It's time to get to know our community partners! Join us at the May 16 All Member Meeting, 7 p.m. | |
Thursday, May 16, 7 p.m.
Kent Social Services
1066 S. Water St., Kent
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Kent LWV has focused intently on its mission to strengthen voting and democracy. We have been reaching out to local organizations and agencies to share information about voting.
We have been working to strengthen partnerships with local organizations and agencies who currently serve underrepresented populations.
Representatives from our partner organizations will be at the May All Member Meeting. You will want to know these leaders in our community:
- Portage County NAACP
- Skeels-Mathews Community Center
- King-Kennedy Community Center
- Portage Metropolitan Housing Authority
Come! Bring a friend!
MAP to Kent Social Services
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ATTENTION SIGNATURE COLLECTORS!
Petition coordinator Iris Meltzer is asking members who have petitions that are at least half full of signatures to bring them to the May 16 All Member Meeting or drop them off at Kent Social Services between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Please make sure you carefully count the number of signatures and complete the back page of each booklet you are turning in. If that date doesn’t work, please email Iris to make other arrangements.
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Tech help for members' social media and online forms, Thursday, May 16, before All Member Meeting | |
Join us for LWVKent's Tech Lab. Even the most techy league members have questions from time-to-time including how to register for our events or how to post voting information to their Facebook page or perhaps how to copy and paste from Facebook to an email. LWV Kent TECHLab is a great way to learn how to power up online skills and support our efforts in a no stress enviroment!.
We’ll be demo-ing signupgenius and more (Facebook and Instagram) at the next TECHLab, Thursday, May 16, 6 p.m., before the All Member Meeting at Kent Social Services.
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New member? This event is for you! | |
LWV Kent President Sherry Rose invites new members or members who want to learn a little more about our League to attend a new-member orientation, Thursday, May 16, p.m. at Kent Social Services. Sherry explains it all! You'll meet other new members and then stay (we hope!) for the All Member Meeting that follows at the same location. Here's a MAP!
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Annual Meeting is Saturday, June 8! See you there! | |
The Annual Meeting of the League of Women Voters of Kent is set for Saturday, June 8, 8:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., in Pierson Hall at the Kent United Methodist Church, 1435 E. Main St., Kent.
We do the important work of ensuring the continuation of our organization into the next program year. New budget, adding new leadership, updating positions and providing leadership with direction. And we have a wonderful time meeting new members and greeting our fellow warriors!
There’s a potluck brunch that’s free. Contributions to and attendance at the brunch are optional. Come for just the speaker and business meeting. Our speaker will be Collin Marozzi (at right), deputy director of ACLU Ohio. He’ll be talking about voting! What else!?! Click here or here (alternative link depending on your browser) for all the details and the packet that you’ll need to review before the meeting.
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Can we just say . . . YOU ARE AMAZING! Thank you for the petition volunteering response . . . just a few more slots open and new opportunities at Kent Stage in May | |
The update from the League of Women Voters of Ohio is that we are right on target for success in our collection efforts by the end of May. Below are the links to the Kent weekly sites with days and times. Click the links to sign up. There are still slots to fill. You also can sign up for a slot in May at a new location, the Kent Stage. Please help spread the word about the petition locations to your social circles, social media and email.
Are you a new member and need some context? Head over to the Citizens Not Politicians website for more information.
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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.
Kent Stage (outside)
175 E. Main St, Kent,
Dates in May, 6-7:30 p.m.
Sign up here.
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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.
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Voter Service is revving up for summer 2024; opportunities available to help citizens register | |
We shine when it comes to voter registration! Chairs Stacy Yaniglos and Jill Hazelton have signed us up for community events starting in May. This is a great way for new members to get involved. You’ll be paired with an experienced member to register voters. |
Here are the events:
Sunday, May 19, Family Fun Day, Trail Lake Park, 1 p.m.- 4 p.m.
Need two volunteers.
EMAIL Jill Hazelton
June 15, Juneteenth, Downtown Ravenna, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.
2-hour time slots, set up and tear down
SIGN UP HERE.
July 6 Heritage Festival, Downtown Kent, 9:30 a.m.- 6 p.m.
2-hour time slots, set up and tear down
SIGN UP HERE.
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Facebook controversy explained; why it happened remains a mystery, but we're back online | |
Heard about our banishment from Facebook for almost a month? We were in good company with other Leagues across the country. We called for help from the League of Women Voters of Ohio and the League of Women Voters US. LWVUS has contacts at Meta, Facebook’s company, and facilitated our return to social media on the platform. The reason we were jailed? Nobody knows. So we’ll just go back to making Democracy work! Read media coverage here in The Portager and here on Channel 5 featuring LWV Kent President Sherry Rose.
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Sojourner Truth Project dedication on May 29 in Akron | |
A statue of Sojourner Truth to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and to commemorate the speech she delivered in Akron at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention will be unveiled May 29 in Akron. Sojourner is the abolitionist made famous for her convention speech known by the title “Ain’t I a Woman.” The event will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Mandel Community Center at the Sojourner Truth Building, 37 N. High St., Akron. The League of Women Voters of Kent has donated to the project. Learn more here and here.
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Somebody's gotta do it? Maybe you? | |
It starts out like this: “We, the people of the City of Kent, Ohio, grateful to Almighty God for the freedoms we enjoy, pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of the State of Ohio, extending to municipalities the privilege of ‘Home rule’ in order to secure for ourselves and posterity practical and efficient methods in administrating the affairs of the City, to protect the interests and insure the continued welfare of the community and to enjoy all the privileges of local self government, do adopt this Charter.”
This living document gets aired out and discussed every 10 years—next up in 2025. The League of Women Voters of Kent has had the important responsibility of participating on the Charter Review Commission. But just like the charter, our position needs some airing out. First, we need a committee and a chairperson. Here is the LWV Kent position on the Kent City Charter. Interested in this short-term task? Email President Sherry Rose. Ready to read the Kent City Charter? Click here.
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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, May 15, is Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox.
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Interested in helping to plan the celebration? Email President Sherry Rose here. | |
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
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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, May 16, 7 p.m., 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.
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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
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 | 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.
July 22 | Monday | 7 p.m. | All Member Meeting and Celebrating 70 years of Making Democracy Work ! | Details to come.
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