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Sunday May 18, 2008
Start: 8:00 am
End: 6:00 pm

We encourage local groups and organizations to put on workshops about Localiztion issues; Sustainablity skills & technology, and Watershed issues throughout the town of Willits on this day.  WELL will gladly advertise and promote such workshops to Willits residents and to those from our neighboring communities who will be coming to Willits to attend RLNC on Saturday.

Monday May 19, 2008
Sunday May 25, 2008
Start: 8:00 am
End: 11:00 am

Pancake Breakfast

Sunday June 1, 2008
Start: 10:00 am
End: 4:00 pm

How Does Your Garden Grow?

The Grateful Gleaners will put on their annual Plant Sale (Flowers, Vegetables, & Herbs) on the South West Corner of W. Mendocino & Spruce in Willits on Sunday, June 1 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

What do you want for YOUR garden?

 For information call (707) 459-5490 x555. Leave a message and you will receive a prompt reply!

Monday June 2, 2008
Start: 6:15 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Raj Patel will be discussing his first book, Stuffed & Staved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.

From Raj's Website, here is a description of his background:

"I'm currently a visiting scholar in the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, a Fellow at the Institute of Food and Development Policy and a Research Associate at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. I've just returned from two years working in South Africa, based out of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Before that, I was a Policy Analyst at the Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First, where I learned about the importance of land struggles, and got involved with The Land Research Action Network. The book that I co-edited with the network has just come out, and is available online, free, at Food First/promisedland.

Land reform politics are a new way for me to look at institutions like the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the IMF. Of these three, I have in the past worked for two. Before Food First, I volunteered with SEATINI (Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Initiative), in Harare, Zimbabwe where I was doing my PhD research, and working with some fine activists including men from Padare, a pro-feminist men's group.

All of this was in the service of a PhD, which I gained from Cornell University's Department of Development Sociology. Before that, I was a researcher in UNCTAD's Least Developed Countries Programme, to which I arrived with a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Philosophy Politics and Economics, from Balliol College, Oxford."

Saturday June 7, 2008
Start: 9:00 am
End: 3:00 pm

June 7th and 8th   

"Save the Grange" Flea Market at the Little Lake Grange - School Street & Pine

Sat - 9am to 3pm

Sunday 10am to 2pm.

Back Parking Lot.

  This event will sell appliances, collectables, baby items, clothing, jewelry, furniture, books, local art & crafts,a bake sale and more!!  Come and find some treasures and support the "Save the Grange" fund while you shop.

Donations still needed.  Drop off at the Frame shop until  June 7th.

The costs for necessary and urgent repairs to the building are roughly estimated to be around $400,000.

Sunday June 8, 2008
Start: 10:00 am

June 7th and 8th   

"Save the Grange" Flea Market at the Little Lake Grange - School Street & Pine

Sat - 9am to 3pm

Sunday 10am to 2pm.

Back Parking Lot.

  This event will sell appliances, collectables, baby items, clothing, jewelry, furniture, books, local art & crafts,a bake sale and more!!  Come and find some treasures and support the "Save the Grange" fund while you shop.

Donations still needed.  Drop off at the Frame shop until  June 7th.

The costs for necessary and urgent repairs to the building are roughly estimated to be around $400,000.

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