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Click here to support Rural Chronic Homeless Shelter in Desparate Need organized by Geoffrey Baker After a Decade of Service to a Rural Area, Slow Federal Support and Rising Costs Threaten A Vital, Unique Shelter Service. In the most rural area where transportation and services many take for granted is lacking, a small shelter and service center called Noah’s Ark is having to shut its doors a.....

Come out and support Noah's Ark Homeless Shelter at the 2017 Knights of Columbus Dinner and Auction, Filipino Hall, Wapato, Feb 12 1-5 pm

Knights of Columbus' Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction this weekend, Sunday April 17, 2-6. Please come and support Noah's Ark!

Join us for Meet Your Farmer 2016! Sunday April 10, 1-4! And share this flier with friends!

Faith Action Network's Yakima Spring Summit this Sunday June 14 3-5 at Wesley United Methodist. See link for more info and to register. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=852475921473231&id=852041961516627

Yakima Spring Summit | Faith Action Network FAN features events about justice, peace and care for the environment across the state of Washington. Posting does not signify official endorsement by FAN.

This year's Meet Your Farmer is Sunday April 19 1-4 at Heavenly Hills Harvest Farm

Great article about a unique event promoting sustainable agricutlure that will benefit Noah's Ark Homeless Shelter, Campbell Farm, Yakama Mission. Please join us for Meet Your Farmer, Sunday April 6, 1-4 at Bella Terra Gardens. Explore purchasing directly from local small farmers, enjoy a pig roast, silent auction, tour the gardens and animals at the farm and enjoy live bluegrass music by Flat Possum Pickers!

Yakima Herald Republic | Food fair aims to get people eating healthy food produced locally Food fair aims to get people eating healthy food produced locally Email Print Comments Share TweetPosted on March 29, 2014(L-R) Arturo Figueroa, José Rocha and Gini Obert prune grapes at Bella Terra Gardens near Zillah, Wash. March 21, 2014. Bella Terra will be hosting an event called Meet Your Farm...

Register online here or if you've moved, update your address before the Oct 8th deadline!

Register to Vote! Pledge to Vote! - Central Washington Progress

Deadline to register to vote fast approaching! We've been at YVCC this week and last week. Over 130 new registrations on this campus alone! Go youth vote!

Know your rights/Conoce Tus Derechos

Know your Rights/Conoce Tus Derechos

District based elections ensure true representation for all residents of the City of Yakima.

ACLU to file voting rights lawsuit against city of Yakima | Yakima Herald-Republic The Yakima, WA Herald-Republic newspaper features local news, sports, obituaries, weather, classifieds, homes, autos, jobs in Yakima, Washington.

Have you voted? Today, Tues Aug 7, is the last day to turn in your ballots for the Primary Election. Post a comment and let us know that you have voted! Share this with your friends and encourage everyone to vote! If you know someone who isn't registered, its easy on line! Just visit www.cwprogress.org and click on Register to Vote and you will be directed to the online registration tool at the WA Secretary of State.

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Your invited to support these students in their creative work!

Volunteer slots still available for upcoming events to help with Voter Registration. Look for us at these block parties and National Night Out events as we take back the night (and day) in August with lots of festivals to engage voters!

South East Community Center Monday Aug 6 4-7
National Night Out Regional Hospital Aug 7 3-7
Yakima Neighborhood Health Festival Aug 8 1-4 Yakima
Yakima Neighborhood Health Festival Aug 9 1-4 Sunnyside
Yakima Housing Authority Aug 13 4-7

Pride Festival this weekend, Saturday July 28 at Fulbright Park

We're at the Yakima Folk Life Festival registering voters this weekend. And lots of folks pledging to vote. Stop by our booth! Help volunteer!

Make your Pledge to VOTE in 2012! July 9 is the deadline to register to vote for the Aug 7 primary. If you are not registered or unsure, you can register on line through the Central WA Progress website, www.cwprogress.org. You will be linked to the Secretary of State where you can also check the status of your registration, update and correct your information. Go to the Register to Vote!/Pledge to Vote! page on our website! Its easy to do it online!

Great time was had by all at our Summer Solstice Party! Lots of great food, good music and rousing speakers! Lots of good connections made among the diversity of our community for the work ahead! And we even registered a bunch if folks! Thanks to all!

CWP Summer Solstice Party This Thursday, June 21, 6:30 - 8:30, Wapato Lions Park. Voter Registration Campaign Kick Off! Help us register 2000 new voter in Yakima County! Come to the party to connect with lots of community partners involved in civic engagement, find out opportunities to volutneer for voter registration, listen to the hip hop sounds of Craft of Distraction and enjoy lots of good food! Bring somethign to share

"Native American mascots are a form of oppression that contributes to isolation among Native Americans and its social consequences..."

Oregon bans Native American mascots in schools Eight Oregon high schools will have to retire their Native American mascots after the Board of Education voted Thursday to prohibit them.

Its Mardi Gras! Join us as revolutionize civic engagement here in the Yakima Valley! You are invited to attend an evening gathering of Central Washington Progress Friends.

Tuesday, February 21 from 5-6:30 pm, Sub Shop of Yakima, 20 N 2nd St, Yakima WA. Hot dish provided, bring side dishes, desserts, drinks asable.

Join us For a chance to reconnect with friends committed to the mission of civic engagement for the common good in Central Washington. Invite new people to join the conversation!

We're hiring! Please spread the word!

Central WA Progress Director Job Announcement - Central Washington Progress Central WA Progress is hiring a three quarter-time, Director in Yakima to lead this young organization. Responsibilities will include:

Did you vote today? You can vote up til 8 pm--get it into a post office or drop off ballots at the Courthouse. We will know soon what the voters decided!

Please help us call voters!

We will be having a Phone Bank tonight (Friday11/4)-- at the Home Rule campaign office, 103 N. 3rd Ave, Yakima from 5:30 - 8:30 pm. (Directly across from the library).

If the doors are locked, please call Morgan 509-823-5062, or Mary 509-961-2792. We will be calling voters who have probably not voted yet, and asking them to consider a Yes vote on Home Rule (Proposition1) . Lots of times voters have questions about Home Rule and what it means, so the calls are really worthwhile.

Here's a rudimentary translation, via babblefish; we will replace it asap. But the thoughts are still there...
To vote or to die Editorial:

To vote or to die November 1, 2011

On these elections politician depends the future not only of the Latins on the Valley, but also the social and cultural future of our community. THE YAKIMA SUN It does not have of another one. These elections, or we voted, or we died politically. It is that simple. We did not exaggerate. For nothing. We speak of Proposal 1, the called proposal “Home Rule”, legislative measurement that of being approved by the voters, the possibility would give him to the voters of sending to 15 people of the community to that they write a new corporate charter. to be approved the letter in time, present commissioners of the County, the three of them, would be thrown of their positions and replaced by the 15 “freeholders”, that is the voters and servants of the county.

Not very often it is so crucial that all the Latins that they can vote they vote like during these next elections of the 8 of November. And it is a gold opportunity to reject the yoke to which all the Latins of the Valley we have underneath been since our community has been by these earth. So important what is to vote in these elections? Ah, that good it asked that it.

It considers this: They were the three people who imposed Safe Communities to us, one of the programs that have tried to be one of most dangerous for the undocumented Latin families of this country, causing until now the deportation of thousands. They were the present commissioners of the County of Yakima. Something says to us that to have been in the power the 15 Freeholders, among them Rogelio Mounts and other Latins, probably such program had not been accepted by the County. But now many undocumented families can live with the fear on which by any minimum error some relative finished in the jail and would fall at the mercy of the migratory authorities, we can give thanks to the commissioners and the Department of Jails of Yakima. We are understanding now because we cannot occur the luxury of not voting in these elections?

The forces anti-immigrants, as always, take in this the advantage to us. They have been campaigning strong against Proposal 1, saying that it would take to a greater government. It really is the other way around. He is a great and injurious government who is centered in three commissioners which we have now. This must change. It is, as all the Latins we already know, as if the government of Yakima worked against the Latins. And the antiimmigrants and power know the settled down it and is why they are working of feverish form to defeat Proposal 1, since they know that its power would diminish. He is to sum up, the fight of the good ones against the bad ones. Thus, to droughts.

It is the fight of a minority - the Latins that now in numbers has become the majority and wishes to have a voice and a vote on its future, its families, its children, his culture. In the other side it is a small minority - in numbers that a great power has political and that wishes, he has done as always it, to impose his power on the others: he wants to decide the life of the others. He is why we are in crossroads. Or we voted, and thus we left knowledge that we are not arranged to render to us so easily, that we will not remain been silent and we will not retire at night dark of the social, cultural and political forgetfulness, or we surrendered and we yield the power to him to a group that of plane does not want to us. There is no leaf return.

We must vote. Not only he is to have social, but moral, because he would be what before they called “an omission sin”. Point. We have good Latin candidates like Rogelio Montes and Larry Sanchez: both excellent candidates by District 2 (lamentably, only one would happen to be elect). As we said at the outset, he is to vote or to die. There is no time for more. Decídase. We recommended to him of all heart that votes. By this and plus the Sun of Yakima it approves Proposal 1.

Great editorial in El Sol, Spanish-language newspaper for Yakima: Vote or Die

Editorial: Votar o morir : El Sol de Yakima The SnoValley Star is the local weekly newspaper for Snoqualmie and North Bend, WA. Local news, classifieds, weather, mountain pass and contact information.

Phone banking tonight was so much fun, we are doing it again;

Come phone bank Thursday with us! May start earlier, like 5 pm, and go til 8 pm. Same place as below. Thanks to Evodio, Helen, and Freeholder candidate Mike Murdock for calling...

Phone Bank Thursday night-- at the Home Rule campaign office, 103 N. 3rd Ave, Yakima. (Directly across from the library).

If the doors are locked, please call Morgan 509-823-5062. We will be calling voters who have probably not voted yet, and asking them to consider a Yes vote on Home rule. Lots of times voters have questions about Home Rule and what it means, so the calls are really worthwhile.

5:00 to 8:00 pm! Hope to see you there! Please pass to your friends!

Thank you,

Mary

Mary Baechler
961-2792

Home Rule booth at Yakima Farmers Market, Sunday Oct 30. Mary with Art Busch, longtime Yakima area Industrial Areas Foundation organizer

Please come help us call voters!

We will be having a Phone Bank tonight-- at the Home Rule campaign office, 103 N. 3rd Ave, Yakima. (Directly across from the library).

If the doors are locked, please call Morgan 509-823-5062. We will be calling voters who have probably not voted yet, and asking them to consider a Yes vote on Home rule. Lots of times voters have questions about Home Rule and what it means, so the calls are really worthwhile.

5:30 to 8:30 pm! Hope to see you there! Please pass to your friends!

Thank you,

Mary

Mary Baechler
961-2792

Dear friend to to the community and supporter of many of our efforts. You will be missed.

Yakima activist, former City Councilman Ron Bonlender dies at age 68 | Yakima Herald-Republic The Yakima, WA Herald-Republic newspaper features local news, sports, obituaries, weather, classifieds, homes, autos, jobs in Yakima, Washington.

Meet and Greet the Freeholder Candidates Monday night! Oct 24 6 to 8 pm, 223 n. 1st st, Yakima