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Nom-eNews Spring 2016

Beltaine Call & Registration

Building & Repair Projects - Barn Roof & more

Financial Hearth Tending

Winter at the Sanctuary

Drought Update... and more
 
Beltaine 2016 

A Call Goes Out!
A Howl the the Four Directions
A Summoning, An Invocation:
A Prayer.

Hear it & COME...
TO THE UMPTEEN ANNUAL CELEBRATORY
GATHERING OF BELTAINE!!!
at the Nomeus Wolf Creek Sanctuary
for Radical Faeries

The What:  Beltaine
The Turning of the Great Wheel of the Year into Spring, as
The Earth Rips into Bloom
the Air Sings With the Noise of Wild Abandon
The Water Flows Through Us & Washes Us Clean, &
The Fire Takes What We Release & Burns it All Away.

Read the Entire Call here:  http://bit.ly/2016BeltaineCall
Register & Donate here:  http://goo.gl/forms/DL31lJgM9D

Your advance registration & donation (full or partial) allows us to  buy supplies like food, propane, etc. & plan meals.

 
Help fund a new Barn Roof

The Barn Roof at the Wolf Creek Radical Faerie Sanctuary is in Shambles! With constant leaks during the rainy season, we're left with mold on every surface and a sacred space that is unusable for those months. This project is long overdue and needs attention immediately! Please help in any way so this landmark in Wolf Creek will be around for many more years. Thank you in advance!!

Follow the link below and make your donation of ANY amount.  Our goal for materials is $5000

https://www.gofundme.com/j9w62ukk
(7% to 9% admin fee)

You can also donate to this campaign via PayPal (no fees for Nomenus!)
Nomenus Website Down

The Nomenus website was recently hacked.  We are working to retrieve content and rebuild the site.  Once live it will hosted on a more secure server.  If you have tech skills and would like to help us rebuild please email nomenus@nomenus.org

FYI. A recent version of the visitor's guide is here: http://bit.ly/1VSmHUt
 
Tending our Financial Hearth
 
Winter is often a time of scarcity for the Sanctuary, since most of our income comes from gatherings. But the insurance and utilities still have to be paid; the truck drives to Grants Pass for supplies and to pick up faeries; there are buildings to heat. Come Spring, repairs are always needed before hundreds of faeries show up.
This Spring, we're blessed with volunteers for a couple of big improvements, probably happening before Beltane: a large, permanent tent frame so we can circle out of the rain and Summer sun; a fly-resistant replacement for Beezle, which promises to continue our progress towards healthy gatherings. (It'll have a cement-block vault, fly-proof ventilation, and a ramp!)
With donated labor, materials for​ the tent will cost $1900, and another $1200-1500 for the outhouse. Rather than lose the opportunity, Nomenus borrowed from our reserve funds.
Will you help us pay for those projects, and cover the bills until Beltane? (Other important repairs aren't even on the shopping list yet: Thersa's porch roof and Garden House's walls.)
You can make donations at PayPal Giving, or through eBay, as well as GoFundMe for the Barn roof.  Both PayPal & Ebay have no fees for charities; 100% of your donation comes to Nomenus!
Nomenus and the Wolf Creek Sanctuary stand with Black Lives Matter in dismantling systematic racism, oppression, and violence against people of color.

Nomenus Great Circle, March 2016
Gathering Pavilion

The framing is in place, a fabric roof is next, for a sheltered 40 foot wide circling space on both warm and rainy days. Decking will be added as funds are available.
Thanks to Catherine T for  Topping this project!
Welcome Home Circle News

 The process of increasing the Land and Community's usability to everyone in our community, and especially to our olders and elders, continues quickly, steadily, and apace! In addition to the access cabins gifted to us by Nomenus three years ago (making their construction now officially Faerie Ancient HistoryTM) and the rail we built almost a year ago (!) into the front entrance of the Barn, we managed to add stand-up/sit-down bars in every shitter on the Land AND a rail up Patrishit's stairs!

Our latest barrier-removal was the placement of five stumps along the main foot-path from the Parking Lot to the Garden House (the one that starts between Mary's shrine and the welcome Tent and passes by the Garden before ending at Papa Legba's shrine ~ thank you, Sagee, for telling me that shrine was there!). Now, Fairies who need to rest after short walks or who need assistance to rise from falling can walk that route independently!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

If your interest is in working more broadly to Welcome Home every single Fairy to this Land, please consider attending the Welcome Home Committee meetings via Zoom or phone!   Email nomenus-welcome-home@googlegroups.com to join the group.

Drought update

 
Wolf Creek has had a 'normal' amount of winter rainfall for the first time in several years.

Much of the rain came in large storms which successfully tested the weirs placed throughout the meadow by forestry camp; slowing runoff and allowing more groundwater recharging. 

We hope this was the first of a series of normal or wet winters that will bring the Land back to aquifer equilibirum

We are continuing to ask all visitors to bring 3-5 gallons of water per person per day for personal use, especially for Gatherings.  
 
Winter Happenings at WCS

This February saw the first ever Winter SGRF gathering as well as the 4th annual Queer Forestry Camp.  The SGRF was an intimate gathering of communal bonding during a typical cool wet February Weekend.  Forestry Camp volunteers made more great progress on enhancing the long-term health of our local meadows & forest through groundwater recharging projects and fire-ladder suppression work.
 
All dates for Gatherings and Nomenus meetings are on our Google Calendar

Questions?  Planning a visit to the Sanctuary? Email nomenus@nomenus.org
 
Faerie Gatherings
Here There & Everywhere.

Radfae keeps a list of every gathering they can find around the world:

http://www.radfae.org/gatherings
 
Two Truckloads of gravel have been delivered and spread on our driveway, filling many ruts and holes!!

Nomenus Membership
Why should I consider becoming a member of Nomenus?

  • To share your skills

  • To learn new skills

  • To connect with your Tribe

  • To support your communities

  • To have a say in our direction & vision

  • To express your Gratitude


www.bit.ly/JoinNomenus

 

Rideshare Board


Whether you're coming to a gathering or to visit, Nomenus has an ongoing rideshare board at 

http://bit.ly/WC-rides

If you shop on Amazon...


Nomenus is now registered with Amazon Smile to receive a donation for purchases when you access their website through the link below.

Whether you're buying a 55 gallon drum of lube for your housewarming, or that special tea-cozy for Gramma, your retail therapy can support the Sanctuary.  When linking through, you can save Nomenus so every purchase generates a donation.

http://smile.amazon.com/ch/94-2983887
 
Note that Nomenus is not endorsing Amazon or their business practices.

Be a Dear Heart - 
Join the Doe Nation

Your recurring monthly donation of $5, $10, $20, $50, or even $100 can keep Nomenus and Wolf Creek Sanctuary thriving throughout the year.

Sanctuary expenses average $80 per day / $2400  a month at non-gathering times.  This amount covers food, utilities, and basic ongoing costs of keeping the Sanctuary open.

 Both one-time as well as recurring gifts are greatly appreciated, and are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
 
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