Archive for March 3rd, 2008
Vote “FOR” Issue Two and Issue 15
Tomorrow we vote for two very important issues that identify us as a community. The voters of Cuyahoga County consistently support quality of life issues that affect our communities. These are hard times financially for a lot of folks in our communities in Cuyahoga County, but I believe that again our voters will rise to the occasion and vote “YES” on these two issues.
Issue Two will be voted on by the people of Cleveland. The Cleveland Public Library at its inception was noted as “the People’s University”. That moniker has been resurrected by Library Director Andrew Venable and succinctly voices the place that this library holds in our community. Ranked third nationally in the “best in research”, right behind the Boston and Chicago Public Libraries, our library stands with some great company.
While researching for a quote earlier today, I found the perfect one on Dr. John Ellison’s website. Dr. Ellison is an associate professor of Library and Information Studies at the University at Buffalo. His website was a rightful place to find a quote on the importance of libraries. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words ring as true now as they did then.
“It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith. To bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things:
It must believe in the past.
It must believe in the future.
It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.”(Remarks at the dedication of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, June 30, 1941.)
Issue 15 will be decided by a majority vote of all Cuyahoga County voters. And, a reason to vote for Issue 15 needs nothing more in my book than the words of Hubert Humphrey: This quote comes to you thanks to Brainy Quotes-a place where I find many of the quotes that I can’t quite place in regards to who said it or how it was said. Please Vote March 4th.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.