[Vision2020] A different sort of posting from a lurker

[Louise Barber]

Dear All, 

 

After unsuccessfully requesting that the local newspapers carry either a
column or waive the 250-word count//number/week for letters, I will make
this simple request.

 

Would any of you who subscribe to Vision2020 be interested in receiving the
email letters that Dave Barber is sending back home from his two-month stay
in Nicaragua?

 

You might have read in the Daily News that he is representing the Moscow
Sister City Association in Villa El Carmen.  MSCA has never achieved a large
profile in Moscow, and this is a remarkable opportunity for others in our
fair city to know that we have this relationship and that for over 20 years
it has been maintained and produced some particularly wonderful results.
The trip by Dave is of great importance primarily because he is a retired
professional who can contribute meaningfully as a teacher and ambassador
while there, and importantly for those of us back here, scope out
possibilities for our more efficacious involvement.  The cost of sending
things is often prohibitive, but what we have always needed to know is
whether or what “things” we send or contribute mean something once they
arrive: ever the question.  He can see for himself and engage people to
better understand how we can make more of a difference.  

 

His letters are terrific (with some very minor editing) and they are
mounting in number, so now (two weeks into this trip, which is to conclude
on March 28) is a great time to journey with him.

 

I will either post the letters on this site or create a list of any of you
who would like to follow this and send to you personally.  Contact me
personally if that would be preferred.

 

Please let me know about this online possibility.  But under any
circumstance, go take a look at the pictures and his letters in a display
that Bookpeople (thank you, Bob) will be housing for the next six weeks or
so.  We are so interested in new (free) membership, but with so little money
to operate on, we usually opt to send something south rather than spend it
on promotions to expand our membership.  There is a core group who do most
of the fundraising, and membership therefore pretty much means
contributions.  But interest is key.  

 

I hope to hear from someone.

 

Louise Barber  


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