Veterans obseverance @ City Hall @ 7 p.m.

REMINDER: Consider attending the Broadview Heights Veterans Observance at 7 p.m. in the Gym at City Hall

Thank you veterans!

THANK YOU VETERANS for your service in the defense of freedom.  Special Thanks to all Vietnam War veterans … “Welcome Home” to you. Reach out and thank a veteran today! Four-minute view well worth the watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svh6RyWzw3c

Congrats, and let’s get behind the officials that the voters have chosen

JOHN KEREZY is the author of this post.

CONGRATULATIONS  to the candidates in which our voters have invested their trust for the next two or four years.

Congratulations to Mayor Alai.

Congratulations to Former Mayor Glenn Goodwin, who returns to public service on City Council.

Congratulations to new BBHCSD School Board member Mike Ziegler, elected/returning school board member Kathleen Mack, and to Mark Dosen, going back on the Board. They face some monumental challenges.

THANK YOU to the many dedicated challengers – Russ James and Kevin Krcmar come to mind – whose interest in what happens in Broadview Heights is critical to a better local government.

SPECIAL THANK YOU to George Balasko and Joe Price – devoted public servants (school board and BVH City Council, respectively) whom will not be in elected office in 2012.

Finally, VERY HAPPY that Issue 2 was defeated by Ohio’s voters. In this writer’s humble opinion, nothing less than the continuance of a strong middle class in our state was at stake with this ballot issue.

“The challenge of politics and public service is to discover what is interfering with justice and dignity for the individual here and now, and then to decide swiftly upon the appropriate remedies.” -– Robert F. Kennedy, 1961

 “…If our Constitution had followed the style of St. Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded-“But the greatest of these is speech.” In the darkness of tyranny, that is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.”  — Robert F. Kennedy, 1963

“It is not enough to allow dissent. We must demand it…. We dissent from the willful, heedless destruction of natural pleasure and beauty.”  — Robert F. Kennedy, 1966