Yes! by three to one! Wow! Positive margins in almost every precinct. Wow!
There will be a sparkling new Allen County Hospital. Every family in the broad area that the hospital serves will get better care, have more access to the latest technology, have greater assurance that the medical community of the county will grow stronger rather than shrink.
Tuesday’s vote not only gave solid assurance that health care for Allen County’s families, from border to border, will be much stronger, much better, it also demonstrated confidence in the future of the Allen County economy and community.
Tuesday’s Yes! vote, coming in the wake of the Haldex closing as it did, brings new vigor to every business, every organization, every family wondering what the future holds.
This optimism would be a stretch if the vote had been close. Or even kinda close. It wasn’t — it was a great, exuberant “Bring it on!”
IN A CALMER voice, let’s use the momentum created by this expression of confidence in ourselves to move on from here. Let’s get serious about creating more jobs. Maybe it’s time to hire an economic development executive. Certainly it’s time to take a careful inventory of Allen County’s assets so that those assets can be displayed accurately and attractively to any potential business or enterprise.
Let’s let the excitement of this spectacular investment in Allen County’s future create energy in a hundred other enterprises in every corner of our country; in every community, in every civic organization, in every enterprise.
Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 can go down in our annals as a turning point; a taking-off point.
Let’s make it happen.
— Emerson Lynn, Jr.
