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July 31, 2009 Weekly Update
Hi,
I’m sure many of you are as
disappointed in the activity on Health Care as I am. When I start to
get down about it, I call or email Brown, DeMint and Graham. I
believe we need to remind them we are the voters – the people they
represent. Keeping up pressure is the only way.
It also reminds me how much we need
people who do represent us in elected office. We have local elections
in Mt Pleasant, Awendaw and McClellanville. We need to mobilize the
same way we did for President Obama. Contact me to get active and
build strong local governments that serve the people.
Congratulations to Peggy Reider for
her appointment to the Charleston County Library Board. She joins
Laura Morris and George Freeman who are also on other Charleston County Boards/Commissions.
There are more openings listed at the end of this email. Please let
me know if you apply.
Carole
Calendar
Government Meetings
1st Thursday, Awendaw Town Council,
Awendaw Town Hall, 6971 Doar Road, Awendaw, 7:30 pm
2nd Tuesday, Mt Pleasant
Town Council, Town of Mount Pleasant Municipal Complex, 100 Ann Edwards
Lane, 7pm
Monthly
Events
1st Thursday, Charleston
County Democratic Women, for information contact Linda Krogh at krogh@aol.com 881-6532
1st
Friday, Liberal Libations, Crave’s, 1968 Riviera Dr, Target Shopping Center, IOP
Connector and Rifle Range Rd., for information contact Carole at
843.216.3797 or carolebenson@comcast.net
1st Saturday (except July &
August), East
Cooper Democrats Breakfast Meeting, Gullah Cuisine 1717 US 17N, Mount
Pleasant, (843) 881-9076, $7/person for scrambled eggs, grits, ham,
coffee/tea and juice, for information and reservations contact Anne Owens 729-8040
or annejettowens@aol.com
3rd Wednesday’s, Charleston
County Democrats, North Charleston City Hall, 4900 LaCross, 6:30 pm
contact George Temple 795-7857 or tempelge@bellsouth.net
4th Wednesday’s East Cooper
Democrats, Olive Branch AME Church Annex (on rte 17 and old Mathis
Ferry Rd intersection) 6:30 pm contact Carole Benson 216-3797 or carolebenson@comcast.net
Saturdays, 10 am – 1pm, Grassroots
Call To Action Group, Alchemy Coffee, 11 Magnolia Road, Avondale
bizdist, Charleston 29407 - parking lot with easy access behind Alchemy,
back door entrance Contact: Shea Onofrey, 843.810.0088 – grassrootscalltoaction@gmail.com or http://www.grassrootschange.ning.com
August
Tuesday, August 4, 1-4 pm, Phone Bank
to Protect Women’s Health Care in the Health Care Reform – Planned
Parenthood, You can call from your house! All you need is a
computer with internet and a phone! You can do it for as long and as short
as you can commit! If you only have a one hour lunch break, you can
call for only an hour! You can do it in your Pajamas-nobody will see you!!
A brief training is provided for all who sign up a half hour before you
want to begin calling! Please RSVP of refer any questions to my coworker
Stephanie Shaw at Stephanie.shaw@pphsinc.org. I apologize for the inconvenience and
hope y’all can devote some time!
Thursday, August 6, Charleston
Democratic Women, Speakers: Kathryn J. Luchok, PhD; Director of South
Carolina Access Initiative, a project which seeks to expand access to all
reproductive health services, Registration begins at 6pm, Dinner served at
6:30pm, Please RSVP via email be made by 7/29/09 to Linda Krogh at krogh@aol.com 881-6532. Following that date, reservations can
be made via phone to Georgia Ann Porcher at 884-7343, Please select from
the following menu when making your reservations - Meat entrée: $10.50
Chicken Picatta, Vegetarian entrée: $8.00 Spinach and cheese ravioli with a
parma rosa sauce, Sides: salad, confetti rice with dried cranberries and
pecans, asparagus, Dessert: pound cake with fresh fruit topping and coffee,
Stern Student Center Ballroom at the College of Charleston, 71 George St,
downtown Charleston,
Friday, August 7, 1st
Friday Liberal Libations, Crave’s, 1968 Riviera Dr, Target Shopping Center, IOP
Connector and Rifle Range Rd., for information contact Carole at
843.216.3797 or carolebenson@comcast.net
Sunday, August 16th 2-4pm East Cooper
Democrats Executive Committee Meeting, Carole Benson’s, 1636 Cypress
Pointe Drive, MP
Wednesday, August 19, 6:30, Charleston
County Democrats Meeting, North Charleston City Hall, North Charleston,
for information contact George E. Tempel, tempelge@bellsouth.net
Thursday, August 20, Progressive
Healthcare Movie Night, 6 pm dinner at Evo’s Pizza (1075 E Montague
Ave) make reservations 225-1796, noting you are with the film, 7:30 p.m.
Movie Evening at the Olde North Charleston Picture House (1080 E Montague
Ave.) Damaged Care: The Musical Comedy about Health Care in America is a
filmed version of a musical cabaret written and performed by two
physicians, Greg LaGana, M.D., and Barry Levy, M.D., which has been
performed in 27 states. Musical Numbers include Another Outbreak of Us
Superbugs, Doctors in Cyberspace and The Spare Parts Blues and “Charleston
Healthcare Stories,” suggested donation of $2 for members of the Greater
Park Circle Film Society and $5 for non-members, For more information go to
http://parkcirclfilms.org or phone
843-478-3911.
Wednesday, August 26, 11:30 am, Sea Island
Comprehensive Health Care Corporation 2009 Recognition Luncheon,
Speaker Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL 20), $50/person, Trident
Technical College Bldg 920, RSVP seailsandhealthcare@gmail.com or 843-577-2546,
Wednesday, August 26,
6:30 pm social, 7:00 pm East Cooper Democrats Meeting, speakers candidates for Mt
Pleasant Town Council. Please make reservations for name tag and/or lite
dinner $4/person and/or need babysitting. Contact Carole at 843.216.3797 or
carolebenson@comcast.net. Location: Olive Branch AME
Church Annex (on rte 17 and old Mathis Ferry Rd intersection).
September
Friday, September 5, 1st
Friday Liberal Libations, Crave’s, 1968 Riviera Dr, Target Shopping Center, IOP Connector
and Rifle Range Rd., for information contact Carole at 843.216.3797 or carolebenson@comcast.net
Wednesday, September 16, 6:30, Charleston
County Democrats Meeting, North Charleston City Hall, North Charleston,
for information contact George E. Tempel, tempelge@bellsouth.net
Wednesday, September 23rd,
East
Cooper Democrats Meeting
East Cooper Democrats
Officers
Chair — Carole
Benson carolebenson@comcast.net
1st Co Chair — George Freeman gfree411@yahoo.com
2nd Co Chair — Donna Newton newtiger@comcast.net
Treasurer — Joe Delk joecdelk@gmail.com
Secretary — Anne Owens annejettowens@aol.com
Membership
Database Co-Chairs — Ken Hewitt kwhewett@comcast.net; Kenny Oubre kenny.oubre@gmail.com;
William Ray williamray68@comcast.net
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THERE ARE THREE VACANT PRIVATE
SECTOR SEATS AND ONE VACANT LABOR SEAT.
INTERESTED APPLICANTS FOR THE TWIB
SHOULD CONTACT MICHELLE COLLINS AT (843)574-1806.
This Board, which contributes
policy guidance and system oversight for all tricounty activities and
services provided by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, is composed of
35 members, 17 members from Charleston County, whose terms of office are
three years. Membership shall include a diversity of persons from various
segments of the tricounty workforce, all of whom must have sufficient
experience and expertise in their chosen career fields to contribute to the
development and enhancement of the local labor force. Applicants for the
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officers, chief operating officers, or other individuals with optimum policy
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