<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Green Friends!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Let’s do the Earth Day reminder first:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope lots of you will join me at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Marietta Armory to set up for Earth Day, which runs from 10 until 2. It would be great if we could have the usual canopy/shelter above our table(s) in case of rain. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please bring any solar devices for show and tell. I’ll bring my solar birdbath, and my solar clothes dryer (as usual). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will also bring 99 packets of common milkweed seeds, and 50 photocopies for coloring: some of a monarch butterfly, others showing the life cycle of monarchs, and a few of the sun, leftover from last year. I’ll also bring some tape, markers, pasteboard, and anything else that seems like it might be useful. I hope you’ll do the same. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be great if someone could bring crayons or colorful markers for coloring.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Am I forgetting anything?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">******</div><div class=""> Please don’t forget: Jay Warmke will be delivering the Adult RE talk Sunday from 10 to 10:45 on renewable energy. Please try to attend, and to bring your friends. I won’t be there.</div><div class="">April 28, Rebecca Phillips will talk about dying green (green burial). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*****</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Okay, on to agenda items!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We will meet Sunday at as close to 12:30 as we can manage. When I say “we,” I mean the Green Sanctuary Committee minus me, because I will be traveling to Texas for work (birding!). Chris Jacobs will chair the meeting, but I’ll prepare the agenda for him. If there are omissions, please let me know by 7 p.m. Wednesday.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s what we need to talk about.</div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Approval of March GSC minutes (which I emailed to you on March 24).</li><li class="">Earth Day post mortem</li><li class="">Just Dinner in May?</li><li class="">How is the River Trail clean-up going? Would March and/or April teams care to report? </li><li class="">Green Tips for May volunteer? </li><li class="">Earliest discussion of Sustainability Forum this winter? Andrew</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">That’s all I can think of. Sorry to have to miss the meeting. Hope to see many of you Saturday at 9 at the Armory.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—dawn</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>