Current Events

$500 Grant Awarded to WAYVRS

The organization Mix-It-Up has awarded WAYVRS with a $500 grant. This money will be spent to help establish another chapter of WAYVRS in Pullman, Washington, and to help with transportation costs while lobbying for HJR 4213, which would lower the voting age in Washington State.

Children's PressLine Arcticle Published

Recently Jason Puz, Heather Kelley, and Kehlen Sachet gave an interview with journalists from Children's PressLine. The article has been published by several other online news organizations and the complete text can be found here.

New Officers

Interview with Children's PressLine

Recently Jason Puz, Kehlen Sachet, and Heather Kelley gave an interview with Children's PressLine regarding their efforts to lower the voting age. A complete text of the article will be available as soon as it is published.

Anti-WASL rally

On Friday, June 3rd members of WAYVRS attended a rally against the WASL put on by students of the Evergreen State College. While there, Heather Kelley gave a speech denouncing the WASL. The speech and the rally went well and we would like to thank the marching class of the Evergreen State College for inviting us.

Radio Interview

On Sunday, May 22nd Kehlen and Heather were interviewed by the radio show Teen Mic, based in Madison, Wisonsin. The interview was an opportunity for them to discuss lowering the voting age and the progress that has been made here in Washington. By all acounts the interview went well and a copy of it will be posted if it becomes available.

Meeting May 13th

There will be a meeting on May 13th at 5:30 at the Olympia Freeschool, please come if you can.

Meeting April 29th

Hey, this is just to let everybody know that their will be a NYRA-Olympia meeting on April 19th at 6:30 pm at the Olympia Freeschool. The Freeschool is located at 808 Jefferson St Olympia WA 98501, next the main Olympia Post Office. It is on the same side of the road as the Post Office and is on the same block. Contact Us If you want more information.

Legislation to lower the voting age to 16

There are currently two pieces of legislation in the Washington state legislature that proposes to lower the voting age. One of them is a legislative bill and another is a constitutional amendment. The bills are House Bill 2305 and House Joint Resolution 4213.

The bills had a public hearing on Friday, April 8th during which time three members from NYRA-Olympia testified in favor of them. An audio record of the hearing can be found at http://www.tvw.org/MediaPlayer/Archived/REAL. cfm?EVNum=2005041030&TYPE=A

The hearing went well but comes to late to be voted on during this year's legislative session. However, the bills did generate a fairly substantial amount of press including articles in; The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Seattle Times, The News Tribune, The Olympian, The Corvallis Gazette Times, and The Spokesman Review among others. Please take a look at the article.