Saturday, 8am-1pm - Hayden, ID -
Corner of Prairie Ave & Hwy 95 in Hayden, Idaho - http://www.kootenaicountyfarmersmarket.com/
See the amazing offer below to join Slow Food - good only through 9/30/09! All levels of support are appreciated!
This Saturday, Slow Food Spokane River (SFSR) will have an info table at the Main Street Fair, 3-8pm on Main Street between Division & Browne.
We're partnering with the Master Food Preservers trained by WSU Extension to also offer canning and food preservation advice AND test your pressure canner gauges, so your food is safely put up for the winter! Bring your pressure canners to the experts from 3-7pm only.
Auntie's will also be selling books about sustainable food, reviewed & recommended by our Slow Food group, at the Street Fair - proceeds to benefit Main Market Co-op. Learn about author, Novella Carpenter who wrote FARM CITY: The Education of an Urban Farmer - she's coming to town 10/20 - read now to better enjoy her visit!
Save the date,
10/7 for SFSR's annual Wheat, Wine & Wild Salmon dinner at Hill's Restaurant. Always a sell-out and a delicious sampling of Slow Food Ark of Taste foods grown and donated by local SFSR members -
Word is the raffle prizes getting lined up this year are pretty amazing too!
And a great video sent by a supporter about eating very locally & traditionally in rural MT.
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From:
Josh Viertel, President - Slow Food USA <membe...@slowfoodusa.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Subject: Help keep fast food out of schools
To:
sf.spok...@gmail.com
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Dear Jennifer M.,
Soggy tater tots. Mystery meat. Fast food and refined sugar.
This is too often the reality of our children's school lunches. America's schools need our help to bring about serious change. Your gift to Slow Food USA can make that happen.
On Labor Day, over 20,000 people in all 50 states gathered together at nearly 300 "Eat-ins" to show their support for real food in schools. The collective result has been impressive: we attracted the attention and appetites of state and federal policy-makers and received over 250 local and national media hits, and thousands of people signed on to Slow Food USA's Time for Lunch petition.
But our work has only begun in the fight to get real food in schools - we critically need your gift today to keep applying pressure and force our legislators to take notice.
And the best part: during the month of September only, your donation of any amount will make you a member of Slow Food USA.
Here is why we need your support right now. Slow Food USA is working to directly impact national and local food policies. From the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act to the Farm Bill, we will be building alliances, bringing in key industry experts and heading to Washington to demand change.
Give more if you can and less if you can't. The point is -- we want you with us.
Our kids deserve more than a fast food lunch, and our communities need access to fresh, real food. Your support today will help make that happen. Thanks for your support and we look forward to your involvement!
With thanks,
Josh Viertel
President, Slow Food USA
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Grow the Movement!
Help provide America's children with real food at school!
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- Member-only discounts on select events and publications.
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- Opportunities to take action and impact legislation affecting food and agriculture in the U.S.
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And, the folks at Save Our Wild Salmon ask for your support and attendance at this upcoming forum:
TO: Salmon Advocates
FROM: Sam Mace
An announcement from the Northwest Power & Conservation Council about a Spokane public hearing on the "Draft Sixth Power Plan" which is an energy blueprint looking at how we can have affordable, efficient and available power in the future. The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday September 15th, 5:30-7:30 pm at the Red Lion Inn at the Park. I will be sending out some additional information but wanted to give you a quick heads up.
If you care about energy issues, climate change and/or wild salmon, please come to this hearing!
In a nutshell, the analysis in the draft power plan supports, echoes and confirms what Northwest Energy Coalition and salmon advocates have been saying for years: we can have affordable and abundant clean energy in the Northwest AND remove the four lower Snake River dams and restore wild salmon and steelhead. We need to turn out to make sure this analysis stays in the draft plan AND also to encourage the NWPCC to not just look at stabilizing global warming emissions, but chart a course for achieving aggressive carbon-reduction goals.
Please contact me if you might be able to make this hearing and/or if you represent and could testify on behalf of an organization.
We need to send the following message:
* The 6th Draft Plan is a good start to achieving the equitable between power and wildlife needs as dictated by the Northwest Power Act--a balance that has not been met in the region to date.
* We support the Council's review of the annual costs of replacing the power due to removal of the lower Snake River dams and storngly urge that the analysis remain in the plan as it moves forward. Those estimates--roughly between $173 and $321 million dollars per year and needing only about 575-750 average megawatts of new resources to reliably run the NW energy system--are in the ballpark of numbers the salmon and clean energy communities have been articulating for years.
* Council staff analyses confirm the findings of NW Energy Coalition, Save Our Wild Salmon and Sierra Club reports that we can affordably shut down the coal plants now serving our region, start electrifying transportation, restore endangered salmon with options like lower Snake River dam removal, develop new clean energy sources, and boost our economy in the process. (You can read the Bright Futures Report at: http://www.lightintheriver.org/reports.html).
* The Council needs to assure that the power system fulfills its climate and salmon responsibilities while responsibly meeting our energy needs.
