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Date: 9/14/2025
Subject: Heights Chapter E-News - Another week of forums!
From: Wendy Deuring


Heights Chapter E-News -
Another week of forums - Spread the news!
  * Wednesday, September 17th - Rally for Fair Maps in Columbus, 10:30-12:30, 125 E Broad Street, Columbus. Who's going?
 
Forums: 
 *  Wednesday, September 17, 6-8 pm - CH Mayoral Forum and Charter Revisions, CH Community Center
  * Thursday, September 18, 6-8 pm - UH Council Forum, UH Branch Library
  * Thursday, September 25th, 6-8 pm - CH-UH School Board Forum, CH Community Center
We are down to the final three forums
Candidate Forums:
Candidate forums are recorded and posted on the League of Women Voters of
Greater Cleveland YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@lwvgreatercleveland.
 
The remaining Forum schedule is:
9/17 Cleveland Heights Mayoral race and proposed City Charter Amendments
6-8 p.m., Cleveland Heights Community Center - Betsy Tracy, organizer
To see the City Charter amendments go to www.clevelandheights.gov and you will see it posted at the very top of the home page - above the blue banner.
DOES ANYONE HAVE COLORED 3x5" INDEX CARDS TO DONATE FOR THIS FORUM? Email Betsy at tracyelizabeth23@gmail.com

9/18 University Heights City Council race, 6-8 p.m., University Heights Library - Blanche Valancy, organizer

9/25 Candidates for Cleveland Heights-University Heights School Board,
6-8 p.m., Cleveland Heights Community Center - Janice Foster, organizer
 
Regarding the Charter Review for Cleveland Hts:  City Council approved the inclusion of the proposed Charter amendments to be included on the November ballot as a SINGLE issue. We are planning presenters to explain the issues and present the pro and con following the Mayoral Forum on the 17th.  The details of the charter amendments are posted at clevelandheights.  at the very top of the home page - above the blue banner.  We will have a summary sheet to give out to the people who attend the forum that evening. 
 
PLEASE SHARE THE FLYERS ATTACHED BELOW TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED, AND SHARE TO YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA!
CH Mayoral Final and City Charter Revisions 2025
UH City Council Forum 2025
CH-UH School Board Candidate Forum 2025
Candidate and Issue Moderator Training
We have completed the two training sessions and now we have 20 more people trained to moderate in Greater Cleveland! 
If you are connected to a community in Greater Cleveland which does not have an active chapter but which is interested in hosting a candidate forum (within our League guidelines), they can send an email to president@lwvgreatercleveland.org.
 
And if anyone is interested, here is the link to the recorded training:
Instructions for Living in a Broken World
lean into community
seek out love
applaud the good you see
keep paying attention
talk to your neighbors
dance to the music and embrace art
look for love and small joys
take breaks and relish in nourishing your body
donate what you can
linger at the dinner table with friends
check in with your people
let yourself grieve
love one another as deeply as you can
the storm is upon us and we must hold on
don’t give up, we’re here together.
 
(this was read to my yoga class. I have found it online but with various attributions. My gratitude to whomever wrote it.)
Bill of Obligations - The 10 Habits of Good Citizens
From the Card Campaign: The Constitution and Voting Rights
Some of you are aware of the "Card Campaign" which was started last year to provide informational handouts to voters. They have just issued two new cards - on our Constitutional Amendment Rights and our Voting Rights.  These cards are designed to be printed out or shared in social media.
 
The Board of Elections has moved!
 
In case you missed the news, our Cuyahoga County Board of Elections has moved a bit further west and north to
the former Plain Dealer Building - 1803 Superior Avenue.
For those of you who have been in the current building at 30th and Euclid, you will probably agree this is a good move.
MEMBERSHIP ROSTER IS HERE!
 
Going forward the directory will be updated quarterly and posted to our chapter's website at www.lwvgreatercleveland.org (and emailed to new members.)  But here is your first (in a very VERY long time) member directory.  With major credit to Janice Foster who just couldn't believe we didn't have such a thing.  Thank you Janice!
* With apologies to people who have joined this year - I have not been able to update the roster, which is a manual process.  If anyone is interested in doing a Review/Replace process, reply to this email and let me know.  Otherwise, I will hopefully have time after the upcoming elections.
Chapter Member Directory 2025-01
Links to things you might have missed:
- Cleveland Hts. Council Candidates Forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gEwwU7spfc&t=353s
- University Hts. Mayoral Candidates Forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo6DXrS8L5g
 
- For the report on the Public School Funding Meeting held on May 5th with State Sen. Kent Smith, and suggestions of follow-up steps, go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JiFYYO97YkdYMpGo8vqZr5cK-Gi2DSB4xsJTtP2GnrQ/edit?tab=t.0
 
- LWV Ohio forum on Fair Funding vs Vouchers: Understanding the K-12 Funding Tug of War  02/12/2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8VuEBf3LJ4
 
New and not-so-new member orientation program:
The program was recorded and has now been posted on our chapter home page.  If you're interested in watching the presentations you can go to www.lwvgreatercleveland.org.  You'll need to log in as a member so click in the upper right corner where it says Member Login.  (If you haven't set up your login yet, you'll get a chance to do it now.)  Then, in the top menu bar click on "Chapters" (just to the left of "About Us") and scroll down to "Cleve Hts/Univ Hts. . Then scroll down on our page past the calendar and the Observer Corp.
 
The LWVUS "Impact on Issues" book, summarizing our national positions and priorities from the 2024 National Convention is available from Amazon for the low low price of $6.99!  (It is also available online at LWV.org which is searchable but extremely long.)  LWVUS Impact on Issues
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. - John Lewis
 
No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all their accomplices.  Edward R Murrow, Journalist
 
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth, poet (7 Apr 1770-1850)
 
All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again, and rise up.
It isn't that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn't die.  John Steinbeck
 
An inspiration from Martin Luther King (per Maya Wiley):
A man cannot be ridden if his back is not bent.
 
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 
Thomas Jefferson
 
CHUH Chapter Leadership 
 
We are delighted to report the following list of officers for the 2024/2025 year::
Chapter Chair: Wendy Deuring  (2024-2026)
Voter Service Co-Chairs: Betsy Tracy (2023-2025) and Janice Foster (2024-2025)
Membership Development Co-Chairs: Joan Spoerl (2024-2026)  Paula Goodwin (2025-2027)
Treasurer: Brenda Bagby (2024-2026)
Recording Co-Secretaries: Kathy Petrey (2025-2027) and Robin Koslen (2024-2026)
2026 Nominating Committee: Blanche Valancy, Chair; Eefje Kolkman and Judith Beeler
 
For the Cleveland Heights City Council, the University Heights City Council, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Board of Education and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library Board of Trustees. Watching government promotes good government: 
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