The best part was working with Ryan. He designed my yard sign and then used elements of that design to create cards to hang on doors when we canvass and even make tiny vote reminders to pass out at community festivals. He also designed my fantastic website I didn't want to pay for web hosting so he was able to take a free website and over-write the coding to create something no one would imagine was built upon a template. He made reels too.
This all started a couple years ago when I decided to cover City Council meetings the way we did when I was a young reporter. I figured I could attend meetings and put posts on Facebook about anything that sounded interesting. That way people would have a way of knowing what was going on since newspapers don't cover the city council anymore.
Last spring, two of the council members announced they were not running for reelection. I knew this was a rare opportunity to get some new blood on the all male council. I tried to recruit a female friend to run and discovered a problem that beset the whole campaign. Most of the people I considered residents of Grandville live just outside the city limits. My friends couldn't run or vote for whoever did. Then the mayor suggested that I should run. "I'm too old," I told him, though Biden and Trump have a few years on me and that didn't keep them from running. I am a dozen years older than the mayor and if I had won I would have been the oldest member of the council. By the time my 4-year term was up I would be 81. 'You can serve two terms," the mayor said. "You'd just be 85." This is a guy who runs marathons all over the world and believes all things are possible.
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| Mayor Steve Maas convinced me to run for office. |
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