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Jane Leighton Volunteer-of-the-Year Award

Each year, the LWVN awards the “Jane Leighton Volunteer of the Year Award to a member or members of the LWVN who exemplify the qualities of service with humor and goodwill, dedication to local community, and passion for the activities of the league, treasured in one of our most esteemed members, Jane Leighton (Nov. 4, 1919 – Jan. 13, 2018).

Whereas Jane Leighton has for many years given generously of herself as a volunteer to the League of Women Voters, and

Whereas, she has contributed her wisdom and strength to further the goals of the League, and

Whereas, she has always willingly served in whatever capacity she has been called upon to fulfill, and

Whereas, she has consistently brought humor and goodwill to all who worked with her,

Now therefore we, the League of Women Voters of Newton, create in her honor “The Jane Leighton Volunteer-of-the-Year-Award” to be given each year to that member who exemplifies some of those qualities that we treasure in Jane.

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2020 Frieda Dweck
2019 Marcia Johnson & Lois Levin
2018 Ellen Grody
2017 Pia Bertelli
2016 Rhanna Kidwell
2015 Sue Flicop
2014 Jo Corro
2013 Anne Borg
2012 Ellen Glusman
2011 Terry Yoffie
2010 Lisa Mirabile
2009 Sharyn Roberts
2008 Andrea Kozinetz
2007 Andreae Downs
2006 Robin Maltz
2005 Susan Rosenbaum
2003 Ann Grantham
2002 Elaine S. Reisman
2001 Susie Heyman
2000 Patricia Acton
1999 Amelia Koch
1998 Andrea Kelley
1997 Barbara Lietzke
1996 Carol Ann Shea & Linda Morrison
1995 Deb Crossley
1994 Joan Bates
1992 Helen Jordan
1992 AnnaMaria Abernathy
1991 Judy Jaffe
1990 Nancy Crowley
1989 Barbara Herson
1988 Doris Shaines
1987 Enid Paul
1986 Bonnie Carter
1985 Anita Capeless
1984 Sandra Butzel
1983 Mary Adelstein
1982 Susan Hyde
1981 Carol Beard
1980 Jane Leighton

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January 16th, 1:23 pm

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Governor Baker has vetoed S.2995: An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy, a truly trailblazing bill, five years in development. The bill represents a bi-partisan...
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Last night, the full LWVUS and LWVEF boards met to consider the events of this week and unanimously voted to call for the removal of President Trump from the office of the president.
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