IN MEMORIAL: CANTON CIVIC ACTIVIST "LEE COTE"

A
DAY
TO
REMEMBER 
CIVIC ACTIVIST LEE COTE

Sunday, August 14, 2016

UPDATE:

Yesterday, friends and family of Canton citizen Lee Cote gathered at the Fox and Hound on Everhard Road in Canton to remember the contributions he made to the quality of Canton government over his 15 years of being a resident of the city.

Here is a photograph collage of the assembly of the many Lee Cote friends and family who came together to honor this "extraordinary" citizen who tireless demonstrated his love of Canton.



ORIGINAL ARTICLE

There was not a happier man in all of Canton than 15 year civic activist Lee Cote on January 1, 2016.

For the first of January was the day that Canton could look forward to reversing a disturbing trend of the continual decline of the Pro Football Hall of Fame city over—at the very least—his fifteen years.

Actually, the decline has been decades in the making.

January 1st was a day to celebrate.

Political "independent" Thomas M. Bernabei had been elected mayor of Canton the preceding November with Cote being at the forefront as a citizen activist on behalf of Bernabei's election.

January 1st was a date for Cote to celebrate.

On August 8th, Canton suffered a tremendous loss with the passing of Cote at his northwest Canton home.  (Obituary LINK)

Matt Rink, Repository editorial page editor (who once covered Canton government as a reporter) The Repository, wrote a fitting tribute to Cote in today's paper.

Readers of this blog should go to Rink's article (LINK) to get a sense of Cote's work in Canton as a civic-activist.

The Stark County Report's tribute to Cote is wrapped up in a video in which The Report interviewed an ecstatic Lee Cote on Bernabei being inaugurated as Canton's mayor.



Thank you Lee Cote for being an exemplary citizen activist and key part of beginning Canton's turnaround!