Save A Vote For Mel Lehan for Vancouver Park Board

On Nov 19th, vote for Mel Lehan

VanRamblings has a request to make of Vancouver residents today, whatever your political affiliation: please save a vote for Mel Lehan, running as a COPE candidate for a position on the Vancouver Park Board.

VanRamblings has known Mel Lehan for 30 years. In that time, we have yet to run across a more humane, harder working, more steadfast, and more moral person than Mel Lehan.

Mel is a loving father and a good and caring husband, as well as a kind and generous teacher. Mel is also an activist, a member of our community who has always worked with others to help create a better and more livable society for all of us. Which is to say, Mel Lehan can always be counted on not just to do the right thing, but to do all that he can do with his considerable energies to help anyone who comes to him in need of assistance. Mel will move mountains, and dedicate countless hours towards the realization of goals which reflect the best interests of the broadest cross-section of members of our community.

Mel is a great listener. Not only does he hear you, Mel acts on the requests that are made of him, and works with you to achieve your goals.

Mel Lehan works tirelessly on behalf of those who ask for his support, or who vest in him their trust. Placing Mel Lehan on the Vancouver Park Board as a Park Commissioner would mean that you, as a citizen of Vancouver, would have a tireless advocate who would dedicate himself to creating the best parks and recreation system on the continent.

Mel would be there for you, working for you 15 hours a day, six days a week — meeting with and consulting with you, taking your calls, listening to you and advocating for you. There is no other person who is running for the Vancouver Park Board who would do a better job and dedicate more directed and efficient time, effort and energies for you than Mel Lehan.

Over the years, Vancouver Park Board candidate Mel Lehan ...

Created “Neighbour to Neighbour”, a coalition of more than 50 Vancouver resident associations. Mel chaired the organization and assisted neighbourhoods in building and protecting their communities
Worked with the Chamber of Commerce to help create the “Welcome to Kitsilano” sign at the south end of the Burrard Bridge, and is currently beginning work to create a tranquil neighbourhood pocket park at Fourth and Burrard
Chaired and co-founded St. James Community Square, a space for the arts, recreational and physical activities, and a gathering place for meetings and community events
Co-founded the Mid Main Community Health Centre — a community-based model of health delivery
Initiated a project of daylighting / opening up the stream at Tatlow Park
Worked to save affordable housing and character homes in Kitsilano
Remained active as a member of the Point Grey Natural Foreshore and Waterfowl Sanctuary Protective Society, each year participating in annual bird counts and beach clean ups, and
While working closely with the community, was instrumental in achieving the goal of preserving the Point Grey foreshore between Kitsilano and Jericho beaches, an area now declared a foreshore in perpetuity, mandating that this pristine beachfront remain natural, undeveloped, and accessible to the entire community

Mel Lehan gets things done. Mel listens, Mel cares, and Mel Lehan works tirelessly and with a focussed, goal-directed energy that consistently meets with success. Whatever your political affiliation, whatever your global intentions voting day November 19th, VanRamblings ask you, once again: please save a vote for Mel Lehan, your Vancouver Park Board candidate.

Posted by Raymond Tomlin at November 16, 2005 11:27 AM

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