Levine, Anderson Endorse Each Other In Goodnow Race: Letters

The following letters to the editor do not reflect the views of Sudbury Patch

We all get to vote for two people for the Goodnow Library board, and one of my votes will go to Alice Levine.

I haven’t known Alice very long in person, but it turns out that I’ve known her work since we came to Sudbury in 1996; her many efforts to improve Sudbury are still bearing fruit. She helped innovate the L-S graduation party, Jamaica Jammin’, as well as the L-S speech and debate team; as a member of the Garden Club, she’s one of the people making Sudbury even more beautiful.

Her many years of leadership in the Friends of the Goodnow Library have brought many programs, activities, and facilities to the library that could not have been funded with tax dollars, and that wouldn’t have happened without the Friends’ dedicated volunteers.

A town’s library, at least as much as any other institution, shows the town’s values and priorities. Alice is running to help make Goodnow even better — better programs, more community engagement, and better use of the unique resources provided by both the Goodnow Library Foundation and by the Friends. I look forward to seeing her contributions in this new role.

—Tim Anderson, Sudbury

Tim Anderson is someone I have just recently met and I have really enjoyed getting to know. In all of our discussions, I have found that Tim is smart, level-headed, logical and hardworking. Read his thoughtful discourse on e-books and on whether the library should increase materials on racial, cultural and gender diversity on his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/AndersonForGoodnow. You will find yourself giving real consideration to those issues. Tim has a unique talent for opening minds and bringing people together in productive discourse. Those talents will serve the library and community well in the years ahead.

Tim is also uniquely qualified. He is a software engineer who is used to solving problems and making sure clients are happy with the results on multiple levels. He will certainly be a wonderful addition to the Trustees of the Goodnow Library as the library looks forward to the future. Fortunately, Sudbury citizens can cast two votes for Library Trustee and one of myvotes will be for Tim Anderson. I hope you’ll join me.

—Alice Levine, Sudbury