LWV-EMCO
REVIEW
December
4, 2009
League
of Women Voters of East Multnomah County
P.O. Box 122, Gresham, OR 97030
President:
Marlene Byrne
503-491-9384
Vice
President: Sunny
Fromm
503-761-4719
Membership
Chair: Betty Cornelison 503-761-0671
Newsletter Shirley
Luttropp
503-665-4649
DECEMBER DATES
TO REMEMBER
Dec. 7
Voters’ Service Committee meeting at 6:30 p.m.
at Elise Swan’s, 1219 NE 6th St., Gresham
Dec. 19
Holiday Party
Dec, 28
EMCO Book Club from 2-4 p.m. at Zion United Church of Christ
2025NE 23rd St., Gresham The book for December is Winterdance.
President’s Letter
I
do hope each of you had a great Thanksgiving. With all of the holidays
approaching there are several changes in our December schedule. The new
dates and the changes regard the date for the EMCO voter service
committee meeting (not a change, but an addition), the holiday party
and the EMCO book club.
Our
Speaker for November was Maribeth Healey from Senator Jeff Merkley’s
office. Her presentation was most interesting. With all the health care
debates I can understand why she gave us a broad overview and very few
absolutes.
For those of you on the voters’ service
committee, we will be meeting at Elise Swan’s at 1219 NE 6th St. in Gresham on Monday, Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m. Take the elevator to the fourth floor and
the room where the meeting will be held is directly across from the
elevator.
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Please note this change: we will have our potluck holiday party at
Zion United Church of Christ (2025 NE 23rd,
Gresham) on Saturday, December l9th from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Remember, EMCO is not only about working and studying policies and
issues but we are a social organization, too. Come and bring a friend
(or two, or three, or more)!
There
will no board meeting in December unless absolutely necessary, nor will
there be a Public Information Meeting or unit meetings. The speakers on
January 12th will be Mike Abbate and Justin Coulter from the city of Gresham.
The
Brunch plans are pretty well set. Now all we have to do is work to
promote this event. This is our only fundraiser of the year and EMCO
relies on these funds to help our communities in so many ways: Voters’
Guide, speakers on issues, participation
in
government, etc. Let’s invite two or three friends (more if possible)
and make this a great success! It will be held at The Refectory
restaurant at 1618 NE 122nd in Portland from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The cost is $30.00 per person. The speaker
is Jane Kirkpatrick who is one of Oregon’s better known authors. She was selected as
one of “Oregon’s 150” in celebration of Oregon’s 150th birthday.
In
the January bulletin each of you will receive an application for
joining the League of Women Voters of East Multnomah County. I hope you
will take it with you to meetings and gatherings and encourage others
to join.
An up-to-date events calendar is
included with this bulletin.
Happy Holidays to each of you!
Marlene
