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LWV of Lower Cape Fear

We have so far held or assisted with three candidate forums and are scheduled for another three in the next week or two. We sponsored and Issues Forum on our Sewer problems locally and had a good attendance. We are sponsoring another Issues Seminar concerning landfills and their repercussions on the environment in early November. (Report from Audrey Albrecht)

LWV of Pitt County

Please report that our League had a very successful Candidates Forum last evening (10/26/05) at one of our local High Schools. The Young Democrats and Young Republicans of the High School and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (public service, minority women) all co-sponsored with the League and the students did lots of the work like time-keeping, errands, etc. It was great for us to have the assistance! Plus it got our attendance up 'cause you know their teachers made them come!! I highly recommend other Leagues to partner with our youth in EVERYTHING!!! We even got 2 new student members last night to join the League! YEA!!! (Report from Dede Carney)

LWV of Moore County

The fall is always a very busy time for the League of Moore County. Our monthly luncheons have attracted lots of League members as well as community people. So for we had a speaker from the Coalition for Human Care (to whom we donated bags and bags of canned goods) as well as a Lieutenant Colonel from the Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan address the group. We held two candidate local forums that over 100 citizens attended and one that was covered by a local paper. We held the first of our four Mixed Paper Recycling days, in fact breaking a record on the paper collected. We registered voters and handed out our Directory of Public Officials in two community events. We are still collecting money raised by selling ‘tickets’ to the Belks’ Charity Days as our first fundraiser. In addition, our regular League activities continued- we observe the County Commissioners and the Board of Ed meetings, as well as two local government meetings. Our study committees have met- the Issues Committee (which gives a short report each luncheon meeting) Equal Representation Study and County Poverty and Children Study. (Report from Ann Torok, Pres. Moore County LWV)

LWV of Wake County

• Held a live forum for the Board of Education candidates co-sponsored with the American Association of University Women
• Moderated forums for Cary, Knightdale and Morrisville
• Answered phones at the Board of Elections
• Worked at the polls for Kids Voting

The educations, environment, and housing committees are actively pursuing a variety of topics including year-round high schools, clean water and affordable housing. In addition several members are actively involved in the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness.

Two outstanding speakers are being featured for the Friday Unit meetings this fall:

• John Dornan, the President and Executive Director of the Public School Forum discussed the state of schools in NC at fall luncheon on October 28.
• On November 18 Rep. Joe Hackney, considered to be one of most highly effective members of the House, will provide an update on the death penalty moratorium. (Report from Diana Haskell and Annemarie Evans)

LWV of Asheville/Buncombe

• Civic Center Forum Sept. 11, ABC/LWV asked to moderate this public forum on the Future of the Civic Center in Asheville.
• DAR talk Sept. 14, our league was asked to present a history of women's suffrage to the Buncombe County Daughter's of the American Revolution meeting.
• Asheville City Primary Forum Oct. 19, our league sponsored a meet and greet the candidates and a moderated forum for the Mayoral candidates.
• Asheville City Election forum Oct. 17, our league sponsored a moderated forum for the Asheville City Council candidates.
• KV forum Oct. 19, our league co-sponored with Kids Voting an Asheville City candidate forum for the 5th grade class at Vance Elementary School. Questions were generated and asked by 5th grade students.
• Woodfin Forum Oct. 24, we were asked to do a public forum for the Woodfin municipal candidates for mayor and the water and sewer board.
• Black Mtn. forum Oct. 27, we were asked to do a public forum for the Black Mountain City Mayoral and Aldermen candidates. (Report from Kathleen Balough)