Community Guide 2017

Voting at the Center by Anne McClain I am not a “Vote by Mail” voter. I love the camaraderie of going in-person to the Community Center to cast my ballot on Election Day. I have two favorite voting day memories: One is of a presidential election year, 2004, in which George W. Bush was on the ballot. The Center hosts monthly art shows and that month the artwork was by Ruben Raffael. Among the pieces hanging above the voting booths was his powerful image of a psychopathic looking George W. Bush with intensely glaring eyes labeled, “EVIL.” As far as I know, no one batted an eye. An earlier memory from the early ’90s: I walked to the polls with my dear friend, Yvette. We were both pushing strollers with our baby daughters tucked in and I had my old dog, Peach, along for the walk. Heading home to Forest Knolls after voting, my dog got tired and didn’t want to walk anymore. Peach was a big dog and I couldn’t carry her so I took baby Alexandra out of the stroller and put my dog in. Peach loved it and sat up happily in the stroller enjoying the ride. Our route took us right past the big windows of the former Forest Knolls Gas Station bar (now the Farm Stand). There were a lot of patrons at the bar that afternoon and they all got a big chuckle out of these women walking by with the big dog in the baby stroller!

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