By Special to the Town Crier

Members of the League of Women Voters of the Los Altos-Mountain View area are getting ready to hold their annual League-A-Thon fund-raiser to support various programs. The League provides voter education through candidate forums, election hotlines, public meetings on issues and publications such as “Facts for Voters” (available at the Mountain View and Los Altos Public libraries).

A group of about a dozen League members will be telephoning residents for support on March 21. Contributors may mail checks to LWV of Los Altos-Mountain View Area, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos 94022. For more information, call 941-4846.

The League educates citizens about voting and voter registration, and how to contact legislators. The Facts for Voters pamphlet is designed to help citizens contact elected public officials from President Bush to local city officials.

board members. In addition, the organization participates in an ongoing educational program on health care,

building sustainable communities and housing issues.

League-A-Thon proceeds will support a wide variety of League activities. For example, on Election Day, local League members staff a phone hotline to help voters find their polling place. Throughout the year, the local League stocks local voter registration stations with voter registration cards. The League is run solely by volunteers.

For the March and November 2000 elections, League members distributed 500 Voters Guides on local candidates. The local League co-sponsored with other organizations, candidates forums for the March and November elections, providing voters with a chance to hear and meet the candidates, and ask specific questions of the candidates. This League helped enhance www.smartvoter.org, the League of Women Voters of Californiaís innovative online voter guides for elections.