FROM CANDIDA AFFA: - Candida Affa, a successful businesswoman with a long record of community service, announced today that she is running for Allentown City Council.
“I’m excited and proud of all the progress that has been made to inject new life into downtown Allentown,” Affa said. “But there is still more work to be done. I would like to help the city to keep moving forward.”
Affa might be best known as the owner of Candida’s Bar in Old Allentown, but her volunteerism has shown a commitment to the Allentown community for decades.
Affa was one of the founders of FACT of the Lehigh Valley when it formed in 1986. Fighting AIDS Continuously Together has since raised more than $2 million to support individuals and families affected by HIV.
Affa has also started programs that teach children how to keep their neighborhood clean and rewards neighborhood children for bringing home good report cards.
Affa currently serves as vice chairman of the Allentown Parking Authority Board of Directors and is also a member of the city’s Disruptive Conduct Board of Appeals and the Blighted Property Review Board.
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Friday, February 13, 2015
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sounds too good to be true. good luck
ReplyDeleteThis candidate is another soldier of Pawlowski's.
ReplyDeleteThe New Frontier is here whether we seek it or not.
ReplyDeleteBeyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus. It would be easier to shrink from that new frontier, to look to the safe mediocrity of the past, to be lulled by good intentions and high rhetoric -- and those who prefer that course should not vote for me or the Democratic Party.
But I believe that the times require imagination and courage and perseverance. I'm asking each of you to be pioneers towards that New Frontier. My call is to the young in heart, regardless of age -- to the stout in spirit, regardless of Party, to all who respond to the scriptural call: "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be [thou] dismayed."
For courage , not complacency, is our need today; leadership, not salesmanship. And the only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously. A tired nation -- A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation. And the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.
John F. Kennedy --- 1960 acceptance speech
That was 1960 and the present time is 2015 ...I whom have grown older continues to be what Kennedy has called young in heart ... Today there continues to be uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, and poverty and surplus ... And we pursue this always asking God to reveal within us the way to attack these problems. ... In thinking about these issues I am still strong and still have good courage, and neither am I afraid or dismayed to the point of giving up the good fight ... You see in today's world courage not complacency is still our need as well as leadership over salesmanship or marketing ... And I would like to think that I meet the test of leadership for I for one have not become tired of all the nonsense going on but I am still tireless in my efforts ... Unfortunately politicians like Pawlowski and Muller in creating their own slates for the Allentown School Board, City Council and the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners don't leave any room
Unfortunately politicians like Pawlowski and Muller in creating their own slates for the Allentown School Board, Allentown City Council and the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners don't leave any room for me to show leadership. Both of them have never appointed me to a Board, Committee or Commission under their authority. I'm sure I was not vetted for a possible spot in their separate slate not by accident but by pure design. And furthermore, it is also not by accident but design that these two gentlemen have never vetted me for an appointment on a Board, Commission or Committee under their authority either.
Dennis Pearson
Sorry Bernie but facts are facts,
ReplyDeleteMore lies advertismentally omitted by the king and its court jesters by appointment? Get GG head metermaid and original ticket taker too due an internal audit as per cost overhead and income ratio to see weather caculations jive?
Has anyone told the king how foolish he looks perpatrating some sort of Chickcogo mob boss in his tan casmere overcoat going into the dime dinner?
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