The League of Women Voters of Naperville is holding two online candidate forums in March, one for those running for the Naperville District 203 School Board and the other for the Naperville Park Board.
In the first, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, school board candidates have been invited and are expected to attend. They include Holly Joy Blastic, Charles Cush, Jillian Langer, Amanda McMillen and Marc Willensky, an LWV news release said.
The event is being co-sponsored by the Naperville School District 203 General Home and School Association.
Voters who want to submit questions for the candidates should email them to lwvnaperville@gmail.com by 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28.
The second forum for park board candidates will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 12. Candidates scheduled to attend are Rhonda Ansier, Aishwarya Balakrishna, Natalia Dagenhart, Zachary Jarrell, Leslie Ruffing & Alison Thompson.
A deadline to submit questions for the candidates at lwvnaperville@gmail.com is 5 p.m. Friday, March 7.
Videos of both forums will be posted afterwards to the League of Women Voters of Naperville’s YouTube channel.
Both forums are free to watch, but advance registration is required. Zoom links can be found on the League of Women Voters of Naperville’s webpage, lwvnaperville.org.
A previously announced forum for the candidates running for Naperville City Council will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at the Nichols Library, 200 W. Jefferson Ave., by the Chinese American Women in Action and the Alliance of Indian Americans of Naperville Area.
All eight candidates are confirmed to participate, organizers said. They are Meghna Bansal, Jennifer Bruzan-Taylor, Mary Gibson, Ian Holzhauer, Nag Jaiswal, Derek McDaniel, Ashfaq Syed and Benny White. Residents interested in attending should register at bit.ly/naperville25.
Michelle Mullins is a freelance reporter for the Naperville News.
