Douglas County Republican Women

AFFILIATED WITH THE NATIONAL FEDERATION

OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN

www.dcrwnevada.com

OUR NEXT MEETING

Wed July 1, 2020

Valley Christian

Fellowship Church

1681 Lucerne St.,

Minden 89423

Sign In: 11:30 am

Cost $10.00

Reservation deadline:

June 26, 2020

Reservations:

Linda Colavechio

775 782-5338

lrcal1@aol.com

Without Reservation:

COST $15.00

Volume 25 Issue 6 July 2020

MENU

No lunch served,

there will be cakes

and drinks

First just want to say how great it was to see everyone at our June 3, 2020 meeting! We had a gathering in the entry hall and en-joyed dessert, yes before lunch, and had our County Commissioner Candidates speak to us as well meeting our three wonderful Scholarship winners -Josh Herup, Caitlin McLaughlin and Madison Reger.

This month our meeting will again be a dessert meeting. (Cost is

$10.00 each) We will be meeting at 11:30 am for social time with

our friends and new members. Our guest speakers this month,

July 1, 2020, will be the four school board candidates: Tony

Magnotta, Yvonne Wagstaff, Dwight Englekirk and Larry Sid-

ney. If you have questions you would like to submit please send

them to: Linda Colavechio at lrcal1@aol.com.

We also have great news - the Nevada Federation of Republican

Women will be meeting in Las Vegas on July 17-18, 2020 at the

South Point Hotel. If you are interested in going please let me, or

another board member know and we will get you the infor-

mation. (It is also included in this newsletter.)

Again, so nice to finally meet in June and looking forward to

seeing everyone on July 1, 2020.

Be well and stay safe, Brenda

The Forgotten History of Father's Day Let's All Cheer for Fathers! By Aurelia C. Scott June 11, 2019 Father’s Day was not immediately accepted when it was pro-posed, and it did not become a national holiday in the U.S. until 1972 during President Richard Nixon’s administration. Why was it a hotly contested debate? Read the forgotten his-tory behind Father’s Day. With America’s history, you might think that a holiday first recognizing men would be per-fectly acceptable. After all, men dominated American society in the early 20th century. In addition, a “Father’s Day” or day that recognizes the role of fathers in the family is an an-cient tradition. (Father's Day (or Fathers' Day) is a day of honoring fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in society. In Catholic countries of Europe, it has been celebrated on March 19 as Saint Joseph's Day since the Middle Ages). Certainly, in modern days, we do not give Father’s Day a second thought. It’s been almost 50 years since President Richard Nixon’s administration declared the third Sunday in June a dedicated day to recognize and honor the role of fathers in society. Father’s Day Controversy However, Father’s Day was not immediately accepted when it was proposed. Why not? Mother’s Day came first (officially recognized in 1914) so men in the early 1900s associated the day with women and found it too effeminate to their liking. To be fair, Mother’s Day was couched in terms of femininity. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson called Mother’s Day a way to recognize “that tender, gentle army—the mothers of America.” Men viewed it as similar to Mother’s Day, which was popular with florists; fathers didn’t have the same sentimental appeal. As one historian writes, they “scoffed at the holiday’s sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products–often paid for by the father himself.” Also, according to Lawrence R. Samuel, the author of American Fatherhood: A Cultural His-tory, men had a different role in the first half of a century. It was very patriarchal, so they felt that a special day to exalt fatherhood was a rather silly idea, when it was mothers who were underappreciated. However, that sentiment changed over time for several reasons.

"Anyone who thinks my story is any-where near over is sadly mistaken." Donald Trump

The Women Behind Father’s Day Grace Golden Clayton The first known Father’s Day service occurred in Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908, after hundreds of men died in the worst mining accident in U.S. history. Grace Golden Clayton, the daughter of a dedicated reverend, proposed a service to honor all fathers, especially those who had died. However, the observance did not become an annual event, and it was not promoted—very few outside the local area knew about it. Meanwhile, across the entire country, another woman was inspired to honor fathers … Sonora Smart Dodd In 1909, Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, was inspired by Anna Jarvis and the idea of Mother’s Day. Her father was a single parent who raised Sonora and her five brothers by himself, after his wife Ellen, died giving birth to their youngest child in 1898. William Jackson Smart, her father, was a farmer and Civil War veteran as well. While at-tending a Mother’s Day church service in 1909, Sonora, then 27, came up with the idea. Within a few months, Sonora had convinced the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA to set aside a Sunday in June to celebrate fathers. She proposed June 5, her fa-ther’s birthday, but the ministers chose the third Sunday in June so that they would have more time after Mother’s Day (the second Sunday in May) to prepare their sermons. So it was held on June 19, 1910, when Sonora delivered presents to handicapped fathers, boys from the YMCA decorated their lapels with fresh-cut roses (red for living fathers, white for the deceased), and the city’s ministers devoted their homilies to fatherhood. Becoming a National Holiday The widely publicized events in Spokane struck a chord that reached all the way to Wash-ington, D.C., and Sonora’s celebration started its path to becoming a national holiday. The holiday did not catch on right away, perhaps due to the parallels with Mother’s Day. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson and his family personally observed the day.

Eight years later, President Calvin Coolidge signed a resolution in favor of Father’s Day “to establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress up-on fathers the full measure of their obligations.” In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order that the holiday be cele-brated on the third Sunday in June. Under President Richard Nixon, in 1972, Congress passed an act officially making Fa-ther’s Day a national holiday. (Six years later, Sonora died at age 96.)

JULY SPEAKERS

Candidates for School Board Trustees

Area 1 Tony Magnotta

Yvonne Wagstaf

Area 3 Dwight Englekrik

Larry Sidney

Douglas County School Board Trustee Area 1

Tony Magnotta

Our schools are in a state of limbo with nothing really going on with the shut down because of the Virus. Problems are arising when do we reopen our schools. No direction from our state officials on what procedures we are going to take to get our education system running again. My thoughts vari on this subject. Are we going to continue with masks and the 6 foot rule? Until guidelines are established everything is up in the air. Very difficult time for our schools. I will address other issues such as financial, school closings, extra curricular activities, employees etc.

Douglas County School Board Trustee Area 1`

Yvonne Wagstaf

Unfortunately Yovonne’s statement was not received in time

for this newsletter, however it will be presented to you in our

August edition.

Board of Education Philosophy Statement

Lawrence “Larry” Sidney

I am running for Douglas County Board of Education because I have two young children who will be students in the district soon, and I want them and all of the other children in our county to have the opportunity to earn the best possible education.

Douglas County has a good school district that can be even better. Every-thing starts with meeting the needs of the students, and if the administra-

tion is wholly focused on supporting the teachers and school staff in achieving this, then entire dis-trict thrives. It also means being smart about where we put our education dollars. School funding is not unlimited, so it must be used efficiently and effectively. I believe that my business background and MBA degree, along with 15 years of experience as a teacher, make me a unique candidate who can see the full picture of what it takes for a school district to be successful.

Thank you for taking the time to read this brief summary of my thoughts. If you have questions or would like to talk, please contact me at Lawrencesidney18@gmail.com. I hope that I can count on your support in the election in November!

Douglas County School Board Area 3

Dwight “Doug “ Englekirk

I have always been interested in politics and community issues. However, being a General Contractor, I have not been too involved except in my commitment to being educated so I can vote wisely and educate others on the issues. The failure of our education system, nation wide, has also been something I’ve been aware of and concerned about for years. Everything from rewriting the history of our great nation, attempting to indoctrinate our children with all manner of sexual deviancy, failing to actually teach the basics, lack of discipline and a general inability to equip our kids to actually contribute to society. I am not signally out Douglas County as I don’t believe a lot of these problems are prevalent in our schools, but the trend in our nation is in the wrong direction. I had no intention of running for School Board. My wife and I happened to be down at the county offices near the deadline to register as a candidate and was told that the District 3 position was on the ballot. It seemed like this could be my chance to not just sit back and see what is happening, but actually be involved on a practical level. As a born again Christian, I try to be attentive to the Lord’s leading and felt this was something He was leading me to do. Thank you for your consideration.

Douglas County Republication

Women 2020 Board

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

President: Brenda Robertson

1st Vice President: Linda Colavechio

2nd Vice President Mo Karas

Secretary: Debbie Cutshaw

Treasurer: Maxine Rodowiz

APPOINTED OFFICERS

Chaplin: Virginia Starrett

Historian: Ellie Lindberg

Parliamentarian:

STANDING COMMITIEES

Advertising: Julie Moore

Auditing: Linda Colavechio

Americanism: Virginia Starrett

Boutique: Gloria Darrington

Budget/Finance:

By Laws:

Campaign Activities: Janet Freixas

Caring for America: Nancy Kjeldergaard

Corresponding Secretary:

Legislature:

Newsletter: Linda Colavechio

Publicity: Joyce Holstein

Ways & Means: Nancy Kjeldergaard

SPECIAL COMMITTEES

Achievement awards: Janet Freixas

Boys & Girls Club: Brenda Robertson

MELP/Barbara Bush Literacy Program:

Ellie Lindberg

Nominating Committee:

PEM: Nancy Kjeldergaard

Photographer: Linda Colavechio

Sergeant at Arms: Janet Freixas

Sunshine: Jean Tomlinson

SUNSHINE ALERT

Please keep these members in your thoughts

and prayers .

We continue to ask for your prayers all our

members dealing with illnesses

Please let Jean Tomlinson know if anyone is in need of a card. tomlinson4@frontier.com

A wise United Methodist minister taught me

long ago that the forces of evil become most vi-

cious when they sense that they are about to be

defeated.

I expect a rocky and chaotic five months until

the election in November. Many of the forces

in charge right now, including Attorney Gen-

eral Barr and President Trump, will do and say

anything they can to hold on to their power

and privilege.

We can help to change this by voting, by protest-

ing, by donating and by persisting in what is

right. And in spite of the brutality of the facts in

our daily lives until November, I am convinced

that God’s love and God’s goodness will prevail.

Robert E. Tench

America feels like it's falling apart.

That's because it is.

There are two ways to achieve unity in any group. The first is to set up a few serious standards of conduct, policed with the absolute minimum of compulsion, and then allow freedom in all other matters. This was the founding vision for our federal government. In

this vision, we agree not to infringe upon one another's life, liberty and property, and we create a government capable of preventing or prosecuting such infringements. Then, so long as we abide by those simple standards, we are free to pursue our own paths. Diverse ways of life can coexist within this broader group membership. Governance becomes largely a matter of localism -- places with homogenous values setting further standards for their group membership. But our broadest-group membership is easy to obtain and easy to maintain.

The founding vision for unity presupposed a flawed human nature: People were capable of sin individually but capable of the greatest sin when backed with the power of federal force. The founding vision for unity also pre-supposed an agreement on the nature of rights and liberty: No man had a right to demand anything from his neighbor. Furthermore, the founding vision for unity presupposed that our strongest bonds would exist outside of government -- in our families, our communities, our churches.

The founding vision has now been abandoned in pursuit of something more fulfilling: a communitarian vision of reality in which the will of the mob is perceived as virtuous; in which every man has the right to protect him-self from the vicissitudes of life and the cruelties of history by demanding redress from his neighbors; in which our strongest bonds are forged at the most centralized level.

This second path toward unity requires purification. This path seeks homogeneity in place of diversity, top-down standards in place of localism. Standards for membership are not weak or broad -- membership cannot be obtained simply by avoiding encroaching on others' life, liberty or property. Membership can only be ob-tained and maintained through strict compliance with an increasingly arcane set of rules and standards. Politi-cally, this means a demanding legal regime with heavy coercion. Culturally, this means braying mobs of ideo-logical enforcers, casting out unbelievers into the cornfields.

This second model of governance is promoted by the political left today. In this view, diversity of viewpoint cannot be allowed; unity of viewpoint in all things is the predicate for all serious change. Once the group has been purified, change will require only the snap of a finger. No more gridlock; no more conversation. The col-lective can be activated quickly and powerfully.

This second model of governance is totalitarian in nature, and it is toward that model we are now moving as a society. Politically, those who deny that the collective ought to have the power to override individual rights must be punished; culturally, they must be exiled. They must be deemed unworthy. To stand up for individual rights in this climate means to be labeled a defender of privilege. To deny the systemic evil of the United States means to betray your moral unworthiness.

The great irony is that the second model of unity -- the totalitarian purification rituals we watch before us -- will never achieve unity. It will achieve further division, as more and more people fall short of ideological puri-ty, or refuse to bow before the ideological demands of the perpetual revolutionaries.

We could agree to live with one another, as individuals under the broader rubric of rights. If we don't, we won't be living with one another at all.

Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller "The Right Side of History." He lives with his wife and three children in Los Angeles.

Ben Shapiro

Web

Sites of Interest:

Douglas County

Republican Women

ww.dcrwnevada.com

Nevada Federation of

Republican Women

www.nvfrw.org

Nevada Republican Party

www.nevadagop.org

Douglas County Republi-

can Central Committee

www.douglasgop.org

Republican National

Committee

www.rnc.org

The Federalist:

www.federalist.com

Heritage Foundation:

www.heritage.org

Left Coast Report:

www.newsmax.com

Pacific Justice Institute:

www.pacificjustice.org

Nevada Governor:

ww.gov.nv.gov

Grassroots:

www.grassroots.com

JULY BIRTHDAY WISHES TO: Cindy Arvayo

Jim DeGraffenried

Julie Moore

And anyone we’ve missed!

MEMBERSHIP REPORT

Maureen Karas <mmkaras@yahoo.com>

2nd Vice President Mo Karas welcomed two new Associate Members, Christine Blackburn and Theresa Herup in June . She also thanked DCRCC Secretary Walt Nowasad for renewing his Associate Member-ship. That gives us 52 Associate Members and 42 Regular Members. If you haven’t renewed your membership for 2020 we hope you will do so at our next meeting. We can only count you if you’ve paid for the year.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Mark your Calendars

July 1 DCRW General Meeting

July 8 Sierra Nevada General Meeting

July 9 DCRCC General Meeting

July 11 DCRCC Picnic

July 17-18 NVFRW Spring Meeting, Las Vegas

Aug. 5 DCRW General Meeting

Aug. 12 Sierra Nevada General Meeting

Aug. 13 DCRCC General Meeting

Aug. 20 Nevada PAC Basque Fry

Aug. 24-27 Republican National Convention

Sept. 2 DCRW General Meeting

Sept. 9 Sierra Nevada General Meeting

Sept. 10 DCRCC General Meeting

Oct. 3 DCRW Fund Raiser at CVI

CALL AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR THE SPRING MEETING

OF NvFRW.

All members are invited to attend. DCRW will reimburse you for the Registration cost. You

are responsible for all other expenses. Hope you can attend.

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LET THEM HEAR FROM YOU Federal Offices

PRESIDENT

Donald J Trump

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington D.C. 20500

(202) 456-1414

president@whitehouse.gov

VICE PRESIDENT

Michael R. Pence

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Washington D.C. 20500

(202)456-1414

vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Catherine Cortez Masto (D)

204 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington D.C. 20510

(202) 224-3542

Or

400 South Virginia Street Suite 902

Reno, Nevada 89501

(775) 686-5750

U.S. Senators

U.S. Representatives

Mark Amodei (2nd Congressional District)

104 Cannon House Office Building

Washington D.D. 20515

(202) 225-6155

Or

5310 Kietzke Lane Suite 103

Reno, Nevada 89511(775)686-5760

James Settelmeyer (Senate District 17)

% Nevada Senate

401 South Carson Street Room 2160

Carson City, Nevada 89701

(775) 450-6114

James.Settelmeyer@sen.state.nv.us

State Assembly

Jim Wheeler (Assembly District 39

% Nevada Assembly

Legislative Building Room 3105

401 South Carson Street

Carson City Nv. 89701

(775) 684-8843

Jim.Wheeler@asm.state.nv.us

fjwheeler3rd@yahoo.com

U.S. Senator

www.amodei.house.gov

Jacky Rosen (D)

G12 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington D.C.

(202) 225-6244

State Senator

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