The "eye" stands for Internet in these candid
candidate snippets
COLUMBIA, 3/3/11 (Beat Byte)
-- After reading the online snippets that form her digital footprints,
the first impression one might get about 5th Ward Columbia City Council
candidate Helen Anthony is that she
is accomplished, competent, and knows her way around that cliched construct
called "a man's world."
She also likes to run, averaging about an 8.5 minute mile,
racing on the road rather than the campaign trail.
Founding partner of a
well-regarded general practice law firm in Needham, Mass., Anthony -- then known
as Helen Jursek -- had a community service streak that played out in the
suit-and-tie dominion of organizations such as the Needham Resource
Network.
A philanthropical arm of the Bulfinch
Group -- a financial services firm based in
Needham, an upscale Boston suburb -- the Needham Resource Network was "an
organization of entrepreneurs, community leaders, and financial professionals
designed to be a forum for relationship building, creative problem solving, and
information sharing," reads a 2003 newsletter announcing its formation.
Issues the group tackled included educating children
about subjects they'd be less likely to tackle in school: money, careers, and
sound financial management. Anthony is pictured in the newsletter with one
other woman and seven men, best dressed of all.
As one of 11
volunteers "who make a difference," Anthony was the story lede in a 1998
Boston Globe article about the "unsung, and sometimes unseen,
volunteers who keep important engines running in every community," whether it
be "giving someone a warm meal, or driving someone to the doctor, or keeping the
Little League team in uniforms."
Globe reporter Marty Carlock called Anthony --
then Helen Jursek -- "a tireless worker on town planning
issues" who was happy to remain behind the scenes.
"I don't have to be the up-front person," she said at the
time.
A member of
Columbia's Planning and Zoning Commission for several years, Anthony is clearly
still interested in town planning, but also now in moving up front.
She's running for City Council because "the Fifth Ward needs a strong advocate,
as it faces issues such as the construction of a new power line and the building
of the Scott Boulevard extension," according to her
website. "These issues—and many
others—require an open-minded student of local government, willing to do the
research and engage citizens in productive dialogue."
If Anthony is elected -- and she still plays golf -- she
might give another Council person some competition on the course. "Go Golf"
reads 2nd Ward Councilman Jason Thornhill's automobile license plate.
"Helen Jursek of Needham aced the 105 yard 13th with an 8
iron June 7, with Sue Boisneau and Mary Petrini as witnesses," reads the
Golf Notes section of a 1994 Boston Herald.
Learn more about Helen Anthony for City
Council
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