While everyone is on vacation ...

[kinzel]

Sigh, I guess it can be told...

due to my longterm interest in public service, public safety, and in
public information, I expect to be sworn in, before January, as ...

a Library Trustee for Winslow Public Library.

Yep ... in Maine, that's an elected position with a three year term, and I am duly elected to it.

Guess you can take the boy out of the library but you can't take the library out of the boy...

Comments

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

They actually swear you in with a little ceremony and everything? Wow, I had no idea.

You look pretty trustee to me, so this should be good for the Winslow Public Library. And I haven't even met you (in real life :-)

Great news. May you make all your board meetings betray their name by being interesting.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I'll be sworn in. The process has so far included filling out nomination papers, (wherein I had to swear to serve if elected), getting the requisite number of signatures on a nomination petition, and even -- to some small extent -- some glad-handing.

I suspect (given the density of readers and library users among them) that our ongoing interactions with the local Unitarian, Pagan, and arts community (whoa ... UniPag Artists Unite!)helped. It also helped that I understood the 107 Factor. That is, the local convenience store is a great place to get petition signatures. The first person I ran into there while getting signatures on my petition was a woman who had served as Library Trustee (first in the 1960s and later to fill out a term) and whose father had been a trustee... and who didn't know me. I was grilled on my background, and she not only signed, she asked where she could find my books....