First Selectman’s Update

First Selectman’s Update

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Melissa Mack

I find it helpful every election cycle to reflect on the prior year and ask, why am I doing this job and what do I want to accomplish? The answer is always simple – to improve Suffield’s governance practices as best I can. The task, however, has not been so simple. When first elected in 2015, I quickly learned that the issues that prompted my involvement were just the tip of the iceberg. I underestimated the work to be done and how unpleasant it could be at times.

Columns

Where in the World is the Observer?

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Tom and Peg Carr took the Observer along when they visited the Goreme Open Air Museum in the Cappadocia region of Central Turkey, where churches and monasteries with frescoes from almost a millennium ago are carved into the soft volcanic rock. The Carrs were in Turkey visiting their children in Istanbul.

Food for Thought

Food For Thought

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National Cookie Day 

 December 3

 “Friend something better than chocolate ice cream…maybe friend somebody you give up last cookie for.”

             – Cookie Monster

Human Rights Day 

December 10

“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.” 

                       – Elie Wiesel

 “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

Food for Thought

Food For Thought

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“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. – Arthur Ashe