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Oct. 28, 2011 Vol. 2 No. 35
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Future Green Drinks
Save the date!
Thursday, December 8
Historic Inns of Annapolis
Theme: Green Your Holidays and Shop Local!
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Calendar Highlights
Oct.29
- Free Community Shreadding Event - 3rd National Take Back Initiative: Safety Dispose of Prescription Drugs to Keep Them Out of Our Bay and Drinking Water Nov. 2 - Master Gardener Composting Demonstration
- Public Meeting for 2012 Land Preservation, Parks & Recreation Eastern Area Plan Nov. 3
- Greater Severna Park Watershed Action Group Monthly Meeting See our full calendar events, including Farmers' Markets.
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Don't Forget to Support Us Through
Mills Fine Wine & Spirits'
Community Rewards Program
Give us your Mills cash register receipts!
 When you shop at Mills, at the foot of Main Street in downtown Annapolis, save your cash register receipts and give them to us. Once a quarter we'll turn them in to receive a 5% rebate as a donation from Mills.
This generous offer costs you nothing and will allow us to keep spreading the word about environmental issues in Annapolis. And, four to six times a year Mills will provide unique wine, spirit and beer offers specifically created for as special promotions just for Green Drinkers! It's a Win-Win! Please shop at Mills and save your receipts for us.
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Top of the Line
Thank you to the Members and Staff of the iconic Fleet Reserve Club for hosting Green Drinks on October 20. We had an enthusiastic crowd, nibbling on sustainable, local "Hawaiian" chicken and crab dip. As we  mentioned before, the Fleet has gone Green in a big way from their rain barrel out front to Greenware, to other good practices. Read more.
 Our friends from WasteStrategies were on hand to tell our crowd about the recycling efforts they have initiated with us. The numbers are just about in, and, if you average all of our festival greening events in the past few months, the recycling rate was over 50% and of the items put in the trash, some 70% could have been recycled! More proof that: 1.) People will do the right thing if given the opportunity, and 2.) More education needs to be done. That's our mission!
 We were delighted to welcolme our special guests, members of the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council and its Green Markets Committee! We hope to partner on more events in the future.
We're always talking about all the connections made at Green Drinks. Here are a few more examples. Extreme Makeover Home Edition was recently completed on the Eastern Shore (We think the air date will be in December.). Builder Fusion Companies, met the solar panel company, Seven Seas; the coffee supplier for the volunteers, Chesapeake Bay Roasting; and the landscaper, Grow Landscape Design; at Green Drinks! And at Green Drinks last week, WasteStrategies' participation in the Maritime Republic's Tug of War on Nov. 5 was negotiated and secured over a handshake!
We announced at Green Drinks that our next event will not be in November, but instead on December 8. It will be at Historic Inns' Lord Calvert House. Start your Midnight Madness evening with us and get charged up to support our small businesses downtown. In other words: Eat Local! Drink Local! Shop Local!
Want to keep Annapolis charming and thriving? Then support our local businesses!
Cheers,
Elvia & Lynne
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De-clutter Sustainably on Saturday!
This Saturday, Oct. 29, you'll have the opportunity to get rid of sensitive papers and medicines in a responsible and safe manner. Read on.
 Free Community Shread
10 a.m. - 1 p.m., 2661 Riva Road, Bldg 500 parking lot, Annapolis Shredding Prevents Identity Theft. See your old medical records, tax records, bank statements and other personally identifiable papers disappear as they shred into unrecognizable pulp. This is for area residents, not businesses. Everyone who brings paper for shredding will receive a free gift bag from sponsor Arundel Federal.
Third National Take Back Initiative: Safety Dispose of Prescription Drugs to Keep Them Out of Our Bay and Drinking Water 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., lobby of Annapolis Police Department, 199 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis  The National Take Back Initiative provides a venue for disposal of unwanted or unused prescription or over-the=counter drugs. It is completely anonymous, no identification is requested of people disposing of medications, and people are therefore encouraged to remove identifying labels from containers. Liquid medications should be in a sealed container to prevent leakage. Other medications may be disposed of in their original containers, or directly into the disposal box. They are NOT accepting needles or injectibles.
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