The Green Expectation: June

Make Health Conscious Environmentally Conscious: Buy locally grown or organic foods. Look for local farm markets or roadside fruit and vegetable stands! You can buy organic everywhere from the farmers market to the local grocery store. The organic section may be a little pricer, but it is a healthy choice with fewer chemicals and pesticides. For some healthier options, try organic raised poultry, fish, or seafood. When preparing these foods, choose cooking methods that use less energy and oil. Try roasting, baking, broiling, or grilling foods instead of frying them. These foods are not only good for you, but just as tasty. Eating organic helps your body and the environment, making it the best of both worlds!

ArtSHIP-Shippensburg’s Art & Wine Festival

The 2nd Annual Shippensburg Art and Wine Festival will be held Saturday, June 6th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the North Earl Street Triangle near the Old Main Drive campus entrance of Shippensburg University. A $20 wristband includes your souvenir wine or beer glass, sampling and entertainment (You must be 21 years or older to purchase a wristband). For more information, please contact the Shippensburg Area Chamber of Commerce located at 53 W. King Street, Shippensburg at 717-532-5509 or visit www.shippensburg.org or e-mail community@shippensburg.org.

Wine and microbrew tastings, sculptures, great food, music and children’s activities will be on the North Earl Street Triangle. Art demonstrations, displays, music and food will be available in Downtown Shippensburg. The following wineries are planning on participating; Adams County, Benigna’s Creek, Hauser, Mt. Hope and Starr Hill. Microbrews will be offered by the following participants; Heritage Wine Cellars, Market Cross Pub, Roy-Pitz, Swashbuckler at Mt. Hope and Victory Brewing Company.

Numerous outdoor sculptures created by students from the Art & Design Department at Shippensburg University will be on display on the North Earl Street Triangle. Local artists will be displaying and demonstrating their art in Downtown Shippensburg beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing throughout the day. The SHAPE Gallery will be exhibiting art from the following artists; Brooke Alyse, Art Berman, Anne Cherry, Ben Culbertson, Margaret Evans, H. I. Gates, Staci Grimes, Mary Hickman, Viktoria Hoover, Andrea Geesaman, Brandii Kligge, Albert Mason, Wanda McNamara, James Rainey, Cookie Redding, Lisa Rhinehart, Kurt Smith and Allison Wise. East Meets West Emporium will be hosting the artist, Scott Lux.

Music will be ongoing throughout the day and will include performances by “Second Time Through”, “Bill Baker”, “Ledbetter Heights”, “Nancy and Jody” along with the “Shippensburg Middle School Jazz Group”. Please bring along a lawn chair or blanket so that you can relax and enjoy the music, art, tastings and great food. Participating restaurants and food vendors include Black Horse Restaurant & Tavern, Corner Coffee, Funnel Cakes, Kathy’s Deli, Keswick Creamery at Carrock Farm, Knute’s Pub & Grill, Lulu’s Bread Box, Main Street Deli and Suzy Cool.

Children’s Activities between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. will include storytelling, “The Balloon Slinger” and numerous other fun activities.

Related events that day are the Dedication of the Shippensburg Civil War Trails and Walk from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Later in the evening, Bobby Vinton will be appearing live in concert at the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. You can call 717-477-7469 or www.luhrscenter.com for more information. Come experience the arts and plan to spend a part or the whole day in Shippensburg!

BOOK CLUB: Last Chance Saloon

LAST CHANCE SALOON : Marian Keyes
Best friends since the days when legwarmers were cool, Tara, Katherine, and Fintan have survived small-town ennui, big-city heartbreak, and endless giddy nights out on the town. But now that they've graduated to their slightly more serious thirties, only Fintan has what can honestly be called a "love life." With Tara struggling daily with her eternal diet -- and her dreadful, penny-pinching boyfriend -- and Katherine keeping her single existence as ordered as her drawer full of matching bra and panty sets, it seems they'll never locate the exit door out of the "last chance saloon."But it's always when you are least ready for change that fate insists on one. And when catastrophe inevitably follows crisis, the lives of three best friends are sure to change in unexpected ways...and not necessarily for the worse.

Observe Memorial Day

Since the late 50's on the Thursday before Memorial Day, the 1,200 soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry place small American flags at each of the more than 260,000 gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. They then patrol 24 hours a day during the weekend to ensure that each flag remains standing. In 1951, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of St. Louis began placing flags on the 150,000 graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery as an annual Good Turn, a practice that continues to this day. More recently, beginning in 1998, on the Saturday before the observed day for Memorial Day, the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts place a candle at each of approximately 15,300 grave sites of soldiers buried at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park on Marye's Heights (the Luminaria Program). And in 2004, Washington D.C. held its first Memorial Day parade in over 60 years.

To help re-educate and remind Americans of the true meaning of Memorial Day, the "National Moment of Remembrance" resolution was passed in 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans "To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to 'Taps."

The Moment of Remembrance is a step in the right direction to returning the meaning back to the day. What is needed is a full return to the original day of observance. Set aside one day out of the year for the nation to get together to remember, reflect and honor those who have given their all in service to their country.

ONE WORD

Another fun exercise... but again, harder than it seems! Answer the following using only ONE WORD answers:
Where is your cell phone?
Your significant other?
Your hair? Red, blonde, brown??
Your mother?
Your father?
Your dream last night?
Your favorite drink?
Your dream/goal?
What room are you in?
Your hobby?
Your fear?
Where do you want to be in 6 years?
Where were you last night?
Something that you aren't?
Wish list item?
Last thing you did?
Your friends?
Your life?
Your mood?
Favorite place you'd like to be right now?