Missing Black Lives Matter Sign Reappears / October 11, 2022

Community, News, Social Concerns

The mysterious August disappearance of the Black Lives Matter sign from the yard at New Garden Friends Meeting was resolved on October 11. Members of the landscape maintenance crew for New Garden Cemetery spotted the sign in the woods near the cemetery. They pulled the sign from its hiding place and hauled it to the meetinghouse, where they alerted Valerie Harris, the office manager. The landscapers used a vehicle to transport the bulky sign, which…

Presentation of the Book, by Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness / Ocober 19, 2022

Community, News, Social Concerns

The North Carolina Fellowship of Friends Anti-Racism Working Group is doing a presentation and discussion of Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl on Wednesday, October 19 @ 7PM via Zoom. Please come whether you have read the book or not. Patricia Gutzwiller from New Garden Friends Meeting and Mary Nell Smith from First Friends will be doing the presentation and leading the discussion. Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82097545202?pwd=VkgzYThwekQyenNheThHUStSTlVmdz09

Local Quaker History Tour / October 15 , 2022

Community, News

On Saturday, October 15, a 2:00 pm tour of the New Garden burial ground will focus on the wealth of stories interred there among Quaker activists, educators, sports figures, and other interesting “characters.” This tour will take the place of the usual Hallowe’en tour (without “actors”) which can’t be offered this year owing to scheduling conflicts. For further information, contact Max Carter at: [email protected] or 336-292-7316.

Community Housing Solutions Will Join Adult Forum / October 16, 2022

Community, Environment, Families, News

Come in person or on Zoom to the Adult Forum on October 16 th (9:30) to hear Gene Brown, director of Community Housing Solutions. Friends may remember that we donated $30,000 to this organization as a part of our Solar Panel project. Learn about the work this organization does for people in our community who need assistance remaining safely in their own homes. Karin Heller will send out the Zoom connection in an upcoming “Religious…

Bivalent Covid Vaccine / October 2022

Community, Covid-19, News

Friends are advised that Bivalent Covid vaccines are now available to improve immunity to Covid including variants which have been recently more predominant. These vaccines are available with little or no wait at your local pharmacy and can be given at the same time as your annual Influenza booster. Vaccinated persons, according to recent studies, are ten times less likely to suffer severe repercussions from Covid. Influenza is unfortunately anticipated to be more severe this…

You Can Help Recycle Styrofoam in Greensboro! / October 2022

Community, Environment, News

Did you know you can recycle foam (better known by its trademark Styrofoam) in Greensboro? Since mid-2020 the Triad Foam Recycling Coalition has been working to keep foam out of our landfills where it lasts hundreds of years. Coalition partners (Greensboro Beautiful, Tiny House Community Development, Emerging Ecology, and Environmental Stewardship Greensboro) opened a drop-off site at 1310 West Gate City Boulevard near UNCG. Since then the coalition has added trailers at 4 more sites…

Dream.org Brings Regenerative Agriculture to Under-served Communities in the Triad / October 2022

Community, Environment, News, Social Concerns

Matthew Armstrong, Director of the Institute for Regenerative Design and Innovation is launching Renew Forsyth, a campaign sponsored by Dream.org to bring regenerative agriculture to underserved communities in the Triad. Long story short, we’re trying to address poverty and climate through education (living labs) and by creating “food innovation districts” in Winston-Salem and Greensboro. Much of our work has already begun. If you’d like an introduction through an essay I recently published, check out “Renew…

White Voices Against Racism Tours / September & October 2022

Community, News

Tour 1: September 17 – 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – Guilford Woods, The Underground Railroad The significance of the woods as a place of refuge has been passed down through the years. Abolitionist Levi Coffin grew up north of the site and references these woods between his home and his New Garden Quaker Meeting as a place of refuge. The case of John Dimery’s escape and quick movement to Indiana in 1819 is the…

Vote Now for Participatory Budgeting Projects / October 2022

Community, Environment, News, Youth

On-line voting has begun for projects in your neighborhood under the City’s Participatory Budgeting Program. Greensboro residents 14 and older will help decide how to spend $500,000 in City funds by voting in Participatory Budgeting (PB) Greensboro until October 15 at www.PBGreensboro.com. Proposed projects on the ballot this year include street sign toppers to identify historically significant neighborhoods (proposed by the New Garden Guilford College Area Alliance), bus shelters, water-bottle filling stations, outdoor fitness equipment, teen…