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Date Posted: 08:05:04 02/24/13 Sun
Author: Maplethorne
Subject: RFP of Sorts Call to Artists and Others

I just got back from a winter vacation trip with some friends. We visited a few small towns in out in the wilder parts of New York and the surrounding areas and got to talking about them. So many small towns and villages upstate were thriving mill towns and went into ruins when manufacturing was sold out to overseas. But today so many of them rebounded and are warm and welcoming and have wonderful little businesses. They look like calendar pictures from the past.

The people in most of these places have the same story. The place was in ruins and they needed to do something to save their homes so little by little they formed their own groups, put their heads together, came up with ideas of how they wanted their town to look and went to work rebuilding. They asked for and got a lot of input from their neighbors for ideas. They went into the schools and asked the kids what they wanted in the town and how they thought the town should look and the kids responded impressively.

Today some of these towns are clean, safe and welcoming. Even the kids have pride in their hometowns because they participated in rebuilding it.

I wonder why Newburgh couldn't do that same sort of thing. We have a lot of really wonderful artists right here. We have successful new businesses and we have a lot of kids who could be our greatest asset for the future. It seems to me we have a government that doesn't much care to hear what the people have to say about where Newburgh is going and has always been ready to just tear the place down piece by piece around us.

Why can't we, the people, come up with some really tangible ideas and suggestions about how WE want our home town to look and where WE want Newburgh to be? The winter is almost over and soon planting and building times will be here. Spring brings an opportunity for new life. Maybe this could be the year Newburghers bring new life to our city.

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Re: RFP of Sorts Call to Artists and Others -- Mrs. Merrie Widow-Waltz, 07:40:13 05/27/13 Mon
- Re: RFP of Sorts Call to Artists and Others -- Tay Ken Umbrage, 21:47:14 05/28/13 Tue