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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Goos afternoon everyone,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just received an e-mail from Lynne Williams of
Bar Harbor telling me about several people who are still collecting
signatures. An idea just flashed through my mind. With the upcoming
July 4th weekend with all the parades, events, and cookouts, would you be
willing to collect signatures one more time?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have 50771 signatures as I last reported.
Dick Dyer is certain that his collectors will turn in over 1000 signatures this
week. So, we are rapidly approaching 52000 signatures- just 3087
short of the necessary number to file and about 8000 short if we reach out for
60000 signatures to make sure we have enough.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In Stonington, we have a Fish Fry on the fish pier
every July 4th afternoon</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to raise scholarship money to give to our students
going off to college. That runs from 3 to 9 PM when the fireworks
start. There will be a whole lot of people not only from from the Island,
but from many places in Maine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am going to have a petition for Deer Isle and a
petition for Stonington and collect all the signatures which we have not
collected already. I am also going to have extra petitions for people who
are resident in other Maine</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>towns. SIGN THEM ALL UP!!!!!!!!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phil St. Onge and Keith Cook are making
arrangements to have signatures collected in Winslow where there is expected up
to 30,000 coming for</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>their July 4th celebration. We could all make
signs and hang them on our backs advertising that we are collecting signatures
to repeal the school consolidation law. WHAT A WAY TO
ADVERTISE!!!!!!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now, how many of you are willing to collect
signatures this weekend at parades, events, cookouts, or whereever people are
gathered? If you have extra petitions, ask people who are not resident in
your town to sign them. Please get your signatures notarized and send the
petitions to me. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I shall take responsibility for sending the
petiions to the appropriate town or city and have the signatures verified.
IS THAT A DEAL OR WHAT?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you need petitions, please e-mail me or call
367-2738 or 460-1260 cell.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please give this e-mail your widest
distribution.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If there are some of you who have extra petitions
and are not going to use</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>them, please mail them back to me at PO Box 52,
Stonington, Me. 04681.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you have signed and completed petitions, please
send them back to me.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>LET'S MAKE THIS JULY 4TH WEEKEND A WEEKEND TO
REMEMBER</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>THAT IT WAS THE TIME WHEN WE COLLECTED ENOUGH
SIGNATURES TO REACH OUR GOAL OF 55087.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you,</FONT></DIV>
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