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| Date: From: Subject: | 3/27/2009 4:47:54 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Oregon: Plan Now to Attend |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== March 27, 2009 Oregon: Plan Now to Attend "Apple Pie Day" at the Capitol Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, On May 3-9, Oregon will celebrate Home Education Week. There are many things you can do to help promote Home Education Week, the most important of which is to make plans to attend "Apple Pie Day" at the Capitol--an event sponsored by the Oregon Christian Home Education Association Network (OCEANetwork). Apple Pie Day--May 7, 2009--will be full of exciting opportunities for the whole family. Additionally, each legislator and the governor will be given a home-baked apple pie and a packet of information promoting home education. Apple Pie Day is extremely important for homeschoolers across the state as it provides an opportunity for Oregon legislators to meet home-educated students and their parents. Over the years, HSLDA has seen how well-attended homeschool events at the state Capitol can have a major impact in preserving and protecting homeschool freedom. Whenever a homeschool issue comes up before the legislature, many of these elected officials will remember the personal contact they have had with bright and well-behaved homeschool families. Apple Pie Day will be full of activities that you don't want to miss. The day's events will begin with families dropping off apple pies in the Hospitality Room, HR 50, in the basement of the Capitol between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. A Home Education Freedoms 101 class will take place at 9 a.m.; the Home Education Rally will start at noon on the front steps of the Capitol building, the Court Street side. This year, HSLDA will be sending Staff Attorney Thomas (Tj) Schmidt to participate in several activities throughout the day. Your children will also have several activities they can take part in, including the Apple Pie Day photo contest, serving as honorary pages (12 and up), performing at the Capitol (sample recording and other information must be submitted by April 1), or singing with the Statewide Homeschool Choir. For more information about these activities and how you can participate please go to: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=6327 . If you can, you are encouraged to schedule an appointment in advance to visit your legislators that day. You should set up a 10- to 15-minute appointment and let OCEANetwork know about it. To determine who your legislators are, go to HSLDA's legislative toolbox at: http://www.hslda.org/toolbox . Please plan now to attend to attend Apple Pie Day with your whole family. Your attendance at the Capitol can help ensure a great turnout and protect homeschooling freedom in Oregon. If you are not currently a member, please consider joining to help support homeschool freedom in Oregon and across the country. If you want to "try" HSLDA membership out, feel free sign up for a three-month trial membership at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=6328. Sincerely, Thomas J. (Tj) Schmidt HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Can you look at the clouds and tell the direction of the wind? An interesting phenomenon of wind is that it can blow in multiple directions at the same time, at different heights from the ground. But usually there is a prevailing wind. HSLDA watches the gusts and monitors the prevailing trends of change in the legal climate of home education. So no matter which way the wind is blowing, we're there to protect your family. 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