Craft Bazaar!

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Erica Duske

 

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UUFP Book Club

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Linda Pallay

9780316278751_custom-db335aa8b2a545d44e8335ae134d10a0d320b092-s2-c85Please join the Book Club on December 13 at noon at iCreate Cafe 130 King Street, in Pottstown to discuss our pick of the month: Sweetness #9 by Stephan Eirik Clark. Clark takes a satirical look at over two decades of food wars, family life and American culture.

The main character, David Leveraux, is a flavor chemist who starts his career in 1973 at a company whose new product is an artificial sweetener called Sweetness #9.

His job is to test the product on lab rats and monkeys and monitor the health effects. He reports a lot of side effects that are covered up by the company.

Sweetness #9 soon becomes the artificial sweetener used in diet drinks, and many other foods, and is also marketed in little packets for use in coffee and tea. When Leveraux sees Americans overcome by the symptoms he found in the lab animals — like obesity, rage, depression — he feels personally responsible for not having blown the whistle on the manufacturer.

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Congregational Meeting Info

Posted on October 26, 2014 by CJ Rhoads

On October 26 the congregation held a meeting to discuss several options dealing with the Board of Directors, the minister, and the finances. Board President Linda Pallay presided.

Here are the highlights:

-The congregation voted to have Jon Dreazen serve as both Secretary and Acting Treasurer.

-They also confirmed asking Sharon Harvey to become our official bookkeeper and office person. (Sharon had previously volunteered to do this when she found out, at the town meeting two weeks ago, that there was a need.)

-There was also detailed discussion of our finances. Out of several options Linda outlined to the congregation regarding the future, Reverend Dave noted that he most preferred option #6, which would allow him to continue at 2/3 time until June (albeit with a slight modification to his salary package). The congregation voted overwhelmingly for option #6.

-We held a mini-pledge drive during the meeting to increase our pledge income.

Please consult the meeting minutes for more details.

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Bonfire and Weenie Roast – Great Success!

Posted on October 26, 2014 by CJ Rhoads

The Bonfire and weenie roast held at the Fellowship on Saturday, October 25 was a smashing success. Great food, singing that could wake the dead, and s’mores were the big hits of the night. Thanks to Jon Price for the great fire, Kay and Ginnie and everyone else who planned it, Marianne who played the guitar, and everyone else for coming out and joining the fun.
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UUFP BookClub

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Linda Pallay

The book club is meeting at UUFP at 5:00 on October 24th and then traveling  to Hibachi Supreme Grill and Buffet,  260 Upland Sq. Drive,  Pottstown to discuss the Snow Leopard over dinner!  Everyone is invited!!!

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Here is the synopsis from Wikipedia:
The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas.The book recounts the journey of Matthiessen and Schaller in 1973 to Shey Gompa in the inner Dolpo region of Nepal. Schaller’s original objective was to compare the mating habits of the Himalayan blue sheep (the bharal) with those of the common sheep of the USA while for Matthiessen the trip was more of a spiritual exploration. Another aim was to spot the snow leopard, a predator on the bharal and a creature that was seldom seen (it had only been glimpsed twice by Westerners in the previous twenty five years). A third part of the plan was to visit the Crystal Monastery and its Buddhist lama.
Matthiessen frequently digresses to remember his wife Deborah Love who had died of cancer prior to the adventure.[4] The book is, therefore, also a meditation upon death, suffering, loss, memory and healing. The memories of Deborah operate with a number of other recursive stylistic traits that play against the linear, outward progress of the journey logged through maps and dates.[5]
The Snow Leopard won the 1979 National Book Award in the category Contemporary Thought[6] and the 1980 National Book Award for Nonfiction (paperback).
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Book Club

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Linda Pallay

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Over the summer the book club is reading the first of a series mystery novels by Judith Campbell, a UU community Minister. The book is: A Deadly Mission, which is part of the Olympia Brown Mission Mystery series.  

The story spirals in and out of a menacing tangle of religious hypocrisy and the dark side of human behavior as Rev. Olympia and Father Jim, occasionally assisted by Olympia’s house-ghost, the spectral Miss Winslow, risk their lives to save an innocent country girl. In the tension-filled narrative, the two clerics expose murder and embezzlement in a race against time.
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Service Topic for August 31

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Erica Duske

Labor of Love 

Lay Leader: Mary Ryan

Coordinator: Jon Price

Members and friends will once more gather to conclude our summer and prepare for the coming season by cleaning, weeding, painting and otherwise sprucing up our building and grounds.

All help is appreciated!

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Garden Group Meeting

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Erica Duske

Our fall planting of the UUFP Garden is Saturday, August 23rd from 1 to 3.  Anyone interested in planting and learning, mark the date and hope to see you there!  Please bring tools, for instance a shovel and/or a rake.

Our UUFP Garden produces fresh food which is donated to the Pottstown Cluster Food Pantry, which distributes the food to local families in need.

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Service Topic for August 24

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Erica Duske

A Strand in the Web 

Lay Leader: Emily Quarles-Mowrer

In his famous book “Animal Farm,” George Orwell said, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” David Attenborough said, “People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.”

How do we choose which animals to preserve and which to ignore? We will discuss the ways that our conservation choices impact the web of all existence of which we are a part.

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Garden Group Meeting

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Erica Duske

The UUFP Garden Group will be meeting on Thursday August 21st at 6pm to harvest and to prepare our beds for the Fall Planting which will take place on Saturday.  Please bring tools; for instance a shovel and/or a rake.  Please join us – many hands make light work and great companionship!

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