In preparation for the town-wide candidates forum on March 11 (see the Lincoln Squirrel, March 2, 2017), three more candidates have submitted answers to the two questions posed by the event’s organizers: What do you like best about Lincoln? What would you like to see changed? The forum will take place on Saturday, March 11 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Lincoln Woods Community Center at 50 Wells Rd. Each candidate will make brief opening and closing statements and take one or two questions in between.
Melinda Abraham (Bemis trustee)
What I like best about Lincoln: I love the amazing people who are quite engaged in the community.
What would I like to see changed: I’d like to see funding devoted to a community center and to a elementary/middle school.
Lynn DeLisi (Planning Board)
What I like best about Lincoln: Living in Lincoln is wonderful because it has a serene natural environment filled with wildlife of all kinds, beautiful farms, and with many well maintained paths through the fields so its residents and visitors can enjoy all it has to offer. Despite its rural atmosphere, it is still amazingly close to Boston for work and enjoying all the city has to offer.
What I would like to see changed: I look forward to facilitating the revitalization of a Lincoln Center where local residents can meet and share interests over coffee or meals and having many of their daily needs met. I would also like to see enforcement of our bylaws so that what I like most about Lincoln can be preserved.
Laura Sander (Board of Assessors)
What I like best about Lincoln: I like best the feeling that Lincoln is an oasis of peace and calm. I find it refreshing to step off the train at the end of the workday and be in this place that we together as a community work to maintain. I find the access to the outdoors restorative.
What I would like to see changed: I would like to ensure that the oasis that we work hard to maintain is not an enclave that is separate from the rest of the world and its concerns. I appreciate the efforts many make to encourage diversity of people and thought and would like to see us work even harder to promote both.
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