West Marin Alliance Calendar of Events

Informing West Marin residents of upcoming events and action opportunities
Last updated June 23, 2009

Over-the-Hill-Gang ride and errand share bulletin. This is currently an e-mail Google group. Sign up at www.westmarincommons.org. Come build on our many ride share successes. (Also, look for the upcoming Hitchhiking Identification Program modeled after Go Geronimo - see www.gogeronimo.org - fostered by EAC, the Dance Palace, and West Marin Commons.)

Local Food System Initiative: Share/trade your excess produce, garden ideas, recipes, fermentation cultures, sauerkraut makings, apple pressings.

Physical bulletin board FOOD SHED SHARE next to Toby's Coffee Bar. Post your needs and your requests for food and garden networking.

Google group sign-up at www.westmarincommons.org.

Current Events

Gardening, anyone? If you have an hour, two or more over the next few months and would like to help with yard work at CLAM's new property, please call the office: 663-1005
Free Swimming Classes for Children 5yrs & under Begins Tues 23rd

@ Private home in San Geronimo Valley. Led by Red Cross instructor

for 2wks on Tues, Thurs & Sat's for info contact...

heatherrichardson@comcast.net.

EAC Annual Members Meeting, Potluck Dinner, Wine Tasting &Gab Fest

Fri June 26, 6pm @ Dance PalaceReservations Required 663-9312 or

eac@svn.net.

Sat. June 27th, Point Reyes Farmers Market Opening Day of the Season

Toby's Feed Barn, PRS 9am to 1pm

Sat. June 27 Worm Composting Tour @ David Hoffmans in Lagunitas, 10am

for more info contact Bing Gong 663-1380

Addicted to Plastics
Monday June 29, 7 p.m. at the Dance Palace in Point Reyes Station, CA
Addicted To Plastic is a 53-minute film about the wonders of plastic, and the unexpected problems that plastics have brought to our lives.
Can we live with plastic?   Can we live without it?
This entertaining, informative film by a young film maker, Ian Connacher, explores these questions in vivid detail.
Q&A: includes a progress report on eliminating plastics in Pt Reyes, Inverness and beyond!

Please join us to find out more and to add your ideas!

Sponsored by: Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, Green Sangha, Mainstreet Moms, Point Reyes Nation, Point Reyes National Seashore Association, Sustainable West Marin, West Marin Commons
$10 donation
* Mainstreet Moms cookies and tea
The Disaster Council is sponsoring a CPR certification class at the Fire House in Point Reyes Station on Tuesday, July 14 at 6:00.
Space is limited. Please enroll by 7/11 with: Libby Colman, 663-9450, liblee@earthlink

Ongoing Meetings and Events:

Mondays, 3:00-5:00 p.m. MAINSTREET MOMS (Organize or Bust, theMMOB.org) We meet at the The Frietas Center, behind Sacred Heart Church. We take action (postcards, special events, rallies, etc.), discuss current events and work for a truer democracy.   All moms and honorary moms and ideas are welcome. Tea and snacks provided. Check the Point Reyes Library for the Mainstreet Moms binder with pertinent and lively news articles. Questions: kris@themmob.org

Thursdays, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., PUB NIGHT AT THE VLADIMIR'S IN INVERNESS - Paul Coopersmith and Cindy Ohama have come up with a plan to emulate the pub night of Paul's little village in New Zealand. Once a week townsfolk gather in the pub for an hour or hour and a half, and just visit and enjoy each other's company. All welcome.

First Sunday of every month), 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. - PEACE DEMONSTRATION:   Stop by and stand up for peace in front of the Wells Fargo Bank with friends and neighbors and sometimes visitors from all over the world! Bring your own sign or borrow one from the Mainstreet Moms.

First Thursday of the Month , WM Chamber meets @ 7pm, location varies info 663-9232

Second Thursday of the Month, PRS Village Association meets @ 7pm Dance Palace Church Space

This calendar is put together by volunteers from West Marin Alliance. If you have an event you would like included, please e-mail the information to us by Friday.