From Fridays For Future Ashland website.

Dear Members and Friends,

This Valentine's Day, between 12:45 pm and 1:45 pm, please join the League of Women Voters of Ashland and Bayfield Counties (LWV/ABC) and the youth who regularly gather at Ashland's City Hall for a strike to bring awareness of our climate crisis. Their website is https://fffashland.weebly.com

February 14, 2020 is the actual 100th birthday of the League of Women Voters!

Our national League leaders have called chapters throughout the United States to take part in a Day of Action to celebrate. LWV/ABC decided to support the efforts of the students who brought us the September 20 Climate Strike, which many of us joined last year. https://chequamegonclimatestrike.weebly.com

To see our local action on a map, and others happening across the country please go to: https://www.lwv.org/women-power-vote-day-action-february-14-2020

With their Fridays For Future presence at City Hall our local youth remind us weekly of the need to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere while engaging in practices to protect our precious planet.

I was glad to join the group last week. Friend and Citizens' Climate Lobby member Ted Griggs, pictured with the group in the attached photo, stopped by with a check for his voluntary carbon tax contribution. You can find out how it works at: http://voluntarycarbontax.org

It will be possible for us to make signs for Friday, February 14 with Oredocker Project School (OPS) students. If you would like to do so, go to Ashland High School at 9 am on Wednesday, February 12. You will need to sign in with a Driver's License at the office and ask for directions to OPS. Ella Syerson has secured permission from her teachers for the activity, and they have the materials we will need.

You may already have appropriate signs. We would like our participation to somehow convey both the climate crisis message and our marking of the League's centennial birthday.

Those of us up for some exercise on the 14th can plan to walk to City Hall with the students who typically leave Ashland High School at noon. The distance is 1.6 miles and it takes about 40 minutes.

Please mark your calendars to join in celebrating our important milestone while demonstrating solidarity with the students and a loving concern for our Earth!

With best wishes and appreciation,

Anne

— Anne Chartier, President, League of Women Voters of Ashland and Bayfield Counties