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Filing Period for Franklin City Elections
The City of Franklin recently announced this year’s
candidacy filing period as August 21st to August 30th. Citizens
interested in running for City Council, School Board, Ward
Clerk, Moderator and Supervisor of the Checklist are encouraged
to apply at Franklin City Hall, 316 Central Street in Franklin
during the week of August 23rd and by Monday, August 30th at the
latest.
Following are the current elected officials whose positions will
be on the ballot (three-year terms): Councilors: Ward I - Ted
Starkweather; Ward II – Doug Boyd; Ward III – Gerald LeBlanc
School Board: Ward I – Bettey Tobey; Ward II – Ray Yonaitis;
Ward III – Steve Barton, and Ward III – Vacant Position (one
year term) & Vacant Position (two year term).
The Choose Franklin organization has had four years of success
bringing candidates together to inform constituents of their
thoughts at the annual Candidate’s Forum. All community members
are invited to attend this year’s Candidate’s Forum to hear the
views of our next potential members of the Franklin City Council
and School Board. This year, the 5th Annual Candidate’s Forum
will be held on Monday, September 27th at the Franklin City Hall
/ Franklin Opera House at 7:00 p.m. with doors opening for
candidate ‘Meet & Greet’ time at 6:30 p.m.
Choose Franklin welcomes your suggested questions for the
candidates in advance of the Forum. What’s on your mind
regarding the Three Rivers City? Send your question(s) pertinent
to the candidate('s) election to Choose Franklin, PO Box 304,
Franklin, NH 03235. Or, you are also welcome to submit questions
via the organization’s web site with the ‘Contact Us’ option at
www.choosefranklin.org. Submissions are encouraged until the
September 10th deadline.
Moderator and Ward Clerk positions for all three Wards are each
a two-year term. Supervisors of the Checklist positions are open
for six-year terms for all three Wards, in addition to a vacant
four-year term in Ward One.
Franklin City elections are held the first Tuesday of October
making the non-partisan city election this year on Tuesday,
October 5h – a month prior to the General Elections on November
2nd. State Primary Elections will take place on Tuesday,
September 14th.
Voting is open from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the day of
elections. Ward I residents vote at Thompson Hall; the Ward I
area is comprised of all residents in West Franklin using
nature’s Pemigewasset & Merrimack Rivers as a boundary line.
Some general guidelines for voters at the Franklin City Hall in
Ward II are: boundaries run on the west side of Prospect Street,
Central Street to Sanborn Street, up to Babbit Road and down to
the Pemigewasset River. Residents of Ward III reside within the
remainder of the city and vote at the Franklin Middle School.
Residents are encouraged to register to vote at the polls on
Election Day or at Franklin City Hall until 10 days before the
election; this year, voter registration deadline at City Hall is
September 20th. Absentee ballots are requested in person or in
writing: City Clerk, City of Franklin, 316 Central Street,
Franklin, NH 03235.
For complete voter information, including a map of the Wards,
visit the City of Franklin web site at www.franklinnh.org, click
on “Departments” then “City Clerk”. Or call Franklin City Hall
at 934-3109. # # #
tspiner@cmonitor.com; news@cmonitor.com; news@citizen.com; news@laconiadailysun.com;
newfoundvoic@metrocast.net; finan@unionleader.com; info@lakesregionchamber.org;
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Marilyn Plourde
Choose Franklin received a grant from the
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation for the Franklin
Collaboration Project through the Kelly Fund in 2009!
The New Hampshire
Charitable Foundation has been
working to improve the quality of life in our communities since
1962. It builds and manages a collection of funds, totaling
nearly $400 million, created by individuals, families and
corporations for charitable purposes. In 2006, the Foundation
awarded approximately $30 million in grants to nonprofits and
scholarship funds to students. Based in Concord, the Foundation
roots itself in communities across the state through seven
regions including Lakes, Manchester, Monadnock, Nashua, North
Country, Piscataqua and Upper Valley. For more information about
the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, visit
www.nhcf.org or call (603) 225-6641.
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See The Citizen article on
the first meeting of the Franklin Collaboration Project
See The Citizen article on the second meeting of the Franklin
Collaboration Project
See Collaboration Project Priorities
Choose Franklin – Collaboration Success Teams in 2009
By May 9th, Franklin Community Day,
the City of Franklin will have benefited by a volunteer effort
called the Choose Franklin Collaboration Success Teams.
Representatives from 28 organizations have
committed their time and energy toward the completion of three
special downtown projects. Choose Franklin Collaboration Success
teams will engage in makeover projects that they hope will
encourage building owners, business owners and the city to
continue.
Choose Franklin instigated the downtown
improvement projects with a grant from the Charitable
Foundation. Choose Franklin’s sub committee of advisory board
members decided that they would continue their success as an
inclusive group and involve the civic, non-profit and city
volunteers in a city wide effort to improve important downtown
initiatives before Community Day on May 9th. The idea
of the project was to involve one individual from every
organization in town, have them meet and share their ideas and
resources, and make connections that would benefit each
organization, building social capital and human resource
capacity.
What those groups decided to do were those most
important to the volunteers. Three projects hit the heart of
those groups. The first project was to equip each downtown
business with a flag to display in front of their store on
Central Street. The second project will engage volunteers in a
general clean up of Central Street, and the third project will
decorate and improve empty storefronts with artwork and visually
pleasing materials improving the aesthetic quality of the
downtown area and having the downtown storefronts look full and
beautiful.
The committee invited several individuals
representing over 75 organizations throughout Franklin. The
response was remarkable. The group has attracted 36 people
representing 28 organizations in the Franklin area. “We are
using our internal resources to get the projects done,” said
Denise Sharlow, Executive Director of the Franklin Business &
Industrial Development Corporation and Chairman of Choose
Franklin. “The project was conceived because Choose Franklin
realized that we had several groups of volunteers who were
committed to improving the community, but we all didn’t know
each other.” Choose Franklin saw this as an opportunity to reach
out to the various groups and offer friendship and resources to
other volunteer organizations. It was a great opportunity to
achieving the organizations mission of being an inclusive
community group. “If we share our resources, we can get more
accomplished and not suffer the burn out that volunteerism
brings.”
“In Choose Franklin, we do not believe that there
is anything that we cannot accomplish as a community. We are
committed to educating ourselves as well as being advocates for
the best interests of the community. We want to show by example,
that we will be successful; each of us bringing our best to the
situation at hand, encouraging others to do the same,” said
Denise Sharlow
“We trust that the results will be remarkable.”
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