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Date: 2/8/2026
Subject: Heights Chapter E-News - Come Celebrate our Voter Service Team
From: Wendy Deuring



Heights Chapter E-News -
Come Celebrate our Voter Service Team
Sunday 2/15/26  1-3 pm

- Sunday, February 15th - 1-3:00 - a CELEBRATION of our Voter Services team at Amy Vegh's home - 3133 Fairfax Road
- Sunday, February 15th - 6:30 pm - go see Suffs at the Cleveland Playhouse - see emails from Joan Savitt for LWVGC for the link and discount
- Saturday, February 21st - THE RESISTANCE FAIR!!  1-4:00 pm, Heights High School  13263 Cedar Road (corner of Cedar and Lee)
- more events in the works
- June 26-28 - LWVUS Biennial Convention held right "here" in Columbus, Ohio! Give some thought to perhaps attending.
- Cedar Fairmount Summerfest - August 9th - a promise that summer is out there, just the other side of Spring. Stay strong!

The Love Continues - a Celebration of our Voter Services team!
 
Last Fall's election season was an all-hands-on-deck non-stop marathon with 6 forums and 2 voter guides, and way too many last-minute moments.  And through it all Betsy, Blanche and Janice organized ALL the details, and the many MANY people who volunteered to help made it all work.  
 
We will meet on Sunday, February 15th (to show that love lasts for more than one day)
  from 1-3:00 pm (because then there is Suffs that evening at 6:30 - Playhouse Square)
  at Amy Vegh's lovely home (you loved it in June for our Annual Meeting) at 3133 Fairfax Road
  (with parking on the side streets and also in the Fairfax School parking lot at the end of the block)
Light refreshments will be provided
 
Come join the celebration and help us to officially thank, honor and praise everyone who made our candidate forums and voter guides a rousing success. 
Who could ask for anything more!?!

The Resistance Fair Returns
Saturday, February 21st, 1-4:00 pm at Heights High School
 
You might recall that last year there was a Resistance Fair at Heights High School on a wintry Saturday afternoon. There was a wide variety of agencies and organizations, each with their own suggestions of how to stand up to protect our democracy. and ourselves  We expected a few hundred people, but drew at least 1200!  This year the event once again has a full contingent of organizations
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
-We are looking for two floor easels for our list of unconstitutional acts - do you have one (or two) we can borrow?
 - We could use one or two more volunteers to hand out materials and answer questions from 2:30-4:00 if you're available.   
- Help distribute the flyer (below) and bring a friend or 3.  It isn't limited to Cleveland Hts / University Hts.
To respond, click reply to this email or text/call Wendy at 216-392-6926.
- NOTE: there is also a basketball game at the high school so parking will be even tighter. The garage behind the Cedar Lee and the AT&T lot on Cedar are both across the street from the high school for additional parking options.  And try to ride with friends.

Resistance Fair 2026

New Opportunities to Get Involved:
 
We have begun our nominating committee process for the next League year (July to June).  If we have a phone number for you we will contact you to see what might interest you.  If you don't get a call feel free to email me (Heights@lwvgreatercleveland.org) with contact information.  I admit we are having some significant issues with the system we are using and we are currently only able to see some of the numbers.)  For starters we are looking for:
  - Voter Services
  - a few people to head up program planning - community forums and social events
  - someone to help Greater Cleveland  and Ilene with membership records in the database
 
Future Heights is working on a community forum on school funding.  League has  done several forums on school funding in recent months so we wondered if anyone is interested in working with Future Heights on their forum?   We have knowledge on school funding and on forums.  Can we lend a hand to Future Heights?  Let me know if you're interested.  Heights@lwvgreatercleveland.org

On Tyrants
  from "They Thought They Were Free: the Germans 1933-45" by Milton Mayer, 1955
 
"It is actual resistance which worries tyrants, not lack of the few hands required to do the dark work of tyranny.  What the Nazis had to gauge was the point at which atrocity would awaken the community to the consciousness of its moral habits. This point may be moved forward as the national emergency, or cold war, is moved forward into hot war. But it remains the point which the tyrant must always approach and never pass. If his calculation is too far behind the people's temper, he faces a palace putsch; if it is too far ahead a popular revolution."
 
RESISTANCE HAS POWER.  USE 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.
 

MEMBERSHIP ROSTER IS HERE!
 
WE HAVE A NEW DIRECTORY!!! With thanks to Judith Beeler who offered to learn how to use Excel and take over this project, and with gratitude to Janice who just couldn't believe we didn't have a directory in the first place and figured out how to do the first one.
 
Going forward the directory will be updated quarterly and posted to our chapter's website at www.lwvgreatercleveland.org (and emailed to new members.)  The link will be included in the email and can be downloaded by members (which means you need to log in to the website.)
 
This remains a somewhat manual process since the switch to paying memberships through LWVUS, so please make sure you are included in this roster if you are a Heights member (the newsletter does go out to a few people who are not in our chapter), and please make sure the details are correct.  At this point we only have cellphone numbers so if you entered your phone number in the home phone box we can't see it currently.  If your phone number is not listed, and you would like it to be, please, click HERE and let me know what needs to be updated/added/deleted.
Chapter Member Directory 2026-01

Links to things you might have missed:
 
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
 
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say: You want free speech?  Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as a land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now, show me that.  Defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free."   The American President

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)  
Membership Development Co-Chairs: Joan Spoerl (2024-2026)  Paula Goodwin (2025-2027)
Treasurer: Brenda Bagby (2024-2026)
Recording Co-Secretaries:  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: