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APRIL 20 Monthly Coffee, 9:30am, at the Bronxville Women's Club, 135 Midland Avenue, Bronxville. Speaker: Rebecca Troutman from Riverkeeper Ms. Troutman is a Sr. Counsel at Riverkeeper, an environmental protection organization dedicated to preserving our water supply and keeping the Hudson River clean. She will give an overview of Riverkeeper's work and talk about the challenges to our potable water posed by an aging infrastructure, contamination and the threats of upstate drilling. Ms. Troutman has a BA from Harvard and a JD from Columbia Law School where she was a published editor of Columbia Business Law Review. She also holds an LL.M. in Environmental Law from Pace Law School. Prior to joining Riverkeeper in 2006, she worked in investment banking and as a litigator.

PAST EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 15:  Monthly Coffee, 9:30am, Bronxville Women's Club. Our first coffee meeting of the fall season will bring us "up close and personal" with the leaders of our three municipalities: Mayor Mary Marvin of Bronxville, Mayor John Fitzpatrick of Tuckahoe, and Supervisor Anthony Colavita of Eastchester. They'll talk about problems shared and cooperative solutions found, as well as issues that each of them faces separately, and they'll try to answer your questions. Here's your chance to find out what all the construction's about and express your concerns about safety issues, noise pollution or anything else that worries you. Please join us!

OCTOBER 18: Eastchester Candidates Forum, Eastchester Town Hall, 40 Mill Rd., 4:30-6:30pm.

OCTOBER 19:  Health Care Reform: Urgent Issues, Critical Information (about legislation, passed or still proposed, to date). 5:30-7:30pm, NY Presbyterian Hospital, Main Building, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains. (directions re parking etc., will be posted). Speakers will be Mark Hannay, Director of Metro NY Health Care for All, on legislation on the national and the state level, and Mary Beth Morrissey, Esq., MPH of the Fordham, Ravassin Center on Aging and health care costs: who benefits, who pays, and how. Meeting arranged by NASW (national Assoc. of Social Workers) and cosponsored by the League of Women Voters of Westchester.

OCTOBER 20: Monthly coffee, 9:30am, Bronxville Women's Club, 135 Midland Ave. We are honored to have as our guest speakers the police chiefs of the Town of Eastchester and the Villages of Bronxville and Tuckahoe, who will give us a report on their cooperative efforts to maintain peace and harmony in their communities. Bronxville: Chief Christopher Satriale; Eastchester: Chief Timothy Bonci; Tuckahoe: Chief John Costanzo.

MARCH 16: Monthly Coffee, 9:30am, at the Bronxville Women's Club, 135 Midland Avenue, Bronxville. Charles Bell, Program Director for Consumers Union will talk about the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the new consumer protections for credit cards and other proposals to increease oversight of the financial services marketplace.

In his present job, he works closely with CU's advocacy offices in CA, NY, TX and Wash.D.C on a wide range of consumer policy issues, including prescription drugs and health care re-structuring. He also serves a number of non-profit advocacy groups devoted to the public good.

Charles Bell has a BA in political science from Antioch University and is currently working toward an MA in international business at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

APRIL 14 Annual Meeting and Luncheon with Prof. Priscilla Murolo, "Re-imagining Feminism".