Blue & Grey Debutante Ball

Saturday, March 24, 2007, 6:00 pm-Midnight
The Ukrainian Club, 1040 Jackson Rd., Webster

The Sons of Union Veterans Lincoln Camp #6 & Daughters of Union Veterans Tent #56,
The Guy-Thurmon Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans
&
Louisa Mercedes Dragoon Chapter of The Order of the Confederate Rose
Cordially Invite You To the 6th Annual Blue & Grey Civil War Debutante Ball

Buffet Supper, Live Music and Dancing by City Fiddle,
Cash Bar, Door Prizes, Debutante and Essay Winner Presentations

For information call Shirley Boris at (315) 483-4728

Nineteenth-Century Style Sugaring-Off Party

Saturday, March 24, 2007, 5:00-9:00 PM
Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Road, Mumford.












In the tradition of New England long ago. Family-style dinner featuring traditional 19th-century foods, live music, and dancing.


There's a steep admission charge, so call ahead at 585-538-6822.

Eat Drink Dance Paint Rock Declaim for Peace

Saturday, March 24, 2007, from 11 am to 11 pm:

Music & Arts Concert for Peace at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, 402 South Avenue

11:00 am to 3:00 pm: Graffiti painting workshop

3:00 pm to 11:00 pm: Concert with
-Draffin
-Subsoil
-Deborah Magone
-Spirit of Ontario
-Musicface
-Christopher Robin
-RAW Street Theatre

St. Joe's is also a homeless shelter and parking is somewhat limited. Call 585-436-1786 for more information.

Hotel Workers Seeking Better Wages, Work Conditions

TURSDAY, MARCH 22nd, 2007 UNITE HERE HALL 750 EAST AVENUE
ROCHESTER, NY 14607
4:00 PM

Please join community members, labor organizations, advocates and members of clergy to learn more about the Crowne Plaza Rochester Organizing Campaign, how this campaign affects the community, and what our community can do to help workers in the Rochester area!

For more information, or to confirm attendance, call Vanessa Mangan at 585-469-4217.




Vanessa Lynn Mangan
Community Campaign Coordinator
UNITE HERE!
Rochester Regional Joint Board
750 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
OFFICE: (585) 242-7558
CELL: (585) 469-4217
FAX: (585)-242-7562
vmangan@uhrrjb.org

"Healthscaping" - Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World

Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 7 pm
St. Monica's Church, 831 Genesee Street
Free and open to the Public

Tom Farley, MD, MPH, is the Chairman of the Department of Community Health at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is coauthor of Prescription for a Healthy Nation, in which he argues for changing everyday environments as the best way to prevent the leading causes of death in the 21st century.

At Tulane, he is currently the Director of a CDC-funded Prevention Research Center to study the impact of the physical and social environment on obesity. He teaches courses in public health practice and in policy-based approaches to health promotion. Since Hurricane Katrina struck, he has been working to rebuild New Orleans in ways that promote health.

The Journal of the American Medical Association hailed his "important message that should be shared with everyone" as "perhaps the best solution to this nation's health care woes."

Says Dr. Farley, "In America we spend nearly twice as much for health care as any other nation. So why are we among the sickest people in the industrialized world? Something is wrong about the way we are approaching health in the United States. We don't need another health care reform plan, we need a new way to think about health."

Dr. Farley will be coming to Rochester as part of a lecture series co-sponsored by the Medical Center at the University of Rochester, the Rochester Regional Community Design Center and Sector 4 Community Development Corporation.

Dr. Farley will be signing books and presenting a broader discussion of community health issues including childhood obesity on Tuesday, March 20 at 7:00 pm at St. Monica's Church located at 831 Monica Street, at the corner of Monica Street.

This event is free and open to the public.
His talk also kicks off a three-day conference, "Design Matters 4: Emergence of Forgotten Neighborhoods," on creative strategies for reclaiming vacant and abandoned properties.
For additional information on the lecture or conference, please contact RRCDC (585) 271-0520, astewart@rrcdc.org, www.rrcdc.org .

Forgotten Neighborhoods

Design Matters 4: Emergence of Forgotten Neighborhoods


Join us this March 20-22 for a conference on community-based approaches to solving issues of abandoned and underutilized properties in city neighborhoods. The conference brings to town experts in revitalization from Baltimore and Providence to share strategies with our local community organizers, city officials, developers, and individuals working for change in their neighborhoods.

Conference Schedule:

Tuesday, March 20th

Kick-off Lecture

7 pm - Improving Our Health by Fixing Our Everyday World
Location: 831 Genesee Street

Wednesday, March 21

Neighborhood Tours - Explore challenges, tour vacant properties and learn about the creative solutions some neighborhoods are employing to build community capital while reusing abandoned properties. Led by Community Organizers and Design Professionals.

choose two:
9:00 - 11:30 a
Northeast Neighborhoods - Conkey and Hudson Avenue areas
OR
Southwest Neighborhoods - Plymouth/Genesee Street areas

1:00-3:30 p
Marketview Heights Neighborhood - Union Street area
OR
Northwest Neighborhoods - Dewey Avenue

Public Discussion

7 pm - Reclaiming Vacant Property in Baltimore and Providence
A talk at the Downtown Community Forum, featuring Mark Cameron of the Baltimore Neighborhood Design Center and Linda Weisinger, Deputy Director of Providence-based SWAP (Stop Wasting Abandoned Properties).
Location: 15 St. Mary's Place

Thursday, March 22
Panel Workshops - Dialogues with local and national experts dealing with challenges of revitalizing vacant properties.

choose two:
9:00 - 10:15 a
Challenges to Preserving Neighborhoods
OR
Neighborhood Economies

10:30 - noon
Empowering Neighborhoods
OR
Neighoborhood Appearance

LUNCH

Mini-Charrette
1:00 - 3:00 p
Active Participation and Brainstorming - Developing strategies for challenged sites in the toured neighborhoods

Registration: $35, includes tours, panel discussions and lunch on Thursday.
Evening talks are FREE and open to the public.

For more information or to register, contact RRCDC:
(585) 271-0520, www.rrcdc.org , astewart@rrcdc.org

Witness for Peace - a one hour vigil

Sunday, March 18th , 2007
Noon to 1pm
East Ave. & Goodman, Rochester, New York
(Extending east, on both sides of the street to Culver and beyond)

Please join the Witness for Peace Vigil in solemn observance of the 4th Anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq.

Join the interfaith community and peace organizations across the Rochester area to show your support for ending the war and bringing our troops home.

Co-sponsored by Greater Rochester Community of Churches, The Interfaith Alliance of Rochester, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Commission on Christian Muslim Relations, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Lake Avenue Baptist Church Mission Ministry, Pax Christi, Peace Action and Education, Rochester Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of St. Joseph, the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, Spiritus Christi Church, First Unitarian Church Peace Advocates, Rochester Against War, Downtown United Presbyterian Church Justice Ministry, Progressives in Action, Interfaith Impact of NYS, Declaration of Peace, Women of Reform Judaism, Military Families Speak Out. Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace, Geneseo Ecumenical Coalition for Peace

More information about this event can be found at www.grcc.org or by calling Gail Mott at 381-5606

Mini-Golf on campus!

Monday 3/19/2007
RIT SAU
noon to 9pm

On Monday, walk-up registrations will be taken throughout the event; however, if you need to play at a certain time, try to register today.

Help kickoff the 2007 RIT United Way Campaign and sharpen your short game before the golf season gets underway!

Contact Lynn Rowoth with any questions at 475-7408 or at lcrgrl@rit.edu .

St. Patrick's Day Parade

Saturday, March 17th East Ave. and Main St., downtown Rochester starts at 12:30pm

The parade begins at 12:30 on East Ave. near Alexander Street. It moves down East Ave. toward the city, turns west at Main St. and then will proceed down Main to Plymouth Ave.

For more info, call 234-5167 or
go to www.rochesterparade.com

Town Hall meeting - save Rochester schools

Thursday, March 22nd
6:30pm
Roger Robach Community Center (the "Beach House")
200 Beech Street, Charlotte (up by the beach, across from Abbott's)

Town Hall Meeting to Get our Children What They Need to Succeed with Manny Rivera and Joseph Robach

For the past year Metro Justice has been working with the Alliance for Quality Education to take politics out of school funding in New York State and bring home much needed funding to needy school districts.

THIS IS IT!!!

For years Pataki and the state legislature obstructed a court order to create equitable funding for school districts (some districts on Long Island provide horseback riding lessons for their students while students in Franklin High School here in the city don't even have enough books). With Spitzer as Governor we have a shot at finally overhauling the system.

We need to turn out a massive crowd for this event. This is the culmination of years of organizing.

Governor Spitzer's plan includes the reforms that AQE has been working for:

• smaller class sizes
• expanding after-school programs
• universal pre-K
• holding school board, principals and teachers accountable for student achievement
• statewide property tax relief

But Senate Majority Leader Bruno is presenting an education budget proposal that attempts to buy off needy districts with more money without addressing disparities in funding. For instance, Bruno's plan would provide high needs districts (like Rochester) a 7.7%-10.9% increase, but would also provide a whopping 15.6% to wealthy districts, thereby increasing advantages to students from wealthy neighborhoods. Nor does Bruno's proposal include any accountability, or extra funding for pre-K, or after-school programs.

Will Senator Joe Robach show independence from the Republican Majority Leaders and vote for equitable funding, or will he go along with Bruno's plan to increase wealthy districts' advantages?

Please come and put your body in the crowd!


New York State has the highest level of inequality of any state in the nation. Our school funding formula shouldn't make the problem worse.

See you there!

Rosemary Rivera, Alliance for Quality Education Organizer
for more info, go to MetroJustice.com

Step It Up rally

April 14th, from 2 to 4 PM at Twelve Corners in Brighton
(intersection of Winton, Monroe and Elmwood)

MARCH TO CALL FOR BOLD ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
http://www.stepitup2007.org

Step it Up is a campaign to raise awareness and call on Congress to take action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The technology exists today to make the necessary cuts in emissions, but legislation and funding are necessary to put this technology into practice.

Come join us to make the biggest possible statement to Rochester and our local leaders that addressing Climate Change should be a top priority.

For more information contact:

Keri A. Kaminsky
kakaminsky@frontiernet.net or kakaminsky@yahoo.com