• This page highlights a few of our upcoming events. For a full list, see the League Calendar.
• All League events are open to the public. Come and bring a friend!
• For more information or to RSVP, call 513-281-8683, or email info@lwvcincinnati.org.
• Please notify us if disability accomodations are needed.

Thurs Mar 11, 12:00 noon, lunch and presentation, ISSUES CONFRONTING CINCINNATI CITY COUNCIL IN 2010: Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls Reflects On The Work Ahead. What are the major long and short term issues confronting Cincinnati City Government in 2010? Faced with a budget deficit, City Council and the Administration must still fund existing services and forge new policies. City Council recently emerged from a messy and difficult struggle in balancing the 2010 budget, and it will soon begin the new biennial budget process. At the same time, the City is embarked on developing a new Comprehensive City Plan. Meanwhile, the city confronts a myriad of challenges in terms of downtown and neighborhood revitalization, a declining public transit system, a lack of decent affordable housing units, and high unemployment and poverty rates. Vice Mayor Qualls will reflect on these challenges and others during her Forum presentation. As usual, time will be set aside for questions and comments from the audience.

Location: Christ Church Cathedral, the Undercroft, 318 East Fourth Street. For more information about the forum series and location, visit Community Issues Forum web page. Lunch can be purchased for $5.50, or you can bring a brown bag. Warning: parking will be more of an issue due to demolition of the old garage. People can park at the 303 Broadway Building (3rd & Broadway) for a reduced hourly rate, between 11AM-2PM. Please use the Broadway entrance.

*Thurs, Mar 11,, 7:30PM, the delightful BBC National Correspondent Katty Kay speaks on Washington From A Different Angle for this year's Woman's City Club's Annual National Speaker Forum, co-sponsored by the LWVCA.

Location: Millennium Hotel, 141 West 6th Street, Cincinnati.
Fee: $25 check, mailed to The League of Women Voters, 103 Wm. Howard Taft Rd., Cincinnati OH 45219.

*Sat, Mar 13, 10:00AM - 12:00PM, TOWN HALL MEETING ON CENSUS/ REDISTRICTING. Co-sponsors include LWVOhio, Ohio ImPACT, Delta Sigma Theta, The Urban League, and The Woman's City Club. Location: The Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, 3458 Reading Road, Cincinnati 45229 (south of Rockdale).

Sun, Mar 14, 7:00PM, Xavier Lecture Series on Sustainable Food and Agriculture: "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations." Guest lecturer is David Montgomery, a geologist at the University of Washington who was awarded a 2008 MacArthur Fellowship for his "fundamental contributions to our understanding of the geophysical forces that determine landscape evolution and of how our use of soils and rivers has shaped civilizations past and present." Location: Cintas Center; free and open to the public.

Social Time begins 5:30; Dinner at 6:00; Speaker at 6:45.
Location: The Kingsgate Marriott Conference Hotel, located on the UC Eastern (medical school) Campus, at 151 Goodman Drive. (Building is toward the lower left of this map.) Complimentary Garage Parking or Valet Parking Available.

Note new members: As a special benefit from the Steiner Fund, new members joining at Dinner with the League will have their dinner cost credited towards their first year membership.

Please reserve your place by Mar 19, by sending in your $25 check (gratuities included) with the mail-in flyer here.

Planning and Zoning Commissioners 2010 Training. The Certified Planning and Zoning Commissioners' Program is a 5-week course designed for commissioners, but also open to students and the general public, on a fee basis. Those who attend all five sessions will receive a certificate from the UC School of Planning and the Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission.

The sessions will be held on Wed evening from 5:30PM to 8:00PM or 8:30PM at the Blue Ash Recreation Center. Fees (including dinner) vary from $20 to $60 per session based upon timeliness and status; free for Planning Partnership Members who register on a timely basis. Remaining sessions are:

• Wed, Mar 24 - Session III: The Role of the Planning and Zoning Commissioner in the Planning Process
• Wed, Apr 21 - Session IV: Meeting Management
• Wed, May 26 - Session V: Skills Development: Site Plan Review

Thurs, Mar 25, 7:30-9:00PM, Prisons and Prisoners: Impact Ohio, presented by the Isaac M. Wise Temple Critical Topics Committee.
Topics:

• What are our jails meant to do, and are they doing it?
• How does our community's prison system really work?
• How does sentencing policy affect society's choice about prisons?
• Do we want to build more prisons and incarcerate more people?
• How are resources directed toward deterrence and rehabilitation?
• Why need we be concerned about our prison population?
• How does early release of offenders affect our community?

Sun, Apr 11, 7:00PM, Xavier Lecture Series on Sustainable Food and Agriculture: "An Informal Conversation" with three leaders in Sustainable Agriculture.

Wendell Berry is a Kentucky farmer and writer, described by the New York Review of Books as "perhaps the great moral essayist of our day." He is the author of more than forty novels, anthologies of essays, and books of poetry that use his intimate knowledge of his Kentucky River farm home as the starting point for eloquent and penetrating critiques of the modern agricultural system and its consequences for communities, families, and politics. Wes Jackson is the President and co-founder of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, a research and demonstration center dedicated to developing polyculture perennial grains as an alternative to our current annual grain monocultures. Gene Logsdon farms in northern Ohio and has written numerous books and magazine articles on the subject of small farms, rural living, cottage farming, homesteading, alternative farming practices, organic gardening, composting, aquaculture, and other types of alternative agriculture.

Location: Cintas Center; free and open to the public. Complimentary tickets with assigned seats will be distributed at the doors, which will open at 6:00PM. No tickets will be distributed in advance of the event.