Please attend the League of Women Voters of Umpqua Valley’s Candidates Forum on Thursday Oct. 11 to be held at the Holiday Inn Express, 375 W. Harvard in Roseburg.
Roseburg City Council candidates will be answer questions posed by the moderator and from the audience.
This is an educational forum is that free and open to the public. For more information, email us at lwvuv.info@gmail.com.
A video recording of the Douglas County Commissioner Candidates Forum that was held on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018 at the Holiday Inn Express in Roseburg, Oregon is now available for viewing on the League’s YouTube channel.
The video is about 90 minutes long. Enjoy & be informed. Don’t forget to vote! Election Day is Nov. 6, 2018.
Thanks to Frosland Photography for creating the video.
The League of Women Voters of the Umpqua Valley has scheduled three candidates forums, all to be held at the Holiday Inn Express, 375 W. Harvard Avenue, Roseburg, on the following dates.
October 2 – Douglas County Commissioner Candidates
October 11 – Roseburg City Council Candidates
October 16 – State Representative and Senate Candidates
All forums begin at 7PM and will end near 8:30PM. These nonpartisan educational forums are free and open to the public.
Please come prepared with questions to ask your candidates.
The meeting will begin at 9:00 am in Room 216 of the Douglas County Courthouse located at 1036 SE Douglas Avenue, Roseburg, Oregon 97470.
Douglas County Courthouse
1036 SE Douglas Ave, Roseburg
Room 216
9AM
The County is proposing the formation of a non-taxing transit district to provide a transportation dedicated entity to manage public transportation funding and public transportation enhancement decisions.
All interested persons may appear and be heard.
Contact Tamara Osborne, Crisis Communications & Community Engagement Specialist (PIO)(541) 670-2804 cell – (541) 957-4896 office – tjosborn@co.douglas.or.us
Keep families together! We must continue to voice our outrage at what’s going on at the border to children and families. It’s not over yet.
The News-Review recapped the protest event that took place on Sat., June 30, 2018 here.
If you were a ticket-seller, part of the volunteer staff as a musician, artist or gardener showing your garden, or you attended the Garden Tour, we want to heartily thank you! You made this one of the best ever!
We heard over and over this was the best garden tour some had ever attended!
And we have hope for another great Tour next year! If you know of a garden that needs to be seen, or you are a gardener who would like to be in the line-up for next year or a future year, let us know! Call [541]-[643]-[8113].
Here are a few photos of some of this year’s Garden Tour — Enjoy!
There’s just a few days left before the Tour! Get your tickets at one of these locations by Friday, June 15:
Tickets can also be purchased on the day of the Tour at the garden site located at 747 San Souci Drive. Look for the “League of Women Voters” table.
This year’s tour includes five unique landscapes in the Garden Valley area. Highlights include an Asian-themed miniature garden, a rose garden, a Tolkien-themed garden, and a heat sink solar greenhouse.
Here’s a link to our web page.
For more information call 541-643-8113.
Brian’s talk is so pertinent to our situation throughout America that we thought we should share this with you. Brian struggles with the violence and division between Americans. He says we need to actually listen to each other and to try to understand each other. Here’s a link to his talk to the League on his business’s website — https://soundcloud.com/brian-prawitz/togetherness-without-tragedy-uvlwv, thanks to BP Media Solutions.
Brian encourages us to find ways to work together for the good of our community, despite our differences. He suggested that we each make an effort to seek out someone who is different than we are and get to know them, offer respect, and prepare to love them even if we disagree with them. Change starts with one-on-one relationships and good listening skills.
Also, Brian’s TED Talk “Togetherness Without Tragedy” can be viewed online at: http://www.tedxroseburg.com/2017/04/17/brian-prawitz/
Brian participates in the American Leadership Forum (ALF) where he has gotten to know a diverse group of Oregon leaders from urban and rural areas this year. He finds himself in the minority as a white, middle class, conservative man from a rural area and he is gaining new perspective. He is dismayed that some people in the group have told him they are afraid to come to Roseburg.
Brian mentioned a person who has impressed him with his Kindness Diaries (now on Netflix). The author is Leon Logothetis, and more can be learned about him here: http://www.leonlogothetis.com/. He drove around the world on his motorcycle with no money. When Brian asked him how to lessen division and create more harmony in our communities, he told Brian, “Be the change.”
Brian’s mission is similar to the League’s efforts called the Listening Project which was created in the wake of the October 1st, 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting tragedy. The project will continue this coming fall.
Check out the links above, and contact the League for more information.
Visit 5 gardens, one home, a vineyard, and sip some wine too!
The seventh annual “Spring Garden Tour” sponsored by the Umpqua Valley chapter of the League of Women Voters, will take place on Saturday, June 16, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
This year’s tour includes a home tour, and five unique landscapes in the Garden Valley area, including an Asian-themed garden, a walled tea garden, a rose garden, a wooded garden, and a Tolkein-themed garden. A special feature this year is a vineyard garden and tasting room, with wine-tasting!
Tickets cost $15 (cash and checks only) and include a descriptive guide to each garden, along with a map and driving directions. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the following establishments:
Roseburg:
While Aways Books and Espresso
The Bagel Tree Cafe and Bake Shop
Glide:
Munchies
Sutherlin:
Whitehorse Coffee & Tea Company
Tickets can also be purchased on the day of the Tour at the garden site located at 747 San Souci Drive. Look for the “League of Women Voters” table.
League of Women Voters® Umpqua Valley is a grassroots, nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government in order to build better communities statewide.
Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy. 