Upcoming events with League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters of the San Juans (LWV-SJ) doesn't believe in hibernation. Fresh from their Nov. 18 Health Care Forum and Dec. 5 Annual Luncheon, the League board is creating a program calendar for 2014.

January 14, 2014 6:42 pm

The League of Women Voters of the San Juans (LWV-SJ) doesn’t believe in hibernation. Fresh from their Nov. 18 Health Care Forum and Dec. 5 Annual Luncheon, the League board is creating a program calendar for 2014.

Upcoming local programs will be planned with Sarah Crosby, LWV-SJ program chairwoman and Diane Martindale, LWV-SJ president facilitating discussion among the 55-plus registered members. The program meeting will consist of two parts: the first to give input for national programs; and the second to put together the local program calendar for the coming year.

National programs, as described on the national website, www.lwv.org are:

• Protecting and Engaging Voters www.lwv.org/issues/protecting-and-engaging-voters

• Reforming Money in Politics http://www.lwv.org/issues/reforming-money-politics

• Defending the Environment http://www.lwv.org/issues/defending-environment

• Gun Safety http://www.lwv.org/issues/gun-safety

• Improving Government http://www.lwv.org/our-work/improving-government

• Reforming Immigration http://www.lwv.org/issues/reforming-immigration

• Global Democracy http://www.lwv.org/our-work/other-policy-work/global-democracy

• Advancing Health Care http://www.lwv.org/our-work/other-policy-work/health-care

The public is welcome to attend – men included.

Call Diane Martindale at 370-5814 to advise of your attendance.

The General Membership meeting was at the San Juan Library on Jan.13.

They celebrated Carrie Chapman Catt, a founding member of the LWV, who headed the National American Woman Suffrage Association.This group brought to the public’s attention the fact that the work women had done in World War I should be rewarded with recognition of their political equality.

(This right was obtained in 1920 when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution).

To find out more about the national LWV, go to www.lwv.org.

To find about more about the Washington state LWV, go to http://www.lwvwa.org/.

To join the LWV-SJ, call Membership Chairwoman Clare Kelm at 378-3373.