We detect an “age” theme this week . . . it seems like yesterday that Al Gore declared April 22 to be Earth Day and yet, here we are, 50 years (minutes?) later . . . celebrating, not in a group but alone in our homes.

Look outside, you may see a daffodil!

Speaking of the earth . . . the NH Young Dems (are elders invited?) are having a fascinating-sounding workshop on how we’ve rearranged the earth . . . which we’re hoping to do more of in the weeks coming up . . . in our gardens.

Then (we’re still on our age theme) we are discussing safety in our nursing homes and child care for our wonderful first responders’ kids.

Voter suppression has received another few blows this week with the failure of SB 3 and with Gov Sununu coming around to mail-in votes. This is huge and we are hoping that all efforts can go into registering past non-voters and others who were unable . . . to drive to the polls. Yay!

Back to our present dilemma . . . if you haven’t tried that restaurant you’ve heard so much about, now is the time. Check out the list of restaurants making an effort to keep afloat. We need to do our part, in addition to staying at home, wearing a mask NOW we need to straighten our backbones and call for take=out! It’s the LEAST we can do–for the greater good–EAT!

And finally, the UVDems are working on a Zoom meeting on April 27 at 6.30 p.m. It won’t be a potluck but watch this space for a sign-in registration for our first foray into virtual meetings. Maynard Goldman will be leading a discussion on  “Could Covid-19 Infect the November 2020 Elections?”.

To read the details of below bullets , click here.

• April 13, Lessons from the Soil;
• April 14/15, NH Young Dems virtual events;
• April 22, Earth Day 2020, webinar;
• April 27, UVD April program on Zoom;
• Sununu Sad Facts;
• Senate Bill 3 struck down;
• Show your support for all first responders;
• The COVID Alliance Senior Support Team (SST) New Hampshire Campaign; sign-up form;
• ONE-STOP Food Access MAP for food, to volunteer and to donate;
• UVBA Restaurant takeout and pickup.

Ongoing

• If you missed the Census;
• The NH Responds System;
• COVID Symptom Tracker, 482 more people needed to report;
• Upper Valley Response Team (UVRT);
• Essential Medical Personnel Childcare volunteers.

Lots to read today!

Let’s see . . . there are volunteer opportunities, workout offerings, TV suggestions (we should start a Netflix string about all the compelling series we’ve discovered (for another day)). And the sonnets. Who HASN’T imagined what it would be like to have Patrick Stewart read Shakespeare sonnets to them??? 

We are all asked to follow so many rules these days: of course our hand-washing, six-feet apart, mask rules; then there are the census rules–we must do it and encourage others to do it as well. And of course the National Democratic Convention is coming up, by hook or by crook . . . in August? who knows. But the rules for that need to be adopted. See below. 

And we are obsessed with removing the scourge in the WH so there is David Plouffe’s book on drumping (dumping Trump) that sounds like a necessary read.

Whatever you do is OK right now. You get a pass. We are all in shock, unfocused and confused. Read a book, watch a TV show, take in a movie, exercise and don’t eat that entire tub of ice cream–spread it out. 

Stay safe and enjoy the wine. And while you’re drinking that wine, toast our elected officials who have delivered! Thank you one and all!

COVID-19 has forced us all into social isolation and self-quarantining. In this new world, the Upper Valley Dems has been faced with the challenge of continuing its programming and managing all its meetings to meet program demands.

Funding for ‘technology support’ provided by the New England Grassroots Environment Fund, has made it possible for us to continue our programming, not in the Hanover Rec Center, but online. We hope to be back up and running for our April program, on the Zoom platform. We will send out a link and you can watch the program from your home. Nothing to download, just click and watch.

One caveat! This is new to all of us so we ask you to be flexible as we get our sea legs. We look forward to connecting with all of you again.

Click here for more details on the items:

• How you can help in the community;
• A Sonnet a Day;
• A FREE WORKOUT? CCBA Daily Workouts with ZOOM;
• A BOOK? An Obama adviser summons a volunteer army to defeat President Trump
• A TV Series? Looking for something else to do?
• Sununu Sad Facts;
• Did you miss the Census?;
• Run for Delegate to the National Convention;
• NHDP 2020 Resolutions Committee;
• Our Members of Congress Delivered on Coronavirus Bill