Editor, Gazette-Journal:
Hi neighbors, I would like to share with you some personal background on my life and my family’s life in Mathews. I am a native Diggs; my wife and I started our lives together here in 1972. Our two daughters were born, raised and received their primary education here. We love this county’s beauty and we enjoy every day we are given here.
We started in the insurance business in 1976 and over the next 40 years, the opportunities and people we have met and established relationships with has been amazing! The people here in Mathews are hardworking, family oriented, generous and loving. In an effort to give needed support now to our community, myself and other like-minded people have organized and formed Mathews Citizens for the Common Good.
The group’s mission is simply to find and support candidates for the Board of Supervisors and School Board who are honest, of good character and integrity. We need men and women with vision, diplomacy and people skills that allo...