Category — SOCIETY

Date: September 19, 2010

Location: Community park near E. 20^th St. and MLK Parkway, Chico CA

Time: 10-3pm

The Chico Canine Carnival is a family and pet-friendly community event, which is quickly becoming a much loved annual event- and YOU’RE INVITED to come join in the fun!

Enjoy a full day of fun with pets, food, and kids’ activities, with cool canine contests and demonstrations that celebration the love between humans and their best friends! Well-behaved dogs on leash are welcome. 

For more information about this event visit: www.buttehumane.org or call 530-894-9066 x 14.

Our country – and the rest of the World for that matter – is under the thumb of an enemy a thousand times more vicious than the “Red Coats” ever were in 1776.

This enemy systematically destroys our rivers, our forests, our water tables, our oceans… even the sky over our heads and the air we breathe.   This enemy is taking our livelihood away by sending our jobs overseas while plunging every one of us in debts too huge to ever be paid back, hence the steady economic erosion we are now seeing.

We all know by now that  our future and our children’s future are more than compromised.

Who is the culprit ?   This enemy is everywhere; it is a vampire that has infiltrated itself into our very own blood stream and now controls almost all of our actions and decisions.   GREED !

Greed is this infectious disease that kills the goose that lays golden eggs: by wanting more and more and more of any and everything, we are all guilty of blowing up mountain tops, of drying up water tables that were keeping the land alive, of poisoning rivers and water supplies…  It is not BP that is now destroying the Gulf of Mexico, it is our relentless thirst for comfort and convenience much beyond what is needed to live a happy and productive life.   It is us turning on our AC when it is not absolutely necessary who are killing dolphins and sea turtles;  it is us by mindlessly speeding on the road who are destroying the livelihood of all the people who somehow make a living off the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico, and in many other places around the world that have similar problems we simply don’t talk about.

The time of short-sighted delusion is over.   The time of reckoning is now.

If cure starts with proper diagnostic, then it is time that we identify the real problem and the real solutions.   The problem is that we all ask too much of our only planet;  and a cure won’t come from dreaming about “magical alternate technologies” that will somehow be implemented by “someone else” and let us continue reveling in self indulgence.  The cure is a return to the values that had kept society together until the rise of universal greed:  RESPECT – COMMON SENSE – FORTITUDE – HUMILITY – SELF-SACRIFICE – GENEROSITY – RESPONSIBILITY…

These values plaid a critical role in founding this country; they will now have to play a critical role in restoring it, on the condition that we get off our butts and steadfastly declare INDEPENDENCE from this cancerous greed tumor.   The REVOLUTION that has to ensue now is one of true action and true transformed behaviors.

Gerard Ungerman
Documentary Filmmaker
Founder of Green Transition Chico

Both ARC Stores (Chico & Oroville) recycle EWaste in accordance with Calif regulations.  Drop off any old electronics that have been gathering dust in your garage!  Computers, TVs, VCRs, monitors…anything with a plug!!

Sat, July 17th, 9am-1pm

Chico ARC Store: 2020 Park Ave
Oroville ARC Store: 2745 Oro Dam Blvd.

Have questions?? Call 343.3666 or 532.1272 or visit www.thearcstore.org

Money raised by this recycling event benefits the ARC of Butte County’s Family Support Programs, which now serve approx 900 special needs children and adults with developmental disabilities in Butte & Glenn Counties. www.arcbutte.org

Americans and the World to join hands in the largest gathering against offshore oil drilling in history.  We are joining hands to say NO TO OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING and YES TO CLEAN ENERGY.

The mission is to change our energy policy away from its dependence on fossil fuels and into the light of clean energy. The aim is to convince our leaders to abandon expanded offshore oil drilling and adopt policies that encourage clean and renewable energy sources.

We will be united against the dangers offshore oil drilling present to our oceans and marine wildlife, fishing industries and coastal economies.

Please Join us between 11:00 am and 11:30 am to hold hands at noon in solidarity with others around the world.

http://handsacrossthesand.org/organize.php?state=California

Please walk or ride bikes to the park and leave the vehicles at home if you can.

 You can visit the event page on Facebook to find out more.

A group called “Friends of Chico Bocce” was recently started by Mike Cannon after the success of the now Annual “Bocce Ball Tournament” organized by KZFR at the Red Tavern on Esplanade.

The main goals of “Friends of Chico Bocce” is to establish public bocce courts for our community enjoyment and to teach and promote this fun, totally non invasive game coming from Italy.  Bocce is popular around the world and is a perfect communal game for families and senior citizens.

With the help of many supporters including Vice Mayor Tom Nickell, Mike is trying to convince the Bidwell Park & Playground Commission to build a double bocce court at the One Mile Recreation Area.  With “Friends of Chico Bocce”, Mike would build and keep up these very low maintenance bocce courts himself.

Supporting this inititiative will not only promote an opportunity for good, friends and family-oriented communal fun, it will also promote the idea that one doesn’t need a downpour of energy and ensuing environmental impact to entertain themselves on a sunny Sunday afternoon…

Mike Cannon can be reached at MichaelwCannon@sbcglobal.net and (530) 519-4930.