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Roseburg Area Gardens Tour is Set for June 13!

League of Women Voters Benefit Garden Tour 2015 in the Roseburg, Oregon area

Join the League of Women Voters Umpqua Valley on June 13 when we celebrate our community at the third annual Spring Garden Tour.

The self-guided tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. will feature six gardens in the Roseburg area located amid the diverse landscapes of the Umpqua including along the river, tucked into a wooded hillside, under the big sky of our open valley and in neighborhoods in the heart of town.

See photos of Garden Tour 2014 here!

Musicians will be playing at each garden, helping to bring out the magic of their surroundings. Artists will be demonstrating their skills and showing their wares, making the tour the perfect occasion to pick up a handmade gift for a special friend or occasion.

Tickets are $12 and will become available on May 15 at the businesses listed below. Your ticket also will serve as a descriptive guide to our gardens, artists and musicians and will include driving directions and a map.

Ticket Outlets:

My Coffee
While Away Books
Umpqua Local Goods
Hanson Jewelers
Photo Frogg
Munchies
Sutherlin Water Garden & Nursery

Tickets also will be available for $15 on the day of the tour at the Chapman garden (2018 Del Rio Rd) and the Finney Garden (1433 SE Kane St).

We’re very grateful to those who have planned, planted, weeded, watered and worried this spring to prepare their gardens for our tour. Please join us – and bring a friend or two – to enjoy the fruits of their labor and to recognize their meaningful contribution to our community.

Garden-Tour-Flyer-2015-10 Download and print this lovely flyer and post it somewhere people will see it. Thank you!

For more information contact Penny Reed (541) 637-7091

LWV Umpqua Valley Annual Meeting Photos

Look for your photo, and see how our Annual Meeting went last night, 4/21/15!

Some of the best people in Douglas County attended last night’s Annual Business Meeting of the Umpqua Valley League of Women Voters. There was a roomful for dinner at the Salud Restaurant in Roseburg. The service was good. And the company was delightful.

Please enjoy the photos! And remember to support your local League. They do stellar work in our community that no one else does.

Douglas County Mental Health Court

The Mental Health Court Forum was well attended by interested Douglas County, Oregon, residents. This is a Photo Update of that Community Forum held by the League of Women Voters of Umpqua Valley and @NAMIOregon on May 13, 2015.

Please attend a Community Forum concerning the Douglas County Mental Health Court to be held on Wednesday, May 13th at the Douglas County Public Library, 1409 NE Diamond Lake Blvd in Roseburg at 6PM.

Doors open at 5:30p.m. The Forum begins at 6:00 p.m. with brief presentations from several Mental Health Court staff. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions following the presentations. Light refreshments will be provided.

Forum Sponsors: The League of Women Voters of Umpqua Valley (LWVUV) and the National Alliance for Mental Health Douglas County (NAMI). Douglas County, Oregon NAMI is located online here.

This forum is open to the public for no charge.

Download the flyer here. Please print it and post somewhere public! Let’s get the word out!

For more information: 541 – 459 – 2189.

Submitted by:
Jean Galleher
Volunteer
League of Women Voters

Climate Change & the Health of Our Ocean

Make Earth Day count. Join us at the ‘Climate Change and Health of Our Ocean’ forum at the Douglas County Library, 1409 NE Diamond Lake Blvd, Roseburg, on April 22nd, Earth Day.

We will learn from a panel of three prominent experts in this field who will discuss how Oregon’s marine environment and coastal communities are being affected by increasing ocean acidification and how we can best address the impacts.

The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Ford Room of the Douglas County Library, located at 1409 NE Diamond Lake Blvd. in Roseburg.

Our oceans absorb one quarter of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. More atmospheric CO2 means increased ocean acidity, which currently is up by 30 percent since the start of the industrial age. This is affecting the health of coral reefs and shellfish, including oysters grown in Oregon, and is leading to areas of hypoxia in nearshore waters where levels of oxygen – and marine life – are greatly reduced.

All three of our panelists serve on the West Coast Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Science Panel, formed in 2013, along with others representing California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia who are helping inform resource managers and decision-makers across the region. Read more detail by viewing this PDF: Save Our Ocean.

For more information contact Stuart Liebowitz at 541-672-9819. We look forward to seeing you at this important community event to help protect the ocean and the waterways we all enjoy.

Come to the Annual Meeting!

Greetings to LWVUV members!

Members, please join us for our annual business meeting on Tuesday, April 21 at 5:30 PM at the Salud Restaurant, 537 SE Jackson St, Roseburg, OR.

There are just two weeks before our annual meeting for dinner at Salud Restaurant, so I need your RSVP.

We will meet at 5:30 PM for business meeting, discussion, and socializing.
We have their large room reserved just for us on April 21 [Tuesday].

They will offer the general menu, which can be found online:
Small plates $7 – $12
Entrees $13 – $24
dinner salads $10 – $13

This is a fun event, get to know other League members, and talk about what you think our local League can work on.

Please email me or phone/leave a message 541-679-5597.

~Sally
Sally McKain
President, LWVUV
sallymckain [@] charter.net

March Newsletter Now Available

Catch up with the latest news from your LWV Umpqua Valley, Oregon!

The March newsletter (PDF) is now available. Click here to read or download it.

Enjoy!

February Monthly Meeting

Ceasefire Oregon presented a slideshow on gun safety.

The League meeting was held on Wednesday February 18, 2015 at the Douglas County Library at 6:00 pm. It was a peaceful and informative meeting. Thanks to Dr. Larry Hall and Penny Okamoto for sharing their information about the need for gun safety. Penny Okamoto is the Executive Director of Ceasefire Oregon. She pointed out that an overwhelming majority of Oregonians favor universal background checks, which the League of Women Voters supports as well.

Thank you to the Volunteers who provided food and drink for the evening meeting.

The League Thanks The News-Review

The League of Women Voters of Umpqua Valley would like to thank The News-Review for its excellent front page coverage on the December 8 Community Health Care Forum. While the four presenters (Dr. Bob Dannenhoffer, Dawnelle Marshall, Janet Holland, and Christy Parazoo) answered several questions submitted by the audience that night, there was not enough time to answer all of the submitted questions. Responses to those unanswered questions are now available on the LWVUV website www:lwvuv.wordpress.com. The League would like to again publicly thank all four presenters for appearing at the forum.

More information is now available on this website regarding the Health Forum held on Dec. 8. Please read the following.

Please view and/or download the PDF from Dr. Robert Dannenhoffer of the Architrave Family of Companies.
Please also view and/or download the PDF from the Dawnelle Marshall, Director of the Public Health Division, Douglas County Health and Social Services.

January 2015 Newsletter is Online

Come and Get it! LWVUV’s first newsletter of 2015 is now available on the Publications web page.

Stay up on your community and what’s going on on the political front.

Read the latest newsletter.

The League of Women Voters of Umpqua Valley is one of 14 local Leagues across Oregon, and we are proud to provide unbiased and non-partisan election information and voting education residents of Douglas County, Oregon!

The League of Women Voters does not ever support or oppose political parties or candidates.

Healthcare Questions & Answers

Healthcare questions that arose from the League of Women Voters of Umpqua Valley’s forum on Dec. 8, 2014 have been answered and are now available here.

Please view and/or download the PDF from Dr. Robert Dannenhoffer of the Architrave Family of Companies.
Please also view and/or download the PDF from the Dawnelle Marshall, Director of the Public Health Division, Douglas County Health and Social Services.

The League thanks both Dr. Dannenhoffer and Ms. Marshall of the Public Health Division for supplying this information.

Thanks to all and for attending the Healthcare forums on Dec. 8 and 16, 2014.