Community Update

APPEAL FOR THE YOUTH VOTE in Village of Head of the Harbor:

Necessity is the mother of
invention.  Theresa O’Brien has decided
to run for one of the Trustee positions in this year’s Village of Head of the
Harbor Elections, Tuesday March 18th.  I urge everyone particularly the younger
voters in our village who even may be disillusioned about politics in general,
to take action and exercise their right to vote.

Yes it’s only a village election but it’s an opportunity to
at least take simple steps and get behind people you think could change things
slowly and surely but most importantly, close to home. 

Perhaps things in general have
become so global and detached from our everyday that we now are even
experiencing it here in our small community. 
Theresa’s platform is about bringing back the everyday courtesy of a
welcome or wave rather than the warnings, hostility so often cloaked in red
tape.  This spur to action was perhaps
long in the making, perhaps three years of perceiving our Village, and yearning
for a Village in the old sense of the word. 
She has continuously encountered difficulties in tone and clarity when
appealing to local government for the simplest of inquires, what to do with a
Christmas tree, parking for her daughter’s first communion party, and of course
the common trouble of getting permission to remove dead trees that endanger
other residents or property but also apparently offer wildlife a precarious
habitat.  Theresa is a fourth grade
teacher and she has experience getting things done in the layered world of
education.  She is used to communication
on many levels within a specific set of codes and protocols. 

Theresa believes that there ought
not to be barriers between residents and the people governing them.  We ought not to be instructed to phone 911 if
we suspect someone is breaking a code. 
They may after all be uninformed of such rules.  Better she thinks to have community leaders
who by their example of cordial rather than curt tone encourage residents into
decision making and acting always first as NEIGHBORS.

I hope everyone gets out to vote
and that you seriously consider casting your vote for Theresa O’Brian who is
eager to address problems head on and to solve them together with other
Trustees but as well with the interests and input of all residents. 

VOTE MARCH 18th, for THERESA O’BRIEN!!!

Beau Randall