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Emergency winter shelter in Elgin looking for volunteers

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The emergency winter homeless shelter at First United Methodist Church in Elgin will be run for the first time this year by House of Restoration Community Outreach, a nonprofit headed by Lucy and Pedro Gomez. The shelter will be open when it’s 15 degrees or colder.

The Elgin Township Democrats plan to collect clothing, food and supplies for the shelter at our December, 18, 2018 meeting.

Read the full article at the Daily Herald

Elgin Township Democrats Fall Fundraiser 2017

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Pets for VetsJoin us for good conversation and benefit a Veteran and a shelter animal.

Carmina’s Restaurant
1055 N. Randall Rd
Elgin, IL 60123

Sunday, November 12th, 2017
5 pm to 8 pm

Hors d’oeuvres and Cash Bar
Cost: $25.00 per person

(Dinners can be purchased from the Dining Room.)

$5.00 of every ticket will be donated to Pets for Vets

About the program: The Pets for Vets program is dedicated to supporting veterans and providing a second chance for shelter pets by rescuing, training and pairing them with America’s veterans who could benefit from a companion animal.

Trump won the presidency? As Democrats, what do we do now?

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The Elgin Township Democrats fought hard to get Democrats elected up and down the tickets. While we can be proud of our many candidates that won their races, unfortunately Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.

Bernie Sander’s position on the President Elect matches that of many of us.

“To the degree that Mr. Drumpf is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.”

In our household, we decided to make donations to organizations that stand for the ideals we believe in.

You may also want to select a reliable news source to support. We need to make sure the media we trust has the funds to employ investigative reports to dig and report the news truthfully. Here are a few good ones:

This is nowhere near an all inclusive list. You will certainly have your own preferred organizations. Donate and get involved.

We weren’t the only ones to have this idea

We were rather happy to see that we weren’t the only ones that had this idea. Here are donation recommendations we saw the next day on Last Week Tonight with John Olliver

  • To that end, we need to focus on helping insure our progressive values are protected wherever possible. So if you can afford the time or money, here are some organizations that are worth supporting.
  • To support women’s health, donate to Planned Parenthood (plannedparenthood.org) or the Center for Reproductive Rights (reproductiverights.org).
  • If you don’t believe man made global warming is a silly issue, give to the Natural Resources Defense Council (nrdc.org).
  • If you don’t think refugees are a terrorist army in disguise, donate to the International Refugee Assistance Project (refugeerights.org).
  • You may also want to donate to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (naacpldf.org), the Trevor Project for LGBT youth (thetrevorproject.org), or the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (maldef.org).
  • And to support journalism, subscribe to a newspaper and donate to ProPublica (propublica.org).