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Quick Calendar for March 2007
March 4, 2007
3:30 pm Forum: Film: ""Suzuki Speaks" - Canada's leading Environmentalist
5:00 pm Worship Service: David Chandler - "9-11, An Inside Job"
6:00 pm Potluck & Religious Education Committee meeting
March 11, 2007 - NEW - Daylight Savings Time Begins
4:00 pm Drum Circle
5:00 pm Worship: Paul Boyer - "Water Challenges in Tulare County"
6:00 pm Potluck & Social Justice/Green Sanctuary Meeting
March 18, 2007
3:30 pm Board Meeting
5:00 pm Worship Service: Marilyn Giese- "The Meaning of Ostara for 2007
Lifestyles"
6:00 pm Potluck Small Group Discussion Meet in the solarium during
the potluck for discussion of Unitarian Universalism and recent
articles in the previous month's "UU World" magazine. Newcomers, guests
and members are all welcome!
March 25, 2007
5:00 pm Worship Service: David Hodges - "The Earth Precepts"
6:00 pm Potluck & Membership / Growth Committee Meeting in odd-numbered
months, Newcomer Orientation in even- numbered months. For info,
April Hill, president@uuvisalia.org |
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March 2007 Fellowship Events
March 4, 2007 
3:30 pm Forum: Film: ""Suzuki
Speaks"
This special presentation
captures the passion, vision and inspiration of world-renowned
scientist and environ- mentalist Dr. David Suzuki. In Suzuki Speaks
he shares his view of the human animal and our place in the Universe.
It is a perspective beyond the current paradigms shaped by scientific
thought, the media and global economists. The film's motion graphics
weave a tapestry that transforms Dr. Suzuki's thoughts into a complete
sensory experience, literally creating new worlds and new ways of
seeing. He delivers a most powerful message on the relationship between
the four 'sacred' elements, and their influence on the
'interconnectedness' people feel individually, with each other and with
the rest of the world. Earth + Air + Fire + Water = Life
5:00 pm Worship Service: David Chandler: ""9-11, An Inside Job"
6:00 pm Potluck & Religious Education Committee meeting
March 11, 2007 - NEW - Daylight Savings Time Begins
4:00 pm Drum Circle
5:00 pm Worship: "Water Challenges in Tulare County" - Paul Boyer of Self-Help
Enterprises will talk about the challenges of providing water in small communities
and his experiences with funding and agencies that watch over water quality and
small districts.
6:00 pm Potluck & Social Justice/Green Sanctuary Meeting
March 18, 2007
3:30 pm Board Meeting
5:00 pm Worship Service: Marilyn Giese - "The Meaning of Ostara for 2007 Lifestyles"
6:00 pm Potluck & Small Group Discussion Meet in the solarium during the potluck for
discussion of Unitarian Universalism and recent articles in the
previous month's "UU World" magazine. Newcomers, guests and members are
all welcome!
March 25, 2007
5:00 pm Worship Service: David Hodges - "The Earth Precepts" All the world's religious and philosophical systems have developed sets of commandments, injunctions, or precepts that codify the core beliefs of the moral person. The Ten Commandments are the most familiar. Islam has a similar list of injunctions. Buddhism's Ten Grave Precepts embody congruent principles. These are injunctions on how to live with our fellow human beings in harmony; they are social precepts. Today
we must recognize that our environmental relationships require the same kind
of guidance. If we are to survive as a species in a harmonious relationship with
the earth, we need a set of earth precepts as simple, universal, and powerful
as the social precepts that have guided our social relationships for so long.
These can be ---and indeed, should be---as simple and basic as the Judeo-Christian
Decalogue or the Buddhist precepts. There are many different ways to capture
the same truths, but here is one offering of a set of earth precepts.
6:00 pm Potluck & Membership / Growth Committee Meeting in odd-numbered months,
Newcomer Orientation in even- numbered months. For info, April Hill, president@uuvisalia.org |
 Featured Social Justice Opportunity
Saturday, March 10, 2007 - Visalia CropWalk -
hunger awareness and fundraising event for FoodLink of Tulare County. Contribute to "justice, equity and compassion in human relations." (UUA principle #2) Challenge
to UU Fellowship from Visalia Friends Meeting - match or exceed their
13 walkers! Raise the visibility of the UU Fellowship by wearing a UU pin,
hat, t-shirt or bandanna - bandannas available at meeting!
Meet between 8:30 and 9AM at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Hall & Center, Visalia to mingle, sing, register walkers, pledge support, contribute, parade, show your support for the oppressed and underprivileged in our local community, get updates on service agencies (Visalia Rescue Mission, Good News Center, Samaritan Center). Walk
around the block or a 4 mile route around downtown Visalia.
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 Fellowship News
New! The Wednesday evening Meditation Group has started discussion of a new book - "Shambhala
- The Sacred Path of the Warrior".
The bi-weekly Sustainable Living Discussion Group is enjoying learning and discussing individual lifestyle and community sustainability possibilities.
Last Month's Programs
On February 4, we had a wonderful celebration led by Marilyn about
Imbolg, Candlemas, and Brigit's Eve. The guided meditation refreshed
and inspired us all.
February 11, Anna presented a thoughtful message about Love, and how important it is to love oneself as well as others.
On February 18, Judith shared a splendid reading about "Panhandle
Christs" -
the contradictions of public and private faith.
On February 24, six members of our Fellowship attended the "Liberal Voices in a Conservative Landscape" conference
in Fresno. We all came back energized to work on social and environmental
justice priorities like health care, marriage equality, clean campaigns,
and global warming with the California Legislative Ministry!
On February 25, Yvonne Rochon, Director of Faith Development for
the Pacific Central District (PCD) office in Oakland led us in a
very worthwhile afternoon workshop about the future of our congregation. We
came up with some new ideas and things to research to help better serve both
our internal and external community. Yvonne also gave a most thought-provoking presentation on " The Spirituality of Change" during
our regular service, drawing on Seven Life Lessons by John Briggs and others.
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 Unitarian Universalist Events & News
PCD
Sponsored "Hospitality
Workshops" to learn to better welcome newcomers to our faith. On Saturday afternoons in the Bay Area - 3/3/07 at First Unitarian Church of Oakland; 3/17/07 at UU Church of Palo Alto; 3/31 at UU Church of Marin; 5/26 at UU Church in Livermore. Registration fee is $10 - bring lunch. Congregations are encouraged to attend as teams and carpools will be available - please contact April at president@uuvisalia with your preferred date. For more information contact the PCD office at 510-601-1437 or pcd@pcd-uua.org.
March 5, 2007 - Online Course on "The Healthy Church - A Systems Approach" from the Church of the Larger Fellowship. 4 weeks at www.clfuu.org/learn for $40 registration fee. Apply family theory to church and organizational leadership.
March 9-11, 2007, Fri-Sun, Women & Religion - PCD-UUA Spring Retreat at Enchanted Hills Camp, Napa CA. Contact Sally at popsmom@speedymail.org.
4/27-29/07, Friday-Sunday - Pacific Central District Assembly at the Foster City Crowne Plaza (in the Bay Area). Featuring over 30 workshops, five levels of child and youth programming and Holly Near! Registration forms now available at www.pcd-uua.org/events/DA-2007. Special hotel rate of $99 per night if reserved by 4/12/07 - call Foster City Crowne Plaza at 1-650-570-5700. Ask a UUF Visalia Board member about partial funding and some of us will be carpooling.
6/20-6/27/07 Sunday through Wednesday - UUA
General Assembly in Portland Oregon. Housing registration will open 3/1/07 and fill up quickly - check the options at http://www.uua.org/ga/housing.html
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Community Events
Saturday, March 3, 2007 - 8:00AM-4:00PM
- "Flowers, Trees & Gardens Galore - A "How to Landscape" Extravaganza" - Visalia Convention Center, 303 E Acequia St, Visalia. $10/person paid by 2/28/07 or $25/person at the door. Pre-register on-line at the UC Master Gardener website http://cetulare.ucdavis.edu/mg/mt.htm. Landscape to clear the air and show "respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part." (UUA
Principle #7) For more information, call 559-685-3303.
Saturday, March 3, 2007, the Tulare
County Friends of the Library will be holding their monthly book
sale in the courtyard of the Visalia Library. Support "a free and responsible search for truth and meaning." (UUA Principle #4) The
Friends meet on the 2nd Monday of each month - next on 3/12/07
at 6:30PM in the upstairs meeting room.
Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 1PM -
South Valley Peace Center Demonstration at northwest corner of
Mooney & Walnut.
Weekends - March 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11,
15, 16 & 17, 2007 - "The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" at Ice House Theatre. Enjoy "words and deeds of prophetic men and women which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion and the transforming power of love." (UUA
living tradition #2)
Saturday, March 3, 2007, 1:00
- 4:00 pm - Sequoia Riverlands Trust walk at Lewis Hill Preserve.
Donation: $5 members, $10 non-members or join that day and attend for
free! For more information, call Jane Caputo, education & volunteer
coordinator at 559.738.0211 x1#.
Saturday, March 10, 2007 - Bill
Cosby, comedy legend and master story teller. Benefit for Sequoia
Riverlands Trust at L.J. Williams Theater. 4:00 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday,
March 10, 2007 at the L.J. Williams Theater in Visalia. Tickets at $45,
$55, $75, $155 available from www.sequoiariverlands.org
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - USC Professor to Speak on California Prisons
Program title: Golden Gulag: The Truth
about California Prisons
Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore will speak on why prisons have grown 450% since 1980 despite a declining crime rate, why certain racial and ethnic groups form the huge majority of the present California prison population, what impacts prisons have on communities in which they are sited, how the prisons are failing to rehabilitate inmates (85% of whom will
be your future neighbors), and what we might start doing about
it. Professor Gilmore will spotlight Corcoran State Prison, and show the role of big money in creating the largest prison system in the world. She will expose many of the myths connected with our present system. The
presentation is part of the South Valley Peace Center's Talk
of the Town
Film and Lecture Series. Location: College of the Sequoias,
915 S. Mooney Blvd., Visalia, in the Lecture Hall, Room 350.
Suggested donation $3.00.
Sunday, March 18, 2007 from 1:30 - 4:30 PM. "Rally in the Valley for Peace and Justice: Bring the Troops Home Now" -
carpool with South Valley Peace Center folk. A coalition of valley
and foothill peace and justice organizations, including Peace Fresno,
Fresno Center for Nonviolence, the UU Fresno Church Social Justice Committee
and the Peace and Freedom Party of Fresno County. The location
for the rally is the new Eaton Plaza between the Library and the Water
Tower at Mariposa and 'N' Sts. Green Machine will play a set at the end.
Dolores Huerta will speak. For more information see www.peacefresno.org
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Saturday, March 24, 8:30 - 10:30AM
- Sequoia Riverlands Trust walk among wildflowers and sycamores
at Homer Ranch Nature Preserve. Donation: $5 members, $10 non-members
or join Sequoia Riverlands Trust that day and attend for free! For more
information about monthly walks, call Jane Caputo, education & volunteer
coordinator at 559.738.0211 x1#, or be added to e-mail list at www.sequoiariverlands.org
Thursday, March 29, 2007 - CASA
of Tulare County's 12th annual March on Main St. & Candlelight
Vigil for child abuse prevention awareness. Meet at Wells Fargo
at 6:00pm and march to Garden St. Plaza. Parade and family fun, music,
food and a drum circle for the kids. For information call JoAnn Bol at
CASA of Tulare County 625-4007
Saturday, March 31, 2007 - "Teddy Roosevelt: A Rough Rider in the White House" portrayed by Clay Jenkinson, at Visalia Fox Theater. Learn more of "The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process.." (UUA
Principle #5)
Saturday, April 14, 2007 - Visalia
25th Annual Arbor Day Celebration, 9:00-11:00AM.. Volunteers
needed to plant 150 trees along Packwood Creek (corner of Cameron Avenue
and County Center Street, across from new hay-bale built Police Department
Substation). Please bring a round point shovel and join in improving the
environment of our community. Contact City Arborist Dave Pendegraft at 559-713-4295 or e-mail dpendergraft@ci.visalia.ca.us. Sponsored by the Visalia Beautification Committee and the Visalia Parks & Recreation
Foundation.
Friday, May 11, 2007 at 7PM at
College of Sequoias. Helena Maria Viramontes and Manuel Munoz
will read from their work and talk about their intertwined journeys. Munoz
grew up in Dinuba and his works map the physical landscape of the Central
Valley and, like the work of his teacher, make main characters out of
people who were previously only bit players in American literature, if
they were seen at all. Room 350, $3 or free with ASB card.
Friday, May 18, 2007 - Habitat
for Humanity of Tulare County 2nd Annual BirdHouse Auction. Raise
awareness about poverty housing in Tulare County as well as raise
funds to provide more affordable housing opportunities to low income families
in our community. Tickets available for $50 per person by calling
the Habitat office at 734-4040.
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