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Short story about kindness and community

I shared in a previous newsletter that the Ahwatukee Sign Slasher had sliced my street corner signs.

I would replace the signs; the Slasher would destroy them the next day. It was a cycle of destruction and bullying on their part.

This week, I started to remove my destroyed signs and rebar to clean up the corners.

I was deep in thought thinking about the people who also had their signs destroyed when I heard a voice.

“Hey, what are you doing?” the voice called out to me as I was removing pieces of one of my signs.

I looked up and saw a woman talking to me. She was making sure no harm was being done to the signs.

I broke out in a huge smile, walked towards her, and introduced myself.

Less than a minute before I was thinking how the Slasher was attempting to foist their hate and division on our community and now a stranger was bringing us together.

We talked as we cleaned up the area and it turns out she lives in my neighborhood.

Slasher, I know it wasn’t your intention, thank you for bringing neighbors together. We are a community with numerous acts of kindness and we look out for each other.

No one will ever take that from us.

Image is of another slashed sign

As your Councilwoman I will do everything in my power to help mend the tear in the fabric of our community.

I know together we can be the community of “us”.

One neighbor at a time.

If you have my back, can you send a donation of any amount right now? Your support will carry us to Election Day, and I’m just so deeply grateful.

With your help (and vote if you live in the district) District 6 and Phoenix will have a community-focused, integrity-driven, and compassionate Councilwoman.

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