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May 8, 2012
Time: 5:00 Social Hour
Dinner 6:00
Program 7:00 p.m.
Note: Please RSVP by May 1st |
LOCATION: PRAIRIE BAY RESTAURANT
SPEAKER: JAN KURTZ, ETHICS STUDIES PROFESSOR CLC
Jan will present an interactive program on the "Many Faces of Mexico in Minnesota". She has a couple of interactive activities as an introduction and closing. She will talk about the opportunities afforded by having Mexicans as a part of our culture as well as the decisions and solutions that will need to be made regarding the existing immigration issues.
Jan Kurtz is an Ethnic Studies professor at CLC and teaches Spanish language and Latin American Cultures. She has worked with Central American refugees, led student trips to Spain and Mexico, facilitated student and teacher exchange programs and is presently on sabbatical, studying the immigration situations in rural Minnesota along with travel/study in Mexico and Guatemala.
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February 9, 2011
11:30 Business Mtg
Program at Noon |
PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY VIDEO ON THE VOTER ID ISSUE
PROGRAM AT NOON
LOCATION: BRAINERD PUBLIC LIBRARY
PRESENTER: WAYNE HOLTMEIER
The League of Women Voters of the Brainerd Lakes Area will view the League of Women Voters of Minnesota-produced documentary "Democracy for All? The Barriers of Voter ID". The documentary puts the current debates around voter photo-ID in the context of earlier efforts to expand the voting franchise. It features individuals whose right to vote will be threatened if a voter photo-ID requirement were put in place in Minnesota and includes interviews with election officials on Minnesota's election safeguards. These safeguards make a voter photo-ID requirement costly and unnecessary barrier in our already sound election system.
Additionally, the League will distribute information on the "Safeguards in Minnesota's Election System" and "Get the Facts: Debunking Myths about Voter photo-ID".
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September 8, 2011
5:30 p.m. snacks &
business
6:00 program |
PROGRAM : COMMUNITY-BASED MENTAL HEALTH CARE
SPEAKER: RICHARD SLIETER
LOCATION: BRAINERD PUBLIC LIBRARY |
May 10, 2011
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Annual Membership Dinner |
PROGRAM : LEADERS PARTNERING TO END POVERTY
SPEAKER: MARY SAMS
LOCATION: PRAIRIE BAY RESTAURANT
Please RSVP to Sandy Simonson by May 1 at wjs@tds.net or
218-568-8760
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Meeting Times: 2nd Thursday of each month
5:30 p.m. September, October, March, April and May
11:30 a.m. November, December, January and February
Meetings are at the Brainerd Library unless otherwise designated. |
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Board Meetings: 11 a.m. on the Tuesday following the Program Meeting
Board meets at the Brainerd Library small meeting room unless otherwise noted. |
