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2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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YOUR ANNUAL…….RLM STATE CONFERENCE 2019!  THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26

THE JOHNSON CENTER

CLEARY UNIVERSITY, HOWELL MI

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JEANNE MANCINI, PRESIDENT OF MARCH FOR LIFE

PUT INTO YOUR CALENDAR AS A “MUST ATTEND” EVENT!

The cost is: Students $25
Individuals $55
Group (4+) $45
After Sept. 13 $65

If you want to come, Upper Downriver RTL will help subsidize the cost. Please come to our September 10 meeting for details.  Please make plans to join us!

https://rtl.org/event/conference

Please visit above link for further information.

We hope to see YOU, and other members from each of our affiliates in attendance!

SEND IN YOUR REGISTRATIONS SOON – DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS SEPTEMBER 13.

 

Right to Life Volunteers Needed

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Upper Downriver Right to Life usually takes the summer off and has no meetings in July and August.  This summer is an exception.

On June 20, many of us attended the training held by Right to Life of Michigan.  We learned about the legislation that was passed that would ban dismemberment abortions.  Governor Whitmer has promised to veto it.  The state constitution provides a means to by-pass the veto.

We will join with Right to Life of Michigan and collect signatures on petitions to ban dismemberment abortion.  You can read the press release from RLM here.

For your convenience, UD-RTL will hold two special meetings of one hour to explain the situation, enlist the help of volunteers from churches and distribute petitions.  Please make plans to attend one of these meetings.
  • Tuesday, July 9 from 7:30 to 8:30 pm at the Right to Life Resource Center, 2010 Eureka, Wyandotte (734-282-6100)
  • Wednesday, July 10 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm at the same location.
Please help us recruit representatives from as many churches as possible and RSVP to wyandotteRLM@gmail.com as to which session you plan to attend.  We will have information and petitions available at the meetings.  We need your help to secure our share of the 400,000 signatures needed.  Please invite others who may be interested!

If you need a letter to a pastor, please let me know and I will get it to you.

Also, please watch our “Events” page on our Facebook account and volunteer for any of the upcoming events, or for various committees that put together an event.  Often times we need people to make phone calls, or help stuff envelopes, hand out flyers, and join us in our parades, Life Walk, Oratory Contests, Life Chain, our Yard and Bake Sale, and so many other opportunities to reach out to help.

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Wyandotte Street Art Fair

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Dates:  Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 10-13, 2019

Hours: 10 AM to 9 PM daily.

In the city described as “The Heart of Downriver”, our annual Art Fair draws artists, entertainers, and thousands of patrons to create an event that people of all ages can enjoy.  The fair traces its history back to 1961, in the city along the shore of the Detroit River, among it’s historic and charming downtown area. The 58th Street Art Fair will bring you days of fun, food, entertainment, and art and crafts created from across the state, region and nation, including pottery, wood, fiber, metal, drawings, furniture, basketry, jewelry, cartoons, sculptures, toys, clothing, painting, and so many other types of crafts to look at, or to buy. 

As one of the largest fine art fairs in the State of Michigan, the event also offers a variety of music, food, and activities for all ages, and has brought us over 200,000 visitors, 200 artists, 25 restaurants, and a multitude of local merchants, carnival type games for the children, and live entertainment for all to enjoy.  All ages can have fun in a festive environment enjoying the cultural enrichment of Wyandotte.  To see a list of “Entertainment” each day, please scroll down.

Needless to say the Upper Downriver Right to Life will have its table set up close to Elm and 2nd Street, with various pamphlets to read, and a few articles to sell.  We are looking for volunteers for at least two or four hour shifts, but at the very least just stop by and say “hi” to us.

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To participate in the Beautiful Baby Contest which will be held this year, please click “Here” for more information in how to participate.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Wednesday, July 10th
2-3:30 pm – Gary Niemenski
4-6 pm – Meltdowners
6:30-8:30 pm – Crazy Babies – Ozzy Rebourne
9-11 pm – Larry Lee and Back in the Day

Thursday, July 11th
3:30-5:30 pm – Wisteria
6:15 – 8:15 pm – Category 5
9-11 pm – Class of 98

Friday, July 12th
3-4:30 pm – Fake News
5-6 pm – Fairgrieve
6:15-8:15 pm – Category 5
9-11 pm – Boogie Dynomite

Saturday, July 13th
1-2 pm – Olivia Schotthoefer and Friends
2:30-4 pm – SQ3
4:30-6 pm – Rummler
6:30 – 8 pm – Eva Under Fire
9 – 11 pm – Mega 80’s

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Lincoln Park’s Annual Memorial Day Parade

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Please join Upper Downriver Right to Life on Sunday, May 19, 2019, as we “Stand Up For Life” in Lincoln Park’s Annual Memorial Day Parade.  The parade begins at 1:00 P.M.

We still have not received our unit number or line up position, but we’ll probably line up again on White Street a couple blocks off of Fort Street.  We will be getting  that information, so watch our Facebook page this week, or another good alternative would be to ask anyone with a clipboard where the Upper Downriver parade unit is located.

There will be patriotic music coming from our unit.  We plan to use our new portable sound system in all parades from here on out!  Also, Rosalie’s brand new red vehicle will be used in our unit.  AS A REMINDER, the parade runs from Southfield Road down Fort Street to the Band Shelter.  Park either behind the auto part store located at the corner of Fort Street and Southfield or back behind that area a few streets away in the residential section.  If needed, we will drive you back to your vehicle after the parade.  The parade will be finished by 2:00 P.M.  WE NEED YOU TO HELP PASS OUT CARDS AND CANDY.

PLAN TO HONOR GOD’S GIFT OF LIFE TO YOU AS WELL AS THE UNBORN.  PUT IT ON OUR CALENDAR NOW!

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Trenton Memorial Day March for Life

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Southern Downriver Right to Life has invited us to join them in their Trenton Memorial Day March for Life.

“Nothing could be finer than to be in Trenton, Michigan in the morning!  Nothing could be sweeter than Right to Lifers marching in the morning!”

With apologies to Dean Martin, Al Jolson, Judy Garland, & the Carolinas, we need you next Saturday, May 27th at the Trenton Memorial Day Parade.

The parade is  relatively short, about 1 mile, and is a lot of fun!

Because  West Rd. is under construction, we will gather at King Rd. and Westfield.  The line-up starts at 9:30 AM, and the parade starts at 10:00. We will  march south on Westfield from King  to Fort Street. Parking is available at Trenton High School and the Kennedy Ice Arena.   Wear any Right to Life attire you have: shirts, pins, hats, etc. Otherwise, wear something with a patriotic (red, white, & blue) theme. If you don’t have any of this stuff, don’t worry, you will be just fine.

This is a great way to get a little exercise and stand-up for The Right to Life, the very first right Thomas Jefferson wrote about in our Declaration of Independence.

It will be beautiful parade in a beautiful city on a beautiful spring day.

But it will not compare with the beautiful smile on the Good Lord’s face when He sees YOU marching for His unborn children in the Trenton Memorial Day Parade.

So go ahead.  Put a smile on God’s face.  See you there.”

       Joe Connors

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Southern Downriver Right to Life

 (734)-241-4277 Office

(734)-241-3602 Fax

(734)-735-8001 Cell

  joec@monroeplumbi

Youth Billboard Contest

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AGES 13 – 24

TWO $500.00 WINNERS

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Original and Upbeat!

Must contain 1-800-57-WOMAN

7 words or less

Finished image will be 10’5″h x 22’8″w

Displayed Downriver July 2017

(can be patriotic)

TWO FIRST PLACE WINNERS

$500.00 cash prize each

Downriver residents ages 13-24

DEADLINE MAY  31, 2017

Entries may be sent to:

Upper Downriver Right to Life

2010 Eureka Road

Wyandotte, MI 48192

More details available by email request @

wyandotterlm@gmail.com

734-288-8798

Entries must include name, age, and contact information.

11th annual Archdiocesan Pro-life Youth Conference

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The 11th annual Archdiocesan Pro-life Youth Conference “Justice for All-Be Their Voice” will be held April 29th at Bishop Foley High School, 32000 Campbell Rd., Madison Heights, MI 48071, beginning at 12noon.

The conference will feature Emmy award- winning Keynote speaker Ryan Bomberger from the Radiance Foundation who will speak on The Beauty of Possibility and the Social Injustice of Abortion, as well as his break-out session Adopted and Loved.

Additional break-out sessions affirming student’s personal worth and their unique purpose include:

  • Women’s Health, the Medical Effects of Abortion & practicing Prolife Medicine
  • Adopted and Loved
  • Understanding Prolife Legislation and Conscience Rights-Finding your Voice
  • Trafficking and Human Dignity
  • Prolife Apologetics
  • Sexual Integrity-the Call to Greatness and Love

Vendor Resource Tables Representatives will be on hand to share valuable resources with students.  Auxiliary Bishop Donald Hanchon will cap off the conference with the celebration of Sunday Vigil Mass following Praise and Worship at 4:45. Opportunity for Confession, Adoration, Praise & Worship as well! Following Mass students are welcome to stay for dinner, and a closing DJ dance, ending at 9:30 pm.

Register today …don’t miss out!!  www.prolifeyouth.com

Cost: $18 for groups advance/ $20 at the door – includes original conference T-shirt, take away resources, dinner and DJ dancing! $10 Dance Only.

All 8th Grade through college students are welcome to attend!  Bring a friend, make some friends, have a great time, and hope to see you there!

Lynn Mills, Director of Pro-Life Detroit, to be Speaker on 3/30/17 at Annual Meeting of Southern Downriver Right to Life

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ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

We hope to see you this Thursday, March 30 at 7:00 PM at the Annual Meeting of Southern Downriver Right to Life (SDRTL), a local affiliate of Right to Life of Michigan at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 2550 Edsel Dr., Trenton, MI. 48183.

We are very excited and honored to have Lynn Mills,  Director of Pro-Life Detroit, as our featured Guest Speaker.  Ms. Mills is  long time pro-life activist and investigator in the Detroit area with amazing courage, and a leader at  protests at abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood facilities. 

We will also be electing a new Board and Officers for  SDRTL, and we will outline our activities and plans for the balance of 2017.

We also hope that you will  take the time to contact Michigan’s two (2) U.S. Senators, expressing your support of the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch  to the Supreme Court. This is a very easy task and should take only five (5) minutes.  It’s just a matter of leaving a short message with the receptionist.  Don’t worry; they won’t argue, they work for you !  Just express your wishes to the senator.

Message: “I’m calling to ask the Senator to please allow an up-or-down vote on Judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court.  Judge Gorsuch is a well-qualified candidate and deserves a fair hearing.”  Please be courteous and respectful.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow: 202-224-4822 (Washington D.C.) 313-961-4330 (Detroit),   Sen. Gary Peters: 202-224-6221 (Washington D.C.) 313-226-6020 (Detroit).

You can also go to their WEB sites and send them an e-mail, or write to them at the addresses below:

Senator Debbie Stabenow                  Senator Gary Peters

731 Hart Senate Office Building       724 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510-2204            Washington, D.C. 20510-220      

Joe Connors – joec@monroeplumbing.com 

Southern Downriver Right to Life   

 (734)-241-4277 Office

(734)-241-3602 Fax

(734)-735-8001 Cell

Questions?  Contact:  Suzanne Petre (734) 675-3302 or smpetre@comcast.net