May 12 Minutes and Plans for June 2nd Beach Clean-up

Greetings friends at Unity,

Please find below details for our June 2 beach clean-up. Our May 12 meeting minutes are below the photo and available at our blog: https://uv-environmental-action-team.blogspot.com/

On Sunday June 2, we will depart Unity of the Valley at 12:30 for the Oregon coast as part of the Oregon Shores Coast watch program (https://oregonshores.org/miles/). 

We will carpool. Please reply to me at this email or text or call me (541-337-4285) if you plan on driving a vehicle.  I want to make sure everyone has a seat who wants to go. 

We are heading west to Florence, then north on the 101.  The best parking and access to our clean-up mile is the Day Use area at Carl Washburn State Park (https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=85). Please do not park in the camping area, go to the ocean/west side of the state park near the restrooms.  We will gather at that site and decide if we want to split into two or more groups or stick together. We can then proceed to clean up 1 mile going south and 1 mile going north.

We will produce a report of our activities. You can view previous Coast Watch reports for Mile 181 here:  https://oregonshores.org/mile/mile-181-carl-g-washburne-sp-blowout-creek/#mile-report-all-mile-reports

For those who wish to stay longer, we will coordinate that possibility. But I will leave the beach at 4:30pm and arrive at Unity around 6pm. 

 

 

 UV EAT Meeting Minutes. 5/10/24

You can find our previous and current meeting notes here:  https://uv-environmental-action-team.blogspot.com/

Present: Ron Coffman, Betsy Priddle, Joe, Diane, Denice, Rex, Chloe, Michael, Ali, Shawn

Michael updated us on the coast trip planned for June 2nd.

There are currently 8 people who have committed to going. A reminder will be sent to those folks by email by Michael.

We will leave after service (12:30) 

There are 3 seats in Michael's vehicle and a possible 5 in Denice's.  People need to decide who rides with whom.

We sign a waiver and receive directions as we gather up.

Michael has compostable bags for garbage collection.

We gather garbage and learn how to write up a brief report about the "collection".

After this "exploratory trip" EAT will decide if we want to cover a mile of beach quarterly.

Next, Ron Coffman and Betsy reported on their evening with Interfaith Earthkeepers.

They summarized that the main purpose of this group is to work together with other churches. They want to be advised of events/projects, so that people from churches in the area can participate.

Ron Coffman will update the Interfaith Earth Keepers in Eugene about our plans.

1. https://interfaithearthkeepers.org/  They hold meetings on the 2^nd Wed. of every month at 12:00-1:30pm. If you want to learn more, contact them at the website linked above.

QUESTION Posed at the meeting:

 What are the creative ways Eugene/Springfield churches can collaborate with Earth Care?

They divided into 4 groups to discuss the question and recorded their single idea on a sticky note. These notes were sorted by:

AWARENESS,       COMMUNICATION,            ACTION               PERSONAL GREEN CHOICES

These 4 "posters" were recorded and can be sent out to other churches.

The meeting ended with a beautiful benediction.

Our group asked what other events were going on in the area that we might participate in....

Betsy mentioned Willamette Watershed (Katie Geisel had spoken to the group) 

Denice mentioned McKenzie River Trust, who offers volunteer opportunities on their website.