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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Visionaries,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For your information and hoping that many of you
can attend, here's an invitation to the February community conversation. I look
forward to seeing you there and considering the subject of
civility...!</FONT></DIV>
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<P>COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS CONTINUE…</P></FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">
<P>TOPIC: BRING BACK ‘THE CITY WITH A SMILE…’</P>
<P>MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2007, NOON TO 1 PM</P>
<P>UNIVERSITY INN/BEST WESTERN CENTENNIAL ROOM, NO HOST</P>
<P>For information or to RSVP to save a chair, call Linda Pall, 882-7255</P>
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<P>The monthly Community Conversation series that began last June with the
discussion of the living wage and included topics such as downtown development,
diversity in Moscow, growth decisions, town and gown relations, housing, and
what’s great about Moscow CONTINUES!!!</P>
<P>The second Monday of February from noon to 1 PM you are invited to join other
citizens to address the topic: "Bring Back the ‘City with a Smile’" As usual, it
will be at the University Inn/Best Western, in the Centennial Room of The
Pantry, on a no host basis.</P>
<P>It is hard not to see and hear the hard, cold, sometimes abrasive, sometimes
unkind manner in many examples of public debate and discussion in Moscow
(nationally, too!). Is this positive? Does this further Moscow’s interests? Does
this advance the cause of those participating? </P>
<P>Is there a way to disagree and debate heart-felt issues while remaining
respectful of the others in the discussion? Are there some strategies one might
consider in these communications, given how passionately each of us holds some
of our opinions? Surely there is a way to have meaningful debate without caving
into some ‘smiley face/everything’s swell’ stereotype. Is there a civic ethic we
could craft and share that would help us all to raise the level of honest,
forthright, public dialogue?</P>
<P>Bring your ideas, observations and opinions to test-drive next Monday. Linda
Pall, Moscow City Council member, will convene the conversation and look to you
for your contributions. Please give her office a call by Friday, February 9, to
assure that we have the right number of chairs around the hollow square:
882-7255.</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>