BRUNSWICK — Members of the community are invited to the next Vital Connections gathering on Friday at the Morrell Community Room at Curtis Memorial Library. A potluck will begin at 6 p.m. Presentations will begin at 6:30 p.m.
There will be three presentations of 15 minutes each including time for questions and answers. A news release describes the presenters and their topics for the evening as follows:
Holly Reid volunteers at the Bath UCC “Neighborhood Café,” where 80 to 100 meals are served each Tuesday night. In addition to the meal, there is music, free blood pressure checks monthly, and activities for teens and middle school children.
Chris Buchanan is the statewide coordinator of the grassroots coalition Stop the East-West Corridor and is the Maine coordinator for Defending Water for Life in Maine.
Jim McCarthy is the senior writer at Mainebiz, He is a Brunswick resident and has called Maine his home since 1974. He doesn’t know yet how he will answer the questions “What does our community need” and “How can we connect in addressing those needs” but will be giving it some serious Quaker/Buddhist reflection in preparing for this presentation.
Presentations will be followed by broader discussion.
A news release describes Vital Connections as a forum that provides an opportunity for various localization efforts, initiatives and activists for social change to hear and learn from and about one another. The hope and expectation is that in this way the forum will contribute to stimulating the building of a new society from the bottom up in the Mid-coast region.
This multi-project network is a coalition focused on peace, democracy, environment, agriculture and food, education, community and the arts, energy, social justice, energy and small business with the goals of discovering connections among issues and of developing relationships that make activism stronger, clearer and more effective.
For more information, call 371-2077.
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