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Sep 2008
‘Think tank’ is still thinking
Posted by Scott Spielman
at 4:29 PM | Comments (1)
I should make it a point to attend more Wayne 20/20 Committee meetings.
The discussion is always good, the ideas flowing—it is the opposite of a Wayne City Council meeting.
The one last week was no different; I could have generated five stories at least from it, but that will depend on the amount of space we have in the paper this week.
There are a couple of good ones—the muralists will be back in town next week and are looking for some additional ideas for the two remaining panels, and it looks like a Farmer’s Market of sorts may make a debut this fall.
Then there are the not-so-positive ones, such as the relatively cold treatment committee members received during the Wheelfest. Only Council members Mathew Mulholland and Al Damitio and Mayor Al Haidous stopped by their booth to say hello. Other members of the council walked by without saying anything.
I have never understood the friction between these two groups. The Wayne 20/20 is a bunch of people who volunteer to try to make the city better. If anything, they’re losing money for their efforts since all of the stuff they had out at their booth, they paid for themselves.
I can think of two reasons: that the council is threatened by new ideas that come from other groups or they assume that since change is needed in town nothing that has taken place before is good enough.
Either one is a silly excuse to stand in the way of progress.
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