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Thursday, September 02, 2010

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Memorial Garden

Work has begun on the preparation of a Memorial Garden in the back part of the church’s side lawn.

With the enormous help of Jim’s small tractor and Jim T’s willingness to transport that tractor, we pulled some shrub roots out that would have taken MANY man-hours.

Another 8 folks assisted to do follow-up work of spreading manure on top of newspaper layers and cardboard to kill the grass in the garden areas. Ideally, this preparation should happen months before planting as it would be easier to dig into richer soil but we may start planting sooner, as funds become available.
If you are in church, please take a look at the easel in the Vestry, which has the proposed plan and pictures of our first workday.

We have gotten current prices on all the proposed plants and have listed them on the easel. Several folks have already expressed an interest in a Memorial Gift of a plant or two. There is a varied range of prices from $30- $50.

We are also planning a walkway of Memorial pavers with inscriptions on each brick. Details of that will come along soon but installing the plants is our priority at this point.

If you are interested in a “Garden Memorial Gift”, please call the church office, 885-5728, with your intention and a committee member will get back in touch to you with details.

Springfield Community Chorus

The Springfield Community Chorus, directed by Candace Montesi, will be starting rehearsals for the upcoming season on Monday, September 13, 2010. Rehearsals are Monday evenings, 7 – 9 p.m., at the Unitarian – Universalist Church, 21 Fairground Rd., Springfield, VT. We will be preparing traditional and contemporary Christmas music for two concerts. The first of these will be held in Chester on Saturday December 4th. The second concert will be held in Springfield on Sunday, December 5th, 2010 at 3 PM.
We hope you can join us. We welcome people in all the sections: tenor, bass, alto, and soprano. The ability to sing accurately is important, and the ability to read music is very helpful. There are no auditions. The Springfield Community Chorus is starting its 44th year with a group of about 40 singers from the greater Springfield area. Dues are $30 for the season for an adult. We welcome teenagers, who do not have to pay dues.

8th Annual Quilt Raffle

Pattern: True Lover's Knot

Size: Full/Queen 90" x 102"

Tickets: $2 each or 3 for $5

Drawing: Church Bazaar and Quilt Show November 6th

READING GROUP

You are invited to join in the fellowship of a reading and discussion group meeting on Thursdays, September 23 through December 2. Discussions will be held from 7 PM to 8:30 PM in the Fellowship Room.

The book for this session is a collection of spiritual writings chosen by Philip Zaleski titled The Best Spiritual Writing 2010. Past reading and discussion groups have used previous editions of this series with good success if success can be measured by the liveliness of the exchanges and shared insights about the readings. Having skimmed the contents of this edition, I expect no less. I was particularly struck by a few words by Pico Iyer about the nature of spiritual writing in the introduction to this edition. He writes, “Spiritual words do not come, in my experience, from someone who’s constantly and calmly seen the light, so much as from someone who’s seen it and then lost it, who’s beset by shadows or imperfect refractions, who wrestles with her angels daily, but who knows, deep down, that somewhere our original radiance can be recovered.” Why not try putting some time aside to wrestle an angel or two along with the authors to try to better understand who we are as human beings?

If this activity is of interest to you, speak to me at Church. I have a few copies of the book now, and I can order more if needed. All who wish to participate are welcome.

--Lyle

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