The City of Salem received notification Monday from The Stars & Stripes National Museum/Library & Learning Center that Salem has been recognized as one of the 30 selected cities and up to 20 smaller communities around the nation this year to be a Stars & Stripes City.
Salem alderman and board president Shawn Bolerjack wrote in an email announcement to The Salem News “the recognition is a result of our community's ongoing embrace and dedication to the principles of informed citizenship, commitment, and service both within our community and in our democratic society.”
Stars & Stripes past president and national outreach chair, Jim W. Martin will be in Salem on 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, in the City Hall Council Chambers, 202 N. Washington, to present the proclamation.
The Stars & Stripes National Museum/Library & Learning Center, the one and only home of the 160 year history and heritage of our nation’s iconic, editorially independent Stars & Stripes Military Newspaper, is proud to announce our National Recognition Campaign to encourage and recognize the ongoing embrace and dedication to the principles of informed citizenship, commitment and service both within our communities and in our democratic society.
The Seven Core Criteria for Community/City Recognition are as follows:
• The City/Community proactively & innovatively engages to create & improve partnerships between key entities in the community: K thru 12 Schools, Higher Education Institutions, historical & cultural institutions, veterans’ organizations, chamber(s) of commerce, media, businesses & religious institutions to encourage, develop and improve the embrace and inculcation of the importance of informed citizenship, commitment & service.
• The City/Community proactively & innovatively searches for & engages potential partners outside of the community in this effort.
• The City/Community assesses, promotes & scrupulously encourages the efficacy, thoroughness, accuracy and healthiness of key news media within the community.
• The City/Community creates and enthusiastically promotes functional and productive events in the community to positively address, promote & further informed citizenship, commitment & service and further cement key partnerships to assist in doing so.
• The City/Community innovatively, consistently and courageously encourages educational institutions in the community to develop & embrace curricula & programming to better inculcate in their students the so important principles of informed citizenship, commitment and service.
• The City/Community strongly advocates to state government and other entities outside the community, the importance of the development and implementation of efficacious educational curricula and programming focused on addressing the inculcation of informed citizenship, commitment & service.
• The City/Community actively and enthusiastically focuses on how it can maximally participate in worthwhile events & programs offered by other institutions both within & outside the community, focused on positively addressing informed citizenship, commitment & service.
