From the Rev. Anne McKeever

I offer gratitude to my Trinity Family for your  love and support as I've coped with pneumonia and pertussis (whooping cough) these last six weeks. I love my Trinity Family! Thanks, too, for your heartfelt sympathy and condolences for the Dryden and McKeever families for the death of our beloved mother June Anne Dryden. She died a beautiful, peaceful death in hospice care October 17th after suffering a stroke on October 10th. Wednesday we moved my father, Harold Dryden, o a studio apartment in St. John's Retirement Village in Woodland, the same community that offered my mother's hospice cottage. All are welcome to attend the service for Junie on Saturday, November 17, at 10 a.m. at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 515 Second Street, Woodland, with a luncheon to follow in the Great Hall. I am under strict doctor's orders to take it easy and to talk as little as possible. This is challenging for me, as I love to talk. Please when you greet me, do all the talking and ask me few questions. If you catch me babbling away, please give me the gentle sign for "Hush" with your finger to your lips. I look forward to seeing you all this Sunday when we celebrate baptisms, confirmations and the canonization of my role model and dear frriend, Nancy Tennyson.

Commemoration of All Faithful Departed

Friday, November 2 at 9 am

We will gather in the Cathedral to remember the All Faithful Departed. It is a liturgy that celebrates the lives of those we love but see no longer and is rooted in the Good News of the Resurrection.  Please join us on this holy day.

Floyd School

Clothes Closet

The past 2 months have been very busy for the Floyd School Clothes Closet and in Josephine Hein's words "the clothes closet supplies are decimated." So we are looking for gently used children's clothing from infant to 6th grade. We are especially in need of underwear and socks for both boys and girls. The Clothes Closet policy is to give two pairs of socks and underwear for each child and our supply is gone. We also need warm sweatshirts and or jackets as well as long pants for all children.

Back Snacks

Along with the Clothes Closet our Back Snack supplies are dwindling. We need oatmeal packets, fruit cups, maccaroni & cheese boxes, tuna peanut butter and granola bars.

Please place all of your donations in the Floyd School barrels under the stairs.

New Family

This week a new family, the Johnson family, has come to Floyd School. who. The single mom family is from New York and has 5 children ages 13, 9, 7, 5 and 5 month old baby. We were able to get the baby clothing and diapers but the older children need shoes and clothing. They also need beds and bedding, kitchen chairs, and living room furniture. If you can help please contact Nancy Tennyson.

First Grade Books

One of the first grade teachers is looking for gently used books for the children in her class to take home. Please place any children's books you can donate in the Floyd school barrels.

Bishops Visitation on All Saints

Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4

Bishop Barry Beisner will preach at the Saturday 5:10 service and celebrate and preach at the 7:30, 9:00 and 11:15 services on Sunday.

Also on Sunday...

...at 9:00 Nancy Tennyson will be installed as a Diocesan Canon    (with incense). No Childrens Chapel.

...at 11:15 there are baptisms and confirmations.

...pledge ingathering at ALL services.

Installation of Canon for Family Ministries

Students in grades 6-12 are invited to attend the 9 a.m. service together on November 4th to witness the canonization of our beloved Nancy Tennyson by Bishop Beisner. Then join us in the Great Hall for the coffee hour from 10:15 -11:15 am when we will celebrate Nancy Tennyson's 20 years of ministry to Trinity's children and families. Please come forward to say a few words into the microphone about what Mrs. Tennyson has done to encourage your spiritual growth at Trinity. Sunday School will resume for 6th-12th graders November 11th.

Newcomers' Group

Sunday's at 10:15am in Room C 

Safe Guarding God's Children Video

Sunday, November 11 at 10:15 am in Room A.

For Parents, Grandparents and all others who are interested

We will be showing the Safe Guarding God's Children video that is required for all who work with children in the church.

Dean Baker and Canon Nancy Tennyson will be there to lead discussion and answer questions after the video. The video is ½ hour long so we will need to start right at 10:15 so we will have time for discussion. Hope to see you there!

Family Promise

November 18-25

YES, that is Thanksgiving Week and I will need help. And what a wonderful way for you to give thanks for your abundance - by giving of your time and talent, helping to prepare a warm, safe and welcome space for our three families. The sign-up poster is in the hall next to the bookshop - ready and waiting for your name to be added!!

 I am prayerfully looking for "a few good women/men" to help me with this ministry - being my assistants, if you will, to share the work load. I have been thinking and praying about this for some time. Now is the time to put my thoughts and wishes into action. I need help. If this "speaks" to you I welcome the opportunity to talk with you.

Lyle Gramling

lylegramling@comcast.net or 752-4376

Annual Giving Thanks Meal

Family Promise is with Trinity the week of Thanksgiving and in addition to serving those families we are offering a full meal on Thanksgiving Day to all who are without families and seeking a friendship - excellent food and communion with all. The past 2 years we have served nearly 80 guests! This year we are looking to do the same. We will be asking for donations of casseroles * vegetables * rolls * turkeys * coffee * servers-helpers and of course PIE! Please see the sign up donation sheet posted in the great hall or contact either Sally Smith (sally1369@comcast.net) or Tracy (rbpteambob@hotmail.com)

Michael Pollan and the Food Movement

by Ann Rothschild

"Vote for the Dinner Party," by UC Berkeley journalism professor Michael Pollan (New York Times Magazine, October 14) describes the "food movement" in America and our growing interest in healthy food and in knowing more about its production. He hopes this movement will grow enough to influence both food policies and large agri-businesses. Public trust has been betrayed by industrial food production: chemicals flavoring food, pharmaceuticals used in meat production, concentrated animal feeding operations, and genetically modified food-all requiring investigative reporting to expose the practices food conglomerates do not tell us about. Some salient points he makes:

• genetically modified foods "don't offer the eater any benefits whatsoever-only a potential, as yet undetermined, risk."
• In 1992 Monsanto and others "persuaded the Food and Drug Administration-over the objection of its own scientists-that the new crops were "substantially equivalent" to the old and so did not need to be labeled, much less regulated." So the new crops were revolutionary, needed patents and government support, but did not need to be labeled?
• More than 60 other countries label their GMOs, including China, Japan, European Union, and Russia.
• Monsanto and Dupont have spent $12 million to defeat Prop 37.
• Proposition 37 is about more than GMOs: the fight is really "about the power of Big Food," their "corporate control of regulation; lack of transparency (for consumers) and lack of choice (for farmers); an intensifying rain of pesticides on ever-expanding monocultures; and the monopolization of seeds...the genetic resources on which all of humanity depends."
• Although flawed, California's Prop. 37 gives information about the food we eat and a voice to all people, not just the elite.

Michael Pollan, and California Interfaith Power and Light endorse Prop. 37.

Other points to note:

• Children and infants are especially vulnerable to the dangers of GMOs.
• Tests found GM soy in 4 popular soy-based infant formulas (Similac Soy, Enfamil Pro Soybee, Walmart Soy, Gerber Good Start Soy).
• The US Government's WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program, distributing infant formula to over 2 million moms in 50 states, offers only GM brands.

Source: www.ResponsibleTechnology.org

Last Sunday evening was Pumpkin Night and we all had a great time eating delicious soup and mac and cheese prepared by chef Tom Robbins and spooky cookies decorated by Lovelyn Robbins. We also carved some great pumpkins and had a wonderful service in the Cathedral with Dean Baker and Canon Carey.

L to R:  Bob Giess, Steven Quevedo, Tom and Lovelyn Robbins, Nancy Tennyson

Special thanks go to all who came and to those who cooked and served us including Steven Quevedo, Bob Giess, Lovelyn and Tom Robbins. We all had a great time.