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We had a great work party this morning and stuffed nearly 200 envelopes with invitations to randomly selected residents of Fernwood. We owe great thanks to Philip, Sonya, and Wendy -- our selection team -- for their fantastic work and effort in getting a list of 200 names, including hard-to-confirm apartment dwellers. Philip prepared all the materials -- the invitation letter, the response card, and copies of the Village Vibe articles.
This morning some folks hand addressed envelopes, others addressed and signed the invitation letters... and we generally had a fun time getting the envelopes stuffed.
A bunch of people -- including Sonya, Philip, Anke, and Colin -- have kindly offered to hand deliver invitations all over Fernwood.Now our challenge is to get a buzz happening in Fernwood!! One ideas was to have a town crier going around town with the invitations... a bit daring perhaps, but I personally believe some creative ideas like this could really help get our message out there. So, please put on your thinking caps and action slippers. If you have the gumption, why not dress up as Captain democracy and walk the streets of Fernwood to gather some attention?!
All ideas welcome... please use this listserv and the Fernwood Commons site to involve everyone in the brainstorming... and let's take action.
Cheers, George
PS: John helped stuff envelopes! As many of us recall, John, was one of the councillors randomly selected for the first WC, and he was suspicious about our claims regarding random selection. Not only that, he won the doorprize at the first information meeting, so he really thought the process was rigged!! Well, now John is one of our most enthusiastic supporters and a great believer in the randomness of our selection process!
