A Calendar of June Activities from Around the Ohio

A Calendar of June Activities from Around the Ohio

June 10 - Senior Voice! held an expanded meeting and information session which was attended OARA activists from Toledo Columbus, Ashtabula as well as coalition leaders from the immediate vicinity of Cleveland. This forum was developed as a way to expand the participation in the Community Advocacy Network in northern Ohio and prepare presenters with a new Medicare and Social Security Issues At Stake presentation.

June 13 - President Friesner was invited to the Ohio Seniors meet with Barak Obama event Dave reports it was a small event of 40 people. The candidate spoke for 20 minutes and answered direct questions for about another hour. Senator Obama was aware John McCain waffled on a Social Security private accounts question asked by New Hampshire ARA president John Mendolusky the previous day. Dave reports Senator Obama was forthright and direct and made clear his position to increase financing of Social Security by taxing earning over $250,000 and his disagreement with the concept of private accounts set aside in Social Security.

June 14-16-19-25 - Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans activists participated in public demonstrations to protest the spike in gasoline prices as it moved over $4.00 a gallon. OARA members in Sandusky, Mansfield, Marietta, and Dayton held signs about facing tough choices Food / Medicine / Doctors or fuel and the increasing cost of living while seeing income savings and the economy decline.

June 19 and 26 - The Alliance of Informed Citizens of NW Ohio met and set September 19 as the next public forum date for Informed Citizens Listen. The group is firming up plans for this morning long event. The primary topic will focus on legal issues confronting retirees and seniors. Current plans include local presenters from the Elder Justice Project and Advocates for Basic Legal Equality and look for a return visit from State of Ohio Treasurer Richard Cordray.

June 23 Central - Ohio CLC Retirees elect a new slate of officers headed by Barb Davis. Barb is a retired member of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1059. She served for a number of years as labor representative at United Way in Franklin County. She is a dedicated volunteer with the Franklin County Diabetes Association. Her first act in office was to participate in a delegation of labor leaders meeting with Ohio US Senator Sherrod Brown on issue confronting Ohioans.

June 25 and 30 - OARA zone coordinators get radio airtime to discuss retirement security. Bruce Bostick the zone coordinator in Central Ohio was interviewed on Columbus radio station WCRS, 98.3 & 102.1 Wednesday June 25 from 4:30-5:00. Dan Fonte our zone coordinator in the Canton Akron area again appeared on the WHBC 1480 Ron Ponder show Monday June 30 to explain about the Bush Legacy Tour Bus and the Americans United for Change and what it was all about. Dan had been the primary spokesperson on the tours stop in Canton Saturday June 28th.