Blogger's Note: There are seven members of Bethlehem City Council. The seats held by Grace Crampsie Smith, Hillary Kwiatek, Rachel Leon and Kiera Wilhelm expire at the end of this year.
Cantelmi is a Freedom High School graduate whose career has included editorial positions for business trade publications, including Women's Wear Daily (WWD) in New York City. After returning to Bethlehem in the early 90s to raise a family, Cantelmi became a popular weekly columnist for The Morning Call, a freelance feature writer for national and local publications, and a public relations consultant.
Small business development will be a leading platform for Cantelmi, the granddaughter of the founder of a century-old South Bethlehem retailer. "Small businesses are essential to the local economy—they bring a unique character, provide essential local services, and create a sense of community," she says.
Additionally, the candidate supports the following platforms.
Affordable Housing: Advocate policies to increase affordable housing options for residents.
Arts and Culture: Promote current programs and encourage the development of new programs to enrich the lives of people of all ages city-wide.
Economic Development: Support local businesses and attract new investments to boost the local economy.
Public Safety: Enhance public safety measures, including pedestrian and bicycle safety; police and fire support.
Environmental Sustainability: Implement eco-friendly policies to protect the environment. Promote our Tree City USA designation; boost awareness of tree care and the city's shade tree ordinance.
Infrastructure Improvement: Maintain and improve local infrastructure - roads, bridges, parks, and public facilities.
Education Support: Collaborate with local educational institutions to support quality education for all residents.
History and Tourism: Promote and protect the city's rich cultural heritage. Invest in improving tourism services, such as public rest areas, to attract additional tourism revenues year-round.
Health and Wellness: Promote health and wellness programs to improve the community's overall well-being.
Fiscal Responsibility: Ensure responsible budgeting and financial management to maintain the city's fiscal health.
"Our neighborhoods are highly distinctive, with deep histories, diverse ethnicities, beautiful architecture, trees, and waterways. Bethlehem is a precious place to live. I believe in protecting and enhancing our city as we grow into the future," sums the candidate.
Cantelmi earned a B.F.A. from The New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, New York. She continued her studies at The Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, where she later served as an adjunct professor.
For the past decade, Cantelmi has provided communications and event planning for the Judith Adele Agentis Charitable Foundation, a small Bethlehem-based non-profit dedicated to providing nourishing meals for families at hospice in addition to establishing the Judith Adele Agentis Education Fund and the first Palliative Care Fellowship in Pennsylvania at St. Luke's Hospital.
Cantelmi lives in Bethlehem with her husband, Robert Agentis. They have three daughters and four grandchildren. In her spare time, Cantelmi often creates large, lively, contemporary abstract paintings.
26 comments:
Hopefully she brings some more moderate ideas and opinions to Bethlehem! This current Council is a rubber stamp for Reynolds and his far left agenda.
Hard pass. She is a bit too pretentious for me, but not as obnoxiously pretentious as Kwiatek.
Anybody would be an improvement. Callahan is the only one on council with any gumption. Let's see which of the whiners come out against her.
Agentis Plumbing relation?
Hammer time! Time to bring in the hardware! Screw current council! Let's get down the nuts and bolts and get it done!
Her husband is MAGA whackadoo and she is too.
6:08 - Per wiktionary.org, "Kwiatek" means "something that draws attention by its strangeness or inappropriateness". Nailed it.
She may be able to help with Bernie’s leaking faucet !
It's a MAGA county, and one that was primarily responsible for Trump's victory. The MAGA majority doesn't think you're a whackadoo. It thinks you're a slow adult who just sits there crying in your ginseng tea.
She is a Trumper, and she has a hard time formulating sentences. Leon and Smith will have our houses votes.
So, she’s in favor of all good things as opposed to all bad things.
That sounds like a winning platform, reality be “darned.”
Why do her and her husband have different last names? To me that's a red flag. She's not getting my vote
Reynolds is a woke idiot, and council is a rubber stamp, so we need new, fresh "common sense" council members!
Smith is great choice. Leon is a double agent, works 3 different jobs while being on disability.
That's "she and her husband. "
She looks scary!
Aside from your poor grammar, you are clearly scared shitless of strong women. She'll get the votes of smart people and won't need yours. Please have someone read this to you, s l o w l y.
LMAO
Leon is on disability- check it out!
Grampsie and Callahan are the only two that not only view and see the obvious, but also know how to not rubber stamp and have open dialog. Great to see the far lefters huff and puff while Callahan does the job he was voted in for. Reynolds holds Colons balls in his hand. Sorry not sorry.
That pic is probably 20 years old.
That the best ya got? It is time for the city to change the democratic beauracracy regardless of your opinion on how one looks
Disability from being in combat for the country.
She is in PR, of course she used a 20 year old photo and took liberties with her family history, not mentioning that she married a widower, who's deceased wife was loaded. She also fails to mention her desire to run was motivated by the First Presbyterian church's efforts to develop the land around the church---she lives across the street. In any event, I am sure she will be a check on Reynolds, which is needed sorely because Callahan and Smith are horrible at it. Maybe she can teach them some PR tricks so they sound coherent.
Kwiatek/Wilhem/Leon must go as they are complete left wing puppets of the Ymayor as pointed out by many before me here.
Another vote coming regarding preservation of Historic district. Will these 3 once again show their complete disrespect for historic preservation & once again overturn a unanimous citizen HARB recommendation to favor a developer?
Stand by for council vote on Feb 4th on Preservation of current Woolworth building on Main Street to test these 3 one more time.
So much for transparency-that photo is at least 20 years old, and you want our votes?
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