to help change a street name to C.Wilkins because this young boy helped everyone in the community. He brighten up the day for many people. We hope the community can and you can help us show him we care with this name change.
We the undersigned would like to keep the memory of a young boy named Chad Wilkins in our hearts. We would like to change the name or add on to the recent street named "St.marks" to "C. Wilkins Blvd"we are looking for signatures so that we can remember him always while we walk pass his block. So his parents can always feel the same way others being that he was so friend with in the community. Chad was a face everyone knows and will never forget. Please help us get this petiton signed so we can always look up and smile.Chad Wilkins was a very dear person to his family and friends and his death has extremely effected each and every indivdiual that had relationship with Him. His life was taking by a cold hearted individual and the name change of St.marks will show and prove that he may be gona in flesh but is still embeded in everyones heart and minds.
We signed the "Name Street Change To C. Wilkins Blvd" petition!
# 35:
7:42 am PST, Nov 19,Daniella Squires, New Jersey
# 34:
1:46 pm PST, Nov 16,Name not displayed, New York
Of course it would mean something to me. It would mean remembering the loved one that i shared my childhood experience with. When someone's life is taken by another it's taken by resentment and selfishness. We should remember the people who had no chance to live. It's not their fault they aren't with us today.
# 33:
9:48 pm PST, Nov 15,Chantell Rivera, New York
He was too young to die and he had a whole life ahead of him. Haven't seen you in years but It hurt when I heard you passed. You made elementary school fun and you should have a street dedicated to you. May you Rest In Peace 4.17.09.
# 32:
9:22 pm PST, Nov 15,Shaquan Shabazz, Georgia
# 31:
4:16 pm PST, Nov 2,Dorothy Shareef, New York
I remember your energy, you quick smile and my god you were always moving. You were bright and had to be challenged constantly. Hard to believe you are not here. My daughter Muslimah and her friend Chanelle were your classmates at P.S. 321 and they miss you dearly. We will call your name out loudly to keep your spirit alive always.
Mussie's mom - Dorothy
# 30:
3:34 pm PST, Nov 2,Muslimah (Mussie) Shareef, New York
I just wanted to write something to Chad....
There's not a day that goes by when I don't think about you. I still can't bring myself to say goodbye and I won't...at least not yet cha cha...dag...we miss u so much, I can't fathom what happened but I know this pain is something different, it was the season opener of the Yankee's chad, I remember telling you I was going to work at the new stadium and you said just like everybody else has said to me "oh! so u can get me free tickets" lol...Chanelle and I can't believe it and we keep you in our prayers...our hearts.
If tears could build a stairway and memories were a lane, we would walk right up to heaven and bring you back again. No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it and only god knows why. Our hearts still ache in sadness and secret tears still flow. What it meant to lose you, no one will ever know. But now we know you want us to mourn for you no more. To remember all the happy times, life still has much in store. Since you'll never be forgotten, I pledge to you today, a hallowed place within our hearts is where you'll always stay. Love you Chad.
# 29:
8:40 pm PDT, Oct 20,Adel El Amir, New York
I went to high school with Chad's brother Michael. My thoughts and prayers are with the family.
# 28:
9:36 am PDT, Aug 28,Louis DeArmas, New York
A caring young man taken from his family and community in the prime of his life. May this memorial remind others how much he cared for his community.
# 27:
9:30 am PDT, Aug 28,Natisha Rodney, New York
# 26:
9:27 am PDT, Aug 28,Kelly Gladd, New York
# 25:
9:23 am PDT, Aug 28,Cindy Williams, New York
# 24:
9:21 am PDT, Aug 28,Joseph Peluso, New York
# 23:
7:49 pm PDT, May 28,Name not displayed, New York
I am close with his grandmother, she was my counselor in middleschool. The other day i went up to the school to see her, unaware of chads death, and she was crying and told me what happened. I feel so bad and i hope my siqnature will make a change
# 22:
2:21 am PDT, May 28,Steve Klein, Virginia
# 21:
3:55 am PDT, May 25,Alfred Donovan, United Kingdom
I have great pleasure in signing this petition all to often we only hear negative comments about young people.It makes a grand change to hear about this young man who has had a positve effect on people around him.I wish this petition every success.
# 20:
2:08 pm PDT, May 7,Name not displayed, New York
My deepest condolences to his family......
# 19:
1:55 pm PDT, May 7,Dominique Rodney, New York
This street change would me a lot simply because he deserves it. Yes he had made mistakes but he's also learned from them, which to me is the best thing a person can ever do. Below is some feelings && encounters I had with the late great Chad Wilkins.Well in more ways then one I could tell you how much of a good person "Chad Wilkins" was since the first day we ever met when I was about 13 (well about 6 years now). He always had this passion && strive to go after his dreams. He was highly motivated && had great sense of fashion, which at times we often argued in a violent free way about who was dressed better that day. Chad also was a great friend indeed not only to me but to many others && a very close friend of ours (who's name I wouldn't like to expose for saftey reasons). Chad talked him into getting a job along with his brother, his uncle, as well as himself to keep him off the streets, out of trouble, && to help him find a way to do productive things with his time. By the time Chad enrolled himself into YBC (a high school located on Thomas Jefferson campus) he often pushed our same friend to take the same route. Chad has often turned to me when there were questions he needed answers to when it came down to filling out his college applications. Chad was so thrilled && excited each && everytime he had a question in regards to college, which made me even more proud with the path he has pave for himself. I often told him how proud I was of him for even going back to school after being dismissed from 2 high schools, which in other cases many people would of turn to another alternative. I remember vividly November 4, 2008 around 1pm while speed walking to my local voting poll I saw Chad && before I can ask him if he voted here's what he said "Damo you better be going to vote" which I replied hell yeah I'm going to Barack my vote. We both laughed briefly. Then I asked him if he voted yet? && that's when he said that's where he was coming from. Chad being only 1 individual proved his loyalty as a friend to many of us. He was literary there for everyone during that same day (November 4 2008) a close friend of ours lost his father, to tell you the honest truth once he got the call from our friend Chad went flying. Like at times like that hearing someone you love or just someone your close with lose a relative, your usually placed in a stage called "shock", but that wasn't Chad case. Chad stopped a cab on Nostrand Av so fast && jumped right in it before you knew it he was gone && off to the hospital to be by his friend side (which many probably confused them for being brothers with the unbreakable bond they had.) Chad lost has left many of us heart broken but most of all it has left us with 1 less son,grandson,brother,cousin,nephew,friend but most importantly a productive citizen that no matter the situation we knew he would have our backs.
# 18:
8:45 am PDT, May 6,Von Simmons, New York
I Think This Would Be a Good Thing. I Knew Chad. He Wus Someone I Call'd My Big Brother. It's Ashame He's Gone And I Miss Him Alot. Smh Just Wish He Could Come Back
# 17:
3:11 am PDT, May 5,ALPHA WI, Germany
# 16:
9:04 am PDT, Apr 30,Nisha Thomas, New York
# 15:
5:54 am PDT, Apr 28,Nydazja Coaxum, Pennsylvania
..Im sorry i wasn't there for you like i should have been...i jus hope you know that i will alwayz love you and never stopped...thank you for giving me the best days of my life at Banneker HS...those moments i will cherish forever...
Love you Chad....
# 14:
7:13 am PDT, Apr 27,Denise Scott, New York
# 13:
6:56 am PDT, Apr 27,Darryl Hollon, New York
I met Chad on two ocassions and first through his Uncle Bill Wilkins. Chad was respectful, humble and volunteered his servces for community projects. Chad came to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce where I work seeking employment and we were all impressed with him. Naming a street after Chad is a reminder that the good live on eternally and that young people need to strive, like Chad, to always be the best that you can be!
# 12:
10:43 pm PDT, Apr 24,Brandon Fisch, New York
# 11:
12:27 pm PDT, Apr 24,Name not displayed, New York
I work in the same field as his father and know the area he was well. My deepest condolences to Chad's friends and family
# 10:
12:20 pm PDT, Apr 24,Karen Nieves, New York
My deepest condolences
# 9:
11:20 am PDT, Apr 24,Shawan Barnes, Maryland
I went to school with Chad. I moved soon after meeting him but he brought many a smile while we attended Banneker.
# 8:
1:00 pm PDT, Apr 22,Barbara Lever, New York
My condolences go out to the family. Your in my prayers.
# 7:
8:18 am PDT, Apr 22,Aaron Jackson, Florida
# 6:
12:54 am PDT, Apr 22,Kristina Salgado, Arkansas
# 5:
4:54 pm PDT, Apr 21,Joffre Lewis, New York
i was a friend of Chad. chad and I was talking about how he wanted to change the upcoming teenagers lives. he wanted them to stay out of the streets. Chad cared a lot about the youth he wanted to make a difference in his community. Chad was a great person and his name will live on. R.I.P Chad you will never be missed because your spirit will always be with us.
# 3:
8:49 am PDT, Apr 21,Beverly Ballard, New York
Gone too soon! My deepest sympathy to his parents, grand parents and the rest of the family.
# 4:
8:47 am PDT, Apr 21,Beverly Ballard, New York
Gone too soon! My deepest sympathy to his parents, grand parents and the rest of the family.
# 2:
5:33 am PDT, Apr 20,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
