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Fun at the Kids Fair Pet Parade
The Alliance advocates, Pamela and Ashley were on hand to greet children and help them “fill their buckets” with good things. It was windy, and crowds were small, but everyone had a great time!
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Community Garden Wakes Up
Our garden is lonely. When we were housed in the bank building and the garden was just a few steps out the back door, we were able to attend to the garden’s needs on a regular basis. It was easy for us to walk out in the morning before work, during our lunch hour or after work to play in the garden. We could use our break time to run out and pull a weed or water a dry spot. It was wonderful to run out back and pick a tomato or some fresh herbs to go with whatever the potluck was that week. We could keep an eye on…
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Community Health and Domestic Violence
In the Alliance office, we are frequently thinking about ways to become healthier, physically and mentally. We try to eat healthy; our Friday potlucks generally consist of lentils, vegetables, gluten free pasta, mostly sugar free food, you know- healthy stuff. Also on our Potluck Fridays, we have a staff meeting where we begin by talking about what we are grateful for – a way to keep our outlook positive, then end with a bit of self care so none of get overwhelmed from the difficult work we do to end Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. We are aware of our physical and emotional health and we try to take care…
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Training Opportunity
On March 31, 2014, the Alliance will be offering a three hour training for volunteers, community partners and anyone interested in improving their response to victims of abuse. The topics to be covered will be: The Batterer as Parent – including how a batterer interacts with his children and the other parent as a victim. Domestic Violence and Children- what happens to a child when exposed to domestic violence? Sexual Assault- an overview including statistics, effect on the victim, drug facilitated rape. Drugs, Alcohol and Domestic Violence– does drinking cause violence? How victims cope and how it increases lethality. The training will begin at 9:00am and end at 12:00pm and…
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Challenge for Community Compassion
While working on the computer, doing research for an article, I have also been reading some of the Face Book sites, where people can talk about the crime that has been happening in our area. I see a lot of people complaining, wanting to run people out of town, put them in jail, or worse, they would like to see something bad happen to them. Some of the posters would like to be the ones doing the bad things to people. It shocks me that people would intentionally place “booby traps” to intentionally hurt or kill someone over a little stolen gas. I wonder where priorities lie. As I read…
