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CUZ
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 02:23 am |
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Found this story about a town in NY wanting to relocate it's post office. They actually have grant monies for small towns to put together a strategic plan for just this purpose.
http://wellsvilledaily.com/articles/2007/07/27/news/news06.txt
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Possumhund
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 11:55 am |
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Nice link, Cuz! At least in NY their U.S. Senators seem to support their local constituencies.
I wonder if any of the empty spaces in the old downtown area would have adequate floor space inside for the PO? I think there is at least one property with enough room around back to support a loading dock with room for a tractor-trailer if necessary. The increased foot traffic would benefit all the current businesses there and maybe give enough impetous to encourage new businesses in the empty spaces. I can remember when that stretch was truely the heart of Stokesdale with a thriving business in nearly each storefront.
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 12:04 pm |
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 12:21 pm |
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Possumhund
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 12:22 pm |
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| Actually, I think the SouthRich proeprties are occupied already, but I had in mind the space that Pegram hardware used to occupy. I think I heard that its owned by a Doctor although I can't be sure of that and I don't know the name.
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 12:25 pm |
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Possumhund
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 12:27 pm |
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Jim Flynt wrote: Possumhund wrote: I can remember when that stretch was truely the heart of Stokesdale with a thriving business in nearly each storefront.
Possum you're probably too young to remember, but do you recall when they used to have hitching posts out front along Main Street for shoppers to tie their horses? Do you remember when Stokesdale used to have a jail down there as well? (I don't remember either as I wasn't born then, but I have seen the photos and heard the stories from the 'old timers.'
Of course, I do remember when Tom Southard's shoe shop, Fletcher Neal's grocery store, Mr. Orrell's barbership, Dink and Oren's grocery, when Nolan and John Chandler and OK ran the hardware store, and the Stokesdale Commercial Bank were all open and thriving along Main Street.
The open area where SouthRich now has a natural park is where many of the local church youth groups used to cook and sell their brunswick stews or have their bake sales on Saturdays.
I also remember real penny candy and a water cooled bottled Coke for a nickel too!
I also remember when everybody in Stokesdale knew everybody else by name.
Fine memories, Jim! I do remember most of those places although the bank had moved to its present location by the time I can recall. and the train depot across the road was actually a working site with a coal merchant utilizing it and pulp wood loggers offloading all day long. On Saturdays there were a right many folks down there shopping and socializing. Fond memories indeed.
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Possumhund
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 12:28 pm |
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Jim Flynt wrote: Possumhund wrote: Actually, I think the SouthRich proeprties are occupied already, but I had in mind the space that Pegram hardware used to occupy. I think I heard that its owned by a Doctor although I can't be sure of that and I don't know the name.
Possum I was thinking of the same building too. My suggestion earlier was that Ted or Mark would know who owns that building and would know whether or not there is enough space there to make this idea fly. Group of us up at the diner were talking about that very building the other day and no one had a clear idea of the current ownership.
I can check on that for you- they may know.
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 08:57 pm |
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Have you all written the letters to our legislators? Mine are long gone. We have to do more than just discuss the situation on this blog. Let's get with it. James provided the addresses. Get others to write too.
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CUZ
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 09:05 pm |
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I was hoping to point out with the article I linked, that we should explore getting the TC involved and having a strategic plan from that body of government, that would ask our represententives to get on board with a "plan of action" that had been well thought out.
To write and request a new Post Office without the plan as to where it will go, when it would move, if it met zoning, and how much it would cost the USPS, might get a sympathetic ear, but probably no reactions that would make the wheels start turning.
Or maybe I'm wrong, who knows?
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Posted: Aug 1st, 2007 11:29 pm |
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CUZ wrote: I was hoping to point out with the article I linked, that we should explore getting the TC involved and having a strategic plan from that body of government, that would ask our represententives to get on board with a "plan of action" that had been well thought out.
To write and request a new Post Office without the plan as to where it will go, when it would move, if it met zoning, and how much it would cost the USPS, might get a sympathetic ear, but probably no reactions that would make the wheels start turning.
Cuz,
After over a decade of Letter writing , personal meetings, telephone calls as a TC member(1993-2005), and knowing of efforts made by the current TC. The time has
come for a Stokesdale Stamp Party with the mass of the Stokesdale Community(citizens of both Guilford and Rockingham) to rise up and let its collective voice be heard as a force to be reckond with. This is the effort the Stokesdale Postal Facilities Group (SPFG) is advocating, by means of a phone call, letter writing, e-mail and petition campaign. We believe that a show of intent will force the issue with our legislative bodies as well as with Postal Officials. While these bodies may choose to ignore the efforts of individuals and maybe the efforts of a political body. They cannot ignore the orchastrated movements of a citizens organization intent on an inevitable result.
The what when where and how much will come, If these questions are not already answered by long term plans. The goal of SPFG is to gain the acknowlegdement of the USPS that a facility will be built and in a timely manner . It is our hopes that at that point the proper political bodies will then endeavor into the whats, whens, and wheres and cost of this undertaking.
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CUZ
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Posted: Aug 2nd, 2007 01:38 am |
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James,
I am not trying to downplay the groups efforts, nor do I want you to fail. I will gladly help by getting signatures on petitions, telling friends and relatives to contact their representatives, etc.
What I would like to see, is someone willing to take this cause back to the TC and as a former councilman and a candidate, I feel you could probably get a better response than some others could.
There are grants out there for this type of research and planning, and I would venture that most of these are of the "matching monies" variety. Hence, maybe you could convince the TC to appoint one of their own to your group, and designate it as a committee under their board to study and proceed with further inquiry into this endeavor. These grants are listed under community development/rural development categories.
I myself have already written and faxed correspondence to the reps you listed, and I do appreciate all your efforts.
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CUZ
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Posted: Aug 2nd, 2007 11:05 pm |
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I could care less about being politically correct. I just feel that aspiring candidates for the Stokesdale TC would find this a grand bandwagon to get on and PUSH our Council to take further steps.
My mother is in her mid 70s and has had a PO box for 37 yrs. If she were to get hurt on that daily trip, I would hold the USPS AND any other entity that did not do enough responsible.
I quote Mr Attaway:"They cannot ignore the orchastrated movements of a citizens organization intent on an inevitable result."
Neither can the people that WE elected to our TC.
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Posted: Aug 3rd, 2007 12:39 am |
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