Happy Halloween!

We had a very successful September and National Voter Registration Day! A HUGE thank you to all our wonderful volunteers! October has started off equally as busy.

Our second LWV KU meeting was held Oct 10. Please welcome our new KU Co-Presidents Catherine Magana and Katherine Ewing and our new KU Treasurer/Secretary Gwen Joslin. Thank you to Dee Steinle for being our faculty sponsor.They will officially remain part of the LWV LDC, functioning as a branch. Their energy, ideas and excitement are contagious! Look for big things from our KU group!

We need your help with our Festival of Trees entry! Please contact me or any board member to head up the committee or participate in any way. We have a white tree with white lights as part of our centennial celebration. We need YOU to decorate it!

Would anyone like to lead our Observer Corps? Attending civic meetings and reporting on them in the Voter newsletter and possibly at our meetings is all that is required. So, particularly if you already attend civic meetings regularly, this is for you! Help keep us all informed.

The picnic and candidate speed dating event Sept 22 was well received by both the audience and all 11 candi- dates. We had about 85 people attend. Thank you to our great band the Solars for providing music, too! We have a candidate forum for City Commission on Monday, Oct 14 at Lawrence Arts Center. This will be another oppor- tunity for the community to hear their vision for our community and ask questions.

We all need to understand the importance of the upcoming Census in 2020. Join us Oct 21, 7pm at the Library to learn more and see how you can participate.

Join us at the end of the month for Drinks & Democracy, Friday Oct 25, 5-7pm at Johnny’s North. It’s a great casu- al get together to chat about what’s going on in the world and see how you can get involved.

Don’t forget to pay your dues if you haven’t – that’s a big part of how we keep #makingdemocracywork!