Below please find information on our monthly events for 2024, our first meeting of the year will be held at 7:00 p.m. on January 11th at Simpson Garden Park in Bowling Green. We have added a few different events throughout the county in non-meeting months, here are addresses for all locations listed:

1. Juniper Brewing Company (Blue Cocktail Hour) - 145 S. Main Street, Bowling Green
2. Six Fifths Distilling (Blue Cocktail Hour) - 120 W South Boundary Street, Perrysburg
3. Veterans Memorial Park (Coffee & Conversation) - 340 Jennings Road, Rossford
4. Arlyn's Good Beer (Annual Cookout) - 520 Hankey Avenue, Bowling Green
5. Wood County Fairgrounds (Night at the Fair) - 13800 W Poe Road, Bowling Green
6. Sam B's (Annual No-Excuses Chicken Dinner) - 146 N Main Street, Bowling Green
7. Simpson Garden Park (Meetings & Annual Potluck/Campaign Debrief) - 1291 Conneaut Avenue, Bowling Green

Additionally, the Wood County Democratic Party will be hosting a drive-though petition signing event for our candidates from 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. this Sunday, December 17th at City Park in Bowling Green. We will be located in front of the Veterans Memorial Building with plans to use the space next to the city pool at the back of the park should there be an issue. More information on this event is listed below.

Petition signatures are due 12/20/2023 and our candidates would appreciate your support at this event.

On Thursday, November 16, the Wood County Democratic Party elected Zach Schmidt Chair of the Executive Committee and strategized for 2024. Mike Zickar was honored for his 16 years of service as Chair.

David Pepper, former ODP Chair, author, and voting rights activist (he was featured heavily in the Stacey Abrams documentary on Netflix on voting rights) will be at Gathering Volumes (196 E Boundary, Perryburg) on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. At 6 p.m., he will be meeting with the Toledo Persists group leading a discussion on his latest book, Laboratories in Autocracy.  At 7 p.m., he will be doing a general meet-and-greet and author reading and book signing.  Stop by on Tuesday to meet David and to support a great independent bookstore (run by Democrats!).

Also, our first meeting of the year will be Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 7 p.m. at the Simpson Garden Park Building (1291 Conneaut Avenue, Bowling Green). Our other scheduled meetings for the year will be April 6th, September 7th and October 5th.

On Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 7 p.m., the Wood County Democratic Party will meet via Zoom and will be hearing from Jan Materni, who will is running for State House, as well as Dr. Nick Pfleghaar, who is running for Wood County Commissioner. We will likely be joined by candidates for one or more statewide offices as well.
Please email [email protected] for more information.

On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. at Grounds for Thought in Bowling Green (174 S. Main, BG), representatives from the Ohio Democratic Party will be kicking off our coordinated campaign efforts this year and laying out grassroots efforts that will be essential for us winning control of the Ohio Supreme Court as well as the Governor's Office and other statewide and local races. In addition, Brenna Reynolds (Rossford City Council) and Nick Rubando (BG City Council) will be speaking about how grassroots efforts helped propel their campaigns to victory last year. It will take that level of effort this year again!

​We will be meeting, though virtually only, on Thursday February 3, 2022 at 7 p.m. We will have a virtual guest, Representative Jeff Crossman (who has Wood County roots), who is running for Attorney General. We will also hear from local candidates and will have some exciting announcements. Plus, we'll honor and celebrate the volunteers and candidates who worked so hard in 2021. Please email [email protected] for more information.

Thursday, March 4, 2021
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Thursday, October 7, 2021

All meetings will be held via Zoom until further notice. Please email [email protected] for more information.

We will not be meeting April 2nd due to the pandemic and restrictions to gathering. Once it is safe to meet, we will be scheduling a make-up meeting. Also, we will be setting up an informal Zoom meeting in the near future that you can jump into if you have the technology so that we can check in and find out ways that we can help our local candidates. That announcement will come soon.

Finally, if you did not vote already via early voting or absentee voting for the primary that was supposed to take place on March 17th, request your absentee ballot ASAP. The home page of the Wood County Board of Elections has a link to the application that you can print out as well as directions on how to request a ballot if you do not have access to a printer: www.co.wood.oh.us/BOE/

If you need help requesting a ballot, email us and we can make sure a request form is sent to you. Remember our endorsed candidates can be found here:  http://www.woodcodemocrats.org/democratic-candidates.html

Please also mark your calendars for our next meetings:
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Thursday, October 1, 2020
The meetings will take place at 7 p.m. at the Simpson Garden Park Building (1291 Conneaut Ave, Bowling Green).

Be safe and healthy!