Many people have written in the past few days about Dave Ray. They extolled his virtues as a musician, an inspiration to famous musicians, an insurance salesman, a record producer, a father and husband. It's all true.
But, I have not read anything about Dave's participation in neighborhood based citizen participation activities. Dave was committed to Seward. When I first moved from the West Bank to Seward in 1989, Dave was a model for me. He attended annual meetings of Seward Redesign and the Seward Neighborhood Group (SNG) He was on the Board of SNG when I started working at Seward Redesign. In 1993 before SNG's Annual meeting I overheard the SNG's Executive Director make literally dozens of phone calls exhorting residents to come to the meeting and vote against Dave for re-election. This lobbying was successful but Dave continued to be involved. His presence was felt in our NRP planning. MJ, Dave's wife was chair of our NRP Steering Committee and Dave knew about important dates and meetings. Despite the obvious animosity toward Dave by the staff of SNG Dave still found a way to have his voice heard. I'll miss you Dave! I love you MJ, I'm sorry for your loss. -- In cooperation, Erik Riese Seward: a great place to live, work, learn, and play! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
