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Come for the brownies, stay for the local program experience at April 1 All Member Meeting

Yep! It’s a blatant ploy to get you to a meeting! But we had such a great time at NATIONAL Positions & Priorities with the pina coladas in January that we are tempting you with chocolate and LOCAL P&P. 


Join us at 7 p.m. for the April 1 All Member Meeting at Kent Social Services, 1066 S. Water St., Kent. We will look—briefly—at local positions and then decide whether to retain, update or drop. The results of the discussion will be reviewed by the LWV Kent Board of Directors who will develop a recommendation for next year's local program. Members will vote on that recommendation at the LWV Kent Annual Meeting on June 8th.


After the discussion, we have time for more brownies! It's a sweet deal anyway you slice it! You can find the local positions here.

Kent Social Services is especially requesting canned or boxed soup.

Update on Fair Districts petition-signing campaign

Statewide, the petition-signing campaign is at 250,000 good signatures and counting! The goal is 800,000, so there is much work to do. Leaguers’ are hitting more than 80% valid signatures. That’s all you, members! In Portage County, our coordinators, Anne Reid and Iris Meltzer, recently set up signature-collection at a March 14 event on the Kent State University campus and at several polling places on Election Day, March 19. So far, Kent LWV has collected 1,900 signatures, including 1,200 from Portage County residents. 

Collect Fair Districts petition signatures

at solar eclipse events in Kent April 5-8

Who could let a gathering of humanity like the total solar eclipse go by without an effort to collect signatures for the Citizens Not Politicians Amendment? Campaign co-organizer Iris Meltzer is encouraging members who have been trained to “get creative” and find a public place during the eclipse events to work the crowds. She advises to plan where to park near but not downtown and then walk to events.


If members need additional petition booklets, contact Iris after April 2 at iris.meltzer@gmail.com.


Check out the Kent Total Eclipse 2024 website for information about public Kent events where signatures can be collected. 


Below are the links to the weekly sites with days and times. Click the links to sign up. Consider volunteering weekly. 

Hobbs Hall

Wednesdays through May 29

4 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Sign up here


United Church of Christ

Mon/Sat through May 27

10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Sign up here.

Brimfield Bread Oven

Fri/Sat through May 30

10 a.m.-noon

Noon- 2 p.m.

Sign up here.



Haymaker Farm Market (outside)

Hobbs Hall until March 30

Sat Farm Market Summer location Apr 6

Sign up here.

New time! Book Club now meets on third Wednesday!

The LWV Kent Book Club is now meeting on the third Wednesday of the month, though the time and location are the same: 1:30 p.m., at Hudson Grande Senior Living, 5400 Darrow Road, Hudson. All are welcome to join. Email Jane Preston Rose for details about the meetings. 


The selection for Wednesday, April 17, is American Awakening: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard.


Looking ahead, the selection for May 15 is Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox.

The wonder and uneasy future of wetlands is topic of 2024 Edith Chase Symposium on May 16; poetry readings by local authors follows on May 17

This year’s speaker, Denny Taylor, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, will talk about “embracing wetlands” during a lecture titled “Wetlands as Generators of Environmental Stewards.” The event is Thursday, 7 p.m., May 16 in the Kent State University School of Architecture and Environmental Design’s, Cene Lecture Hall, 132 S. Lincoln St., Kent. MAP.


Taylor’s areas of expertise are freshwater and marine ecology and science education. He is a trustee of the Alfred W. Couch Organic Farm in Hiram and is passionate about gardening and decreasing human impacts on the natural world.


The symposium continues Friday, May 17, 4 p.m., with the annual Edith Chase Poetry Reading at the Kent State University School of Architecture and Environmental Design’s, Cene Lecture Hall, 132 S. Lincoln St., Kent. MAP. Local writers will read original poems on the theme “embracing wetlands.” 


The Edith Chase Symposium is a series of annual educational programs to acquaint people who are not specialists with issues of importance in the earth water sciences. The symposium was initiated in 2014 to honor the late Edith Chase, a scientist who contributed her expertise, energy, and outstanding analytic and communication skills to benefit the ecosystems of the city of Kent, the state of Ohio and the Great Lakes Basin. LWV Kent contributes to the symposium. To learn more about the symposium, click here

Read the latest from the LWV Kent Observer Corps. Click here. Interested in an outreach activity that puts you in the rooms where it happens? Click here.

SAVE THE DATE . . . All events are free except where noted

 

Apr 1 | Monday | 7 p.m. | All Member Meeting, Local Positions & Priorities Kent Social Services, 1066 S. Water St., Kent 

 

Apr 17 | Wednesday | 1:30 p.m. | LWV Kent Book Club Click here to email for details


May 15 | Wednesday | 1:30 p.m. | LWV Kent Book Club Click here to email for details.


May 16 | Thursday | 6 p.m. | New Member Orientation Kent Social Services, 1066 S. Water St., Kent


May 16 | Thursday | 6 p.m. | TECHLab Kent Social Services, 1066 S. Water St., Kent.

 

May 16 | Thursday | 7 p.m. | All Member Meeting, Local Positions & Priorities Kent Social Services, 1066 S. Water St., Kent 


May 16 & 17 | Thursday & Friday | 7 p.m. | Edith Chase Symposium Kent State University, click here for details. 

 

June 8 | Saturday | 9 a.m. | Annual Meeting Details to come.

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