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Help Dogs for the Deaf win up to $500,000

Posted on May 23, 2011 by | Comments Off

Dogs for the Deaf trains dogs to service people who are deaf, children with autism and other special needs where dogs are beneficial.  This marvelous organization is right here in the Rogue Valley, but its dogs are given to people all across our country, and sometime abroad.  You can be an invaluable friend to Dogs for the Deaf by simply voting.  Here’s how.

Through the Chase Community Giving program, Dogs for the Deaf has a chance to win up to $500,000.  Voting ends May 25 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.  Go towww.dogsforthedeaf.org and click on the “Go Vote” link on the home page.  (It is close to the top of the page.)  You will be directed to their page on the Chase Community Giving site where you can cast your vote.  Or, you can go tohttp://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunity giving/ and cast your vote there.

I think you may vote as many as five times.  YOUR VOTE COUNTS.  Please take a second to help Dogs for the Deaf win. Thanks for your help.

 

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Red, White and Blue Voting is the thing to do

Posted on October 29, 2010 by | Comments Off

My personal values pendulum has gotten quite a workout these past few weeks.  I’m sick of negative campaigning.  I feel like my grandmother (heaven forbid) when I feel the urge to criticize the path our country is following.  So on one swing, my pendulum went to “I won’t vote at all.”

But I just couldn’t get comfortable with that option.  It would end my years-long voting record for one thing.  And if I don’t vote, I’ll forgo my opportunity to shape the next two years and those that follow.  If I don’t participate, I can’t complain if I don’t like what happens.   Images of my parents sitting at the kitchen table pouring over editorials and voter information and talking about the candidates they would support came forcefully to mind.  Voting is what Americans do.  That’s how I was raised.

My pendulum swung again.  I thought of all the men and women today serving around the world to protect my freedom to vote, of all the generations before them who defended our nation.  Freedom may be free, but it’s not cheap.   I’m an American, and I have a responsibility to my country.

So I collected the Voter Pamphlet and built a pile of information on my kitchen table.  Yesterday, I dropped my ballot in the collection box.   I hope you arrive at the same conclusion.  Fill out your ballot today and get it in the drop box or the mail before it is too late for this election.

My pendulum is quiet now.  Every vote does count.  Elections are “by the people.”  It’s the right thing to do for the red, white and blue.

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