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Area Groups Start Voting Drive and Address Violence
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
Several groups held events
on Saturday designed to help people register to vote, sign
up for the census or simply spread goodwill.
St. Paul Missionary
Baptist Church opened its voter registration drive on
Saturday combined with an effort to bring awareness of the
ongoing census count to area residents. Rev. James Willis,
pastor of St. Paul MBC, emphasized that Saturday’s event was
only the first step in his church’s fall program to get
voters to the polls for the upcoming November 3 general,
presidential election and to get residents counted in the
decennial census.
As the St. Paul event
ended, Tina Butts, founder and director of The Movement,
opened her group’s voter drive at the site of her office on
Spielbusch which culminated in a march down to One
Government Center, site of the lone – so far - Lucas County
mailbox for ballot drop-offs. The Movement’s rally was
accompanied by a DJ, food and yard signs distribution.
If you missed a chance to
register for the vote or get counted in the census at those
two events, the opportunity was still there at Smith Park –
food, entertainment and civic responsibility. The Stop the
Violence event, organized by Malik Smith and team, was
billed as the “first of many peace rallies to combat the
effects of violence in the community … and heal relationship
between police and the community.”
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