Yesterday, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors took an action that shifted its culture and moved toward more justice by adopting the Environmental Justice General Plan Element. This Environmental Justice element sets County policy to prioritize improvements and programs that address the needs of EJ communities such as our own area of West Arden Arcade.
Congratulations to Jill McMahon and Susan Madden for receiving Theater One’s Bobby Award!. The Bobby Award is awarded to outstanding achievement in Theater One and is named after Bobby Stewart who guided Theater One for many years. Jill and Susan are the reason Theater One has a children’s series. They have produced and provided funding
Are humans basically good, or rather more likely to harm others to get what we want? On Sunday, December 15, Rev. Roger’s sermon will be “What Good Is a Human Being? Human Nature in Unitarian Universalism”, continuing our ministers’ monthly series on “UU Theologies for the 21st century”. On Tuesday the 17th, come at either 2:00 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. for
This year we are partnering with International Rescue Committee Sacramento to support six families recently settled in our area as refugees through our Adopt A Family Event. During 2019, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Sacramento resettled nearly 800 refugees from countries such as Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria and other distressed regions of the world. These
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors meeting re adoption of the Environmental Justice Element: When: Tuesday, December 17. We’ll meet in the lobby at 1:30 to prepare. Where: Board of Supervisors Chambers, 700 H Street, Suite 1450 Join us if you would like to be in the room to show solidarity or if you would like to
Two Sundays ago I attended an interfaith event at the Sikh gurdwara north of Elk Grove off Bradshaw — not too far from us. This very welcoming community of Indian-Americans originally from the Punjab region bordering Pakistan and India, where ‘Sikhism’ was born, invited us to join them in celebrating their founder Guru Nanak’s 550th
Explore how our fears about dying and our hopes for an easy exit complicate and inspire end of life care. Molly Stuart will host in the Welcome Hall, with two short films and group discussion. The films are “Living, Dying and the Problem with Hope” by Dr. Leslie Blackhall and “We need a heroic narrative
