Chapter 694: A Great Philanthropist
This day is the day when the results of Fox's new mayoral election ballot count are announced.
However, this election is just a formality.
Although there are others who have been qualified to run. But everyone knows that no one can tell how much from Jessica's vote. The people who are running for the election, so they are all in the nature of playing tickets.
For example, a 68-year-old carpenter in a wheelchair, and a 19-year-old girl with a freckled face.
There was also last year's braided beard man, who ran again this year, but his beard was shaved off, leaving only two long hairspray mustaches on his upper lip that were curled higher than the corners of his eyes, and he still ran this time to show off his beard.
Jessica has taken Fox by leaps and bounds in the last two years and eight months, and in just two years, Fox has registered more than 35,000 people. Double the population since before Jessica's last inauguration.
That's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Fox has an IT start-up park. The R&D department of Springs has moved in, which has led to the development of the Pioneer Park, which currently has more than 500 small businesses. Many of these companies have survived for less than a year and a half. However, some companies apply for deregistration, and new entrepreneurs will move in immediately.
In the past two years, the number of registered companies in the Pioneer Park has been on the rise. And there are already a number of entrepreneurs who have managed to gain a foothold.
In the past two years, Fox has opened a university, albeit one that only admits students in the arts and medicine. But in the first year, the first batch of students was admitted, and the number was as high as 3,000. Meanwhile, Fox hosted eight different types of art festivals, art competitions, and exhibitions last year. It has attracted many American artists to live here. According to statistics, Fox received more than 5 million visitors last year, which is equivalent to 150 visitors per Fox.
The large number of tourists gives Fox plenty of job opportunities. Fox's unemployment rate is almost zero.
The stadium and exhibition hall under construction have begun to take shape, and these two magnificent buildings in the style of science fiction will become the landmark buildings of Fox.
In addition, in terms of infrastructure, basic education and medical care, Fox has developed extremely rapidly during the more than two years of Jessica's administration.
Under such an election situation, the results of the ballot count speak for themselves. As a result, Jessica received 95% of the valid votes and was successfully re-elected as mayor of Fox.
It can be said that apart from the relatives, friends, and neighbors of these contenders, Jessica received almost every other valid vote.
Link and Jessica stand outside City Hall with the kids again to receive cheers from Jessica's supporters.
Now the children have grown up a lot, and the youngest Isabel is more than five years old.
And the eldest, Allen, is almost fifteen years old. He's almost as tall as Jessica.
After the ceremony, Jessica went on to serve as mayor of Fox. Link, like last time, took the kids on a pretend tour of the town hall. Then Jessica was going to get to work.
Link left City Hall with the children.
Out of the outside of the town hall. It's the weekend, and he asks a few kids if they have any activities.
He first asked his eldest son, who was already in the final stage of voice change, "Alan, did you ask out your friend?"
Alan nodded and said, "Yes, I asked Gina to watch a movie." ”
Gina is Alan's girlfriend, and the kid finally launched a woo on the little Indian girl who was not yet eleven years old a year ago, and I heard that it took him a long time to get the little girl to agree to be his girlfriend.
Link also doesn't interfere with teenage life like him. And for this eldest son, a happy life is the most important thing.
He smiled and said, "You asked her to wait there?"
"In front of the store near her house. ”
Link nodded and said, "Then Jaime they're sending you there......!"
Alan nodded and said, "Can't get rid of Jaime and them!"
Link laughed and said, "It's good to know, but Jaime they won't get in the way of your date." He turned to Hannah. "Hannah, what about you?"
Hannah was still so calm that she smiled and said, "Daddy, I want to go home and paint." ”
This was to be expected by Link. Now Hannah is also studying ballet and piano, but those seem to be just hobbies. Drawing is what she likes the most.
"Caitlyn, and Evan. What about you?"
"I want to go home and watch cartoons!" Caitlyn laughed, revealing a half-grown front tooth. "There's still a dance class to start. ”
Evan took Isabel's hand and didn't speak. Link didn't ask him again, and asked Isabel directly, "Baby, where do you want to play?"
"I want to go to the park's playground, can I?"
The Werewolf Theme Park is now complete. Not only does it have a restoration of the Werewolf movie scene, but it also has a playground.
Evan immediately supported his sister: "I'll go to the playground too!"
Link thought for a moment and said, "Okay." That Jaime they send Alan on a date, and Hannah and Caitlin go home. I'll take you to the park. ”
After arranging the plan, Link and the others got into the car and went to their respective destinations.
Link took his two youngest children to the playground. The Werewolf theme park has a treat for Fox residents. They can purchase an annual pass or a monthly pass. You can enter and play at any time during business hours, no entrance fee is required, and there is no additional cost for the facilities inside.
There, Isabel and Evan can meet a lot of Fox kids and even meet their friends at school.
Link also had time to chat with Fox residents who came to play with their children and hear what they thought about the future of Fox.
Link now has Fox as his city. And he's here to listen to tourists.
Although this is his parent-child time, it is also equivalent to his working time.
However, in the past two years, the residents of Fox have been very satisfied with Fox. Fox resident benefits are also relatively good in the United States. And there are many job opportunities, and there is basically no unemployment. There is nothing unsatisfactory to the local residents.
The Hans Foundation's charitable account has more and more funds, and it is not necessary to invest them, so Link simply uses some of the funds in Fox. The Hans Foundation's donations, donations to Fox education and health care, directly benefit all Fox residents.
However, more of the Hans Foundation's funds are being used in the fight against hunger and poverty around the world. Link donates four billion dollars annually around the world through the Hans Foundation, one billion of which is used to alleviate poverty. The focus is on Africa and South America.
Hanse apartments have opened thirty-eight apartments all over the world. Low-cost apartments are mainly aimed at developed countries and some industrial countries.
Of course, those are the countries in which Link has invested, and he has investments in those countries, and his investments provide jobs. This can be combined with low-cost apartments to make the Hanse Foundation's reputation even louder.
Today, Link is a well-known philanthropist in the world. If calculated by year, he has been the person in the world who has actually spent the most annual philanthropic funds in the past few years.
Last year, several countries in Africa even followed Tanzania's example in awarding the Friendship Medal directly to Link. Link took the time to accept the medal.
Some U.S. congressmen have also suggested that Link should be awarded a medal. It's just that the U.S. government doesn't seem to hear it.
Instead, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) decided to award him the Peace Medal in his honor for his tremendous role in Africa's agricultural development and the promotion of peace in Africa.
There is still a way to say that this peace medal should be awarded to him. Africa's chaos is rooted in poverty. Many African countries are not food self-sufficient, and poverty is a source of unrest in Africa. The Beni Hans Group and the Hans Foundation have led to the rapid development of agriculture in those countries, which has lifted many farmers out of hunger. In the eyes of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, this is a promotion of peace.
Although it was a statement that the FAO had put gold on its face, Link still took that kind of medal very seriously.
The date of the award is set for next Saturday. When the time comes, he will leak the face of the big philanthropist in front of the TV again.