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RFH 2010, Cover Stories, To the Editor

Letter: Support for Eve Ann Shwartz

Thu, Oct 20, 2011

We have known Eve Ann for the past 35 years first as an attorney and later, working with her on the Partnership for Community Development. It was in that capacity that I watched Eve Ann invest her leadership skills - along with her fine understanding of the law – into the long range interests of our greater community. During her tenure, the PCD restored 16 storefronts in the Villages of Hamilton and Earlville and created a successful small business assistance program.

Eve Ann and her family have successfully developed Maple Avenue Farms providing "Sun Fed Beef" to local and NYC consumers. Her interest in protecting agriculture and historic communities was a natural segue for her Stop NYRI efforts. The defeat of this proposed 200 mile long electrical transmission line was a victory for everyone.

With the arrival of gas drilling, it has been interesting to see where Eve Ann has come in on this issue. Eve Ann is a founding member of the Southern Madison County Gas Coalition a group organized to give local landowners sufficient bargaining power to negotiate leases that protect the individual and the community's land, water and air, while also providing a positive financial return. Clearly neither for nor against, but rather acting as a watchdog for safe practice, Eve Ann is a good neighbor, using her talents and abilities that has helped all of us.

If you know Rob and I, you know that we are not concerned with party affiliation particularly at the local level. We support individuals who have the skills, personal integrity, dedication to community service and business savvy that a leader must have. If you are an independent thinker, as so many of the silent majority are, then we urge you to vote for Eve Ann as Town of Hamilton Supervisor. Together this years' Democratic ticket of Eve Ann Shwartz, Chris Rossi and Dominic Pangallo are a winning combination who
are ready, willing and able to serve us all.

Susie Gustafson, Hamilton

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