I have joined a good cause and yes, it has to do with protecting our children and families against moral degradation. I hope you will join along with me. The following letter was emailed to me last night from Shelly Clark and Sheryl Demars, which explains all you need to know about the cause. Please post on social sites and copy and paste this in an email and share with everyone you know.
Dear Friends,
We
have a new name: CCV -- Coalition for Community Values. This is
now our official name, and it will appear from now on in the subject
line of our emails, on our new website (under construction as we speak), on our
flyers, and on everything we do. Look for it!
Your efforts are paying off!
Did you see KREM 2 News at
6:00 tonight? We were the lead story. Note: THEY came to US; WE did not go to
THEM. Watch it here: http://www.krem.com/news/224163391.html Great job, Sandy and Shelly.
Media attention was not our goal, but it does in fact show that you are all
making a noise throughout the valley. Thank you!
Spokane Valley City Mayor Tom
Towey has also gone out of his way to contact us.
If we are going to continue
forward and be successful, we need you to participate in as many of the follow
ACTION ITEMS as is possible:
1) ATTEND OUR PUBLIC MEETING:
Attached please find the
flyer for our first CCV meeting: This upcoming Thursday, September 19th
from 6:00-7:00 pm. We will meet at the CenterPlace at Mirabeau Park, 2426
North Discovery Place, Spokane Valley, Room 109. We will start
promptly at 6:00 and end promptly at 7:00, as we only have the room booked for
that hour. You will be informed of all that we have learned so far in this
process, we will discuss our goals, and what we need to do to accomplish them.
We have a new city ordinance that we would like to propose, to prevent the
activities taking place at Lingerie XXX Espresso. We will also hear your input,
as much as is possible in one hour.
(Note: I have created the
document as a half sheet, or 2-up, to ease the cost of ink and paper if you
will be printing it.) Print
it (cut it in half) and hand it out Wednesday and Thursday at your work,
school, church, everywhere. Put it on your Facebook. Email it, text it. GET THE
WORD OUT ABOUT OUR MEETING this Thursday night!
3)
ATTEND MORNING PROTEST AND
PICKETING:
We are continuing with the morning
protest through Friday of this week, 6-8 am. So far the efforts have been
successful in turning away patrons and garnering public support for our effort.
The signs are already made, all you need to do is come! Even 20 minutes of your
time is very helpful.
4)
SEND EMAILS TO SPOKANE VALLEY CITY
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
Here is the city’s website with
their email addresses, as well as a lot of other information about the city’s
government: http://www.spokanevalley.org/filestorage/124/938/327/Talk_to_Your_Council_021412.pdf
It is one thing to be upset about this; it is another to
actually do something about it! Thank you to all of you who have already done
so! It is working!
5)
ATTEND THE NEXT SPOKANE VALLEY CITY
COUNCIL MEETING:
Tuesday, September 24th,
6:00 pm. Here are the directions to City Hall: http://www.spokanevalley.org/filestorage/77/375/City_Hall_map_and_directions.pdf
This is SO IMPORTANT! Your mere
presence will speak very loudly. We hope to have more people there than the
fire code will allow. Public comments will be limited to 3 minutes per person.
If you would like to speak on the record, it would be a good idea to come with
prepared remarks so as to stay focused, state your message clearly and
concisely, and to calm/control your nerves/passion/anger. If they run out of
time before you get to speak, please send your comments to them in the form of
an email if you have not already.
Note: On the Spokane Valley City website it states: “Our
Values: Community Identity and Pride, Focus on the Future, and
Open, Collaborative Government”. That is
exactly what we are trying to help them accomplish.
Thank you for your support. We are moving ahead, and
quickly. Time is of the essence.
One of you wrote to me today
and so aptly stated, “I know that the power to make changes to our world
emanates from a sea of righteous voices. One voice is supportive, ten voices
persuasive; one hundred voices are powerful; one thousand are invincible.”
See you Thursday night!
