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Local Opportunities
Sustainability in Iowa
-- Author Connie Mutel will discuss the transformation of Iowa's
extensive tallgrass prairie into cropland, explore the results
of this conversion and suggest how to reverse the negative
effects at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Center for Energy
and Environmental Education. Mutel is the author of the recently
published "The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa."
The event is free to the public. For more information contact
Ryan Welch at < rwelch@uni.edu >.
Advent Retreat
-- "Who Is In? Who Is Out? The All-Inclusive Kingdom of God" is
the theme for the annual Advent Social Justice Retreat Dec. 5 in
Waterloo. The retreat facilitator will be peace activist,
speaker and writer Tom Cordaro. Cordaro has been active in the
work of Pax Christi USA, a national Catholic peace organization,
and is author of Be Not Afraid--An Alternative to the War on
Terror. The retreat will be held 8:30am to 3:00pm in
O'Hagan Hall (church basement) at Sacred Heart Parish in
Waterloo and is open to the public. Registration fee is
$20/person ($15/students and seniors) and includes lunch.
www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/adventretreat.htm
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Regional Opportunities
Grinnell Bus to SOA
-- Tickets are available for the student bus from Grinnell
College going to the annual vigil at the School of the Americas
at Fort Benning, Georgia. The bus leaves Grinnell at 5:00pm on
Nov. 19 and returns by 6:00am Nov. 23. Suggested price is
$150.00 and includes camping Friday and Saturday nights at
Roosevelt State Park. For information contact Micah Bot-Miller
at
< botmille@grinnell.edu
>.
More about the vigil:
http://www.soaw.org/
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Last Update
11.12.09
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