Earth Week Activities?

[Carol Landis]

Hi all:  Emily sent out an e-message recently asking people to share activities planned by and for your faith group as you celebrate Earth Week later this month. Please check with other members from your faith community to see if they've sent the info to Emily already. If not, please do send us the dates, times, and locations. We're urging people to branch out and visit other faith groups...or to invite others to your event.

As you know, timing is everything...and sometimes we have schedule conflicts with something we'd like to attend. So this may give you an opportunity to participate in an activity near you.

You should also have received the following invitation to our GINI members earlier today:

Our dear friend and advocate, Brenda Warner, passed away in February.  We will miss Brenda's enthusiasm for conservation and for the many different projects she generously volunteered with. Brenda's community included Farmer's Markets, ETSU, Gardening groups, the Elizabethton prison garden, the Mountain Harvest Community Kitchen in Unicoi, the Unicoi Farming Oral History project, Local Goods, the Appalachian RC&D, and Green Interfaith Network--and probably more.  All this, AND she was getting her Masters in Appalachian Studies at ETSU. 

 

You are invited to a community 'Celebration of Life' service commemorating Brenda--please RSVP as the details explain below: 

Monday, April 22, 2013 (Earth Day)
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton
Please RSVP ([e-mail]) 

"The service will be readings from scripture and sacred writings, poetry, songs, and most importantly memories shared by you, her community. A pot luck reception will allow us to break bread together. If you plan to be there and want to share a memory or reading, please contact me so we can have at least a 'loose' agenda. If you plan to bring a dish, please let me know that as well. [e-mail] Please put 'Brenda' in subject area."