Upcoming Dates & Events, April 2019

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Linda Pallay

April 10th Committee Council 7:30pm 

April 12th BYODD: Friday Night Chew 6:30 – 8:30pm 

April 14th Board Meeting 12 noon. 

April 21st Third Sunday Pot Luck after service 

April 28th Labyrinth Walk 2–5pm U

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Garden Corner, March 2019

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Linda Pallay

If you are my age, let’s keep it at over 50, you may remember tomatoes being juicy and flavorful. In season fruit was always sweet and messy to eat? The juice from the peach or the orange running down your chin and your arm as you’re eating it. I get so disappointed when I bite into a fruit and it’s dry. What has happened? Is it that fruits and vegetables have been modified? 

All fruits and vegetables used to come from heirloom seeds. Heirloom seeds are a seed that grow naturally in a fruit that has not been unnaturally modified and the fruit has been around for generations; about 50 years at least. Fruit and vegetable seeds used to be modified over 6 to 10 generations by farmers using seeds from the plants that were the strongest. Those plant seeds that survived and thrived in adverse weather, insect predators and diseases were used for the next growing season. Then, there came the hybrid seed. These are modified with the human hand by cross pollinating two different varieties of the same fruit or vegetable species. 

GMO’s are modified in a laboratory creating a whole new kind of tomato or corn and etc. The question is, is this healthy on a long term basis? The GMO foods are fed to the animals we eat and are in almost everything else we eat that is processed. The hybrids and GMO’s were created with the best of intentions to help those in countries where people were starving due to long time droughts or other devastating conditions. They were purchased and are owned by large companies like Monsanto. The heirlooms are not being planted by the big farmers. Monsanto owns many of the hybrid and GMO seeds and they’re buying up the heirloom seed companies. To own the food in the world is to have POWER. 

Our little garden where we give the poor Non GMO, organically grown vegetables is our activism against domination of food. Food domination affects the poor first because they can’t afford to buy the more expensive non GMO, non hybrid foods. Our little garden is part of many little gardens doing the same thing we’re doing. The little garden needs a lot of attention.

If you’re interested in our act of activism, please contact Ginny. 

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Sunday, March 3, 2019 

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 Lay Speaker: Jon Dreazen 

Lay Leader: Linda Kozitsky 

Last month I spoke about our Universalist heritage, half of our legacy as Unitarian Universalists. Today I will address the other larger half which is the Unitarian side. The idea of a Unitarian God goes back to the early days of the Catholic Church only to be crushed at the Council of Nicea. It resurfaced in Transylvania in the 1500’s when a king declared Unitarianism the official religion of his country. By the next century, the concept of a nontrinitarian God began to take hold and migrated from England to the colonies where it took root in New England. We UUs continue the proud legacy of this faith and I will continue my efforts to educate us about our religious history. This is just a taste of what I will discuss so come one and all for the expanded version!! 

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Sunday Service, March 10, 2019

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 Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? -Ultimate question or pointless diversion? 

 Speaker: Reverend Dave Hunter 

If you know the answer to this question please let me know, and I’ll find a different topic. And when I say “nothing” I mean nothing: no empty space, no time, no laws of nature – nothing! 

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Friday Night Chew, March 8, 2019 @ 6:30PM

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Topic: The Opioid Crisis: Problems and Solutions 

Speaker: CJ Rhoads, M.Ed., D.Ed. 

All are welcome to attend.  Please bring your own dinner complete with plate, utensils, and your own drink. This way the kitchen crew can relax and join us for the evening. Thank you.

How would you like to… 

• Understand how and why there is an opioid crisis? 

• Understand the pain mechanism in the body? 

• Learn how opioids work within the body? 

• How to decrease back pain, neck pain, knee pain, joint pain, tendon pain, headache, or any other kind of pain – without opioids? 

CJ Rhoads has lived in chronic pain since 2002 when she was injured in a devastating car accident. But she doesn’t let her chronic pain stop her. She will share with us her research on pain, opioids, and why this is such an issue in America. There is a solution to pain and addiction; we just need more people to understand how it works. 

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Canvass Winners!

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Sunday, March 17 , 2019

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“Playing God,” or Using the Brains God Gave Us? 

Guest Speaker: Donna Yarri, PhD Professor of Theology, Alvernia University 

Lay Leader: Allan Pallay 

The mapping of the human genome and accompanying technologies have created issues today with which we will be grappling for a long time. We have the capability to correct imperfections and “design” children with enhanced characteristics. This talk will provide a little background on the advances in genetics, and will then focus on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic screening and genetic enhancement. 

Please join us for our Third Sunday Potluck which will follow the service. 

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Sunday Service, March 24, 2019 

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A Fuller Life 

Speaker: Reverend Kerry Mueller 

Margaret Fuller was a 19th century Unitarian, journalist, scholar, and so much more. Come celebrate Women’s History Month with a closer look at her life and accomplishments.

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Annual Potluck March 16, 2019 @ 6PM

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Sunday Service, March 31, 2019

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South Georgia and the Falklands 

Lay Speaker: Mary Ryan 

You may be aware of the Falklands based on the war over their control between England and Argentina in 1982. This talk will cover a bit of that history along with the local fauna — lots of fauna. Plus the fauna of South Georgia and how both place try to make sure things are preserved. It’s a place less traveled recently traveled by Mary. Both places are very aware of the interdependent web of living things.

 

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