Westminster: Ballot Guide & the 2nd Annual Westminster Food Drive
Help us feed 1,000 people
If you missed it, see my previous newsletter:
✨2nd Annual Westminster Food Drive✨
Goal: Feed 1,000 people this Thanksgiving
Why: 33% of our neighbors and 16% of children lack reliable access to nutritious foods due to financial constraints. 20% of adults regularly cut back or skip meals due to insufficient funds to buy food. Food pantries are regularly turning away clients because demand has outpaced supply.
Two ways you can help:
1) Drop off (at 9596 W 89th Place, Westminster) any extra food items you can (e.g. canned goods, dry foods, oil, juice, potatoes, etc.) to directly benefit Growing Home’s pantry (serving hundreds of families)
2) Donate financially to help us raise $1,000 to fully-fund FISH of Westminster’s Thanksgiving lunch serving ~120 people (most of their clients are unhoused). They host this lunch at Westminster Presbyterian Church in partnership with Congregation B’Nai Torah (CBT), the Journey Church, and Westminster Stake of the Church of Later-Day Saints (LDS). Donate here.
Reach out to me for more information: obiezeadi@gmail.com; 720-447-5606.
Tell all your neighbors and friends to give.
My food drive last year raised over 3,100 pounds of food and this year the need is even greater. We are again partnering with FrontLine Farming who will help us source additional food.
Yours in service and hope,
Obi Ezeadi
Westminster Ballot Guide
I’m sharing only my ‘absolute YES’ or ‘absolute NO’ vote recommendations below. There are other measures where I’m neutral or even supportive, but without an ‘absolute yes,’ they aren’t listed here. Key voting dates: Ballots mailed and drop boxes open on Oct. 11, vote centers open on Oct. 21, last day to mail ballots is Oct. 28, and the final day to vote is Nov. 5.
Vote YES on Westminster Ballot Issue 3C, because our firefighters and our residents deserve higher levels of safety, particularly as wildfires and public demand for service continue to increase. More info here.
Vote YES on Westminster Ballot Issue 3D, because all residents deserve better representation and our current at-large system is exclusionary which impacts our seniors, fixed and low-income, and Black and Brown people the most. More info here, and see my prior newsletters about Wards. If it passes, it creates 3 geographic wards, each electing two City Councillors with staggered four-year terms, starting in 2025, and includes compact ward design, a 10% population deviation, a one-year residency requirement, and updates to ward boundaries every 10 years based on the Census, while adhering to term limits and laws to prevent gerrymandering.
Other Ballot Measures:
Vote YES for Jefferson County Measure 1A. Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper explains it perfectly: “Jefferson County is at a crossroads. With a growing population and escalating costs to maintain essential services, our county is facing funding challenges. If approved, your county refund check would now be invested in public safety and roads. The measure does not affect your refund check from the state.”
Vote YES for Adams County Measure 1A, because it will help stabilize housing costs by building more starter homes so working people can afford to live in Adams County.
Vote YES for these State Amendments: 79, G, H, I, J, K
Vote YES for these State Propositions: JJ, KK
VOTE NO on Proposition 131, Amendment 80
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