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Music: "There'll Come A Day" by Irthlingz
Words and Music by Bob Killian, courtesy of Irthlingz
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Worship and Celebration
"Circle the World" with singer-songwriter Dana Lyons,
August 8, 2010
The UU Living Tradition refers to "words and deeds of prophetic
women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice,
compassion, and the transforming power of love." Dana Lyons has been called a current-day
Pete Seeger and a minstrel for the environmental movement. He gained notoriety as a
humorous advocate for bovine justice with his hit song "Cows with Guns."
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Dana will share
stories about some of the activists who have most inspired him, such as Jane Goodall. In
2005 they collaborated on a CD called "Circle the World." As one reviewer said: "Few people
on earth top Jane Goodall for having both an important message and the scientific and moral
authority to command attention and assent; few musical stars write or sing or live with the
committed passion of Dana Lyons." There will be a children's circle this service.
Animal Blessing
August 22, 2010
The wild, wooly, beloved and surprisingly meaningful service for
all ages and species returns. You and your significant animal companions are invited to
this service which honors the importance of the animals in our lives and offers them
blessings in return. As has become our tradition, we will have a remembrance portion
in the service for animals that have died, so you are invited to bring along a photo or
other object for inclusion in the service.
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Please bring the appropriate container or
leash for your cherished critter. As always, if it would be a better blessing for the
animal and others for the animal to not attend in person, a photo will do just fine!
Come one, come all.
"It’s About Balance" with Susan Morrisson
September 5, 2010
Our renowned 19th century Unitarian minister and lecturer,
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson
of worship.” In this season of Earth’s Autumnal equinox, there are worthy lessons to
be learned. Like the seasons, we also change and are challenged to maintain our own
sustainability. Susan Morrisson earned her Masters of Divinity in 2009 from Seattle
University, and had many years of worship planning experience at East Shore Unitarian
Church prior to seminary.
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Sustainable Living
Hold a Yard Sale for BUF!
July and August 2010
You can help to fill in BUF’s budget for 2010-11 by holding a Yard
Sale this summer and donating the proceeds to BUF! You know you have stuff that you need
to get rid of. Reduce & recycle by cleaning out your drawers, closets, shelves and garage.
It’s this easy…
- Choose a date between now and the end of September.
- Contact Coral Dudek and let her know date, time & location as soon as you can
(coraldudek@gmail.com or 303-7104). She will advertise it on craigslist.com AND she
will put together a list of ALL other BUF Yard Sales that are being held that weekend
which she will send to you to pass out to your customers. She will also advertise it
through BUF communication channels so that other BUFsters know where to shop.
- Hold it in your own garage or yard. Do you need tables for display? Check into borrowing
some from BUF. If you don’t have a good space or you don’t have quite enough stuff to hold
a sale, let Coral know. She can tell you who’s having a sale when and you can join in with
someone else at their place.
- Hold it in the BUF parking lot. On Saturday, July 24 or August 21, you can set up a
table and join in a group sale. It will be flea market style, as opposed to rummage sale,
i.e. you are responsible for set-up, sale and clean-up of your own stuff.
- Donate your proceeds to BUF.
It’s easy, it’s cleansing, it’s green, it’s tax deductible, and it’s win-win! Choose your date
now and let the purging begin!
Find the Steal of the Summer at the Flea-Market Fundraiser
in BUF’s Parking Lot
July 24, 2010
9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Shoppers, friends of BUF, members who are out looking for deals: we are holding a flea market style
yard sale that will surely unveil treasures and must-have items. Come visit the individual booths
and know that your money is going towards the BUF operating budget to help us cover the large
shortfall. If you or your neighbors are out hunting over the weekend, stop by BUF! If you are
interested in participating as a seller, there are a few spaces left. If this date doesn’t work
for you, we are considering holding a second flea-market style sale at BUF on August 21. We would
also love to help you publicize your private yardsale with proceeds to BUF – just let us know the
date and details and we will help drum up some customers! Contact Coral Dudek at 303-7104.
Local Harvest Dinner
September 25, 2010
Looking for a pleasant evening and good food? Check out the Local
Harvest Dinner being sponsored by BUF's Simple Sisters! We are still in the process of
deciding the menu and oh, do we have a list of possibilities since it will be harvest time!
All meals items will be prepared using local food products.
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We're looking at possibly afive-course meal including soups, salads, entrees,
drinks and deserts. There is still room so if you are interested contact Linda Fels at gr8fels@msn.com
or Deb Cruz at dwcruz@comcast.net. Keep checking back, the menu will be posted as soon as it is
finalized.
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Religious Education
BUF Peace on Earth Camp is Back!!
August 2-August 10
BUF‛s Peace on Earth Summer Camp is entering its second year.
The 2010 Peace on Earth Camp Curriculum will feature “water” as our theme for activities.
With respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we all are a part, we
will help take care of our world with an emphasis on habitat, sustainability and peace.
This year's camp will be held at Tennant Lake Interpretive Center in Ferndale. For more
information, see our brochure.
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Tapestry of Faith: Gathering the Spirit
September 2010
Religious Education, Social Justice and Green Sanctuary members
will be reviewing and modifying this UU curriculm in hopes of offering the eight-week
course either in the late spring or early next fall (more likely the fall). Gather the
Spirit is an eight-session, multigenerational program that teaches stewardship with a
focus on water.
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Stewardship can take many forms: donating money to our congregations and
to causes we care about; volunteering to teach, to lead or to physically maintain our
congregations; helping to meet the needs of others and protecting our shared resources
in our local and global communities. Perhaps, today, there is no more compelling focus
for our stewardship than the clean, drinkable water all life on Earth requires. Through
a lens both scientific and religious, using activities a wide range of ages can do together,
this program addresses the importance of water, the inequity of access to clean water,
and actions we can take as Unitarian Universalist stewards.
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Environmental Justice
No events planned at this time.
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Community Calendar
Eat Local Every Week: Colophon Cafe
July 22, 2010
Support local eateries that support local farmers and come out for the
Eat Local Every Week Restaurant Special at the Colophon Café! Summer's Bounty Pasta Salad:
Bellingham Pasta Company’s hand-cut lemon pepper pasta with Vis Seafoods locally smoked wild
salmon and farm-fresh vegetables from Moondance Farms and Rabbit Fields Farm with a side of Avenue
Bread foccacia. Tantalizing Triple Berry Chocolate Mousse: Fresh, Whatcom Country raspberries,
blackberries, and blueberries from Barbie’s Berries layered with a decadent chocolate mousse
crafted from Breckenridge Farm ingredients. Topped with a tasty dollop of whipped cream!
Time:
Location: 1208 11th St, Bellingham
Cost:
Contact: 360.647.0092 - colophoncafe.com or http://sustainableconnections.org/foodfarming/eatlocalweek#food
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Berry Bonanza
July 27, 2010
Bursting with flavor and color, nothing evokes the bounty of
a Whatcom County summer like berries. Karina Davidson showcases these treasured fruits
with a raspberry glace tart, a quick and elegant blackberry panna cotta, classic
strawberry shortcake, a blackberry crumble, and fluffy blueberry muffins. Karina will
also share tips and recipes featuring berries in salads and entrees.
Time: 6:00 to 8:30 pm
Location: Food Co-op, Cordata Co-op Local Roots Room
Cost: $39
Contact:
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Canning and Pickling: Putting Up with Summer
July 28, 2010
Learn to preserve the summer's bounty and stretch your grocery dollars
by canning and pickling! In this class we'll begin the process of fermenting crock pickles (as
well as tasting some of the finished product), sauer beet kraut, and kimchee. You'll also learn
the process of canning jalapeno tomato salsa, dilly beans, and caramelized sweet onion relish.
Time: 6:00 to 8:30 pm
Location: Food Co-op, Cordata Co-op Local Roots Room
Cost: $29
Contact:
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Transportation Tailgate
July 31, 2010
The second Livability Forum brought to you by Sustainable
Connections, Futurewise Whatcom and The Downtown Bellingham Partnership. Join us for
several digital short films, an interactive panel discussion on transportation/parking
solutions and root beer floats from Boundary Bay + Mallard Ice Cream. INSIDE the Parkade.
More details coming soon...
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:45 PM
Location: Bellingham Parkade
Cost:
Contact: Nick Hartrich, 360.647.7093 x107
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Bellingham Earns No. 1 Small City in NRDC's
Smarter Cities Project
Situated on Bellingham Bay at the northern end of the Puget Sound, Bellingham is both a
university town and an industrial center, home to an aging pulp mill owned until 2001 by Georgia Pacific and other
facilities that required waterfront access. Over the last 20 years, however, Bellingham has transformed itself from
a manufacturing port to a post-industrial city, while updating some of its industrial facilities and remediating others,
including the brownfield sites at the pulp mill. The city is well served by transportation options, including an Amtrak
train from nearby Vancouver to Seattle and points farther south and a ferry to Alaska. It is home to a large number of
parks and provides easy access to nearby mountains and boating, celebrated in the city's annual Ski-to-Sea race, an
89-mile relay race combining cross-country and downhill skiing, running, bicycling and mountain bike riding, canoeing
and kayaking. Even for the less athletic, the mild weather makes for year-round outdoors activities (assuming you don't
mind the rain). The city has also been recognized by the EPA Green Power Communities program for drawing 11 percent of
its total electricity usage from renewable sources, putting it in second place among the most successful cities in the
program. And in May 2008 ICLEI honored Bellingham for its climate action plan. A network of green businesses in town
find their forum in Sustainable Connections, established in 2002 to educate business owners in sustainable practices,
connect them to one another and market their efforts. Sustainable Connection has since become the model for green
business networks across the country.
Green Building Ranking: #4
Transportation Ranking: #7
Green Space Ranking: #1
Air Quality Ranking: #1
Recycling Ranking: #4
Energy Production and Conservation Ranking: #2
For more information see
NRDC's Smarter Cities.
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Next step for a Whatcom Watershed Preserve
The Whatcom County Council today approved the next step toward
a Lake Whatcom Forest Preserve. Creation of the preserve will restore old-growth forests within
a watershed that provides drinking water for about 90,000 people, half the people in Whatcom County,
including Bellingham.
On November 12, the County Council authorized the County Executive to enter into an agreement with
Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to work together to set the stage for creation of the preserve.
DNR manages about half the Lake Whatcom watershed and the various types of trust lands are scattered.
Under the agreement, DNR will block up forest board lands in two areas in the watershed: above Northshore
and around Sudden Valley. Whatcom County will pay administrative and appraisal costs, and meanwhile DNR will
not log on the lands proposed for transfer. When the process is complete, sometime in 2010, the county will
decide whether or not to transfer these lands from DNR to the county parks department.
The process will likely ultimately lead to 8,400 acres of timberland, about 25% of the watershed moving from
DNR management to county parks management. The county intends to manage the preserve for low impact recreation
and for restoration of old-growth forests.
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