Re: Clean North members news

[Don McGorman <mcgormdca@yahoo.ca>]

Kathie:

Somehow your message contained extra line feeds which
made it less presentable and a bit harder to read. 
This may turn some people off from actually reading
it.

This may have to do with the e-mail editor and/or a
cut and paste operation from another document.

I'll cc techies in case someone has a suggestion.

Don

--- Kathie Brosemer <kathie@cleannorth.org> wrote:
> Members E-Newsletter - May 2002
> 
> Calendar
> 
> May 22 - Pesticide Action Committee meeting
> May 25 - Horticulture Society plant sale
> June 5 - next Clean North meeting, 7:30 at the
> office
> June 8 - the Giant Garage Sale
> July 5,6,7 - Hit the Books Recycling event
> July 11,12 - Vehicle Emissions Clinic
> July 13 - Green Garden Tour
> July 14 to September 6  - have a lazy summer!
> 
> First of all, if you are a person with a reason to
> have a Clean North 
> office key, you need a new one.  As of May 14th
> we've changed the lock on 
> the front door.  So if you haven't gotten a new one
> May 14th or later, you 
> need to turn yours in and get one.  Email
> kathie@cleannorth.org to make 
> arrangements.
> 
> A very grateful thank you to Mark, Don, Jack,
> Debbie, Jim, and Dan, who 
> pitched in and quietly did what needed to be done
> during the recent 
> tumultuous events at the office.  You are the
> greatest.
> 
> Next, we had a fantastic computer recycling event
> for Earth Day!  If you 
> missed the report on www.cleannorth.org, go and
> check it out!  Lots of 
> great volunteers made the work light, and the public
> response was amazing. 
> Enormous thanks to the Station Mall, who were
> incredible hosts.  And thanks 
> to all of you who came out and helped for a few
> hours or longer.  You made 
> it wonderful!
> 
> We have a busy spring ahead of us.  Many activities,
> including three major 
> ones clustered in the first/second weeks of July. 
> We'll be needing 
> volunteers, just at the time when so many people are
> away.  If you're 
> planning to be in town during the Book Recycling,
> the Garden Tour, or the 
> Vehicle Emission Clinic, please set aside some time
> to help!  Thanks!
> 
> The Pesticide Action Committee is being revived. 
> All interested in working 
> towards a bylaw regulating the cosmetic use of
> pesticides, please meet at 
> the Clean North office at 7:30 pm on Wednesday the
> 22nd of May.  There's 
> real momentum on this issue right now, let's catch
> the wave!
> 
> The Horticulture Society plant sale is taking place
> on May 25th.  Watch 
> local media for time/place info.  Our beautiful
> rainbarrels will be on sale 
> there, too!  But you can reserve yours in advance by
> emailing Peter, at 
> petmcla@soonet.ca.  He's designed a real winner
> there, you can see one in 
> the office window.  Rumour has it he'll have some
> bright royal blue ones, 
> too, before long.  They are $50 from us, $65 from
> Vernes Hardware.  Thanks 
> to St. Mary's Paper for help with this project.
> 
> All members are welcome at Clean North meetings, you
> know!  We do have lots 
> of fun (Suzanne could make a good living doing
> standup comedy!).  Meetings 
> are at 7:30 pm at the Clean North office, someone
> comes early and makes 
> tea, and we usually finish by 10 (9:30 if we're
> really disciplined about 
> it!).  Decisions are made by consensus of everyone
> who comes, so we could 
> use your wisdom and your two cent's worth of
> opinions.
> 
> Volunteer opportunities et cetera:
> 
> Garage Sale - your good junque will be accepted at
> the big grey shed behind 
> the Water Tower Inn, from 5 to 7 pm on June 5, 6,
> and 7.  Jack would like a 
> few volunteers to help sort and price things on the
> Friday evening, and 
> lots of people to help sell on Saturday the 8th. 
> Email donaldmj@soonet.ca, 
> or phone Jack at 942-1761 to offer help.
> 
> Hit the Books!  A new event, first time for us. 
> We'll be collecting 
> unwanted books for recycling, shipping them off to
> Montreal to be ground up 
> and turned into new paper.  The school boards throw
> out tonnes 
> (literally!), as do the Friends of the Library and
> several other 
> institutions.  They have asked us before about what
> to do with books that 
> can't be reused any longer, and this spring we
> posted it on the web and 
> found an answer.  Love that internet!
> 
> So, July 5,6,7 are the dates.  We're still looking
> for a location, so we're 
> not announcing this to the general public just yet. 
> But we figure we'll 
> need lots of hands, so we're letting you know!  If
> you're in town, we would 
> sure appreciate a few hours of your time during that
> event.
> 
> Vehicle Emissions Clinic - we did this one a few
> years ago with Environment 
> Canada.  They liked us so much they're coming back! 
> We'll be at Canadian 
> Tire, in the parking lot, with tents, a generator,
> some fancy test 
> equipment, and a free t-shirt for you for helping
> out!  We need six 
> volunteers throughout the two day event, which means
> we need about 
> twenty-four different people to volunteer.  When we
> have a schedule made 
> up, Debbie will call you.  But mark your calendar
> now, okay?
> 
> Green Garden Tour - are you an organic gardener?  Is
> your lawn or flower or 
> vegetable garden a work-in-progress towards bloomin'
> beauty?  We'll be 
> doing our alternative tour, showing off organic
> gardens in the Society 
> Garden Tour season.  Lah de dah!  I must stress that
> our tour participants 
> love to see works in progress, so your garden
> doesn't have to be perfect 
> and complete to be on the tour.  It's fun to see
> what other people are 
> trying to do, and learn from the pitfalls and
> triumphs they've experienced. 
> 
> 
> The tour will be from 10 am to 2 pm on July 13th. 
> We're starting at the 
> Allard Street Community Gardens, where ticket
> holders will see composters, 
> rainbarrels, companion planting, and other good
> things. We're planning on a 
> real festival atmosphere there, with booths,
> freebies, and lots of fun! 
> They then take their own vehicles (or their bikes -
> we'll have bike tour 
> maps too!), to see your gardens.  Garden tour
> gardeners can come to the 
> Allard Street gardens early, to see what we have in
> store there, before the 
> tour officially begins (and to get first crack at
> those freebies!).
> 
> Sign up your garden by phoning the Clean North
> office at 945-1573 or by 
> email: info@cleannorth.org.
> Buy a $5 tour ticket at the Clean North office
> (phone first - 945-1573), or 
> at the Horticultural Society's plant sale, or at
> Clean North's garage sale. 
> 
> 
> Also looking for nominations for our Green Glove
> Pesticide-Free Garden 
> Award, part of the City Beautification Awards. 
> Watch for more details as 
> we get into summer.
> 
> Office projects help:
> 
> Carpet - we're working on a plan to get the last
> pieces of "new" carpeting 
> laid in the front office.  If you have any carpet
> skills, we could use you! 
> Our last volunteer who knew what he was doing, got a
> job out of town. 
> Email Don at mcgormd@cleannorth.org if you can help.
> 
> We also still need some of those big (18 inch
> square) patio stones.  Our 
> basement is wet, you see, so if we use it for
> storage 
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