SULLIVAN'S SALVOS
September 12, 2019
Sullivan’s Salvos 9/17/19
In this edition:
*Warren in Iowa City!
*Apples!
*Honoring Bob Welsh
*Kent Park Lake Grand Opening!
*In MY Day…
*Did You Know?
*Warren in Iowa City!
Elizabeth Warren is coming back to Iowa City! She will be hosting a town hall in Iowa City on Thursday, September 19 as we build our movement for 2020. We’d love to see you there!
Elizabeth knows that to create real change – to rebuild the middle class and save our democracy – we need to dream big and fight hard. That's why she’s in this fight: to have a real conversation about how to level the playing field for working families, and who is best to lead that fight.
Doors open for the event at 5:15 PM and the event will begin at 6:45 PM. This event is free and open to the public, so feel free to bring your friends and family along too. Tickets aren’t required, but an RSVP is strongly encouraged. Admission will be first come, first served.
*Apples!
We have apples! Please feel free to take all you want! Just e-mail me and we’ll arrange a time. We have a picker; bring your own bucket (BYOB)!
*Honoring Bob Welsh
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors and Social Services Department will honor longtime community advocate Bob Welsh and proclaim Sept. 19, 2019 to be Bob Welsh Appreciation Day in Johnson County. The event will take place on Thursday, Sept. 19 beginning with a morning reception in Room 203 B/C of the Johnson County Health and Human Services Building, followed by a proclamation at the Board of Supervisors’ formal meeting beginning at 9 a.m. in the Johnson County Administration Building. The public is invited to attend.
“I am not a young man, yet right around the time I was born, Bob began a crusade to improve the lives of Johnson County's neediest residents,” said Rod Sullivan, Board of Supervisors Vice Chairperson. “Over the decades, thousands of people have lived better lives because of his work. No one has given more to the ‘least among us’ than Bob Welsh.”
Welsh, a retired minister, is well-known in the community for his work advocating on behalf of others. He has spent decades advocating for older adults, caregivers, children and individuals with disabilities, and has been instrumental in local affordable housing efforts. He has served on numerous boards and commissions at both the state and local level, including the Johnson County Task Force on Aging, Johnson County Livable Community, Johnson County Consortium on Aging, Children’s Agenda and Older Iowans Legislature.
“Bob has been a tireless advocate for all marginalized populations in Johnson County for more than 50 years,” said Lynette Jacoby, Johnson County Social Services Director. “We are recognizing him not only for his decades of service to our county, but also for his dedication and love for this community.”
*Kent Park Lake Grand Opening!
Help us to celebrate the reopening of Kent Park Lake! We will be hosting a Grand Opening on Saturday, September 21, from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.
The event is complete with educational tours about water quality, the restoration, and environment surrounding the lake, a fish trailer and casting station hosted by the Iowa DNR, and free checkout of canoes and kayaks. Guests are free to come and go as they please. Hope to see you there!
*In MY Day…
“Back in MY day, we walked to school uphill both ways!” We all know this old joke. Yet it comes from a place of dark truth. Unfortunately, there are many people who have the attitude, “I suffered through this, and so should you.”
Like every parent, I have some guilt here. We feel our children are less grateful and perhaps more spoiled than we would like them to be. I think that is a feeling that is almost universally shared by parents. It is also not new!
My father was born in a house with a dirt floor, no electricity, and no running water. And he had it MUCH better than his father, who was forced to leave his home at age 11 with little more than the clothes on his back. Compared to Dad, did I have it easy? Oh, yeah! Compared to Grandpa, did Dad have it easy? Oh, yeah!
The important thing in my family is that they always wanted their children to have it better than they did. And they worked to make it happen. More importantly, they wanted EVERY kid to have it better than they did. And they voted to make it happen.
We could use a good dose of this attitude in our current environment. I hear the following things spoken way too frequently:
*I worked for years before I got healthcare. Why should they get it now?
*I worked for years to pay off my student loans. Why should their loans get paid off?
*My family immigrated to this country the “right” way. Why should they get in so easily?
This is not the way my father and grandfather viewed the world. They would gripe about their kids, just as I do today. But they would work for an America that is BETTER than the one they inherited. We need to get back to that attitude!
If you have ever spent any time in a county, state, or national park, you will have heard this message: Leave it better than you found it. I think that motto can apply to everything we do as a society.
*DID YOU KNOW? Red Delicious apples are original to Iowa! They were first bred in Madison County, Iowa in 1856.
Anyone interested in learning more about County government should take a look at the County website-
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---Rod
posted by Rod Sullivan @ 8:07 AM
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