Happy Thursday,
Here's this week's Update for League of Women Voters Milwaukee County (LWVMC) news, information and events. | LWVMC Kickoff
Thursday, August 25
5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Summit Place
6737 W Washington St.
West Allis | | |
Advocate for Polling Place Accessibility
Accessibility Auditors
The Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) Accessibility Audit Program will be conducting accessibility reviews at polling places for the August Partisan Primary, as well as the November election. These reviews of polling places are a critical step to ensure our polling places are truly accessible for all.
The WEC is recruiting people to hire and train to do these reviews. Please consider applying - this is a short term commitment. They're looking for people from around the state so they can reach as many polling places as possible. However, you will be required to go to Madison for training, as well as make a commitment on Election Day.
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Poll Workers Needed
As the frontline election staff, poll workers play a pivotal role on Election Day. We know that a friendly, knowledgeable poll worker can make the difference for a voter trying to make their voice heard at the polls. Unfortunately, many of our communities struggle to find enough poll workers to fill these vital roles. Have you considered serving your community as a poll worker?
Find information about how to sign up to be a poll worker here.
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August 9 is the primary election - be prepared to vote!
Go online to Vote411.org and type in your address. You will see responses to League questions from candidates running for office in the August 9 partisan primary election. Democracy works when we exercise our right to vote! Spread the word about Vote411.org to your neighbors, family, friends, and colleagues. If you are on Facebook, share the posts about Vote411.org with your Facebook friends. One of the local races is the County Sheriff in Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties.
What does the County Sheriff do?
- The County Sheriff has charge of the county jail and has custody of the persons in the jail.
- The Sheriff is required by state statute to attend the circuit courts.
- Sheriff Deputies serve as bailiffs, provide security for the circuit courts and transport prisoners to and from court. They serve or execute summons, orders, and judgments.
- Recognizing that safety is a community responsibility, the Sheriff’s Office maintains the peace throughout the counties and provides services to protect life and property through the enforcement of federal, state, and local laws.
- In Milwaukee County, the Sheriff provides law enforcement presence at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport and the Milwaukee County Institutions Complex. The Sheriff’s Office has patrol responsibilities. In both counties, they patrol the freeway. In Waukesha County, they also have contract patrol services in various parts of the County.
| Join the Coffee for our Cause Sales Force
LWVMC’s fourth annual coffee sale will begin in early September. The fundraising sale will end in early November, and the coffee will be delivered in late November in time for the holidays.
Join the Sales Force Team to help LWVMC raise some much-needed revenue. Each sales force team member is asked to sell at least 10 pounds of coffee in their personal network of family, friends, and associates. Email Mary Sussman at m.sussman@lwvmilwaukee.org to sign up. | | | | Get ready to help people register to vote! Learn how to register people to vote using MyVote.wi.gov. Learn how to acquire and what is acceptable photo ID for voting in Wisconsin.
Registration required.
Tuesday, August 2
5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m
Wauwatosa Public Library
7235 W. North Avenue - Firefly Room
Tuesday, September 6
5p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
MPL Mitchell Street Branch
906 W. Historic Mitchell St
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Do you want to have a fun evening while doing a great service for LWVMC?
We have an opportunity for a fundraising event cosponsored by the Greendale Community Theater. The Greendale Community Theater is committed to community support and thus picks nonprofits such as LWVMC to support at each of its performances. To date they have raised nearly $60,000 for various community organizations.
This year they are performing Mary Poppins which has a musical number about women’s suffrage. The Greendale Theater thought linking the LWVMC and supporting us at its performance was a good match.
So we need volunteers to be at each of the evening performances on July 28, 29 and the matinee on July 30 and the evening performances on August 4, 5 and the matinee on August 6. We will have a table at each performance and will answer questions and have materials for distribution but as it is in the moratorium period we will not be registering people to vote. At the end of the performance we will stand at the exit with a basket accepting donations from patrons. The theater is at the Greendale High School and has 800 seats.
We are asking for 2 volunteers for each performance, each volunteer will receive 2 tickets so that you can bring someone with you to enjoy the performance. | The LWV Bumper Magnets and Yard Signs Available!
We are now offering bumper magnets to those that want them.
They are too heavy and oddly shaped to mail. If you want one or both of these please complete the order form below and we will be in touch with you. We also have two yard signs (18"x24") to choose from:
They will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. | | Change of venue from what was previously announced.
League Cafe will meet in person on July 29 at 10:00 a.m. at East Library, 2320 N. Cramer Street in the large conference room. Masks are required.
Please join the group for a continuing discussion of "The 1619 Project" by Nikole Hannah-Jones, with a focus of Chapters 9-12. There is metered parking on North Ave., two hour parking on the side streets around the library and a small parking lot behind the library that has free parking for a few cars. The library is ADA compliant. | | |  | Natural Resources Committee Meeting
Wednesday, August 17
6 p.m.
Hubbard Park Beer Garden
3565 N. Morris Blvd.
Shorewood
Please join us! Over dinner, we’ll pursue our regular agenda as well as begin to plan for the Public Issues Forum on climate change that we will host in November.
Now is also the time to begin to read Vaclav Smil’s, "How the World Really Works", which we will discuss in September.
Please RSVP to Carol Diggelman at 414-232-3739 or Ann Batiza 414-238-3903, although an RSVP is not required.
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Conversation with Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate
Ada Limón. Shawn Miller/Library of Congress
Meet the new U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón who joins Sally Haldorson of Milwaukee’s Porchlight Book Company to discuss “The Hurting Kind”, a new collection of poetry about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves. Watch here. “The Hurting Kind” is available at the Milwaukee Public Library or for purchase at Boswell Books. |
Milwaukee Journalist and Literacy Advocate Maya Payne Smart Will Discuss Her New Book at Milwaukee Public Library
Tuesday, August 2, 6:30 p.m.
Milwaukee Public Library Centennial Hall
733 N. Eighth Street
  
Join Maya Payne Smart in conversation about her new book “Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six” with pediatrician Dipesh Navsaria, Founding Medical Director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin. Registration is required to attend this event in-person.
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