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Urges city to fix Homestead Road
I have been living in Kaibab Trailer Park for the past 13 years. The road conditions here are absolutely horrendous. Earlier in the year two Williams City Council members have told me (they know who they are) that this spring they were going to get Homestead Road fixed. Well, this summer they had somebody come tear up the road and put millings down, which was all right but instead of taking their time and doing a good job they just threw them down. A week later the road was worse then before!
At this time I talked with another city council member, and he said the millings were only temporary until the weather warmed up and asphalt could be laid. Well it is now almost December and driving down Homestead Road is like four-wheel driving through an all-terrain vehicle obstacle course.
The people who have been living on Homestead Road have been waiting patiently for 13 or more years and I think it's time the city council live up to its word and give us what we deserve by the beginning of the summer — a nice, smooth, asphalt paved road. If anybody doesn't agree with this, drive over here and I guarantee you will agree that this is the worst road in northern Arizona. You will also have a new rattle or two in your vehicle.
Our road cannot be fixed by having the holes patched up, it desperately needs to get fixed right. It's time the city government starts taking some pride in how our town looks and not just uptown, but everywhere! The City of Williams has potential to have a truly beautiful town, but unless the people of Williams and the government work together to make that happen it will never happen.
I challenge the city government to start really looking out for Williams and the people of Williams.
I challenge the people of Williams to start stating their views and opinions and making things happen instead of watching them happen. If this doesn't happen, Williams will continue to be the "would've been, could've been, should've been town" it has always been. I personally don't want to see that happen.
Pedro Zabala Jr.
Williams
Appalled at theft of Christmas gift
This letter is addressed to the Grinch who stole my Christmas box.
I am appealing to whomever took my box out of the big black mailbox (for packages) to please return it.
This is on Hoctor Road. Are you aware this is a federal offense to steal from a mailbox?
Whoever you are, you may get away with it on this earth, but there is retribution. You cannot escape. What goes around, comes around.
Dorothy Anderson
Red Lake
Commends state
voter turnout
Arizona law requires that I canvass the general election results for the State of Arizona on Monday, Nov. 27. As I prepare to perform this duty in conjunction with the Governor, the Attorney General, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, I want to congratulate the voters of Arizona for their participation in the election. Voter turnout for the General Election is 71.8 percent, a significant increase from the 63.9 percent turnout in the 1996 presidential election.
I also want to congratulate and thank all the county recorders, organizations and businesses who worked on voter outreach and registration throughout the state for the last few months. More than 130,000 voters registered between the primary election cutoff date and the registration deadline for the general election. On the last day of registration alone, we registered more than 40,000 new voters.
For a number of years, Arizona voter turnout has been decreasing. Both the primary and general elections this year have reversed that trend, and I hope we can continue in that direction.
The radio, television and print media in our state are to be commended for their role in highlighting the importance of the election, raising awareness and understanding of the races and issues, and urging their audiences to register and to exercise their voting rights.
Since I became Secretary of State in 1997, one of my top priorities has been to encourage every eligible voter in Arizona to register to vote, to become informed on the candidates and the issues and to vote in our elections. We have partnered with Rock the Vote to initiate a birthday card voter registration program for 18-year-olds. We hired a Voter Outreach Director to work with minority communities and to pursue voter education and registration projects. We created a statewide toll-free elections hotline (1-877-THE-VOTE) and made the voter registration forms available on the Secretary of State website (www.sosaz.com).
We were astonished by the thousands of individuals that immediately used the internet voter registration form to register for this election. Website access to the voter registration form has been a tremendously successful way to make registering to vote easier than ever.
After the canvass, we will turn our focus to upcoming elections with continued voter education and registration efforts.
I hope we all have a renewed appreciation for the value of a single vote.
Betsey Bayless
Secretary of State
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