[Local-Maine-Schools] Fw: poster & VOTING

[skip greenlaw]

Good morning everyone,

Dick Dyer has listed below an easy way for all of us to get posters made for 
display in our local communities next week in anticipation of the November 3 
referendum.  It seems inexpensive and quite doable with a little bit of 
effort.  This would be a good project to do on this rainy Saturday.  Then 
you will have posters ready to display when it clears.
I believe that Dick told me to ask the copy centers to use ink for printing 
the posters instead of toner.  I am going to Bangor this morning and will 
get some printed at Staples.

Please give this e-mail the widest dissemination to all your friends.  We 
are in the home stretch and want to do all we can to insure repeal on 
Tuesday, November 3.

Incidentally, voting laws have been changed so that you can vote in your 
community before November 3 without having to give a reason why you will be 
absent on November 3.  WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO VOTE AS SOON AS 
POSSIBLE NEXT WEEK ON A GOOD WEATHER DAY IN CASE NOVEMBER 3 IS A BAD WEATHER 
DAY.

Oh, another piece of information from Harry Pringle of Drummond, Woodsum.  I 
talked with Harry at the Me School Management Association meeting on 
Thursday.  He told me that in 1860 there were 4,164 school districts in 
Maine.
Obviously, there has been a great deal of consolidation since then.  This 
consolidation effort by the Baldacci Admin-
istration is the first and only consolidation effort, which has NOT provided 
some incentive to consolidate.  One more reason why this law was flawed from 
the start.  You can be assured that all of us who are doing interviews next 
week will make that fact known.

If anyone has any ideas, please send them along.  Thank you all for your 
continuing work and support.

Sincerely,
Skip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dyer Associates" <dyerapr at fairpoint.net>
To: <skipg at midmaine.com>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 4:32 PM
Subject: poster


> Skip, here's the poster.
>
> All anyone has to do is to send the attached pdf file to their local
> copy center and ask for it to be printed on yellow 11 x 17 inch
> poster stock.  Posters cost me locally 28 cents each.  Posters should
> then be mounted on a stake and placed nicely in public ways starting
> Monday if possible.
>
> The other big help from folks would be to ask everyone to write a
> letter to the editor about why the consolidation law should be
> repealed.  Speak from the heart and tell their local story if
> possible.
>
> Hope everyone can put in a little extra time this week.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dick 
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