Events

2019 LWVLT Board and Members'

Monthly Meetings &

Voter Registration Dates

Monthly Meeting Date

January 7th-December 4th

Saturday, January 7, from 2 to 4 PM: Join us for our New Year’s Holiday Gathering!
Wednesday, February 6 at 7 PM
Wednesday, March 6 at 7 PM
Wednesday, April 3 at 7 PM
Wednesday, May 1 at 7 PM
Wednesday, June 5 at 7 PM
LWVLT Annual Dinner: Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at 6 PM at Cobblestone Creek Country Club
Wednesday, August 21 at 7 PM - New Board Reorganization Meeting
Wednesday, September 4 at 7 PM
Wednesday, October 2 at 7 PM
Wednesday, November 6 at 7 PM
Wednesday, December 4 at 7 PM

Voter Registration Dates

Lawrence Night Out Against Crime, TUESDAY, August 6, from 5:30 to 8 PM at the Lawrence Municipal Complex off Route 206. The event flyer is attached.
Voter Registration Opportunity at The College of New Jersey, Pennington RD, Ewing Township, NJ on August 22, from noon to 3:00 PM. Contact
Thursday, Aug. 29, 10 AM-1PM, HomeFront, 1880 Princeton Ave, Lawrenceville, NJ. Contact
Thursday, Sept. 5, 3 PM-5:30 PM, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1140 Greenwood Ave., Trenton, NJ. Contact
Sunday, Sep. 8, noon- 5 PM, Puerto Rican Parade of Trenton, Trenton City Hall parking lot, 319 E. State St., Trenton, NJ. Contact
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM, MCCC Kerney Campus, 102 N. Broad St., Trenton, NJ. Contact
Tuesday, Sept. 24, National Voter Registration Day! 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, Atrium of Trenton City Hall, 319 E State St, Trenton, NJ. Contact
Thursday, Sept. 26, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM, MCCC Kerney Campus, 102 N. Broad St., Trenton, NJ. Contact
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM, MCCC Kerney Campus, 102 N. Broad St., Trenton, NJ. Contact
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM, MCCC Kerney Campus, 102 N. Broad St., Trenton, NJ. Contact

Map

August 6th-October 15th

Recent Past Events

"Lawrence Township's Night Out Against Crime"

Joined by the Lawrence League of Women Voters

Tuesday,

August 6, 2019

June 12, 2019 Annual Meeting & Dinner

Cobblestone Creek Country Club

Town Council members Mike Powers, left, and Cathleen Lewis, with John Ryan, Mercer County Surrogate Judge Diane Gerofsky and Mercer County Freeholder Ann Cannon

The Lawrence League of Women Voters is thrilled to announce that our LWVLT Youth Leadership Awards were given to two Lawrence High School seniors who have excelled in raising their fellow students' awareness of the importance of voting, as well as educating and registering new teenaged voters.

Our 2019 Youth Leadership Awards go to Cassidy Stoneback (right) and Maura Freeland (left) of Lawrence HS.

Over the course of their Junior and Senior years, Maura and Cassidy registered 185 new student voters at three voter registration drives at Lawrence HS in June and September 2018, and April 2019.

In December 2018, Maura and Cassidy were awarded a $500 grant from the national LWV Educational Fund for its Youth Voter Registration project. This project is designed to "engage high school, community college, and/or vocational school students in the electoral process, and to mitigate the widespread disparities in youth voting among African Americans, Latinos, and young people with no college experience." The registration locations were: Lawrence HSl, the East Trenton Collaborative Spring Street Fair, MCCC James Kerney Campus, Trenton Central HS, and the STEM Civics Charter HS in Ewing and yielded 157 new student voter registrations in Mercer County.

We are delighted to learn that Maura will attend Rowan University as part of the Honors College with a major in political science. Cassidy will enter the honors program at American University in Washington, DC next fall, majoring in CLEG (Communication, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government). We send them both our best wishes for the future!

Lawrence High School

Voter Registration

April 24, 2019

Mercer County Community College

Voter Registration

April 27, 2019

East Trenton Collaborative

Spring Kick-Off Street Fair

Voter Registration-April 29, 2019

2019 Voter Registration

Mercer County, NJ online

Voter Registration form

Trenton High School

Voter Registration

April 29, 2019

Our League was honored to host author Angela Dodson at a great public meeting Wednesday, March 6, 2019. She is seen here, seated (center) surrounded by members of LWVLT, Friends of the Library, and copies of her book, “Remember the Ladies.”

Angela P. Dodson spoke about her book, "Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box," at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch last week, March 6, 2019, in honor of Women's History Month.

Angela P. Dodson is an independent writer and former New York Times senior editor, and consultant. She has taught workshops on writing and editing for many organizations including the National Black Writers Conference, the National Association of Black Journalists, the American Press Institute, the American Society of Newspaper Editors and various colleges. She has also been an adjunct instructor in media studies at Mercer County Community College.

Her book, published in 2017, is about the women's suffrage movement in the United States and women’s political gains up to the present. This program was co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Lawrence Township and the Friends of the Lawrence Library.

Member group in front of suffrogette.jpg

LWVNJ 63rd Biennial Conference:

"Defending Democracy for the Next 100 Years!"

Saturday, May 4, 2019

at The Imperia Hotel,

1714 Easton Avenue, Somerset.

Nicole Plett, Lois Riskin, Ann Wolf, Georganne D'Angelo, and Ellen Maak attended.

From left to right:

Lois Riskin, Nicole Plett,

Ellen Maak,

Georganne D'Angelo, and Ann Wolf

Cassidy, Maura and student voter reg 5-2

Maura and Cassidy and student registrqat

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Maura and Cassidy registering students 5

Cassidy Stoneback (left) and Maura Freeland

Our LWVLT 2019 Youth Leadership Award Winners.

Youth Voter Registration Project

Cassidy Stoneback and Maura Freeland registering new voters

at STEM Civics High School in Ewing, May 29, 2019.

1. We are proud to announce that in December 2018, Lawrence High School students Maura Freeland and Cassidy Stoneback were awarded a $500 grant from the LWV Educational Fund for the Youth Voter Registration project. The project aims to engage high school, community college, and/or vocational school students in the electoral process, and in particular work to mitigate the widespread disparities in youth voting among African Americans, Latinos, and young people with no college experience. Registration events have taken place this spring at: Lawrence High School, The East Trenton Collaborative spring street fair, MCCC James Kerney Campus, Trenton High School -- the Trenton's STEM Civics charter school on May 29. The project has 133 new registrations thus far.

2. Our League's primary area of activity and success continues to be Voter Registration. From May 2018 to the present we have registered 345 voters and helped many more. In 2018-19, we held 19 additional voter registration events targeting new voters and under-served populations. These locations included Lawrence High School (three times), Lawrence Community Day, Mercer County College James Kerney Campus in Trenton, Hamilton Oktoberfest, the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, and New Day Ministries at Shiloh Baptist Church -- to name just a few.