Buy your dinner and/or raffle tickets on the event page online or in the foyer (volunteers must buy tickets by mail or in the foyer).

Raffle tickets $3 each or 6 for $15.

NEW Raffle items so far:

1. Gift certificate for one-night stay at Novato Oaks Inn
2. RE Basket -- Wine, chocolate, games
3. Committee on Ministry - Wine basket
4. Pastoral Care - Chocolate basket
5. Margaret Johnston - Handmade silk scarf

Saturday, February 7, 2015   7:00 P.M.

Doors open at 6:30 pm.

240 Channing Way, San Rafael, CA  

San Francisco Dungeness Crab, Sher's Boston Clam Chowder, Caesar Salad, and Sourdough Bread

               $45.00  Adult

Adult price if you sign up to do a volunteer job: $35

No-Host Bar

Corkage fee $15

Reservations please by Feb. 1

Vegan pasta alternative $20 Adult, $10 Child 

Children 12 and under: Crab Dinner $20

 Children's program, age 12 and under: $15 includes games, art, music, and movie.

(All prices $5 more at the door.)

Music by Lucky Drive Bluegrass Trio 

 Mike Wilhoyte, Karen Wilhoyte, and Nicole Solis Snider

Questions crabfeed@uumarin.org 

Please make welcome Sarah Scott, a student of drama therapy. She has a background in voice, and women's studies and taught school in Africa. She is a friend of Sue Gauthier-Pin and Ashley Adamkowski. Sarah is delighted to be working with and learning alongside our teens.

Thank you to everyone who attended.  At the meeting, we voted "Yes" that

the UUA statement on Reproductive Justice should be submitted as an agenda

item to the 2015 General Assembly.

We also performed an exercise to start getting our arms around building

project priorities.  My suggested priorities after evaluating the data from the exercise is as follows:

#1:  Update Downstairs Bathroom (preceded by resolving water leakage problem), plumbing work is already under way

#2:  Wright Room Water Problem

#3:  Fellowship Hall: Replace the two doors that are obviously broken and can't close

Group #4 (further prioritization needed within group): Women's Bathroom, Lobby, Interior Hallway, Clara Barton Room, Exterior Courtyard Lighting, Kitchen

Group #5 (further prioritization needed within group): Fellowship Hall, Wagon Wheel Lighting, Community Room, Men's Bathroom, Dream Room, Jef's Office

Let's all keep in mind that this is a high level tool that can be used by the Board to help us focus money and resources on the things that we all agree are important. Let's also keep in mind that this list should not stop anyone from taking action on minor, low-cost problems wherever they occur, regardless of where they are on this list.

Data from exercise: (See attached file: UUCM Bldg Project Priority Groups.pdf)

Thank you to everyone who participated.  If you have any concerns about the above stated priorities, please let me know.

Dianne

Thanks go to this week's Shelter volunteers: Sandra and Joel Gluck

Note to shelter volunteers from Joan:

To donate a dish to the homeless shelter on February 1, please let me know, as usual, what you want to contribute.

However if you leave your dish at the UUCM kitchen in the morning, please inform Grace Dearborn, instead of Joan. Grace will take it to the shelter.

Thanks!  figleafjoan@comcast.net 415-595-6221

Come be curious....Who IS Job?  What IS patience? 

This month's book choice is Elsewhere by Richard Russo. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist turns to memoir in this hilarious and bittersweet account of his lifelong bond with his high strung, spirited mother and the small town she spent her life trying to escape. Jean Russo instilled in her son her dream of a better life elsewhere, a dream that prompted her to follow him across the country when he went to college.

Their adventures and tribulations on that road trip were a preview of the hold his mother would continue to have on him as she kept trying desperately to change her life.  All are welcome to join us in the Clara Barton room at 7:30 pm for a discussion of the book facilitated by Pamela Lyons.  This is a new release so there is a short wait from the library (less than a week).

A great opportunity: If you've ever wanted to read the story during Sunday Service, now is your chance to sign up. We need people to read on those Sundays when Jef Melcher, DRE, has a scheduled day off. The DRE provides the story; you get the glory of being the storyteller.

Anyone can do this enjoyable job, just click here and sign up through our SignUpGenius portal.

UUCM is one of many UU congregations that participate in the interfaith Standing on the Side of Love advocacy campaign.  

Each year we recognize a Marin County resident who lives and acts according to the SSL values of inclusion, diversity, and equality. This year's award will be presented at the Sunday service on Feb. 15. The recipient will be the Marin Interfaith Council's hardworking Street Chaplain, Rev. Paul Gaffney.

If you are involved in or are the recipient of services from a local nonprofit that you believe in, you can designate that agency as a UUCM Basket Share recipient. Please submit a short paragraph describing what the agency means to you, and why UUCM should support it, to

figleafjoan@comcast.net or 415-453-6221.

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