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**AUGUST 2023 EDITION**
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EXCLUSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT
"If You're 50 Or Over You Should Read It!" Vol. 42:7
499 Consecutive Months!
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Regina Maestri Announces SS**** W Bid for Pueblo Mayor E N W L E A N C OCAL ****LLO
My name is Regina Maestri and I truly clean up our city, to reduce crime, trash, love Pueblo. I remember as a small child homelessness, and the ineffective leadervisiting our parks, the state fair, and our ship that wastes your hard-earned dollars. great local businesses. As a kid from a I speak with constituents on a regusmall town, Pueblo was a beautiful city lar basis and the consensus remains the full of promise and opportunity. I fell in same - they are tired of empty promises love and have been proud to call this my and “economic development” that ends home for more than 33 years. Like many with poor results, low paying jobs, and of you, I’ve become extremely disappointthe wasted investment of hardworking “For me, it’s not about the money, ed in Pueblo’s leadership, and how our taxpayers. but the opportunity to improve beloved city has become unrecognizable, Pueblo may be known for being a good PUEBLO—On Monday, June 26 the quality of life for others.” and unaffordable. That’s why three years ol’ boys’ club, so why re-elect one? We can’t Pueblo City Council approved the ago I committed to run for City Council Tony Baros • Owner + Caretaker keep electing the same leaders – from both $45,000 allocation of ARPA dollars District 1’s representative – and why today sides of the aisle – which have underserved Call Us Today: to improve concrete skateboard I’m asking for your vote to become the next Se Habla us for years while padding their own pockpark amenities at J.J. Raigoza Park, Mayor of Pueblo. Español ets. Together, we can take our city back! Moynihan Park and Sergeant Blake You are my boss, and YOU do the Non-medical Home Care & Recreational Activities Thanks for the Harris Skateboard Park located at hiring and firing around here. So, more chance to earn Pueblo City Park. form building and updating skate directly, I’m asking for the chance to your important “This skateboard park project is an parks with QR codes. Learned skills continue to serve as your grassroots vote this election. opportunity to engage youth in the include drawing, concrete design, voice in City Hall, based on my provMy promise is to Pueblo community to learn trade geometry, physics and skating. Youth en ability to stand for the people. Not always stand for skills and take pride in the skateboard involved at each park can learn how empty promises, not campaign rhetoric, you, your family, parks they use in their own neighborto skate during the project even if but based on my proven value and most and your busihoods,” said Director of Pueblo Parks they have never skated previously or importantly, based on my proven dediness. So we can and Recreation Steven Meier. “We are can learn to improve their skills. cation to you, and our community. enjoy a cleaner, looking forward to seeing the new The projects will teach youth and As a mom and a grandma, I’m tired of safer, more pros- amenities in each of the parks.” involve them in the building of difseeing my American Dream and our city perous Pueblo. The City of Pueblo Parks and Recferent features to completion. Moynibe desecrated in the media. Pueblo famPlease visit my reation Department plans to recruit han Park proposed update features ilies deserve better than elected officials’ website www. young people who are interested in Home include quarter pipes andNon-medical fun box, content with rising crime, Regina4Pueblo.com to learn more, email learning practical trade skills and apJ.J. Raigoza Park proposed feature inrising drug use, out-of-conme at Regina4Pueblo@gmail.com or call ply them to job skills, teamwork and cludes a three-sided pyramid and the Activiti Recreational trol homelessness, and a me directly on my cell phone – 719-504building confidence through graffiti proposed feature at Sergeant Black struggling economy. 8888. removal, making concrete molds, Harris Skateboard Park is a concrete We voted in a strong mini half pipe. mayor form of government Construction is anticipated to – and still no progress. We’ve begin this fall. Each project is anticinvested in attractions ipated to be completed within four to increase tourism, but weeks from start to finish with an anmany are incomplete, not ticipated completion date for all three maintained, and mismanskateboard parks next spring. aged. Hardworking Pueblo 100% educational The City of Pueblo received two taxpayers deserve more. and informative rounds of allocations of ARPA funds, Unlike the others runtotaling $36.4 million dollars to be ning for mayor, I am not obligated by Dec. 31, 2024, and exdoing this for personal poppended by Dec. 31, 2026. ularity or a paycheck. I am doing this because families The City of Pueblo was established deserve a cleaner, safer city in 1842, incorporated in 1870 and is to call home. As the mayor, proudly called the “Home of Heroes”. I’ll implement strategies to
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