community bulletin board

In response to a couple of recent incidents, I'm putting together a forum for people in "The Beaches"; a place for communication, basically.

I'm hoping that the thing will be of some use. I got the idea when word went 'round by email of a potential predator in the neighbourhood possibly following some pre-teen girls on a nearby street. In, of course, a van. It turned out that the police had a very different view on what was going on. But word of that didn't get 'round 'til a week later. So I figure that there's room for an advisory service of some kind at a very minimum. But it also seems to me that a bulletin board site could help serve as an area to arrange swaps (e.g. of old kids clothing), and to broadcast news of events, and to help people with referrals for businesses....

Next would be a wiki with information about the neighbourhood, its shops, its history..... Maybe I can branch out and do the same for other neighbourhoods next. I just need a domain name and I'm ready to start with a small set of forums.