CCHM ladies night offers First Thursday garden lecture and new Women’s Suffrage exhibit opening

The Clark County Historical Museum heats up for summer with a free women’s suffrage exhibit opening and a garden lecture Thursday, July 2, from 5 to 9 p.m.

Catharine Paine Blaine: Seneca Falls and The Women’s Rights Movement in the State of Washington is a traveling exhibit that celebrates the 2010 Washington Women’s Suffrage Centennial through an exploration of the effect of settlers’ reform ideas on the development of women’s rights in Washington State.

Washington was an early leader in women’s suffrage and passed a voting law 10 years before the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.

Catharine Paine Blaine and her husband, David E. Blaine, were the first Methodist missionary couple in Seattle in 1853. Blaine, one of the 100 signers of the Declaration of Sentiments at the July 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., had strong views about women’s rights. Blaine voted in Washington long before the women of her native New York State gained that right. The exhibit includes a timeline of the movement to win women’s suffrage in the State of Washington.

The exhibit, which runs through the end of the year, is a joint project of Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y., and the Washington State Historical Society.

The exhibit opens on the same evening as July’s First Thursday Museum After Hours speaker Linda Chalker-Scott discusses most common myths and misconceptions that plague home gardeners and horticultural professionals. Chalker-Scott is a Washington State University professor and Master Gardener Program curriculum director. Chalker-Scott wrote The Informed Gardener and will sign copies of her book. The museum is open for free 5 to 9 p.m. on First Thursday evenings. Lectures begin at 7 p.m.

Regular museum hours are: Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is charged. The museum also is open free from 5 to 9 p.m. the first Thursday of the month, between February and November, for First Thursday Museum After Hours. A wheelchair accessible entrance to the museum is located on the east side of the museum building on 16th street. Call CCHM, (360) 993-5679, or visit the Web site, at www.cchmusem.org, for more information.

2009 Jefferson Jackson Dinner A BIG SUCCESS

“It was a Blockbuster.” That was said about the 2009 Clark County Democrats’ Jefferson Jackson Dinner and Auction. Six hundred attendees made their way to the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds to celebrate the election of Obama, the great work we did in Clark County in 2008, and just being Democrats. The lights, the sound, the food, the staging, the Auction, and the Program were wonderful. Governor Howard Dean was everywhere - having his picture taken with the YD’s, with local presidential scholar Stephanie Nicholson, with Brian Baird, and with Krist Novoselic (formerly with Nirvana) - and just talking and being excited with new and old friends around the room. He was invited on-stage and flipped the coins for Heads or Tails repeatedly. In his speech, Governor Dean spoke passionately and strongly about two main subjects: the young, multicultural generation and their solid, but different ethics, and about the need for rapid, radical change in America’s Health Care system.

Other highlights included: Chair Dena Horton providing a warm welcome, Emcee Senator Craig Pridemore at his ebullient best all evening, Royce Pollard introducing honoree Pat Jollota, and Doug Lasher introducing honoree Betty Sue Morris. Pete Aller and Marsha Manning were genuinely surprised and gratified to receive the Dan & Val Ogden Democracy Award.

It was a gala evening and fundraiser with nationally-acclaimed auctioneer Doug Petersen keeping a rapid, upbeat pace. Governor Dean was impressed by the level of excitement and the flow of dollars for Clark County Democrats’. If you were there, you had lots of fun – if you weren’t there, you’ll definitely want to attend next year!

UPDATE: CVTV has kindly provided a link to a video of the event's speeches. You can access the video here.

Clark County Democrats Fair Booth

The CCDCC will have a booth at the Clark County Fairgrounds in August 2009. We will need help with set-up and decorating the booth, staffing the booth throughout the fair, and clean up. If you are interested in working a shift at the fair booth or in setting up and/or clean up, please volunteer! Volunteers receive fair and parking passes. We encourage you to use the C-Tran bus service to and from the fair as well!

To volunteer for the fair booth, contact Co-Chairs Jeremy Zegas at 703-401-1531 or jezegas@hotmail.com or Stephanie Liberman at 360-513-8515 or sgliberman@gmail.com

Clark County Democrats’ Monthly Meeting

Clark County Democratic Central Committee monthly meeting open to all Democrats in Clark County held the second Monday of each month at 7 PM at the ILWU Longshore Hall, 1205 Ingalls Street in Vancouver (Map)

Your donations of non-perishable and/or canned food will be collected at each month’s meeting and will be donated to various food banks and other food programs throughout Clark County.