Author: Wick

I posted a few days ago some information about where to find local election stuff. In trying to figure out a little more about this local election, I found a sample ballot (click the green link at the top) for Macon County residents. Check it out, and you’ll find the information for the city/village/township you live in, and what elections you have occurring.

Here’s a sneak peek for residents of Decatur:

City Councilman: (4 yrs., vote for 3)
Carey Grady
Betsy Stockard
Adam Ruderman
Dan Caulkins
Jerry Dawson
Julie “Moore” Wolfe
Adam Brown

City Councilman: (2 yrs., vote for 1)
Larry Foster
Patrick McDaniel
Marcia Phillips

Township Supervisor: Arthur Walker or Duane Potter

Township Clerk: Ada Owens or John Sellers

Township Assessor: Denita “Dee” Mathews or Tom Greanias

Township Highway Commissioner: Gordon Brenner (unopposed)

Township Trustees: (vote for 4)
Hilda Walker
Lisa Jones
Raushana Pender
Donna Verry
Michael Sexton
Mark Younker
Christopher Siudyla
John Bolletta

Decatur Park Dist. Commissioner: (vote for 2)
Robert Brilley
Erwin Arends
Cynthia Deadrick
John Davis
Louis Wood

“my biggest problem starts on Easter Monday (the day after Easter). I regard it as absurd and unjustifiable that we should spend forty days keeping Lent, pondering what it means, preaching about self-denial, being at least a little gloomy, and then bringing it all to a peak with Holy Week, which in turn climaxes in Maundy Thursday and Good Friday…and then, after a rather odd Holy Saturday, we have a single day of celebration…

..Easter week itself ought not to be the time when all clergy sigh with relief and go on (vacation). It ought to be an eight-day festival, with champagne served after morning prayer or even before, with lots of alleluias and extra hymns and spectacular anthems. Is it any wonder people find it hard to believe in the resurrection of Jesus if we don’t throw our hats in the air?

This is our greatest festival. Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose 2 chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don’t have a New Testament; you don’t have Christianity; as Paul says, you are still in your sins. We shouldn’t allow the secular world, with its schedules and habits and parareligious events, its cute Easter bunnies, to blow us off course. This is our greatest day. We should put the flags out.”

NT Wright, “Surprised by Hope”

Remember spending a late night with a bunch of friends when you were in your teens?

How you’d alternate between moments where everyone was zoned out, staring into nothingness – and moments where everything is hilarious?

We do that at lunchtime. 🙂