Opinions
Our Opinion: Montezuma has clever idea
The City of Montezuma came up with a clever idea to encourage people to participate in the 2010 Census, and stressing the importance of doing so.
If a community does not get an accurate count os its population, it can pay later by having funding cuts based on population numbers.
Volunteers with the Montezuma Downtown Development Authority (DDA) recently constructed a Census-themed Christmas display of a large, lighted hand. The display is integrated into the
Christmas decorations for the Macon County Depot and HIstorica Museum to participate in the Citizen Georgian’s Macon County Business Holiday Window Contest.
The DDA display is an interactive project in which palm prints have been placed inside a lighted open hand so that everyone can include their own personal autograph directly on the exhibit.
And a related exhibit is also in the works. During December and January, the Historical Museum is featuring an exhibit showing what Macon County looked like ‘Through the Eyes of Censuses’ Past.’ ”
The display and exhibit are great ways to remind the community that the best gift they can give each other (their community) is to be counted in the Census because undercounted communities are under-funded communities.
This interactive, Christmas-related idea is a very clever means to get the message out.
We applaud the City of Montezuma for its forward thinking, the Downtown Development Authority and its creative director, Camille Beilby, for this concept. This proves, again, that “thinking outside the box” really can get results.
