March / April Newsletter

from (the CommUnity Zone)

 

EVENT: Neighbors Helping Neighbors Fundraiser:  
Restoring Common Ground; a community’s labor of love
Saturday, May 18, 2019 7-9pm @ 53 North 3rd Street, Lewisburg, PA 
Includes hors d’oeuvres and adult beverages
Seating is limited to stay tuned to instructions to purchase tickets online.
​$40.00 per ticket
 
Has the circus-like checklist of tragedies, disasters and scandals, not to mention the political divide left you emotionally weary? Feeling a sense of powerlessness and loneliness?
 
Given recent events—the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville and the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the deaths of children at the southern border, to name just a few—we feel it is important to publicly affirm our commitment to inclusion.   We draw our inspiration from Audre Lorde: “We have been taught to either ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than forces for change.  Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and his/her oppression.  But community must not mean a shedding of our difference, not the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist” (from “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”). This program intends to foster a community derived from the recognition of difference in which our individual liberation depends upon the liberation of everyone.  
 
Join us for an inspiring evening that will draw on the talents of artists, poets, musicians and speakers to renew our hope, caring and faith in friends, family, community and most importantly, ourselves.
 
Coordinating this performance collage is CommUnity Director, Cynthia Peltier and Metamorphosis Performing Company’s artistic director, Joel Gori.
 
-   The 60-75 minute production will be presented in an immersive style in a non-traditional performance space.
-   The visual artist, Mary Lapos, whose work deals with those living on the margins of our society, will be what will inspire the content of the program.
-   Opportunities exist for artists to perform individually or collaborate with others in short works.  Original or existing material that examines the series’ theme of Collateral Damage(What unites us as a community and not what divides us) will be considered.
-   This performance will be used as a template and prototype for programs in neighboring communities.

Dr. Robert H. Goddard, American Rocketry Pioneer, addresses our need for interdependence well with these words.

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these." 
 
*The evening is part of a larger series, Collateral Damage, which is a series of programs that will be presented in the Susquehanna Valley throughout 2019-2020. The programs will focus on, and continue with, the theme of facing and dealing with our differences to tackle common societal challenges.
 
*Thanks to Bucknell University: their statement on inclusion acted as a model for ours.
 

 

from (ACLUPA & CommUnity Zone)
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EVENT: Film - On the Basis of Sex
Friday, February 22, 8 – 10pm @ The Campus Theatre, 413 Market St, Lewisburg

The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The feature premiered in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.

Rating: PG-13 (for some language and suggestive content)
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Mimi Leder
Written By: Daniel Stiepleman
In Theaters: Jan 11, 2019 Wide
Runtime: 120 minutes
Studio: Focus Features
 

from (Green New Deal Lewisburg)

from (the LCG @ Bucknell University)

Lewisburg Community Garden
Though the garden does not open for the season until April 6, there are garden-
related events even at this time of year.
 

EVENT: Community Education Program on Seeds, Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 6:30pm @ Lewisburg Public Library
 

Professor Mark Spiro will discuss the biology, germination, collection and storage of seeds for the garden. There will be a seed exchange after the presentation. The garden received donations of seeds, so there will be plenty of seeds to go around. In addition gardeners are invited to bring along any seeds you may have collected. This event is free and open to the public. It is being co-sponsored by the Lewisburg Community Garden and Union-Snyder County Master Gardeners. 

EVENT:  Chipotle Fundraiser for Raised Beds, Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 5-9pm.

One third of the cost of your purchase at Chipotle this evening will go toward an Americorps
fundraiser to raise funds for the construction of accessible table-height raised beds at the Community Garden.

TAKE ACTION:  Plot rental applications due Friday, March 22, 2019 by 4:30pm

This year the LCG will have 39 plots of varying sizes available for rental for a $30 fee (fees are used to help cover operating costs). Applications will be available starting on Friday, February 22. Applications will be available online at LewisburgCommunityGarden.blogs.bucknell.edu and in hardcopy at the CommUnity
Zone (417 Market Street), the Public Library of Union County (255 Reitz Boulevard), the Lewisburg Borough Building (55 S. 5th Street), and the Bucknell University Office of Civic Engagement (OCE, 119 Bertrand Library). If more than 39 applications are received by the March 22 deadline, a lottery will be held to determine who will receive a plot. People are encouraged to join with neighbors, family,and friends to share plots so that more folks are able to access the LCG. Plot assignments will be announced on Friday, March 29, and the season will open on Saturday, April 6 (rain date April 13).

EVENT:  Opening Day Plant Sale, Saturday, April 6, 2019 9am-noon @ the Lewisburg Community Gardens, corner of North Water and St. Anthony Streets.

This is the first of two sales, this one focused on cold-tolerant crops like broccoli, lettuce, and onions. The rain date will be April 13.

Please direct any questions or comments about the plot rental application process or the calendar of events to Jen Schneidman Partica at 570-577-2212 and jsp030@bucknell.edu

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EVENT:  5th Annual Superhero 5K Race/Walk
Saturday, April 13, 2019 starting at 9:30 a.m.
Kids FUN RUN; 10:00 a.m.
Buffalo Valley Recreation Park, 15th and St. Mary Streets, Lewisburg

Susquehanna Valley CASA will hold its 5th 5K at the Buffalo Valley Recreation Park. This is a fun, family event! We will have a costume contest with prizes, and medals for our kids and our adult participants. Register online at falconracing.com. Same day registration starts at 8:0 a.m.

EVENT:  First Sunday Platform, "On Natives and Aliens"
March 3, 2019 @ 3:30 @ Beaver Memorial UMC/ Fellowship Hall 42 South 3rd Street Lewisburg, PA

The Susquehanna Valley Ethical Humanist Society presents the first Sunday Platform "On Natives and Aliens" at Beaver Memorial United Methodist Church fellowship hall, 42 S. 3rd St. Coffee and conversation from 3-3:30 p.m., program 3:30-4:45 p.m. Guest speaker, John Peeler, will explore the complexities of situational ethics, helping us to look critically at ethical commitments that we may think self-evident.
 

EVENT: Annual Dinner 2019
Open to the Public
Sunday, March 31, 2019 from 4-7pm @ the Front Street Station, 2 Front St., Northumberland
Dinners are $25.00
 

Join the ACLU of Pennsylvania Central Susquehanna Chapter for the Annual Awards Dinner featuring Witold ‘Vic’ Walczak, ACLU-PA legal director as the keynote speaker. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Walczak)
The topic of the night will be, “Civil Liberties in the Age of Trump.” The ACLU has fought with every president since Warren Harding. Come hear how fighting for civil liberties against the Trump administration differs from preceding regimes. 

Program: 4 - 5pm
Welcome and Dinner:  5 – 6pm 
Keynote address and award presentations: 6 – 7pm 
Cash bar 

Awards:
Sobhi and Sonia Ammar, Rev. Mark M. McCullough, Jr. Religious Leadership Award
Penn Garvin, Clyde Peeling Critical Thinker Award
Dwayne J. Heisler, Keri L. Albright Community Catalyst Award
Dennis Lyons, Dr. Walter B. Brasch Journalism Award

Dinners are $25.00 (includes sales tax and 18% gratuity).

Meal choices: Stuffed chicken breast, salmon, mushroom fettuccini (vegetarian).

Reservations for the event are required and must be submitted by March 16. No walk-ins will be accepted at the door. Buy tickets on line or print your form (https://aclupa.org) and mail it to: Central Susquehanna Chapter of the ACLU-PA PO Box 364 Lewisburg, PA 17837 Questions? Email hbginfo@aclupa.org or call 717-238-2258
 

EVENT: Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, February 20th 7-8:30pm @ East Buffalo Township Building, 589 Fairground Rd., Lewisburg

Join the CSV Moms for our February meeting. This month, we will be honoring and commemorating victims and survivors of gun violence, and reflecting on the many ways in which we are all affected by gun violence.