Lori Askeland
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Retired professor |
| Location | Yellow Springs, all of which is included in Miami Township!, Ohio, United States |
| Introduction | My husband Frank Doden and I have lived in Miami Township (Yellow Springs) since 1998. We're both retired teachers. We grew up on neighboring farms in Iowa. We jointly owned a quarter section of land (160 acres) for the first several decades of our marriage, which we rented as farmland to a family member for many years. We later restored that land to wetlands and prairie. We transferred all the land to the state of Iowa in 2018 as one part of a large permanently preserved conservation area. We have raised two children, have hosted several international exchange students, and love helping folks live their best lives. I'm running for Miami Township because I care deeply about good governance, accountability, and our collective survival. Democracy and civil discourse are core values. Political representatives as individuals and as a group should welcome democratic participation and the input of the people. I will seek to enhance the Township board as a vital, well-run, accountable institution for our area--the rural areas and the two villages, Clifton and Yellow Springs. Contact me via comments on this blog, email, or on social media.. |
| Interests | Singing, reading, cooking, biking, writing, architecture, art, politics, localism, music, dancing |
| Favorite music | Moira Smiley; Dolly Parton; Roan Chappell; Billie Holliday; Ella Fitzgerald; Dean Martin; Stevie Wonder; Norah Jones; ABBA; Tammy Wynette; Madonna; Paris Combo; Pink Martini; Diana Krall; Iris Dementhe; Rob Heiliger; Whoever's playing at the Emporium and Peach's Grill on the weekend ;-) |
| Favorite books | Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider |