The Whitewater-Area League of Women Voters’ October 2010 Newsletter is now available, and the latest issue includes a calendar of upcoming LWV events. The most-recent copy of the LWV newsletter is available as a link on my blogroll, and is embedded below, with coding through Google.
Here’s a sampling of upcoming events for the Whitewater-Area League — the newsletter offers much more information —
Date: October 16 (Saturday)
Event: Candidate Forums
Where: City Municipal Building, Council Chambers
11 AM – Noon State Assembly District 43 (Kim Hixson and Evan Wynn)
1 PM – 2 PM State Senate District 15 (Rick Richard and Tim Cullen)
Date: October 21 (Thursday)
Event: Sustainability at UW-Whitewater: The Challenge of Acting Locally. Dr. Eric Campas, Asst. Professor, Geography and Geology Department at UW-Whitewater
Where: Municipal Building, Council Chambers, 7 PM
Fairhaven Lecture Series
The Fall 2010 Fairhaven Lecture Series, sponsored by the UW-W Office of Continuing Education, will look at biography as a literary form, look at the life and times of some of history?s most famous, infamous, and barely famous figures, and even take a biographical look at the life a famous city. All lectures are open to the public at no charge and are held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the Fairhaven Retirement Community, 435 West Starin Road. Guest / street parking is adjacent to the building.
October 11 Bert the Miner: Herbert Hoover, Forgotten Progressive and Humanitarian. Richard Haney, Professor Emeritus, History Department
October 18 Travels with Charlie: A Trip with Charles Darwin. Daryle Waechter-Brulla, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
October 25 Take this Stand: Rod Serling and the Politics of the Twilight Zone. Mark Boulton, Assistant Professor, History Department
November 1 Along the Trail of the Blackhawk. Tony Guiling, Associate Professor, History Department
November 8 A Biography of a City: The History of Tokyo. Roderick Wilson, Lecturer, History Department
November 15 The Least Dangerous Branch: Justices Who Have Gone Out on a Limb. Jolly Emery, Associate Professor, Political Science Department