Mary For Mayor Movie
Sanna Pospicil
Faith-based messages about not getting caught up in your job, remembering that your job is supposed to serve you so that you can serve God. Forgiveness should be the first and last thought of every day. What seem like disappointments can become blessings if you learn from them. Other messages stress importance of preserving family, history, community.
Mary becomes a positive role model for communication, perseverance, teamwork. She cares a lot about her family and her small-town community, wants to make both better. Her friends are loyal, supportive. Her father is distracted and distant but learns what he's been missing and changes. Mary's mother and grandfather are also loving and supportive, with lots of good advice. The villain is motivated by greed. Vast majority of cast is White, with a few people of color in minor or background roles.
Parents need to know that Mary 4 Mayor is a comedy-drama about a high school senior who runs for mayor of her small town against her own father. It's pretty squeaky-clean as far as content goes (one brief kiss, a pedestrian gets knocked down by a speeding car), but the themes surrounding local politics and the lack of younger kids in the cast mean it's not likely to interest viewers younger than tweens. Faith-based messages about forgiveness, being too self-involved to have time for family and God, and learning to see disappointments as blessings in disguise are conveyed with a light touch that doesn't feel heavy-handed. Overall messages are about the value of family, community, and preserving history. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
In MARY 4 MAYOR, 18-year-old high school senior Mary (Cameron Protzman) decides to run for mayor of her small town against her father, the incumbent mayor running unopposed until Mary steps in. Father-daughter tensions are already high enough. Dad is too absorbed in his job as mayor to pay attention to his family, and in fact moved back in with his own father (Corbin Bernsen). Mary's been hurt and resentful ever since, but the last straw comes when her father cancels her school's annual outdoor dance, claiming it's too dangerous. What better way to get back at her dad than by beating him at his own game? During the course of her campaign, Mary learns a lot about her town and the sense of community that binds it. She also learns that there's a lot more to local politics than meets the eye, and that not everyone's motives are what they seem.
This movie has a lot of nostalgia for small-town America and will be especially enjoyable to viewers who share that nostalgia. Mary 4 Mayor presents small-town "Main Street" as the heart of the community, a place for people to gather and socialize, and where multigenerational businesses keep food on family tables. It also shows how preserving history helps bind communities together. But it would feel more inclusive if there were more people of color in the cast.
On the plus side, the faith-based messages are fairly universal, though of course they assume a belief in God, and they're straightforward without being too preachy or heavy-handed. The acting and production quality are good, too, about on par with made-for-TV movies or long-running, if older, TV series like Murder, She Wrote. There's no real content of concern, but kids younger than tweens probably won't be interested in a story about local politics with no cast members younger than teens. Tweens and teens will likely enjoy watching Mary as she shows that she's not too young to have a big impact and make real changes in her community.
Sharing our hometown spirit is always at the very heart of every event in Madison. So when you are nearby, please drop by city hall or call our office at 601.856.7116. Please e-mail me at ma...@madisonthecity.com if we can be of any assistance.
Bavarian blue and white bows will line Main Street in Frankenmuth as the community mourns the death of its mayor, Mary Anne Ackerman. Her legacy to her family and her community is defined by her many civic leadership roles as well as her passion for education.
Ackerman was born in Reese on May 8, 1957, the oldest of six children. She attended St. Elizabeth Catholic School in Reese for the first eight grades and then graduated from Reese High School. Her parents farmed and later had a recreational vehicle sales business. She worked in both, weeding beans and sugar beets and later when she could drive, transporting boats and campers.
One of her early jobs was to work in the Reese summer migrant program for preschoolers, a federal educational program for migrant children, while their parents worked in the fields. As she earned her degree, she served as the director of the preschool program, making sure that there were services for children who were not as fortunate as those with a more stable life. She also worked as a waitress in Frankenmuth.
Her actual teaching career began in Millington where she spent more than 10 years, teaching grades preschool through sixth with her last year there as the principal of Glaza Elementary School. She came to Frankenmuth to take the job as the principal of Lorenz List Elementary School in 1995. Subsequently she was named assistant superintendent in 2005 and then superintendent of the Frankenmuth Schools from 2006-2016.
He added that Ackerman was sensitive to the needs of all the schools in the Intermediate School District, whether Saginaw schools or outlying districts like Merrill and Chesaning. Her priority was to create inclusive and high-achieving educational environments for all students.
When she retired from the Frankenmuth School District, her educational experience and administrative expertise qualified her for a job in higher education. She became the Executive in Residence and co-director of the Gerstacker Fellowship Program at Saginaw Valley State University, a leadership development opportunity for select teachers and administrators throughout the state of Michigan.
In memory of Ackerman, residents can display a Bavarian blue and white ribbon which can be picked up at the Frankenmuth Florist or city hall. A $5 donation to Frankenmuth City Beautification is suggested.
Mary Hawkins Butler (born December 12, 1953) has served since 1981 as the Republican Party mayor of Madison in suburban Jackson, Mississippi. She is serving her tenth consecutive four-year term.[1] First elected to office at age twenty-eight, she is among the longest-serving mayors in the United States.
Butler was an alderman prior to her election as mayor of Madison in 1981. In 2021, Butler filed a lawsuit to overturn a voter-approved medical marijuana ballot initiative.[2] She claimed there is a flaw in the state initiative process therefore medical marijuana initiative is invalid. Supreme Court of Mississippi agreed with Butler and overturned the medical marijuana initiative.[3]
On April 23, 2015, Hawkins Butler gave her annual "State of the City Address," in which she compared city engineer Rudy Warnock to a corrupt state official, Chris Epps. As a result, Warnock threatened a lawsuit against Hawkins Butler. She has publicly stated that she believes the entire Madison Board of Directors is corrupt, even saying that all of its members need to be replaced.[5]
In 2020, Initiative 65 was approved in Mississippi, allowing doctors to prescribe medical marijuana. This Initiative was approved by a majority of 74%, winning all 82 counties. Mayor Butler filed a lawsuit in the Mississippi Supreme Court asking the court to invalidate the measure. On May 14, 2021, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Ballot Measure 1 (Initiative 65) was insufficient because it did not comply with the signature distribution requirements in the Mississippi Constitution and held that any subsequent proceeding regarding the initiatives were void. In February 2022, legislation was signed into law legalizing medical marijuana.
Glen St. Mary Mayor Juanice Padgett is proposing spending 10 percent below revenue levels as a means of bolstering the town's sagging reserve funds, The Baker County Press reports. During an initial budget workshop July 29, the mayor pushed for a plan to pay one of the town's three part-time maintenance workers out of the sewer utility fund and cut an hour each day for the three-day schedule of the remaining two. The move will save Glen St. Mary nearly $15,000 next fiscal year when she proposes to spend $155,303 in the general operating fund. Sewer and water funds will be considered on Aug. 12.
The Amelia Island Museum of History will hold its next presentation in the Journey Stories Series on Wednesday, as guest speaker Gloria Toomey discusses the Mormon migration. The presentation, to be held as a brown bag lunch at noon, is an overview of the migration trails through the Midwest to the Rockies and beyond. It includes Toomey's personal family stories of making the pioneer treks to join the Latter-day Saints in Utah and Idaho. This program is free and open to the public, and will be held at the Peck Center. For more, contact Gray at (904) 261-7378 ext. 102, or gr...@ameliamuseum.org.
July 9 will forever be Mary Cleary Day in Neptune Beach. Mayor Harriet Pruette recognized the local veterinarian Monday with a proclamation naming the day after Cleary for her help rescuing 34 cats from a hoarder last month. Cleary, who owns At Home Mobile Vet Clinic, and others have helped find homes for many of the cats who were found on July 9 in a filth-ridden home on Oceanwood Drive East. "Without Doctor Cleary, you would have been up a creek," said Neptune Police Chief David Sembach. "She did an outstanding job and really saved us from something that could have been terrible for our community and the cats," said City Manager Jim Jarboe.
A free hunter safety Internet completion course will be offered from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday and next Saturday in Middleburg by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Students who have taken the online course and wish to complete this classroom portion must bring the online completion report with them. The location of the course will be provided when participants register in advance by calling (386) 758-0525, or visiting MyFWC.com/HunterSafety.
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