Community Calendar

Community event promoting KIND (Kind Inclusive Nurturing and Diverse) Communities.  This is the final event in a student senior project addressing the results of a school discrimination survey circulated last year.  This community session will include time with with Dr. Seria Shia Chatters-Smith professor of counselor education at Penn State, whose research focuses on how prejudice and bullying intersect, also known as bias-based bullying.  In addition, the Tolerance Troupe, led by professor Harvey Edwards of Susquehanna University, will provide engagement and support with their interactive improvisational role-playing performances.

This is LAHS student Sarah Ladd's senior project and the community event is sponsored by the Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way Diversity and Inclusion Impact Council.  For more info, please call 570-988-0993.

We will look together at how we (1) define and feel about being white (2) separate “good” and “bad” whites (3) avoid becoming useful allies. We will discuss white privilege, how this has historically distorted and continues to distort US democracy and what we as activists can do now to begin to change this distortion. This will be a safe space to ask questions, make mistakes and help each other grow.

This workshop is offered through ACT (Active Community Training) and facilitated by Penn Garvin. There is no charge. Please call Penn 570-716-9828 to sign up.

Growing in Knowledge to Nurture our Tolerance - Dr. David Heayn, History & Religious Studies Dept. Susquehanna University, will give us insight into the Islamic Religion and why we should not fear our Muslim neighbors.

We have a special opportunity to learn from Union County Sheriff Ernie Ritter how he trains people to store and secure guns. He will demonstrate how to handle and dismantle guns and go over the Union County program for new gun-owners. District Attorney Pete Johnson will also discuss laws pertaining to gun ownership and use.

We have a wonderful relationship with Sheriff Ritter and DA Johnson. They have supported us for our work and we are hoping for a great turnout. It will make us all more knowledgeable spokespeople about guns.

Here is the info:

Wednesday, May 9
6:30-8:00 p. m.
Union County Government Building
155 N. 15th Street
Lewisburg, PA 17837

Please let Paula Swett (paulaswettartist@gmail.com. also cc'ed on this email) know if you can make it.

The Central Susquehanna Valley chapter of SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) will host this event offering both an introduction to SURJ and an interactive workshop on how to have useful discussions about race with friends and family.

CSV SURJ is a group of local people dedicated to educating and organizing ourselves and others to be effective members of a multi-cultural movement for racial justice.

For more info, email csvSURJ@gmail.com. To get involved, join the Central Susquehanna Valley SURJ facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1085678734878440/).

What's a Road Holiday?  The basic idea is that a stretch of road is temporarily closed to vehicular traffic and opened instead for walkers, bikers, runners, wheelchair riders, etc.  It leverages existing public infrastructure to create a public park and promenade where one does not currently exist.

This year’s River Road Holiday is being held on River Road north of the Borough in combination with the CommUnity Zone’s Protect – Preserve – Play Street Fair on North Water Street by the Lewisburg Community Garden.  So in addition to a great opportunity to roll and stroll along the river, there will also be conservation and health-themed children’s activities, live music, food, a plant sale, and giveaways.  This will all take place on Sunday, May 13 – Mothers’ Day – from 1 to 5pm on River Road north of Lewisburg.  Parking is available at Wolfe Field and in the grass lot off Winter Farm Lane near the main entrance to RiverWoods.

Take your mom for a walk by the Susquehanna!

This event is organized by the Lewisburg Neighborhoods Corporation's Walk It! Bike It! Lewisburg Committee in collaboration with the Lewisburg CommUnity Zone.  For more info, please visit http://lewisburgneighborhoods.org/river-road-holiday/

Plant sales to benefit the community garden. https://lewisburgcommunitygarden.blogs.bucknell.edu/

Co Hosted by Susquehanna Valley Progressives and Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way

Curious about the TimeBank? Check out our Open House where you can drop in and learn more!

Stop into the CommUnity Zone in Lewisburg anytime between 4pm and 7pm on May 15th, and your friendly TimeBank coordinators will be there with answers to your TimeBank questions.

Our members have already given and received services like graphic design, cooking, organizing, gardening, sewing, writing, and music lessons. Let's do even more great things!

Stacy Richards is the winner of the 2018 Virginia Travis Lecture Award in Social Justice. This award, dating to 1996, honors a member of the Bucknell or Lewisburg communities who has worked diligently and compassionately to promote social justice and progressive change at the local, state, national, or global levels.

Ms. Richards is a graduate of both Bucknell University and Harvard University. Throughout her career, she has been a leader in social justice and equality through her development and management of numerous environmental policies, programs and organizations at the national, state and local levels. She recently returned to her consulting firm, Stacy Richards & Associates, founded in 1999, to continue to provide strategic planning and program development to public and private sector clients that serve to reduce the impacts of climate change. A reception will follow in the ELC Terrace Room.

JOIN US FOR AN EVENING WITH BETTE GREY, FOUNDER OF COLUMBIA COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC.

**View a brief documentary, "Fix it: Healthcare at the Tipping Point"
**Participate in problem-solving conversation moderated by independent health care consultant, Bette Grey, founder of Columbia County Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, Inc.
**Think outside the box; explore solutions to our health care problems

HERE IS THE PROBLEM THAT WE FACE:
• The U.S. spends more on health care than any industrialized nation but gets far less in return
• Our national annual health care bill is over $3 trillion
• Administrative costs for U.S. health care are the highest in the developed world (OECD* data)
• 28.2 million Americans under the age of 65 are uninsured (per CDC** data)
• Many Americans go without or postpone care because of high deductibles and co-pays
• More than 600,000 families (affecting 1.4 million people) file for medical bankruptcy each year
*OECD) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
**(CDC) Centers for Disease Control

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Cohosted by Susquehanna Valley Progressives and Rivertown Coalition for Clean Air and Water.