Good morning, Rome! What a great day to get out and exercise your franchise!
From Lexington to Baghdad Americans have died to make it possible.
On the Edmund Pettus bridge Americans risked all for voting rights.
Go vote! It is our right. It is our duty.
Today is the last day of early voting and it is so easy. In and out in five minutes.
No police dogs barring your way. No beach fortifications to dodge. No snipers waiting to take your life if you go.
Go to the courthouse at Fourth Ave & First St, show ID, cast your vote with a simple poke of your finger.
Please vote.
And please... Help save our beautiful central park. Vote NO incumbents.
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Dear friends,
Thank you all for your grassroots action to try to affect our City Commission in a positive way. There may be a big NO on our yard signs (like this one between the rivers) but this has been the most positive “negative campaign” ever. We are positively FOR preserving and protecting the beautiful 80 acres smack dab in the center of what should be our Central Park. Unfortunately fate has given us an election where five of those who want to destroy that legacy are up for reelection and only three new candidates stepped forward. The only course of practical action is to press for “NO Incumbents”. If we concentrate our vote JUST on the challengers we have a real chance of electing two or three new voices for our park.
Sheila and I founded this group and have been thrilled with how a grassroots group can blossum. Over 1700 people have supported us on Facebook. Our posts have been “liked” thousands of times and shared hundreds of times. Our 200+ yard signs are almost all out. In neighborhood canvassing and telephone canvassing the response has been overwhelmingly positive. This grassroots effort has struck a nerve with the people. Please keep it up. Message me and I’ll make sure you get materials to help. Four more days!
I know nothing of your financial situation. But we need money to pay for this effort. If each of us will give a little we will have what we need to finish this low-budget bare-bones completely volunteer effort. Please make out a check to “Save Rome’s Central Park Committee” and drop it by. Or mail your donation to Save Rome’s Central Park, 728 Avenue A, Rome GA 30165.
We registered the group as required with the state. I am listed as chair and Sheila as treasurer. We submitted our first legal report today.
Sheila and I have made a donation. We have been given a couple of small individual donations and one in kind donation. We have several promises of moderate donations. Can you please write a check for $5 or $10, or $50, or $100... whatever is right for you. (Donations of more than $100 will be listed by the donor’s name in our public reports as required by law.) If all the Park’s supporters submit a little we’ll be in great shape.
Thank you ALL for what you have and will do.
Sincerely,
Terrell Shaw, Chairman
Save Rome’s Central Park Committee
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| Love having our signs out in the neighborhoods... even on trash day! I wish I'd printed twice as many. |
Comments:
Jim Curry: Terrell, I'll definitely support financially. This is too imp
ortant not to support. (I'm also praying for an eagle's nest right in the center of the 80 acres.)
ortant not to support. (I'm also praying for an eagle's nest right in the center of the 80 acres.)
Terrell: I'l join that prayer! Thank you, Jim, not only for this but for all you've done.
Cindy Latimer: Checks to Save Rome's Central Park?
Sheila Matthews Shaw: Yes!
Adair Alis: Hey we're already out of town, but my dad said he'll have a check in your mailbox Sunday
Joan Ledbetter: I'll get you what we can spare tomorrow
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When we say we want to Save Rome's Central Park, we are talking of all of it. The Burwell Creek Natural Area is 80 acres right in the middle of it. To the west is the Ridge Ferry section, to the east is the Jackson Hill section. Jackson Hill, where you will find this gorgeous flag fying right at the summit and visible through much of downtown, would be greatly affected by the burial of the adjacent lands. What would be the viewscape from Jackson Hill with just an ordinary urban section of strip mall, apartments, and a restaurant or two?
Long may this flag fly over a unified, large, Central park extending from the banks of the Oostanaula all the way to this grand summit!
By the way, a few figures from our page:
1724+ page supporters
10,049+ total post likes
and, perhaps most remarkable: 2734 total shares of posts.
Wow! If you folks put your votes where your online likes are Rome could be in for a wake-up call on Wednesday morning.
Please get out from behind that computer, get to the polls. VOte! (And take a friend or two!)
Comments:
Joan Ledbetter: And, at the candidate's forum last night I heard '88' acres. I had always heard 80 acres before.
Terrell: I noticed that too.
Nina Lovel: And if you don't happen to live in the city limits, call up 10 of your friends who do, and get out the vote!
Terrell: Amen!
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From Abeed Bawa's Facebook page:
Touring the Burwell Creek wetlands with Mr Shaw.
Comments:
Kelli Singh: Brooke Cushing, didn't you have Mr. Shaw as a teacher?
Kayla Brooke Brooks: YesKelli: Brooke loved him! It's the only teacher of hers that I remember.Terrell: Hello there Brooke!Thomas Wilder: Turn around and pay attentionJennifer Peacock: Best teacher everTerrell: Awww! I had some pretty good kids along the way. Jim Ware: I must've missed you...I was there to from 4 until 6.Sam Burnham: Terrell, did y'all see the blue heron? I saw him earlier today but it kept evading the camera lens.Abeed: We sure did. It was amazing.Terrell: Yes (from above) That heron jumped out of the creek at the beaver dam just as we got there and we were too surprised to catch a picture. He glided back and forth through the woods over the wetland and settled next to the gigantic beaver lodge on the far side.Laurie Craw: Good for Mr. Bawa!Emily Robinson: Impressed that you care and are hands on! Let's put this man to work!!! Vote Abeed Bawa
-------------From Terrell's Facebook page:
-------------From Terrell's Facebook page:
Comments:
Stacy Cates: Love this pic!!! Abeed, you have the cutest boyish smille! We need some young, smart, experienced business people just like you on the commission!
Terrell: Hey! What about MY cute boyish smile?!!!
Stacy: Well that just goes without sayin, Terrell. You Superheros! Geez!
Terrell: That's more like it.
Stacy: :-)
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