Step Up … or Stop Complaining! Your Community Needs You

During this year’s municipal elections, voters will see familiar names when they stand in front of their voting machines … not the names from the nightly news, but rather the names of friends and neighbors who want to serve their community.

In a robust democracy, this is clearly what the Founding Fathers envisioned for what would become the United States of America as battles raged and lives were lost, all for the sake of independence.

Back then, the nation’s earliest settlers wanted to make decisions about their lives and communities freely without some king in a distant place interfering.

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