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CC meeting May 20, 2013 6:30pm – agenda



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WELL COORDINATING COMMITTEE AGENDA FOR MAY 20, 2013, 6:30pm

 

1 a.      Select note-taker and time-keeper                                                            2 min.

1b.       Approval of past minutes; review of To Do list (Madge)                        5 min.

1c.       Election of new Chair person                                                        1 min.

 

2a.       Membership and financial review (Lila)                                      5 min.

2b.       Follow-up on member renewals (Beth)                                       5 min.

 

3.         Review use of cc-working list-serve (Tim, Madge)                     5 min.

 

4.         Status reports:

a.         Website (Mike, Madge)                                                       5 min.

b.         Bypass/SOLLV (Madge) – City agenda item                   5 min.

c.         WOWSER (who?)                                                                5 min.

d.         Mushroom Coop and other PIF (Susie)                           10 min.

 

5.         Support Youth Grangers/ other entries in Kinetic Carnivale (Peter?)            5 min.

 

6.         Support (letter/other action) restoring Skunk Train (Madge or Holly?) 5 min.

 

7.         Plans for Bike Show & Parade, Sat. June 8th (Holly)                5 min.

 

8.         Plans for Farm Tour, tentatively Sat. Aug. 10th (Kimbal)                       5 min.

 

9.         Tabling/presence at upcoming events (Kimbal)                         5 min.

(e.g. WHAT Walk, Hometown Fest, 4th of July, Mini-maker Faire, Farmers Market)

 

10.       Program ideas for Sept.-Oct. (Madge)                                          10 min.

 

11.       Discussion of CC membership, WELL roles/future                  35 min.

 

12.       Select facilitator for next CC meeting                                           2 min.

 

Total time: 2 hours

administrivia, Events

May 2013 – A SELF-RELIANT WILLITS



Transitioning To a More Localized and Sustainable Community

5/2 Summer Farmers Market & May Day Celebration  The Farmers Market returns to Bud Snider (City) Park with produce, seedlings, crafts, food and music. May Day fun will include dancing around the maypole, face painting, wreath making, etc. 3–6.
 5/25/145/215/28 Grange Textile Studio May Schedule – Room 10, 7pm  Sewing with Betty: how to use, fix sewing machine, make simple things.Making Period Costumes from Clothing and Collected TrimsMini-Maker Faire Playday: glue gun/decoupage, purse & mask decoratingMountain of Clothes : Swap and share with each other
 5/4 Green Burials Seminar and Workshops  Empowering our community in the process of death and dying. 9 – 5, Willits Methodist Church . Donation, lunch included. Info & RSVP: Carlin, 459-4850
 5/11  Family Gardening Workshop in Willits, 8 – 5 Taught by John Jeavons; learn skills to grow food for years to come. For families, teachers, friends, children 12 and up. Benefit for Waldorf School of Mendocino. Register: www.johnjeavons.info. Registration closes May 9th.
 5/13 Willits Community Alliance Ellen Drell will talk about the Caltrans Bypass History: Past, Present and Future. Open to all the community. Library Meeting Room, 6:30
5/16 Now and Then Film: Betting the Farm A group of Maine dairy farmers launch their own milk company in a bid to save their farms. The documentary follows 3 farmers and their families during the first 2 years of this endeavor. LL Grange 7pm. $5 donation
 5/17  Dinner Theater plus Dirt Floor Band Local talent, food and fun: Italian dinner by the Grange, Shakespeare Company’s Complete History of America , Abridged. LL Grange 7pm. Tickets $30 at Goods Stamp Shoppe. Benefit for SOLLV.
 5/18 Brief Tour of Ecology Action Research Garden , 10-Noon  Pre-registration at www.growbiointensive.org a week in advance. $10
 5/19 Commonwealth Garden Plant Sale Starts for late May planting. 90 Haehl Creek Drive 12:30-4:30
 postponed Wowser Opening Fundraiser Bash A new facility that will teach people how to make things that are needed locally. 330 East Commercial St. Info: moc.cllreswownull@eednyc
(Got to get bathrooms completed first)
5/25 14th Willits Walk for Health & Wellness Registration 10am at JD Redhouse 212 S. Main St .
   
 5/25 1st Annual Mini Maker Faire Booths, displays, demonstrations, workshops to share what neighbors are making, inventing, creating and learning. 10am-5pm at Mendocino County Museum . For those who want a free booth or offer a demonstration, application form at www.MendocinoMakerFaire.com

 

Events

Happy Earth Week 2013



  Sorry for very late notice, but tomorrow (Wednesday 24th) at 10am is a rally for Save Our Little Lake Valley at the Caltrans HQ, corner of East Hill and Baechtel Road . Come stand with your community to let Caltrans know that our opposition to the Bypass remains strong.  A delegation of local citizens will present to Caltrans a list of urgent concerns regarding the Bypass.  Support the delegation and join the press conference afterwards.  A good turn-out is important!

  Friday, April 26, 7pm, there is a showing of “Taken for a Ride” at the Grange.

  Sunday, April 28will be a Grange pancake breakfast in the morning, and then from
1-4pm (also at the Grange) a forum on Wells, Wick Drains and Wetlands: How the Caltrans Bypass Would Affect Our Watershed. This will be a panel discussion moderated by Sheriff Tom Allman.
Learn more, join the discussion, and bring your questions. Everybody come – farmers, ranchers, businesses, citizens!

  Next week (May 2-3) there will be a delegation going to Sacramento to urge the Governor to stop further funding of the Caltrans Bypass. For more info on other SOLLV events and the bypass, go to www.savelittlelakevalley.org.

 

Meanwhile (everything happens at once!), there is a Transition Training hosted by Transition Humboldt the weekend of April 26th – 28th. This participatory, 15-hour course describes how to catalyze, support and facilitate community transition and resilience with imaginative and inspiring ways to engage your community. The course runs from Friday, April 26th at 7pm through Sunday, April 28th at noon and covers a wide variety of topics relevant to organizing and growing Transition initiatives in local communities. Housing available. For info, contact Larry Goldberg, moc.tsaochtronnull@yrral, 845-7272.

 

Happy Earth Week!


 

 

 

Ongoing:
Thursday 3-5:30, Farmers Market (in May, it’s back to the Park, not the Grange Hall)
4th Sunday Grange pancake breakfast
Sundays, 1-4pm Bootprint Tours of Bypass route
Fridays, 3:30 rally at Shakespeare tent and 5:30 meeting of SOLLV (stop the Caltrans bypass)

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