Marylea and I were blessed yesterday to be invited to a meeting to discuss organizing, coordinating, planning events for the weekend of March 16th.

March 16th will be five years since Rachel Corrie's passing and the group would like to keep an underlying theme of remembering Rachel for all the events that weekend.  The Choral Society already has their War and Hope concert planned  for Sunday, March 16th at 7 pm. We will approach that group and invite them to openly connect their event with the other events that will be happening and remembering Rachel. 

The Olympia Friends Monthly Meeting - Friends/Quakers - will be welcoming our friend Adrien Niyongabo back to Olympia on that weekend.  We have an event planned for Adrien at the Longhouse at TESC for Sunday.  

Adrien is a survivor of the unimaginable violence in Rwanda and Burundi in the 1990s and he currently works with the African Great Lakes Initiative on surviving trauma, alternatives to violence, reintegrating communities where tribal/ethnic violence has riven the communities. 

I recommend the film Hotel Rwanda if you want to know more about what happened in Rwanda and Burundi in the early 1990s and if you can stand the subject matter. I also recommend the Frontline film Ghosts of Rwanda if you want to see a less glamorized version of the story.   

As someone with an interest in water quality issues, I was pleased to see this article in our daily news organ. By happenstance, I was speaking with someone about stormwater  last night (yes, I'm a lot of fun) and this question came up. Is there a map or listing that shows which street drains lead to LOTT and which lead to Moxlie "Creek"?   My conversation partner was imagining improvements to our downtown alleys that might help mitigate some of the problems described in today's artice.  Perhaps a Stream Teamer would know.

Hope you're all having a swale day.

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Marylea and I were blessed yesterday to be invited to a meeting to discuss organizing, coordinating, planning events for the weekend of March 16th.

March 16th will be five years since Rachel Corrie's passing and the group would like to keep an underlying theme of remembering Rachel for all the events that weekend. The Choral Society already has their War and Hope concert planned for Sunday, March 16th at 7 pm. We will approach that group and invite them to openly connect their event with the other events that will be happening and remembering Rachel.

The Olympia Friends Monthly Meeting - Friends/Quakers - will be welcoming our friend Adrien Niyongabo back to Olympia on that weekend. We have an event planned for Adrien at the Longhouse at TESC for Sunday.

Adrien is a survivor of the unimaginable violence in Rwanda and Burundi in the 1990s and he currently works with the African Great Lakes Initiative on surviving trauma, alternatives to violence, reintegrating communities where tribal/ethnic violence has riven the communities.

I recommend the film Hotel Rwanda if you want to know more about what happened in Rwanda and Burundi in the early 1990s and if you can stand the subject matter. I also recommend the Frontline film Ghosts of Rwanda if you want to see a less glamorized version of the story.