Year in Review: July 2018 - June 2019

 

The League of Women Voters of the Rivertowns had an active year. These notes were compiled by our president, Lynn Levine, for the June 15th annual meeting.

  • Registered or handed out registration forms to 220 individuals at 13 sites or events around Westchester.

  • Held 8 candidates forums in almost all of our towns from Yonkers up to Ossining

  • Helped organize or supported two screenings : one at the Jacob Burns Film Center on women running for office (specifically Ilhan Omar from Minnesota) and one at the White Plains Public Library on food insecurity and waste.

  • Held 3 Hot Topics breakfasts at the Jazz Forum in Tarrytown:

    • A presentation on the proposed storm surge barriers in the lower Hudson River

    • A presentation that featured proposals for route 9 (Broadway)

    • A presentation that brought us up to date on voting reforms recently enacted by the state legislature.

    • (And our prentation at the annual luncheon today by Peter Arno on the status of the Healthy New York Bill should also be counted as an extremely hot topic!)

  • Participated in two Naturalization Court proceedings – one in October 2018 and one in May 2019.

  • Hosted or supported two forums on the Single Payer healthcare plan – one in Hastings and one at the White Plains Public Library.

  • Helped organize and participate in Running and Winning (for high school students) in White Plains.

  • Sent two students from Rivertowns schools to Students Inside Albany.

  • Helped organize and tabled at “Vote Like a Girl” at Sunnyside in early June.

  • Helped organize and supported the Westchester League’s workshops – and there have been 32 of these so far – one on basic civics called “Know Your Government” and “ Fact or Fake?” which dealt with discerning real news from distortions and lies.

  • Three people from our league attended the State League Convention in Albany in June.

  • Attended a presentation at the Friends Society in Scarsdale by Susan Weisfeld on the topic of Quaker involvement in the women’s suffrage movement.

  • Participated in gathering candidates’ information for Vote411 for the June 25th primary elections.

  • Attended monthly Healthcare Committee meetings at Madeline Zevon’s house to strategize on advocating for getting Healthy New York passed in the state legislature – we are one vote shy in the senate, and the assembly has voted pro for the past 5 years.

  • Still working on resurrecting the Environment Committee.

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