NOVEMBER LUNCHEON & GENERAL MEETING
November 6 @ 11:30-1:30
Tiburon Golf Club
Plastics 101
presented by
Loralee LeBoeuf & Charlotte Nycklemoe
Why we should “Pass on Plastics” The Plastics Task Force presents an in-depth look at the plastics pollution problem facing Collier County, the U.S. and the world.
MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
Registration and payment must be made online
by NOVEMBER 2 @ 3:00 PM
Late registration/walk in price will be strictly enforced
Help build our League and educate the general public! Our most effective method of membership recruitment is the General Meeting! Invite a guest to our next General Meeting and support LWVCC!
| LWVCC AND GNL NEED YOUR INPUT!
Deadline extended to November 5
The LWVCC is partnering with Greater Naples Leadership to host Reduce The Rancor: A Community Forum on Civil Discourse on February 7th. To help us understand the issue of incivility right here in Collier County, LWVCC is assisting GNL by distributing a short survey. Your responses will help shape the forum in February. Please take just a few minutes to respond to the survey to give us your perspective. Your responses will remain anonymous unless you choose to identify yourself. In the survey, when asked for your group affiliation, please identify LWVCC as Group 3. This will provide information on how LWVCC responses compare to the average responses of all survey participants. If you are affiliated with other groups in Collier County and receive invitations to participate in the survey from multiple sources, please share your views on only one survey. It is your choice as to which survey invitation to accept.
Thank you for your participation!
|  | CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH WITH
THE LWVCC DEI & ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEES
& BRIDGES DIAGLOGUE
at the American Indigenous Arts Celebration
Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Big Cypress Indian Reservation
Friday, November 3 @ 10:00
Meet at the campfire in front of the museum at 10 a.m. Bring a friend, join us for lunch at the museum and a tour, and take in a few of the performances. Learn about the culture and living history of the indigenous people of SWFL.
Meet former representative of the Seminole tribe/and forester, now on the Tribal Court of Justice, Joe Frank and Rhonda Roff, an environmental chemist/activist with Sierra Club. Together they will lead a conversation about water quality concerns tied to climate change and the Western Everglades Restoration Project (WERP) in Big Cypress.
Join us for lunch under the chickee. There will be many food trucks. You may prefer to bring your own lunch or snack in case the food trucks run out (as happened last year)!
Tickets are $10 dollars (general adult admissions) and include the
museum and festival, or $7.50 for seniors (55+). Useful tip:
Most vendors accept cash only! Care for the planet by carpooling. Let us know by email if you need a
ride, or if you can drive others and we will be happy to help!
| PASS ON PLASTICS COMMUNITY PRESENTATION
November 5 @ 11:30-12:30
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
6340 Napa Woods Way, Naples
A pre-peat of the the Plastics 101 presentation will conducted by the LWVCC Plastics Task Force. Members who are unable to attend the November 6 General Meeting are encouraged to attend.
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NOVEMBER 2023 BOOK CLUB
November 9 @ 4:00
The Fall 2023 LWVCC Book Club Meeting will be held on Thursday November 9 @ 4pm. The location will be the lovely Park Shore Tower Clubhouse. (Parking details to follow.)
We will be discussing The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, which was a National Book Award finalist for Nonfiction in 2020.
Book Club Leader Patricia Rodilosso will circulate discussion questions to registrants in advance.
| NEW SOCIAL POLICY SUBCOMMITTEES FORMED
The Social Policy Committee has formed three subcommittees: Reproductive Health, Gun Violence Prevention and Affordable Housing. We are looking for volunteers to join these groups. You can either email Janet Hoffman and Betty Schwartz or sign up by logging into the LWVCC website, choosing Member Resources, then List of Committees. Next, scroll down to the Social Policy Committee box, click the arrow for subcommittees and click on the subcommittee(s) you wish to join.
The next Reproductive Health subcommittee will be meeting at Cathy Hackney’s home on Thursday, November 9 at 3:30 PM. Please refer to the website calendar for the address, or email Janet. This subcommittee will meet regularly on the second Thursday of the month.
The next Gun Violence Prevention meeting will be on Zoom on Thursday November 16th at 4pm. A regular date and time for this subcommittee will be chosen then.
The next Affordable Housing meeting will also be on Zoom and will be announced soon.
|  JOIN THE POSTCARD PARTYNovember 14 @ 1:00-4:00
Altavilla Trattoria
Never sent postcards to returning citizens before? Tired of writing postcards alone? Join fellow League members for an afternoon to send postcards about restoration of voting rights to returning citizens.
| TIME IS RUNNING OUT
The 15 week abortion ban is having serious consequences for the lives of women with pregnancy complications (fetal abnormalities are often not detected until 18-20 weeks). The states with more restrictive reproductive rights are having a higher maternal mortality rate. A woman’s risk of death from pregnancy is much higher in our country than other developed nations. Women in Florida are not always able to obtain the medical health care that they need with the current restriction on abortion. Doctors need to consult with attorneys before providing care to a patient. The League supports access to affordable, quality health care, including birth control and the privacy to make their own reproductive health choices
- Please ask everyone in your household to sign the petition with an amendment to limit government interference with abortion. Getting one million petitions signed will allow the amendment to be placed on the ballot
- Reach out to five friends asking them to sign the petition
- Volunteer to collect petitions at public events and/or public locations. Someone from the new Reproductive Health Subcommittee may be able to join you.
Our Social Policy Committee still has many petitions left to sign withDecember 31, 2023 as our deadline. Over 400,000 petitions have been vetted with a total of over 700,000 signed. We still need at least 300,000 more petitions signed. Contact Janet Hoffman for questions, petitions, and/or help in getting petitions signed. | SAVING LIVES: NAB VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
The Neighborhood Accountability Board program (NAB) is one of the most effective diversionary programs in our area for youth who have been arrested for a low-level crime. It helps keep kids out of the justice system which harms their future. The NAB program would allow youth to be able to obtain a higher education, become employed, find housing, and become a successful adult, while an arrest would make this difficult. Youth should not have to suffer the rest of their lives for one mistake that they made.
NAB volunteers and a case worker participate in each NAB conference with the youth and youth’s parent or guardian to address the harm they have done to the victim, their families, and the community. Upon successful completion of each case plan, the arrest record is expunged.
The current program, which is in Lee County, is at risk due to a shortage of volunteers for Bonita Springs and Estero. A minimum of two volunteers is needed for each NAB conference. Nora Donato-Hitchcock, Youth Services Program Manager in Lee County, has offered to provide a 3-hour training in Bonita Springs if at least 5 people will commit to attend in person. She would offer the training at the end of December or early January. Volunteers are not required to attend a set number of NAB conferences per year and there is no need to commit to conferences North of Bonita Springs and Estero. Carpooling could be used for transportation to the training and to conferences.
Please let Janet Hoffman (239-206-0300). Thanks so much for considering a way to help youth lead successful lives. | NEW NON-PARTISANSHIP POLICY
Our LWVCC board recently approved a new nonpartisan policy. Certain constraints are necessary to maintain the non-partisanship of our organization. All members need to be familiar with our nonpartisan policies which are in our LWVCC Handbook on our website,
Some of the policies remain the same. For example:
- All statements, written or verbal, made in the name of the League shall be given by the President. This is to maintain one unified voice. Members may only speak for the League if it has been approved by the President.
- Once the League (local, state, or national) takes a position on an issue, we may not identify ourselves as a League member when publicly expressing an opinion that is not the same as a League position.
A new item in our nonpartisan policy is:
- Members, volunteers, and guests may not wear campaign items at League meetings or at public events with which the League is involved.
Members are urged to be politically active as this is an essential ingredient of civic responsibility. Work that is done for political parties is appreciated but is kept separate from the League and is not discussed at League meetings. |   It is not too late to sign the petitions!
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UPCOMING EVENTS |
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November 3 @ 10:00
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American Indigenous Arts Celebration
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November 5 @ 11:30-12:30
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Plastics 101
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November 6 @ 11:45-1:30
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November Luncheon & General Meeting
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November 9 @ 4:00-5:30
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Book Club
The Undocumented Americans
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November 14 @ 1:00-4:00
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Returning Citizens Postcard Party
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November 15 @ 3:30-5:30
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Welcome Back Meet & Greet
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December 6 @ 5:00-6:00
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Deciphering the National Popular Vote
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February 22, 2024
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Celebrate the League
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| ONLINE REIMBURSEMENT FORM IS NOW AVAILABLE
Board members, committee chairs, and others who need to submit reimbursement requests can now do so via our Submit Online Forms page. | UPCOMING COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Because LWVCC committee meetings are for members and their invited guests unless stated otherwise,
members should log in to the website to register
to get the Zoom links for committee meetings and other events. | Education Committee Meeting
November 8 @ 12:00-1:30
North Naples Government Center Meeting Room | Environmental Affairs Committee Meeting
November 9 @ 10:00-12:00
Collier Community Foundation
Guest Speaker: Monica McKenzie from the Rookery Bay Rising Tide Explorers program will talk about Rookery Bay’s programs and her ornithology experiences, including banding songbirds, monitoring shorebird nesting and research |
Gun Violence Prevention Subcommittee Meeting
November 16 @ 4:00-5:00
ZOOM |
Juvenile Justice Committee Meeting
December 1 @ 10:00-12:00
Finemark Bank | Board Meeting
December 5 @ 9:30-12:00
Moorings Park Conference Room
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