Granted the time and energy invested in trying to win, the losers must feel colossal disappointment. In each individual contest, one candidate won the other lost. Last week: The midterm election yielded an equal number of winners and losers. James Coffin, executive director, Interfaith Council of Central Florida Jim, thanks for helping make the City Beautiful. I suspect the person to whom credit is due is none other than James Hunt, city of Orlando deputy Public Works director and city engineer. Now, in a truly stunning display of responsive local government action, each item addressed in my complaint is being systematically remediated.
Looking ahead: Not long ago I pitched a fit about the state of the roadway that is John Young Parkway stretching between State Road 408 in the north and Interstate 4 in the south.
Maxwell stood by me and others attending a recent soil gathering and remembrance ceremony at the Greenwood Cemetery gravesite of July Perry, an African-American citizen who was lynched that fateful day. One of the “things” burned indelibly in his memory was the Ocoee massacre that took place on Election Day in 1920. Fred Maxwell told me during a primer course on the local history of blacks in Central Florida in 1983 when I was newly ordained and taking up residence here. Last week: “Some things are hard to forget.” That’s what the late Rev. Cleare, executive vice president, The Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation
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