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Love the soft greens and bright yellows in this pick and the unexpected shot of purple!
Thank you!
Very pretty! I wish there was no work today
DJohnson, love peridot and the yellows. Super pick!
Love it!
Are you a teacher too? I'm so glad there is no school today also, these colors are just how I feel too!
so what do you all teach? I teach first grade. off till Thursday!!! Yay! I can join in on all the fun in the middle of the day!
Desiree, I'm a teacher too…Kindergarden in NC
Pretty pick! reminds me of summer.
Southern Chick – what was your previous name?
It has been snowing here off and on since the evening before Easter. This brightens up the day, it is so beautiful. Thanks for the day brightener.
Jeannes'gems, my previous name was DBremer and before that, the goofy name BEADAZZLED1! I went "chicky"
I teach music K–5 in Texas. Many thanks for all the kind comments. Well, it's back to school tomorrow…
Where do you live, 3K Chick ???
Anita, I live in God's country. I live in a small town (Hampton) in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. I am retired and picked up beading last July so I'm an amateur.
3KChick is there any Ugly Part of Canada?
I've been all over Canada and its all stunning!
I thought you might have been Beadazzled. I'm keeping a list of everyone's names, occupations, etc. No I am not a perv! (as I told Elaine/EGill/Belly Chick yesterday) I guess I'm somewhat type A and need to keep everything straight!
Southern Chick, glad you like our country. It is so peaceful and quiet in our town. Very little crime (so far) and I can walk to almost everything, grocery store, exercise gym, schools, doctor, pharmacy, bank, etc. I live in an old Church Manse that is approximately 110 year old. It is beautiful here with an acre of trees and gardens.
3K, you are truly blessed! How is the weather there now? We're a gorgeous flowery 70 degress. However, we will soon be wilting with humidity!
The temperature is one degree above freezing, feeling like minus six with the wind and it has been a very wet and weird day with rain, snow mostly and a peek of sun now and again. Tomorrow is supposed to be mainly sunny. Here's hoping. Where do you live in such gorgeous temperatures?
3K In NC, sort of in the middle. Not far from Raleigh/Chapel Hill…and not too far from the beach either. I go to the beach whenever I can…
Hello 3KJEWELS, glad to hear from someone else from Canada. I am in Saskatchewan and I would love to visit east; I hear that it is gorgeous in the Atlantic Provinces! Our day today was beautiful; +20 for most of the day. You must be getting the weather we had yesterday.
Hi Elaine. I am beginning to wonder if we are ever going to get any spring in our neck of the woods. We live in God's country down East. Come and visit.
Our license plates for our cars reads "The Picture Province" and it is a beautiful place. All the Maritimes are. The ocean is not far and the beaches are fantastic, especially in Prince Edward Island. You have to see the covered bridges of yesteryear and the new bridge joing New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Remarkable
I would love to visit Prince Edward Island. Big fan of "Anne with an E". Read all the books to my girls when they were little.
It was a beautiful day here in Texas. Sunny, light breeze, and 73. Only problem–pecans and oaks pollinating like crazy!
Hey D…I had to get offline for awhile to watch 24 with the husband…Boy the pines and oaks are casting yellow dust everywhere here in NC. Did you finish your lesson plans?
Finished right after lunch. What a relief to have that off my mind! Now, I just have to remember to take the laptop back with me.
Thanks for asking. You're off this week, right? Is it y'all's spring break?
Yes, this is our spring break…aka Easter break…can't say that anymore. You've been on a long time…Did you take a break too or have you been on all evening?
Oh, I've had several breaks…Ran to Target, took a nap, fixed supper, made a whole bunch of simple loops for a project… Realized I did something wrong on another project…
If I may be dumb here-What is "Anne of E"? We know it as "Anne of Green Gables" or "Anne of Avonlea". Prince Edward Island is beautiful and there is so much to do there in the summer time there is no way a person could get bored with it. You could spend your whole vacation there and still not see everything, even though it is a small province. I have been there many times and I still haven't seen it all and I only live 3 hours away.
Sorry, meant "Anne with an E" like she always says.
Thats Ok, I just never heard anyone speak of Anne that way before. She is an icon in this neck of the woods. Everything on the island is "Anne of Green Gables" or the new bridge between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island – "Confederation Bridge". The bridge is certainly a feat of building expertise. It is huge – 13 kilometres long, zigzaging across the Northumberland Strait. They have a National Park built around the Anne of Green Gables homestead now.
One of my mom's favorite trips after dad died, was to visit Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick…She loved Anne of Green Gables. Do you have any pictures that you could share?
I will look into it and get back to you. It is midnight here and way past my bedtime. Goodnight everyone, see you tomorrow.
My daughters and I love the books. The oldest always referred to her as Anne With an E. She dressed up as Anne one Halloween.
Hello again 3KJEWELS, I'd love to travel to your neck of the woods, but I don't see that happening any time soon. Our province is known more for it's flatness more than anything else….you've probably heard the old saying about my dog running away from home and we watched him run for 5 days!! Haha. Anyway, any of the pictures I've seen of the Atlantic provinces are amazing!!
Hi, D. where in Texas do you live? Ilived in Abilene for 3 years, when I was a kid!!
I live in Temple–halfway between Austin and the infamous Waco!
How did you come to live in Abilene?
My dad was in the USAF til I was 17. You live in a much prettier area then I did!!! Yeah, I was born in Illinois, when I was 7 we moved to Lincoln Neb. at 10 we moved to Abilene, 14 to Okinawa then Tri-county Calif. My dad retired, moved back to his home town, Amherst wi. finished school there, got married moved to Waupaca Wi. just about 20 mi. from Amherst.
Sounds like you made a round trip!
Yup, I covered alot of territory in a short time!!! But, I love Wi. we have 4 seasons (most of the time) Sometimes, it seems like we skip spring & go right into summer. But, fall is gorgeous!!!
Have you lived in Texas your whole life?
About 1/2 and 1/2. Native born Texan, lived here for 23 years, went to Germany to study music after graduation, got married and went back to Germany for another year. Then lived in Norfolk, VA for 3 years while he wrote his dissertation. I absolutely LOVE Virginia!!!!!!!!! Moved to Central Indiana when he became a professor at DePauw University in Greencastle (a village in the middle of corn and soy fields). I loved it there, too, but NOT the winters. Fall, yes; winter, NO. Spent a year in Freiburg (son born there) and another year in a town near Hamburg. We divorced after 15 years, and I moved back to Central Texas with the children. My goodness, that's a long answer to a SHORT question!
No longer then mine!!! It's really strange though, my mom is from Frankfort, Germany, born and raised, met my dad & moved here. My Grandfather played Cello in the Frankfort symphony orchestra!!! It's crazy how things seem to inter-twine!!!!lol
Another short reply!!!! My Aunt Gutrune lives in Hamburg!!!
Then she will know Stade, the town I lived in while in that part of the country. It's one of my favorite places! I spent several Christmases there as a student and new bride. The pastor and his family remain close friends. They lived in a 600 year-old-house across from the church. I remember going out to the Elbe one Christmas to see the ice floes rushing past. I've never forgotten that!
How cool that your grandfather played Cello in the Frankfort symphony!!!!!
Good Morning Anita and D (Debbie?) I've been reading your history D..How are you doing this am?
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DETROIT (Sept. 2, 2014) — General Motors Co. has retreated from a controversial policy that required auto dealership service technicians to essentially punch a time clock for every repair order.
GM in the spring began enforcing a previously ignored rule that required car dealers to report their service techs' hours for not only warranty repairs, but customer-pay work and repairs to vehicles in dealers' own fleets.
The auto maker characterized the policy as a way for dealers to track their techs' productivity and for GM to keep closer tabs on its warranty expenses.
But dealers cried foul, complaining that the rules sapped productivity and left them more susceptible to costly charges if GM auditors found errors or omissions on their service techs' time sheets.
"It was a huge administrative burden. Dealers were pretty much in an uproar," said Richard Gonzales, service director at Vera Motors in Pembroke Pines, Fla., which sells Cadillac, Buick and GMC. Requiring technicians to log in and out for each of the sometimes dozens of jobs they work on every day was too time consuming, Mr. Gonzales said.
And a related rule that prohibited techs from working on more than one job at a time also was problematic, dealership service directors said. Mechanics routinely work on multiple repairs at once. For example, a tech might start a software reset that could take 45 minutes to download, then move on to an oil change or another job.
"It was a huge administrative burden." — Richard Gonzales, service director, Vera Motors in Pembroke Pines, Fla.
On July 1, GM revised the rules to require service techs to log only their hours worked on warranty jobs. Dealers said many other auto makers have a similar policy for documenting labor times for warranty work.
Tim Turvey, GM's vice president of North American customer care and aftersales, acknowledged the dealer backlash to the rule, including the concerns about an increased risk of audit-related charges for flawed time sheets.
He said the risk of the policy being used against dealers on audits led to "a tremendous amount of angst at our dealerships."
GM also rolled back the policy prohibiting service techs from working on more than one vehicle at a time, acknowledging that a good mechanic "can be productive and efficient" working multiple repairs, Mr. Turvey said.
"We made some pretty significant changes that we think reduce the overall administrative burden on the dealer," Mr. Turvey said. "And this still allows us to make sure there are proper checks and balances on utilization and spending of warranty money."
Todd McCallum, fixed-operations director at LaFontaine Automotive Group, which sells Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC vehicles at three stores in the Detroit area, said the requirement to track even customer-pay jobs was a head scratcher.
"On warranty work, we get it. If GM is paying the bill, they should see how long it took the tech to work on that car. But having to track their time on retail transactions just slowed us down," Mr. McCallum said.
"We are big fans of the rule change," he added.
This report appeared on autonews.com, the website of Automotive News, a Detroit-based sister publication of Tire Business.
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Revealed: Mother accused of stabbing her two toddlers to death in exorcism was commander of church group called 'Demon Assassins'
- Norell Harris, 1, and his
sister Zyana, 2, found dead Friday morning
- Mother, Zakieya Avery, 28, faces two counts of first-degree murder
- Prosecutors detailed how Avery first tried to snap Norell's neck, then chocked him before stabbing him
- Second woman, Monifa Sanford, 21, also charged with the murders
- Avery and Sanford told police they saw children's eyes turn black and a cloud hovering over one of them
- Women bathed dead toddlers' bodies and wrapped them in blankets so they would be clean when they saw God, police said
- Avery allegedly stabbed Sanford as well because she saw a demon jump from a child's body into the woman
The Maryland mother accused of stabbing to death two of her children during an attempted exorcism was the leader of an unsanctioned church group called the 'Demon Assassins,' it was revealed this week.
One-year-old Norell Harris and his two-year-old sister, Zyana, were found dead in their beds at their home in Germantown last Friday.
Their mother, Zakieya Avery, 28 and another woman Monifa Sanford, 21, who had been staying with the family, have been charged with their murder and the attempted murder of the victims' older brother and sister.
Prosecutors said that a day before the killings, Avery had been scheduled to perform an exorcism ritual on a friend named Troy, but he never showed up at her home.
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Horrific: Norell Harris, 1 right, and his 2-year-old sister Zyana Harris, front left, were found dead in a disturbing, blood-splattered crime scene. Their older siblings, pictured, were rushed to hospital and survived
Avery, a recently divorced mother of four plagued with financial problems, claimed to be a commander of the four-person 'Demon Assassins' cabal she had started while worshiping at a Germantown church, with Sanford acting as her 'sergeant.'
The pair would later tell police they had taken part in exorcisms in the past, but the spiritual cleansings never featured knives or bloodshed, the Washington Post reported.
Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy offered new details on the ritualistic killing Tuesday, saying that Avery and her accomplice became convinced that the children were possessed by demons.
According to investigators, Avery tried to snap the neck of her 1-year-old son, then choked him and finally stabbed him with Sanford's help.
Convinced that the demon jumped into Avery's 2-year-old daughter Zyana next, the two women allegedly stabbed her to death as well before turning on her two siblings, ages 5 and 8, who suffered injuries in the attack.
Infanticide: Zakieya Latrice Averyhas been charged with murder in the deaths of two of her children, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old
Concerns: A neighbour of the family called 911 to report a child left inside a car outside the home for 45 minutes the night before it is believed they were killed in an exorcism ritual
When interviewed later by police, the two
suspects described how they saw the children's eyes darken
and a black cloud hovering over one of the kids.
defendants alleged that the demon leapt from the body of the last child
into Ms. Avery and then attacked Ms. Sanford,' McCarthy said during
Avery and Sanford's first court appearance Tuesday.
Avery then bathed the dead children and wrapped them in blankets so they would be clean when they saw God, according to police.
added that Avery had been involuntarily committed to a mental
institution in the past and that Sanford told officials she had tried to
take her own life on two separate occasions.
A picture uploaded to Facebook shows Zakieya Avery with her four children. Police discovered the discovered the two younger siblings dead and their their five-year-old and eight-year-old siblings suffering from stab wounds
According to Montgomery County Police Captain Marcus Jones, Avery told detectives she 'thought the devil was in the kids.'
'That's sort of the thing she centered it around as to why she had to conduct an exorcism,' he said. 'She just thought that there were evil spirits within the kids.'
Avery was arrested when authorities say she tried to flee from a townhouse near the vehicle. Police found the two children dead inside the home, and their siblings and Sanford were taken to the hospital with injuries.
Police said Sanford was arrested Saturday after being released from the hospital.
Arrest: Zakieya Avery is being held without bond charged with the murder and the attempted murder of her children
tragedy unfolded at around 9.30am Friday when police officers
responded to a home in the 1900 block of Cherry Bend Drive, where they
came upon a 'very bloody scene' involving six people, four of them
children under the age of 10.
The two youngest children were pronounced dead at the scene.
The children's grandmother Ida Johnson, 90, told of her shock, describing the two young victims as the 'sweetest things'.
She said: 'I will cherish those memories forever,' she told MailOnline. 'Their lives were cut short and they had no say so whatsoever. It doesn't make sense.'
Mrs Johnson said the children's father, her grandson, Martin Luther Harris Jr. has traveled to the Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. to be with his surviving son and daughter who were both listed in stable condition Sunday.
Johnson said she didn't know if Avery had a history of violence or when the woman's relationship with Harris deteriorated.
'I don't know what was going on between the family, all I know is they were sweet kids,' she said.
great-grandmother added: 'It's heartbreaking. Something should be done
about who did it. But at the same time, it's not going to bring the
children back. I just hope they get (what they deserve).'
Avery's stepgrandmother, Sylvia Wade, told The Washington Post that Avery was 'humble and meek' and said she loved her children.
'I don't know what triggered it,' she said. 'She wasn't herself. When a person is not of themselves, they are not responsible for what they are doing. They are in another zone.'
Tragedy: Zakieya Latrice Avery, 28 (for right), has been charged in the stabbing deaths of two of her kids, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old (pictured left and right)
Startling change: Police arrested Monifa Denise Sanford, 21 (pictured at her arrest at right and earlier at left) Saturday following her release from a hospital and charged her with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted first degree murder
The other woman charged in the killings, Monifa Sanford, made similar statements about evil spirits during questioning, police said. The two women had been living together at the house in recent months.
Jones said the women are believed to have met each other at a church, which he identified as Exousia Ministries in Germantown.
According to Jones, while worshiping at the church, Avery was part of a dance troupe and started calling herself a demon assassin, but the moniker did not raise any concerns because she never talked about violence.
'She was basically saying that her job — as of lover of Christ — was that she was going to keep demons away from her,' Jones said. 'That was part of her and Ms. Sanford's goal.'
Jones added that when Darryl Joyce, senior pastor at Exousia Ministries, was asked about Avery's 'Demon Assassins' group, the clergyman described it as 'a little bit eccentric, a little bit over the top.'
Joyce has since issued a statement to the station MyFox DC saying the women were no longer members of his congregation at the time of the killing.
Both women were being held without bond on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
During questioning, Jones noted that Avery acknowledged that what she did was bad, but allegedly did not sow the 'out-and-out remorse' one would expect to see in a parent accused of killing her child.
Sinister ritual: Norell Harris, a 1-year-old boy (second left), and Zyana Harris, a 2-year-old girl (third left), were found dead in Germantown, Maryland, Friday, while their older siblings (pictured) suffered multiple stab wounds during what was described as an exorcism
Grisly sight: Police who went into a home in Germantown on Friday morning encountered a 'very bloody scene' and discovered two children dead, and two other children and a woman injured
Horrific detail: According to reports, the children may have been sleeping in their rooms when they were stabbed
'Cases like this are heartbreaking' said Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger. 'Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the victims along with the 911 operators, police officers, evidence technicians, and fire and EMS personnel that responded,' according to the station WUSA9.
According to her Facebook page, Avery lives with her family in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and works as a pharmacy technician.
Most recently, she wished happy New Year to her family on January 2. In mid-November, the 28-year-old indicated that she was in a new relationship.
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And what better way to kick things off than fresh on the heels of the weeklong celebration of entrepreneurs and ideas, than to provide a platform to discuss some of the more unconventional solutions that have either taken off or those that are still peculating in your own heads.
To kick off the discussion, we will hear from one of the crazier ideas that has taken shape recently, AirPnP. The bio-app that matches tourists to toilets is proof that necessity is the mother of invention. Max Gaudin, one of AirPnP's founders will be on hand to discuss the journey from concept to lavatory concierge.
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Last night's gathering was the first Net2NO meet-up for me and my husband, Dan, and we both enjoyed chatting with so many delightful, passionate New Orleanians! Of course, we'd love to see even more of you at this weekend's Big Easy International Film Fest (http://www.bigeasyinternationalfilmandmusicfestival.com/)...
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Topic: Groundcovers
Title: Ground cover for cleared property in Austin
Answered by: Barbara Medford
QUESTION:I live in a small apartment building near 183 & 620. The land beyond the lawn has trees and has been cleared of brush. They are planning to seed the ground. I thought invasive native ground covers would be a better solution, and cheaper and easier in the long run. What do you suggest?
Frankly, we wouldn't recommend ANY invasive anything, even native. The thing about invasives, you know, is they have the capability to take over an area where the conditions are favorable, but they don't have a STOP setting. They will soon ramble on into adjacent territory, and not-so-adjacent territory via air or bird borne seeds, and we will be getting questions about "What can we do about the invasive whatever near 183 and 620 in Austin?" The only way to prevent some plants from becoming invasive is to never plant them. So, allow us to come up with some alternatives.
Since the plan apparently is to sow seeds, we feel that a seed mix of grasses that will grow in part shade, which we consider as 2 to 6 hours of sun a day, would be the best plan. Native American Seed has a seed mix of grasses native to this area called Shade Friendly Grass Mix. Something like that would be a good ground cover, help to hold moisture in the soil, and provide cover and food for birds. Here is a list of the seeds in that Mix; you can easily select the grasses you feel would work best in the space and order them separately, instead of in a mix. One, Texas wintergrass, is shown as requiring sun, so it might not work as well. Follow each link to the page on that grass to learn more about its growth habits, etc.
Grasses for a Central Texas part shade area:
Tridens flavus (purpletop tridens) - 3 to 6 ft. tall, low water use, part shade
Elymus canadensis (Canada wildrye) - 2 to 4 ft., medium water use, sun or part shade
Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grama) - 2 to 3 ft., medium water use, sun or part shade
Elymus virginicus (Virginia wildrye) - 1 to 3 ft., medium water use, part shade
Setaria vulpiseta (plains bristlegrass) - 3 to 6 ft., medium water use, part shade- pictures
Nassella leucotricha (Texas wintergrass) - 1 to 3 ft., sun
Now, can we make yet another suggestion? You might consider something like a meadow planting. The grasses we have already mentioned would do well in a meadow planting, and you could add some flowers. The only problem is that many of our annual, self-seeding wildflowers do require sun, but we think we can find some that could work with part shade. Read our How-To Article on Meadow Gardening for some ideas. Again, Native American Seeds has a Caddo Mix for this part of the state that has plants for sun and part shade. Going to our Recommended Species for Central Texas and searching on "Herbs" (herbaceous blooming plants) and part shade, we got a list of 39 possibilities, and have selected some of our favorites. This is probably more information than you ever wanted nor need, but we do like for people to know there are native, non-invasive plants available for every area and every purpose.
Flowering herbaceous plants for part shade in Central Texas:
Amblyolepis setigera (huisache daisy) - annual, 1 ft. tall, blooms yellow March to June, low water use
Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly milkweed) - perennial, 2-3 ft., blooms orange, yellow May to September, low water use
Coreopsis lanceolata (lanceleaf tickseed) - perennial, 2-3 ft., evergreen, blooms yellow April to June, medium water use
Echinacea purpurea (eastern purple coneflower) - perennial, 2-5 ft., blooms pink, purple April to September, medium water use
Eryngium leavenworthii (Leavenworth's eryngo) - annual, 1-3 ft., blooms blue, purple July to September, low water use
Gaillardia pulchella (firewheel) - annual, 1-2 ft., blooms red, yellow, brown May to August, medium water use
Ipomopsis rubra (standing-cypress) - biennial, 2 to 4 ft., blooms red, orange, yellow May to July, medium water use
Melampodium leucanthum (plains blackfoot) - perennial, 1 to 2 ft., blooms white, yellow March to November, low water use
Phlox drummondii (annual phlox) - annual, to 1 ft., blooms white, red, pink, purple March to June, low water use
Salvia engelmannii (Engelmann's sage) - perennial, to 2 ft., blooms blue, purple April to May, low water use
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County reports second flu death
A second Orange County resident has died of influenza this season, and a county health official warns that the virus appears to be arriving with more potency.
A La Habra man in his 50s died during the last week of December, said Dr. Matt Zahn, the county's medical director for epidemiology. That followed the death of a 51-year-old Fountain Valley man, also in late December.
The county only counts the deaths of flu victims who are younger than 65. Last year, one person below that threshold died in the county.
"We feel pretty confident that this year is going to shake out as a more severe flu season than last year," Zahn said Thursday.
The influenza virus is constantly evolving and mutating as it encircles the globe. Every year about half a million people die from it, and this season the flu appears to be hitting North America particularly hard. In Massachusetts, 18 people have died this season, and the mayor of Boston has declared a public health emergency.
California isn't among the 41 states that have reported high activity of the flu to the Centers for Disease Control, but county officials believe the virus appears to be ramping up in Southern California.
The county's Health Care Agency said its walk-in clinic has administered 2,900 flu-vaccine doses this season, but that requests for it had doubled over the past three days, compared with the previous two weeks.
The flu strain that has been causing so many illnesses nationally, H3N2, is included in this season's vaccine. But it doesn't kick in until about two weeks after it's given. Someone vaccinated today should see its full effectiveness right about the peak of the flu season. The shot is 60 percent effective for the general population, and 75-80 percent effective for younger, healthier people.
Experts say there might be a lag in people getting the shot because the 2009 H1N1 (called swine flu) outbreak turned out to be less deadly than feared and the last two flu seasons were comparatively mild.
"People haven't been banging down the doors to get the vaccine," said Dr. Terence Chu, a pediatrician based in the Lake Forest office of Southern Orange County Pediatric Associates, "but we're trying to give it to them whenever we can. The earlier they get it, the better. There's still time, if they get it now they'll hopefully be protected."
Symptoms of the flu include chills, fever, cough, muscle aches, sore throat and fatigue. A person is contagious just before being stricken, and for about a week after. So children with the symptoms should stay home from school, and adults should stay home from work.
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Cascade Unitarian Universalist Fellowship provides an inspiring and supportive place for individuals and families to search for truth and meaning. We welcome people of all races, cultures, ages, physical abilities, sexual orientations and religious backgrounds.
We invite you to join us on Sunday mornings for services at 10:30. Our services provide opportunities for each of us to seek inspiration and understanding on our journey for truth and meaning in our world.
We also have many opportunities for spiritual and personal growth within a supportive community.
For 2016-17 Pledge Drive Materials, click here.
This Sunday, June 19th
10:30 a.m. Service
This I Believe
Speakers: Barbara Edwards & Kmbris Bond
Celebrant: Chris Rader
The members and friends of Cascade Unitarian Universalist Fellowship have arrived here by way of a wide variety of faith journeys. Twice a year, we listen to the stories of a few CUUF friends as they describe what is real, important and true for them – and the paths they took to formulate their beliefs. This service gives us a chance to get to know our speakers better, and encourages us to examine our own convictions. We look forward to hearing from Barbara and Kmbris!