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In Marion, Ohio today we did a whistle-stop event in the downtown area. Holding a banner that reads: “Average Joe” for President — imagine that!, <\/em>we waved to passing motorists and passed out flyers to people on the street. One man said he was suprised at the New Orleans response time given how fast, say, the world responded the Indian Ocean tsunami… We then headed up back road Rte. 231. We stopped in tiny Wyandot, Ohio to pass out flyers to people in their yards there, then headed on to Sycamore, Ohio. While updating this journal in the library there, a group of youth approached and asked for autographs (A front page story about the campaign had run in the local newspaper today)… Then this evening I was invited to a Volunteer EMT Squad meeting at Sycamore’s Fire Department building. For the better part of an hour, squad members got quite animated as they talked about their opinions about a variety of issues. One woman, for instance, said she believed there was too much study pressure on youth in school today. She said it was her opionion this was leading to things like: more youth depression, even suicide. I explained part of our educational platform called for an easing of competition in the schools, and much more student volunteer work out in the community (as is starting to be generated by the relatively new school “Service Learning Projects”). I added that I wanted our children learning as much about helping others, as they do learning about math, science, English… Note: <\/strong> Earlier in the day, we had stopped back in Nevada, Ohio (pop. 800). There I met Bill Morgan, who was the former (and only ever) “Village Marshall” in Nevada. Hired by the village council, he was an officer for 20 hours a week, and for the other 20 hours he was the entire Maintenance Dept. That is, when he wasn’t patroling, he was plowing. During the winter he plowed snow. In the summer he patched streets,mowed cemeteries, the park, and so on. “Bill is the last of his kind, a real ‘Andy of Mayberry,”‘ Seneca County Sheriff’s Sergeant Scott Lantz told me. Sgt. Lantz said in his 22 years on the job in Nevada, Marshall Morgan only wrote: three tickets<\/em>! Sgt. Lantz explained Marshall Morgan’s continual presence in the community was enough to quell crime considerably. And even though the marshall didn’t write a lot of tickets, he gave a lot of sort of informal (yet stern) warnings. Sgt. Lantz said as a youth growing up in Nevada, he once ran a stop sign just before getting to his home. Recounting the story with a smile, Sgt. Lantz said he’d already walked into his home and through a couple rooms when Marshall Morgan opened the front door and marched right in behind him. “They put those stops signs up for a reason!” <\/strong>The marshall scolded. No ticket was needed, the scolding apparently left enough of an impression. [This represents small town Community Oriented Policing at it’s finest, and we believe it shouldn’t be ‘a thing of the past.’]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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