Women's Resource Center partnered with the Latina Initiative, the La Plata County League of Women Voters and the Victorian Aide Society on Tuesday, August 26 to celebrate Women's Equality Day. The day marks the anniversary of the greatest success of the women's suffrage movement. On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment was finally ratified, giving constitutional protection to women's right to vote in the United States. Although many states had given women the vote decades before—including Colorado—the franchise was not extended to all women in 1920. The local celebration included volunteers dressed as turn-of-the-century and modern-day suffragettes who "picketed" downtown Druango during the lunch hour, handing out voter registration forms and directing people who wanted to register right away to WRC's offices at 679 E. 2nd. Ave., Ste. 6. By the end of the lunch hour, the group had handed out or helped voters complete about 40 voter registration forms.
 
Women's Resource Center, the Latina Initiative and the La Plata County League of Women Voters will be conducting voter registration drives at events now through the voter registration deadline, which is October 6 this year. To register to vote in La Plata County or to update your voter registration address, stop by the La Plata County Clerk's office in the courthouse at 10th and East 2nd. Avenue, or visit www.sos.state.co.us to download and mail in a registration form.
 
Volunteers included:
From the Latina Initiative:Field Coordinator Tamlin Klutinis and interns Airiel Peoples and Melisa Smith.
From the La Plata County League of Women Voters: Marilyn Sandstrom, Mary Ruth Bowen, Jill Patton and Ann Flatten
From the Victorian Aide Society: Clare Lodahl, Rani Holt, Darla Hill and Carrie Foisel.