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Monday, April 30, 2012

Brad Barton Coming to Town (Free Family Fun!) & Updates!

4 Community Updates!
 
1) Brad Barton, a family-friendly magician, is coming to Morgan, May 1st, MHS, 6:30pm (it's FREE!) to teach youth the importance of staying drug/alcohol free using magic, and..."What Will Your Kids Do On Their Summer Break?"  will take place immediately afterwards.  Find out what activities, day camps, classes, etc. Morgan County businesses/organizations have available for your kids to do this summer after Brad's Barton's presentation!
 
2) "Let Freedom Ring!"  Start planning now for the biggest and best Independence Day celebration ever!  YOU can be part of the celebration! Visit www.morgan4th.com to:
  • Sign up as a vendor, earn $ for your club or business
  • Enter a float in the parade
  • Sign up for the 5K run or bike race
  • Join "Spike Night" 4 on 4 volleyball tournament
  • Sign up for the "Skate Jam" skateboard exhibition & competition
  • Volunteer to help with the FUN!
3)  Splash pad in Morgan:  Want to have your kids play at a local splash pad at Riverside Park this summer? Morgan City is just $20K shy of having the funds in full to pay for a splash pad !  Any monetary donation would help from parents and especially from KIDS!  Last year a six year old girl sold extra eggs to some neighbors from her chickens and contributed half the money to the city for the splash pad.  What can your kids think of to earn and contribute $$ towards a splash pad?!
 
Donations can be dropped off at the Morgan City office Monday through Thursday from 7am - 6pm.  They can also be mailed to the Morgan City Office at 90 West Young Street.  Any amount is appreciated - pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters included!
 
4)  "Ellis Island: Why Did YOUR Ancestors Come to America?"   Do you have kids at MMS or approaching 6th grade?  See and read about Principal Madeo's Italian ancestors immigrating to America from Italy, a 21 year old girl immigrating by herself from Finland to America not knowing a lick of English, and a young couple from Sweden who immigrated to America in hopes of finding employment as tailors!  April's "Forgotten American Family Night Story" is now available on www.morgancityut.com !
 
THAT'S IT!
The Morgan Community Network
-- Lydia Nuttall --

Monday, April 16, 2012

Why Attend Your Caucus Meeting?

Why attend your caucus meeting?  (I know our Utah caucus meetings were last month, but this is good info for March 2014!)
The process of how Utah candidates get their names on the November ballot starts at your precinct caucus meeting.  Here's how it works:
  1. Attend your caucus meeting.
  2. Listen to people in your precinct nominate other participants (or themselves) to stand for election as a delegate for the upcoming State Democratic Convention or State Republican Convention in April.
  3. Listen to those who have been nominated share a brief message as to why they would like to represent you and be a "delegate".
  4. Vote for the person who will best represent you and your interests as a "delegate".
  5. Votes are counted at the caucus meeting.  The person with the most votes becomes your precinct's "delegate".  (Sometimes there are more than one "delegate" positions to fill in a precinct.)
  6. Your precinct's elected delegate attends the state convention on April 21st, 2012.  At the state conventions, the elected delegate(s) representing you/your precinct and other elected delegates from precincts all over Utah listen to candidates running for Governor, Senator, House of Representatives member, Attorney General, etc.  They vote for which candidate they want to have on the ballot for the November election.  The candidate that has the most votes from the delegates gets to be on the November ballot!
Does your vote matter in a caucus meetingDid you know that only 5% of registered voters here in Utah attend their precinct caucus meetings? That's a tremendous amount of power such a small percentage of people have over your future and the future of the State of Utah!  Make sure you take advantage of your opportunity to attend and participate in your caucus meeting this month by voting for a delegate who will best represent YOU and get the candidate YOU want on the ballot for November's election!

"The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt -

"One person can make a difference and every person should try."  - John F. Kennedy -



My "personal favorite" motivational quote:
"Elections belong to the people.  It is their decision.
If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds,
then they will just have to sit on their blisters."
- Abraham Lincoln - 

That's It!
The Morgan Community Network
- Lydia Nuttall -