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GENERAL MEETINGS 2018Unitarian Universalist Church, 13th & ChambersThe second Thursday, January - June 2018, 7 - 9PMPlease be quiet while entering the church as other meetings may bescheduled in adjacent rooms. Childcare Room provided.Council Meetings 3rd Thursday at Growers Market upstairs 7-9PMOregon Country Fair tickets go on sale: April 1LAST MEETING BEFORE ELIGIBILITY DEADLINE: TODAY!Peach Pit deadline for Workshop schedule: May 10Spring Fling, May 5, 6 pm, Whirled PiesJUNE Onsite meeting: June 23 SaturdayWORK PARTIES begin June 2nd.

Theater of Change

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Community VillageNewsletterApril 12, 2018

2018 Theme ideas

Wake Up... Woke? (frontof shirt and back?)fAct! or fAct up!Mind-Fullness#MeToo, #NeverAgain#NoMoreWar, #RESIST

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From 2017….EngagePay it ForwardWater is LifeEnvisionVillage for PresidentCommon GroundActivateDa PeopleWe the PeopleEarthlings UniteMake It So

Sam and Katie facilitatingFair AnnouncementsOCF legend Magic Mike is in ICUTonight’s Orientation meeting went wellLinda from Youth Power reminded us youth look for jobs duringFair, come ask them to get ice, whatever.David Oaks says Normal Free Zone banner replacement is underway, with McKenzie doing some of the work and others areinvited to assist.Work Shops & Demo, Beth says form is online, Peach Pitdeadline is May 10. Schedule with her asap.OCF Board ReportThe Fair has hired a new Admin-Assist / bookkeeper.Site reportDavid says no flooding this season, straw bales removed. ShadyGrove river bank continues to erode, will impact that stage in afew years. It could be a bad fire year with all the green growthnow. Who’s job is Fire Safety? Our Job!Environment: New Fair Guidelines Edit:Problem: "No Cutting but we see people cutting. So can I."For clarification:"No cutting of any vegetation, living or dead, is permitted exceptby the Site, VegManEC and Tree Crews."I am the Village VegManEC. The Village is my Stewardship.Ask me.Guidelines RapTim reviewed guidelines 1. BOOTH EMPOWERMENT and2. THE SWEEP and CRITERIA FOR VILLAGE PARTICIPA-TIONRelevant passage: Booth Empowerment only deals with workparty and Village meeting attendance and Pass/wristband distri-bution, not eligibility. Or anything else. Though that section hasbeen up for review since 2009… It is still the guideline.Among other points, this one was focused on: “Every Communi-ty Village person with a camping pass will do two sweeps, oneon Saturday night. Let your coordinator know which one youwill be doing.” Reinforced with this section from criteria forparticipation: “Each person must … participate in the Villagesweep two of the four nights, Thursday through Sunday, one ofwhich must be Saturday.”So…Be at sweep on Saturday AND one other day. Besides, it’sreally fun and creates the community so many of us hunger for.50th Anniversary presentation/decisionTim went over the celebration ideas the Committee focused onas they tried to incorporate as many ideas as possible that werementioned during the Village meeting brainstorms we’ve had.The Village indicated 1. We are OK with asking the Fair formoney if the project is gonna provide lasting service. And 2. Becautious asking about burying a Time Capsule. There was enthu-siasm for the past – present – future concept applied to variousdisplay, performance and party ideas. Many of the ideas can beput in action without Fair funds, so we’ll see which ones theywill help with and move on from there.This Fair, we may prepare for the idea of displaying large photoprints by gathering for a group photo, an old timer photo, a kidsphoto, and perhaps having a video booth where folks could usetheir phone to film a friend talking about their Fair experience

that we would gather, edit, and create a video documentary/showthingy. Folks are ready to help with that.All the ideas are viewable in the March Theater of Change onour website…One Fun ThingFolks stood up who fell in love (or got married!) at the Fair.Sweet. And David talked about how he discovered his massagingtalent by working with goats. Go ahead, ask him…Eligibility Task Force presentationKatie explained how the Committee has been working on re-vamping the eligibility process by creating different form foractivist groups, activist individuals and “service” people in orderto have it be more coherent and useful for determining eligibility.The group and individual forms are ready. Certain obvious“service” booths have been identified as such (Restaurant, Coop-erative Fruit, AAAA, Little Village, Youth Power, Areas, andInfo). Both Wild Edibles and Art Booth have elements of bothactivist and service activities. How do we determine whichcategory form to use? Both Wild Edibles and Arts spoke, de-scribing how they do have both activists and educators or activityleaders (service) in their booths. How to do it was not clear.Some folks objected to even trying, not understanding the pur-pose or thinking it somehow damages our true mission.So nothing was decided for this year and further development isneeded.Activist Report: 350 EugenePatti and Meg presented and brought a Power Point and video towatch. They started the local chapter here in 2014. Wow, they doa lot: Break Free campaign to stop oil trains, Fossil Fuel Resis-tance, Non-violent trainings, getting arrested, City Council meet-ings, supporting the kids from Oregon in their Climate Changesuit, so much more. Read more here:https://world.350.org/eugene/ Really. Check them out!!Booth BreakdownEverybody got to work. After, about 20% of the folks left. Boothreports were vacuous. Except the Doors announced they hadalready collected some money.Unfair AnnouncementsBee & Tree Dance at LCC Saturday at 7:30April 4 CALC event talking about MLK speechesApril 14 Tax Day rally CALCMarch 14 5-8pm Michael Carrigan 65th Birthday party at HopValleyDid you see the RG article about the kids latest ruling in theirClimate Case? It continues to move forward.March 22 Story Slam at Tsunami BooksSomething at the Garden Club somewhereMarch 13 Story Telling at Peterson Barn.April 1 Saturday Market starts up for the seasonJune 18 Darnalia (?)“preparing for the Inevitable”Happy Birthday Frog!Girl Scout cookies are here!April 28 is the Master Gardener’s Plant SalePaul Simon performs at Agate Alley Bistro every Wednesdaynight.NAACP has a school support thing every Saturday 10-1pm atdowntown LCC.Jair has something going on with 1200 folks from all the worldcoming for a sustainability conference.

March 8, 2018 Meeting Notes

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