"How do you eat an elephant? A bite at a time."
Just like the email, only better! WITH spellcheck... and the detail
that the petition is for 'clean' elections, not 'free' as I originally
wrote:
MEETING TIME UPDATE!!
Most everyone has said we need more time in our meetings, so here it
is! Instead of 2PM to 6PM as originally planned, we have the Wood
Center conference rooms C and D on January 13th from 1:00 PM until
6:00 PM !! The people have spoken... they always do, and it is up to
us all to listen! :) A South Fairbanks meeting is also in the works,
reply if interested.
Suzy is visiting relatives for a few days so I will be checking the
mail and handling most administrative duties here for a bit. She will
check the email though, so keep on writing! Thank you to so many for
so much!!
-Kraig
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
FYI: There is already a petition for Clean Elections circulating. They
need help, and their time is running short! I encourage your signature
and participation! Diedre Helfferich (Editor of The Ester Republic) is
working that for District 8, and we can all contact Alex Prichard
aprichard@mosquitonet.com for more information. I just emailed him
myself - I will be signing that one, and maybe even packing a
signature list in a day or so...
A resurrection of the bottle bill is afoot, and anyone interested can
contact us (Kraig and Suzy) with specific ideas for and necessary
changes to the last attempted bill. I will soon have a copy of that
bill, and we can re-work it into an initiative if it cannot be pushed
by our representatives. just reply to this email (
polarsolar@gmail.com ).
The blog www.SCANFairbanks.blogspot.com is up now! we will start
adding links off to the side for everyone to use very soon. Notable
comments will be posted as part of the blog, so feel free to add good
stuff, ask questions, etc.! The actual transcription of the notes is
taking longer than expected, but will get there soon also. We need
LINKS to put on the margins of the blog, and in the soon to come
website - please send us here at polarsolar@gmail.com any links
pertinent to sustainability and other contact data outside the web so
that we can consolidate this critical data for all to access! This is
a wide net, and I urge you to go through your physical address books
as well as virtual sources (like your 'Favorites') so that we can
compile a huge access database! You can reply with these to this
email, or send as a comment to the blog! This is only the beginning.
The time for ACTION has arrived, and the many dedicated individuals
who have labored so hard for so long will begin to see real change in
the days ahead - FINALLY! Whew! Frustration has almost claimed some of
us, but in this time of growth, there is new hope! We need someone to
operate an online sustainability discussion group, and some people to
help build and operate the coming SCANFairbanks website. These tools
will help us link up and stay connected, to prevent re-invention of
the many wheels there already are, and to create momentum! There are
HUNDREDS in this community who have waited, and WORKED while they
waited, for this time of the turning point of change - do you know
their names? Let's stay connected and keep learning to work together!
A special thanks to all who have sent comments (via email or via blog)
with suggestions and ideas for growth and forward motion! We are onto
something very special here, and the time is now ripe when change can
actually happen in our community at ALL levels! The writing is on the
wall, and people are beginning to respond from all parts of the
community, not just a murmur, but what I believe will very soon become
a roar as we build the connections that drive momentum. Sustainability
may have many names to many people, but we all live here in common,
and the issues can no longer be ignored!
See you all on Jan. 13th at the Wood Center, if not sooner!
- Kraig Smyth
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