Sometimes it really does help to come to the Guilford County Board of Commissioners meeting and make your case as a speaker from the floor.
Years ago, the late Marie Stanley came time and time again and asked the board to give the health department funding for a mobile medical van after she became convinced that her husband’s death could have been prevented by a service such as that. For years she showed up and spoke, and then, finally, one year, when the late former Guilford County Commissioner Bob Landreth was chairman, the mobile medical unit was funded in the county’s budget.
Well, last year, supporters of the Guilford Clean Power Now Coalition began coming in droves to speak at commissioners meetings, and now it looks like they’re going to get their wish…