Blog #2-- Covering Communities

Today was the first day I have read my local newspaper in a long time. When I say a long time, I mean a LOOOONG time. While I was looking through the paper there was one story that jumped out at me. It is called "Is there any interest in our school?", it was written by Gary W. Meyer, and it is in Big Lake's newspaper called "The Tribune". It caught my attention because I went to Big lake high school and I thought the article would be dealing with the high school. After I started reading it though I realized it was dealing with this past local election and the lack of persons who wanted to be elected onto the school board elections. Now, I knew that the kids who had to go to the Big Lake schools hated it, but I didn't know that the people living in Big Lake didn't even want to deal with the schools :)

"Everybody and their uncle registered as a candidate for the two council positions. Hardly anybody registered for the three school board positions. Nine persons signed up for the council jobs. Three signed up for the three school jobs," reported by Gary. It then went on saying that the school jobs should be more important to people. "They get to over-see a 32 million dollar budget, hundreds of employees, and programs that affect 4,000 local kids and their families." That to me sounds much better than the duties of the elected officials of city jobs. "The city jobs as important as they are, often amount to where neighbors' fences go, recycling issues, and regulating whereabouts of manhole covers in the streets."

This article just opened my eyes to the people in my community. Some people may be intimidated and scared with the duties of a school board member, but just think of how rewarding it would be to help the future of the schools in this small, but growing, community. If I had to choose between helping my future kids and grandkids and making sure I know where the manholes are on the streets, the choice is obvious. After reading this article, it has made me sort of think that maybe one day I would like to run for a school board position.

--Jamie Groth--

The world has come to a blog....

If you are truly feeling the emotion, time, and power put into a piece of writing then I would say you are reading a blog. "What makes a blog, a blog?" A blog is basically a journal for the people of today's age. A person's blog shows their audience what they are feeling on a certain day, their opinions on current events, or many other things.
My favorite thing about blogging is being able to voice my opinion and point of view on different situations. It also gives me a chance to express my feelings and get advice too.
The most challenging thing about blogging for me would probably have to be the frequency. Most blogs should have a new post everyday or even more than once a day. But if you really want to write about something you have strong feelings for, you should do it as often as you feel needed. Whether it is once a day, once a week, or 4 times a day. :)