Service Auction Items to sell

BUUF Service Auction LIVE AUCTION

1. Set of 4 CD's on stress 1) the original book on CD; 2) 2 relaxation methods; 3) 2 fantasy walks (forest and ocean); 4) mental rehearsal and the subliminal process. In addition Jerry will spent one hour at the purchasers home or at BUUF to help learn how to use the CD's.
   Jerry Nordstrom
   
   
2. Cookbook stand
   Karen Peterson
   
   
3. A cheesecake, the pan and the recipe ($25 value)
   Karen Peterson
   
   
4. Michael Dowd's book ($25) lightly browsed
   Karen Peterson
   
   
5. A paperback book holder, with book, tea and chocolate
   Karen Peterson
   
   
6. Jerry will re-upholster a chair or your choice or something comparable. Starting bid should be $250.00 and THAT'S A BARGAIN !!!!
   Jerry Weitz
   

BUUF Service Auction SILENT AUCTION

1. Improv party dinner
   How to get out of yourselves!! It will be your task to pick a nursery character, such as Old King Cole, Jack and Jill, Little Bo Beep, etc. and introduce them as a close friend to the guests.
   Food:New York style deli. Pastrami sandwich with cole slaw and liver pate. $25.00
   Katherine Jabs
   
   
2. Sustainable Planet Cooking Lesson 1 - Learning to cook with grains other than rice: Quinoa, Teff, Amaranth, Couscous. These are just some of the names of grains that people have questions about. What is it? Where is it grown? Where can I get it? Why do I want to eat it (health benefits, lower calories, high or low in a specific nutrient)? And most of all, how do I cook it, and how can I make tasty dishes with it?All of these questions will be answered in a 2 - 2 1/2 hour cooking lesson at the Fellowship. Date to be after October 1, 2008 on a Saturday to be coordinated with the winner(s). Limit 8 participants. $15.00 each
   Heidi Pfosch

Service Auction

Heads up – It’s the Billings UU Annual Service Auction:

The theme is Spring time in the Rockies
Let’s make this auction rock
Saturday, June 7, 2008 - 6:00 – 9:30
It’s the best party of year!! And you won’t want to miss it!!

We’ll have food to sell for dinner. This will give you time to look over the auction items and bid on the silent ones. Throughout the night, there will be activities and entertainment.

BUT FOR NOW:

WE NEED ITEMS TO SELL

This is the time when members offer up SERVICES TO SELL. It could be a hike, a offering of music, a boat ride, and offer of work, an offer to build something, an educational outing, a dinner, a dance, a white elephant that has some value – you can be creative and it’s only limited by your imagination

You can send in your offer in three different ways.

1. Call Katherine Jabs
2. Write an e-mail to Katherine
3. Sign up on the Billings UU Blog. Just click on Comments at the bottom of the post. Put your auction item in the box provided, choose an identity and click on Publish Your Comment. It will go to Sue and she will okay it and then it will appear on the blog later.

At any rate, if you send it to me I will put in on the blog and then you can all check the blog from time to time to see what items are being offered.. Thank you Sue for making this available!! This will help us all get our technology skills working.

Last year we had 162 items!!! PLEASE SEND IN YOUR LIST OF ITEMS BY JUNE 1.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO PARTICIPATE BY COMING, CONTRIBUTING AND BUYING. THIS IS OUR BIGGEST FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR.

Elizabeth Gilbert videos

If you'd like to hear Elizabeth Gilbert talk about the book we're discussing this month, "Eat, Pray, Love," here are a couple of resources. The first is a half hour talk @Google Talks:



The second is from Borders Book Club

For Love of Water

Here's a clip from a new documentary, For Love of Water:

Michael Pollan on "In Defense of Food"

The UU Billings book group meets on Tuesday to discuss Michael Pollan's book "In Defense of Food." You might be interested in watching a talk on this subject at Google from earlier this month



It's almost an hour long

debate on global climate change

Thom Hartmann discusses global climate change with Marc Marano.

UWTV lecture on science and religion

February's theme is the fourth UU principle:

• A free and responsible search for truth and meaning

Along that line, I ran across a lecture from University of Washington TV by a Jesuit scientist, George Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory. He has found a way to integrate both science and religion into his life.

The lecture is available for on-demand viewing in both Windows Media and Quick Time formats:
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rID=2144&fID=373

It probably helps if you have a broadband internet connection.

Even if you don't agree that science and religion should be mentioned in the same breath, much less the same life, his extensive overview of the history of the universe is in itself worth the viewing time.