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Date: 5/31/2026
Subject: Heights Chapter E-News - TWO events Saturday 6/13 - Can you help?
From: Wendy Deuring



Heights Chapter E-News -
TWO events Saturday 6/13 - Can you help?
(plus our Annual Meeting on the 14th)
 

- Thursday, June 4th - CH Democracy Day, 6:00 pm. Come hear Kathy Flora Speak!   CH Council Chambers
- NEW! Saturday, June 13th 10-2:00 - NAACP Teach Truth Day of Action at Forest Hill Church, 3031 Monticello Blvd - help staff a table
- NEW! Juneteenth at Cain Park 11-4:00 - stand by one of the park entrances and engage with voters
- Saturday, June 13th -  2 pm - 8 pm Democracy by Design - art sale benefit for Geauga Cty LWV - 106 Water Street, Chardon 
- Sunday, June 14th - our own annual meeting :-)  2-4:00 at CLE Urban Winery, preceded by an orientation from 1-2:00. Guest speaker - Angele Latham
- June 26-28 - LWVUS Biennial Convention held right "here" in Columbus, Ohio!  (registration has now closed)
- Cedar Fairmount Summerfest - August 9th 

NAACP  Teach Truth Day of Action
 
We were invited by Meryl Johnson to staff a table at the NAACP Teach Truth Day of Action. 
It will be at Forest Hill Church, 3031 Monticello Boulevard, on Saturday June 13th from 10-2:00.
Danaee Pinckney, the 2025 Ohio Teacher of the Year will be the keynote speaker. 
We will be at a table to help people with voter registration and to have conversations about voting and democracy.
 
Cleveland Hts. Juneteenth Celebration
The celebration is at Cain Park from 11-4:00. 
We will be at an entrance to the park to engage with people as they arrive or leave, offering voter registration information and to have conversations with people.  
 
To offer to help with either of these events please contact
Carol Spackey here or Amy Vegh here 

AND NOW FOR OUR ANNUAL MEETING! YAY!!!
 
Please join us for our Heights Chapter Annual Meeting - a chance to talk a bit about what we've done this past year, and what we might do in the coming year, and to fulfill our business obligations of approving our nominations to the leadership committee, and the budget, (see reports below, prepared by Brenda Bagby with input) and to just spend some friendly time together in a friendly place.
 
And our guest speaker will be Angele Latham, the new treasurer for the Heights Schools.  She is reported to be an excellent explainer, and will be ready to discuss the challenges facing public schools in the face of shifting priorities in Ohio and nationally.
 
We will be meeting at the CLE Urban Winery - 2180 Lee Road - Sunday, June 14th from 2-4:00 pm.  We'll have a variety of foods to snack on.   If there's something you really want to have, or really love to share, feel free to bring it along.  Beverages will be a cash bar from the winery (noting that they also have non-alcoholic beverages in addition to wines and beers.
 
AND FOR OUR NEW MEMBERS (and those who still feel kinda new to League) - we will hold an orientation from 1-2:00.  We'll go over some of the fundamentals of how League works, and what kind of things we do like voter services and observing.  
Heights Nominating Committee Report 2026-27
CH-UH Budget - Operating Fund 2026-27
CH-UH Budget - Ed Fund 2026-27

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.
Heights Chapter Member Directory 2026-04

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:  
Membership Development Co-Chairs: Joan Spoerl (2024-2026)  Paula Goodwin (2025-2027)
Treasurer: Brenda Bagby (2024-2026)
Recording Secretary:  Robin Koslen (2024-2026)
2026 Nominating Committee: Blanche Valancy, Chair; Eefje Kolkman and Judith Beeler


 
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