The Bethlehem Gadfly

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• Two-banger at City Council tomorrow night -- Wednesday, November 6, Town Hall -- 6PM & 7PM
• The Bethlehem Food Co-Op: "It can be so much for the Bethlehem community" -- but is taxpayer funding ok?
• Bethlehem women talk of efforts to follow "their music"
• Vote meaningfully today!
• Bethlehem Food Co-Op funding: Gadfly thinks the ball is in the City's court
• Big Foot Sighted crossing the finish line at Delaware & Lehigh 1/2 Marathon
• Sometimes Gadfly wishes he could really fly
  "Gadfly is posting this (and some others) Saturday to go 'live' on Monday morning. You may not hear from him Monday. At least, he may sleep late. He will walk in the Delaware & Lehigh half-marathon Sunday. And will likely need some repair."
• Gadfly, "what do you mean by 'fight the good fight'?"
  "In urging you to vote tomorrow, for several days Gadfly has tried to fix your attention on our City Council persons. You may know from attending City Council meetings or viewing them online that Gadfly usually yackity-yacks during the public comment periods. And that he virtually always urges Council to 'fight the good fight.' Gadfly has been asked what he means by that. He guesses the term isn’t as known as he thought. To fight the good fight is a term/practice biblical in origin. It means to do what is morally right. It means to do the right thing and to try to get others to do the same. Someone who is fighting the good fight is working tirelessly to improve the world around him or her. Gadfly wants Council 'to fight the good fight'!" Vote!
• Chatter around Gadfly's water-cooler about funding the Bethlehem Food Co-Op through a government grant
• Grace Crampsie Smith: candidate for City Council
• Gadfly's tail crosses the Trail's finish line
  Gadfly finished the 5-month Tail on the Trail challenge yesterday. His goal was to double the 165-mile basic challenge. Done. He did most of his short-spurt walking on the D&L Trail between Freemansburg on the east and Kimmett’s Lock on the west. He looks forward to a pedestrian bridge into the Southside — with a pit stop. In the Capital Plan we saw in the last post, there is thought to expanding the Greenway a bit farther south. Gadfly does his longer walking in “training” for the 1/2 Marathon mostly on the Saucon Trail. Last Sunday he walked on it as far toward Bethlehem as he could. And said a prayer. Please let him live to see the connection from Burnside close to Gadville, down to Sand Island, across the pedestrian bridge, onto the Greenway, and all the way to Coopersburg. Bucket list #4. What a recreational resource we have
• Before there is the Christmas season, there is . . .
• Other really important races being decided on Tuesday
• Paige Van Wirt: candidate for City Council
• A simple question about Council votes on the Bethlehem Food Co-Op
• Funding the Bethlehem Food Co-Op: concerns about compliance
• Responding to some skepticism about the Bethlehem Food Co-op's commitment to lower and middle income families
• Funding the Bethlehem Food Co-Op: "There's not a project more important in the City of Bethlehem than the Bethlehem Food Co-Op"
• Funding the Bethlehem Food Co-Op: "Philosophically, we're on the wrong path"
• J. William Reynolds: candidate for City Council
• Gadfly makes scientific discovery
• Diversity at City Hall: "Who's sitting in the decision table?"
• Michael Colon: candidate for City Council
• Gadfly election exercise
• How 'bout that new City web site?