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Coming
Events for June
2009 and beyond
Distributed by West County
Democrats
www.westcountydems.org
June Meeting - Completed
Monday, June 8, 2009
9:30 AM-11:30 AM (coffee and socializing, 9:00-9:30)
Four Freshman
Legislators- Margo McNeil H 78, Jill Schupp H 82, Vicki Englund H 85,
Jeanne Kirkton H 91
A panel discussion on their newly elected representative experiences,
committee assignments, and legislative wrap-up.
Circle of Concern, our community outreach agency is requesting the
following items this month. Please remember to bring one or more of
these to the monthly meeting. (Cash and checks cheerfully accepted,
too.)
Cereal, jelly, spaghetti sauce, boxed meals, shampoo, bath soap, paper
towels, toilet paper
Please join us for lunch after the meeting at
Uncle Bill's Pancake & Dinner
14196 Manchester Road, Ballwin, MO 636-394-1416
Just west of Weidman on the south side of Manchester Road
Future Meetings:
July 13 Sylvester Brown, former columnist for the St. Louis Post
Dispatch (speaking title unknown at this time)
August 10 9:30-10:30 BusIness meeting followed by Field Trip
11:00- 12:00 Tour of St. Louis Community College at Wildwood, a GREEN
CAMP
June
• Wednesday, June 24, 2009
WCD Movie Night, Sprawling From Grace
7:00 pm at
Local 655 - UFCW
300 Weidman Road in Ballwin
This feature length documentary from award winning Producer/Director
David M. Edwards explores the ravages of American suburban sprawl, what
America has lost as a result, and the perils we face if we don’t change
the way in which we build our cities.
Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security by cheap
energy that has allowed us to spread endlessly into our landscape. We
are trapped behind the wheels of our automobiles. With the demand for
oil outpacing the Earth’s ability to supply it, this suburban living
arrangement will fail.
America’s love affair with the automobile is unsustainable and, like
Nero, we are fiddling away, confident that tomorrow will be as
promising as today. The wake up call is coming.
• Thursday,
June 11
Maryland Heights Township
Democrats will meet again at 7:15 PM at the
Thornhill Branch Library. For more information contact:
Dale Steinberg, Democratic Committeewoman Maryland Heights Township
Beyond June
Other
Helpful Information
To find out which
political township you live in, go to the St. Louis County Board of
Elections website,
http://www.co.st-louis.mo.us/scripts/elections/index.cfm
and type in your address. Some townships have active Democratic
clubs, and some don’t. Here are some that do:
Creve Coeur Township Dem Club meets the 2nd Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Creve Coeur Govt Center, 300 N. Ballas Rd. between Ladue and Olive
Street Rd. Contact WCD member Stan Edelstein at (314) 878-6041.
Jefferson Township Club meets every last Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Shrewsbury City Center, 5200 Shrewsbury Ave. (From Murdoch, south on
Shrewsbury 4 blocks until it dead-ends.) For more info, WCD
member Margaret Hasse, (314) 961-0272.
Lafayette, and Queeny Township Dem Clubs meet together on the 4th
Monday 7:30 p.m. at Fandango's Sports Bar and Grill, at Big Bend
and Dougherty Ferry Road. Contact for Lafayette is Bob Levine
(boblevine@hotmail.com.) Contact for Queeny is Ken Curtis (636)
225-7227.
The Mo River township is no longer meeting with Queeny and
Lafayette. They are meeting separately. Contact for
Missouri River is Cecil Sharp ctsharp@earthlink.net.
PROGRESSIVE RADIO options in St. Louis area.
KDHX 88.1 FM Monday thru Friday 6 p.m. “Democracy Now” with
Amy Goodman. Wednesdays 7 p.m. Ed Bishop, editor of
the St. Louis Journalism Review, interviews high-powered guests.
Satellite radio: XM – Air America (online at http://xmradio.com/ )
Satellite Radio: Sirius – Talk Left (especially Mike Malloy); online at
www.sirius.com/siriusleft
Randi Rhodes, Air America, on radio station 1190 AM from 3 to 6 pm,
Mon-Fri.
Thom Hartmann on the Air America Radio Network. Listen for him live,
noon-3 pm on your local Air America affiliate, 1190 AM Bookmark his
great website also: http://www.thomhartmann.com
TELEVISION
Labor Vision -- Watch LABORVISION on Cable TV! LaborVision is a
locally produced public affairs program that features social and
economic analysis from a progressive perspective. LABORVISION is
produced by John Hickey.
St. Louis City (Charter Ch. 21) - Monday @ 8pm Thursday @ 8pm Friday @
1pm Saturday @ 3:30pm
St. Louis & Jefferson Counties; Alton, East St. Louis &
Belleville, Illinois (Charter Ch. 18) Wednesday @ 7:30pm.
For more information about the show email
laborvision@gmail.com.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 10 p.m. weeknights on the Comedy
Channel - repeats are aired (in no particular order) at 7 p.m.
weeknights.
Keith Obermann’s Countdown on MSNBC alternating with Rachel
Maddow 7 p.m. Monday thru Friday. .
NEWSPAPERS/NEWSLETTERS
Rep. Jeff Harris (Missouri House) sends out periodic emails about a new
initiative called Moving Missouri Forward. To receive these
emails, go to www.MovingMissouriForward.com
You are invited to join us for LUNCH after each WCD meeting.
Currently we are going to Uncle Bill's Pancake & Dinner, 14196
Manchester Rd , Ballwin , MO - (636) 394-1416
To submit items for this list, send them by the Friday before the
monthly WCD meeting to Kathy Dieter at KathDieter@Yahoo.com.
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