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Our new modem arrived over the weekend, so now we can finally continue to update the campaign site! If you look to the left side of your computer screen, there is a graphic link up for our CafePress.com store. There you can buy shirts, yard signs, stickers (coming soon) & buttons (also coming soon). We especially encourage you to purchase a yard sign if you live in Southwest Michigan. The signs are around $15 and are very sturdy. Buying a sign from CafePress.com will help off set our costs a bit. Please note, the campaign will not profit from any items purchased.

Please check back throughout the week, as we continue to update the site and march towards an upset victory in November!!!

As we were in the process of making some updates on the campaign site last night, our modem went dead. Yup, its fried. Luckily, we were still under warranty and a new modem will be shipped to us in 3-5 days. Thats the good news. The bad news is, we will not be able to provide many updates until we get the new modem in the mail. I’m posting this right now from work, which means I must keep this post brief.

We should get the new modem for our home computer on Monday, which means we can complete the website updates we started last night.

Thank you for your patience.

The Lake Michigan College Board of Trustees recently made the decision to offer up some currently unused space to rent to the YWCA. The YWCA was “homeless” for a short period of time after the sale of their former building, located in St.Joseph.

Not only will this create a partnership between the two organizations, the YWCA will pay to renovate the space provided at no cost to LMC and even more importantly, at no cost to the area taxpayers.

This is the type of community involvement I’ve been speaking of and another example of how you can think “outside the box” in order to accomplish fiscal responsibility. This was a nice first step, but much more can be done to avoid the upcoming millage proposal. If elected, I will approach other organizations to perhaps follow the lead of the YWCA and become more involved with our school. I will also promote other ways the school can increase school funding without further tax increases.

With all the conflicts going on in the world right now, I wanted to share one of my favorite quotes with you.

“Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.”-His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Well tomorrow is the day I’ve been looking forward to for a couple of months now. Tuesday, the names on the ballot will be official and I will finally find out who my opponents will be for the general election in November.

It’s been tough “not knowing” who my opponents are. I pretty much know 2 will be current trustees and there will be on other challenger in addition to me. But, perhaps someone else popped in at the 11th hour. Who knows.  I’ll finally have names and can begin to work out a game plan as we begin our fall season push.

I will list all the names tomorrow and perhaps a short bio. Seeing as how I’m the only candidate with a campaign site, coming up with a bio may be tough, but I will do my best.

Before I go, a couple of random thoughts:

-I’m still working on re-configuring the “issues” section of the website. I hope to have that complete this week. Also, I’m working on 2 videos which I plan to put up on You Tube & there will be a new graphic link here on the front page, linking to our CafePress.com store.

-Thank you to everyone who has emailed me stating that they have followed my lead and made a donation to the Tibet/Burma effort. That puts a smile on my face.

-Russia has invaded Georgia. What a terrible situation. I’m so sick of war.

Check the website tomorrow as I will post the list of candidates for the 3 Lake Michigan College Board of Trustees seats up for grabs this fall.