<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear GSC friends,</span><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nutshell version:</span></div><div class=""><ol class=""><li class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keep Wayne Wild—Marietta Chapter meeting <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 18</a>, Jeremiah’s Coffee House. MOVCA meeting <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">on Thursday 3/16</a> is on that topic, too. This is an extremely local and important topic!!</span></li><li class=""><b class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Next meeting is <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">next Sunday, March 19, at 12:30</a>. It’ll be an important meeting because April is a busy month for us. Please come! Proposed agenda below—send other items by <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">7 p.m. Wednesday, March 15</a></b></li><li class="" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Please keep your eye on HR 861, a bill that "</span><span class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">This bill terminates the Environmental Protection Agency <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 0.258824);">on December 31, 2018</a>.</span><font class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">”</font></span></li><li class="" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Calendar of events</span></li></ol></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Longer version: </span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. I attended the Keep Wayne Wild workshop and fundraiser last night. I found the information I learned at the workshop to be very disturbing. Because the proposed Wayne fracking is mostly in the Marietta Unit, it is truly in our backyard. We really need to get involved. I plan to attend the event <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Saturday at 3 p.m.</a> at Jeremiah's. I hope you will, too. I will discuss all of this at the meeting Sunday.</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2. Proposed agenda:</span></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Approve minutes from February meeting.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Plans for Adult RE in April</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Earth Day plans</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Joining up with Garden Tour/Plant Sale group for some sort of event later in the summer?</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wayne Fracking: Why GSC should get involved, and what we can do</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Need a volunteer for April Green Tips</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Third Sunday of April is 16th, Easter. To have Green Sanctuary Committee meeting or not?</span></li></ul><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(Please send additional items to me by <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">7 p.m.</a>Wednesday.) </span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3. HR 861 is now in the Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Marietta’s own Congressman Bill Johnson is on that committee and that subcommittee. We would all be advised to contact him and ask him to KILL THAT BILL—well, only if clean air and water are important to you!! You can follow the bill at this website: <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/86" class="">https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/86</a> I encourage you to bookmark that page. </span></div></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4. March events worth attending if you can. I’m sorry I can’t be at all of them. </span></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Thu 3/16 7 p.m.</a> at First Christian Church, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">1400 Washington Avenue</a>Parkersburg MOVCA public meeting with a presentation scheduled by Wayne Nofrack's group regarding preventing further leasing/fracking of Ohio's Wayne National Forest. </span></font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Sat 3/18 3 p.m.</a>Jeremiah’s: Keep Wayne Wild—Marietta Chapter, inaugural meeting</span></font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://16" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="16" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Sun 3/19 12:30 p.m.</a>Green Sanctuary Committee</span></font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://17" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="17" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Tue 3/21 1 p.m.</a>Washington State Community College Graham Auditorium: Global Climate Change and Gardening</span></font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://18" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="18" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Tue 3/21 5:30 p.m.</a>WVUP College Theater. </span></font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://19" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="19" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Sat 3/25 7 p.m.</a> Dawn H’s house for Earth Hour Party. (Candlelight only <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://20" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="20" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">from 8:30 - 9:30</a>). (If you have cat or dog allergies, please opt out!)</span></font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://21" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="21" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Sun 3/26 1 p.m.</a> FUUSM RE Parlor: Planet group meeting to discuss local green business award (follow up from social action meeting Feb. 26)</span></font></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">900 things going on in April!!</span></li></ul><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thank you for reading this the whole way to this point!! Hope to see you Sunday—if not sooner!</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">—dawn h.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div></body></html>