LWV UMRR's New Co-Chairs gear up for the challenge!

LWV Upper Mississippi warmly welcomes new Co-Chairs Mary and Steve Ploeser from LWV Dane County in Madison, Wisconsin.  Mary is a retired middle school math and science teacher, and Steve retired from the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services where he was a systems analyst.  Parents of three grown children, Mary and Steve live in the same house they bought when first married thirty-five years ago.  
 
Mary and Steve are members of LWV Dane County.  They joined LWV to help potential voters, with and without birth certificates, get the proper photo ID required by the state. Steve also served on the LWV Dane county board as membership chair and later as business systems analyst. Mary joined to help register voters and was later asked to be the LWVDC representative to the Upper Mississippi River Region ILO.. 

Now as co-leaders of LWV UMRR, their goals are to continue holding board meetings around the four states and learn the concerns of all the member Leagues ,and to continue the ILO’s efforts to keep the water in the Upper Mississippi watershed as clean as is possible.

When not busy with the ILO Steve also works with the AARP Smart Driving Classes and Mary helps with voter registration.  We both work as cashiers at Habitat for Humanity’s Restore and enjoy traveling to new and exciting venues.

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What do you do the first day you're in office when you take over as head of the LWV Upper Mississippi?  You visit the Mississippi Headwaters!  Steve and Mary Ploeser made the pilgrimage to the river's source at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota on June 2.  What a good way to get your feet wet in the Mississippi!