Long-time community organizer and life-long resident Norieliz DeJesus announced this week that she will be mounting a campaign for the District 3 City Council seat, which is currently occupied by incumbent Naomi Zabot.
It is one of several races that features some of the tried and true advocates and allies from local non-profits in the City – including La Colaborativa and GreenRoots, among others. However, for DeJesus, it was a feeling of being able to bring the voices she encounters in her grass-roots organizing to the inside of the Council.
Norieliz DeJesus, a longtime resident and organizer at La Colaborativa, has taken out papers to run for District 3 City Council.
As Nomination Papers have become available for elected office in recent weeks, two names that will likely hit the ballot in District 7 this fall might look a little similar.
In fact, they will be identical, and that’s because Tanairi Garcia Vega announced this week she will be running for District 7 City Council, and Kelly Garcia Vega announced she will be running for re-election to District 7 School Committee – where she currently serves as the chair of the Committee.
The Garcia Vega sisters, Kelly and Tanairi, announced they would be running a slate in District 7 for City Council and School Committee in this year’s Municipal Election. Pictured here are School Committee Chair Kelly Garcia Vega, their mother Socorro Vega, Tanairi Garcia Vega, her daughter Tanairi Camacho, and her son, Nathaniel Vega Garcia. Tanairi said she will run for District 7 Council, with Kelly running for re-election to District 7 School Committee.
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2020 Chamber awards March 17 2021
Chamber presents annual awards to Jefferson County people and businesses that stood out during the challenging COVID year
Michael Baker named Public Servant of the Year
When the public health calamity of the century hit our world, it fell to Jefferson County Public Health Director Michael Baker to steer the community through the crisis.
Jefferson County Commissioner Kelly Simmelink presented Baker with the Public Servant of the Year award at this year s Madras-Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce awards banquet. Most Jefferson County residents do not know of your 12-14 plus hour days, six and eight days a week since last March, said Simmelink, staying on top of the unknown challenges and planning for the what ifs .
Friends, urging friends, to help friends – of course From the Valley EM AND CHASCA are blessed with an abundance of food produced on their little hillbilly homestead. For her birthday Facebook fundraiser, Em chose the Gays Mills Food Pantry to help address growing food insecurity issues in our community.
RISING SUN - Last week you heard about my ‘big birthday blowout’ excitement. Memorable for sure.
But something I didn’t get a chance to share with you was perhaps the most exciting of all.
If you’re familiar with Facebook you may have seen that they often prompt folks to create a fundraiser on their birthday. Usually, they even offer up suggestions. Their ideas focus on their typical likes or things that the algorithms have noticed are important. The American Humane Society is a classic example.