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Date: 3/2/2023
Subject: LWVOC Newsletter & Events
From: Lisa K Adkins



Women's History Month has begun!  Read Leaguer Adrienne Katz Katz's inspiring article HERE  and plan to join us for these special events NEXT week, celebrating the achievements of these ground-breaking, local women.
MAR 7, 11am, Angebilt Hotel Lobby
Join Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and City Commissioners as they unveil the "Nat'l Votes for Women Trail Marker."   Featured speakers include our own LWVOC icons, former OC Mayor Linda Chapin and past LWVOC President as well as Joy Wallace Dickinson, local author, historian, and Orlando Sentinel columnist (2000-2023)
 
Space is limited.  RSVP by MAR 5 by emailing 
 
If you can't make it, a sister event will be held at First Unitarian Church of Orlando at 12pm, MAR 19.

 

 

MAR 9, 8:00am, the History Center presents its fourth annual Women’s History Month Breakfast, honoring pathbreaking Orlando architects Ida Annah Ryan and Isabel Roberts.

 

The program will feature the short 2022 documentary film, “Pavilion on the Water,” highlighting especially Roberts’ role in Ryan and Roberts’ design for the 1924 bandstand at Orlando’s Lake Eola Park.

HOT TOPICS next week!
Florida's controversial decisions concerning all aspects of public education are literally making national news! The March 9 (note that it is on a THURS, only for March) Hot Topics lunch and program, “A Thousand Disrespectful Cuts: The State of Public Education in Florida,” is as topical as it gets. Spectrum News 13 anchor Tammie Fields will moderate the panel discussion.
 
 Visit the Hot Topics page for complete details and registration as well as biographies of our esteemed panel shown below.
*UPDATE*
SPECIAL Hot Topics OVERTIME! Extended Discussion!  1:00 - 1:45 PM
Join us immediately following our formal panel discussion next door in the Library first floor auditorium for an additional discussion on this important topic.  NO RSVP Required. Bring your questions, ideas, and solutions. Our best ideas come from our own members. Join the conversation. Learn more!
Upcoming Events
MAR 9, Annual Women's History Breakfast, 8-10AM
Orange County Regional History Center
 
MAR 9, HOT TOPICS, 11:30AM
*Note that it will be on a THURS in MAR
The State of Public Educ in Florida
 
MAR 29, Harvard Case Study
MLK-Voting Rights
Open to all
 
MAR 30, Grassroots University
Brand Like a Boss
Free Event

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LWVFL has endorsed the Right to Clean Water! Calling All Do Bees! Worker Bees! and Activist Wanna Bees!
In support of establishing our basic right to clean and healthy water, our League has committed to helping get this citizen initiative on the 2024 ballot. The goal is to collect 90,000 signed petitions in Orange County. (Why does it have to be such a mountain to climb?) Will you help?
Please visit our Volunteer Page and make a plan to spend some time outside this weekend or later this month collecting signatures. Petitions, clipboards & literature will be provided for this popular cause at event sites. 
 
HOT TOPICS Volunteers Needed
 
If you regularly attend Hot Topics, please volunteer to help.  We are looking for alternates for the following roles:
  • Timekeeper
  • AV slides
  • Member Questions
Contact Pat Grierson:
What's Happening?
Orange County
Municipal Elections take place MAR 14.  Vote-By-Mail request deadline MAR 4; early voting MAR 6-10.  Details can be found at OC Elections
 
LWV of Florida
Speakers Bureau trainings:
A training for a brand new presentation entitled "Voter Suppression: Then & Now" will take place on March 2, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. (ET).
 
A training for a brand new presentation entitled "Why Public Education" will take place on March 13, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. (ET).
 
 
Event Recaps
The Fund Development Committee held a retreat on February 16, 2023. Committee members participating included (shown L-R) Sue Foreman, facilitator and hostess, Joan Erwin, Lee Rambeau Kemp, Chair, Karen Allen Harrison, Karen Estrin, not shown: Barbara Lanning, Co-President, Suzanne McGovern and Kitty Woodley. Nicolette Springer, Co-President, also Zoomed in for a portion of the meeting. Other committee members are Barbara She’ll and Carol Foglesong. The team spent a very productive afternoon confirming strategy, goals, and actions for next fiscal year.
Lee Wilson
Karen Hater
Susan Landis
Karen Buchan
Jane Hursh
 
Marty Sullivan
Jeff Horn
Linda Chapin
Kathy Sheerin
Karen Simasek
 
 
 
 
GRASSROOTS UNIVERSITY
 
FREE EVENT
 
 
 
Introducing our first Platinum Level Sponsor: Climate First Bank The bank will be supporting LWVOC Hot Topics events for the next year. Climate First Bank is World’s first FDIC-insured community bank founded to combat the climate crisis. Climate First Bank offers a complete, full-service portfolio of simple and easy-to-use traditional banking products designed to do good for people and the planet. Please follow this link to learn more: climatefirstbank.com