The school referendum passed yesterday by a vote of 2,157 to 1,468!
Laurie, Emily and Dorothy and their husbands worked very hard on the committe to get the job done. On Monday night there was a huge caravan throughout the three towns that are part of the school district and on Tuesday they had groups around each of the towns that were "picketing" to encourage a "yes" vote and to get people out to vote. They also had a telephone campaign, door-to-door campaign, and a system to drive folks to the polls to vote. They really had their act together to get this passed. Many of us were quieter in our support of this referendum, but most of our group was in favor of it.
Two of the towns and the closest tier of the rural area voted for it; however, one of the towns and the outer tiers of the rural area voted against it. Now we are all hoping that the school district and the committee that worked so hard to pass it will have a process for all of us to get back together again.
At any rate, most of the WT's are very happy today.
Also today--we have heard from Joan who is on her tour of Australia and Fiji and New Zealand. She used our WT email address (which has been working well for all of our travelers). She is having a great time. We got a "Lazy Letter" from her today--what a fun idea--she just had to check items about what she was doing.
Laurie and her husband are heading to Las Vegas for a class reunion. It is for the Class of 1959. Neither one graduated that year but it sounded like a fun time, so they went. Actually, they went a couple of years ago also to the same get together.
