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Re-Elect Mayor Ronnie Marks For Positive, Professional Leadership By Ali Elizabeth Turner It has been nearly a year since I walked up to Mayor Marks at an event that was being held at the Veterans’ Museum, and asked if he would be interested in doing an interview twice a month for Athens Now. My idea was to publish something that would resemble the comfortableness of the “Fireside Chats” that were started by FDR during the roughest economic time in our country, and made legendary by Ronald Reagan during the same type of era in the ‘80s. He liked the idea, we began to meet at his office every two weeks on Monday mornings, and I quickly became a woman who is genuinely thankful that he is our mayor. I have found Continued on pages 15
Teddy Wolcott And The Little Search Engine That Could By Ali Elizabeth Turner My entrance into the 21st century re: the use of facebook, twitter and even understanding the full potential of having an online version of Athens Now has been a painfully slow one, that is, until Teddy Wolcott came into my life. Teddy, at 71 years young and who deContinued on page 16
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