SOUTH PARK: Neighbor Joel Clement boasts of record attendance at the Monday, July 11, community happy hour at the County Line. As The Stranger reported a few weeks ago, Clement recently instigated the neighborhood beer sessions in hopes of taking back the bar to carve out some turf on what neighbors think is the area's roughest strip. So far, so good: "[Monday night] was the biggest, liveliest happy hour so far," Clement told Neighborhoods via e-mail first thing Tuesday morning. "It's such a great pleasure to glance around the room and see so many neighbors chatting away, literally filling the bar with engaged discussions and animated gestures, while the jukebox pinballs between ABBA and Hank Williams." DOWNTOWN: On Thursday, June 30, city officials and West Precinct bar and club owners crammed into a meeting room at City Hall to discuss the city's new Joint Assessment Team. The team—city officials representing departments from fire and police to SDOT—will be visiting clubs all summer during peak nighttime hours. Jordan Royer of the mayor's office says the city is trying find ways for bustling clubs and downtown residents to happily coexist in a "24/7" city core. But a few skeptical club owners—fueled by decades of distrust in the city—aren't buying it, questioning, for example, why city resources are being spent on a special task force that's looking into things like admissions taxes, instead of simply dealing with noise complaints on a case-by-case basis. ALKI: Folks who live near the beach have a hefty list of public safety complaints every summer, as raucous crowds from around the city converge on the sandy strip. Sunday night, July 10, was no different. "There was a 'fight club' on the beach... complete with boxing gloves," reports a frustrated neighbor. "It was from 9:00 p.m. until the police came to close the beach and then they all scattered. The police drove by the crowd of 50 or so and did not stop and look or anything." BEACON HILL: For years, residents have been petitioning the city to declare their neighborhood a "Stay Out of Prostitution Area," or SOAP. (Under a SOAP, people charged or convicted of prostitution offenses are barred from the area.) But at a Saturday, June 25, meeting Assistant City Attorney Tuere Sala told neighbors that police statistics on prostitution arrests in the neighborhood don't currently support enacting a Beacon Hill SOAP. In the past year there have only been 14 arrests in sting operations around Beacon Hill, compared to nearly 250 around Aurora Avenue over a similar period. MORE SOUTH PARK: The River City Skate Park, slated to become the city's newest skate facility, got a big financial boost last week with a $12,500 grant from Safeco. Volunteers still need more cash, and building permits, before they can break ground on the dream project that local company Grindline is set to build and maintain.