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Mariners Park Unrealized Just over three years ago, at a Town of Liberty Grove meeting, Town Chairman John Lowry, proposed the purchase of the Mariners Park property for just under $1.5 million. However, prior to the vote of assembled town residents, Chairman Lowry made two very significant declarations: 1) The property, if purchased, would be a “blank slate” and 2) “The people would decide the use of the property”. With those assurances, the residents voted in favor of the land purchase. In spring of 2019, the Town undertook a survey to determine the taxpayer’s desires for the property. The Town...
A Challenge to our Members “Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.” ----Ursula K. Le Guin This quote comes to mind as I imagine the potential power that lies latent within this human experience. And in a challenge to myself, “What words do I share in my social minglings to give reverence and gratitude for the natural elements that construct the beauty and life giving environment we all call home”? This should be common ground and relevant to each of us. What will our legacy be? What importance echoed by my chosen words will remain true generations from now? In order to be stewards and teach stewardship we must tap into the power of our words and engage with the back and forth that amplifies what is most important in this human experience. We should not need the resources it took William Shatner, to be humbled and brought...