June 12, 2019

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For new Mountain Board Trustees & Nominating Committee Members click here .
The 40th Homecoming & Annual Meeting W eekend

This was a great event, with fabulous weather and lots of community spirit!

Newcomers felt welcomed and included, and there was a celebratory feel to the weekend, as we recognized our 40th anniversary and the Charter and Life Members who were present.

The Mountain Board of Trustees held their last meeting of the year and welcomed three new Trustees during the Annual Membership Meeting. For more info...

Julia Jamieson led the Memorial Service
in the Memorial Garden on Saturday.
Memorial Service 2019

We celebrated the lives of those who died in the past year, along with others named by the service participants. We acknowledged our loss experienced by our Mountain community by their passing:

  • Peggy Beard
  • Marcia Bystrom
  • Sue Folk
  • Flora MacDonald Gammon
  • Peg Hall
  • Marjean Erickson Jones
  • Claire Margaret Keane
  • The Reverend Clark Olsen
  • Myles Smith & Ortrude White
  • Theodore F. Wisniewski (Exec. Director Ted's father)
  • Geraldine Wood

Join us next time! Here is the Link for Upcoming Farm Events

Click HERE to learn more about our $4,000 Campership Matching Challenge and Drawing to win one week of traditional MountainCamp in 2020!
The Mountain Endowment Board Dessert Reception- 

 The Mountain Endowment Board hosted a dessert reception after dinner on Saturday, May 25th., nicely coordinated by Lois Lee and Kim Breivogel.

This was an opportunity to honor those who have included The Mountain Endowment Fund in their legacy plans and update everyone on what is happening with the Endowment, which has now reached nearly $350,000 !

Members of The Mountain Endowment Board were on hand to listen to people's thoughts about how the Endowment can make a difference for our beloved Mountain.

The 2018 Annual Report is now available to view or download . A limited number of printed copies are available upon request.

Summer & Fall Program Highlights
A Big Shout Out to MountainCamp Alums of All Ages!

Spread the word among those who you were at MountainCamp with--as campers, ASCENDERS, or Camp Staff!

We have a few traditional camp activities and excursions planned, but much of the time can be structured in the ways YOU and your peers would like.

This is a great way to experience the magic of The Mountain and create new memories together. We have old photos to share and need your help in identifying the people, places, and stories of the past.

The Mountain is here for you, as it always has been. We are eager to celebrate MountainCamp's central role in The Mountain's 40-year history.

Register today by clicking HERE.
Climate Justice: Extending Our Reach!

A wide range of relevant topics will be offered by stellar leaders from around the country:

  • Climate Change in Relation to Justice, Action and Hope
  • Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary Program
  • Climate Change: Science and Impacts
  • Mountain Food Forest and Sustainable Agriculture; and Impact of Food Choices
  • Maskoke Ecovillage: An Intentional Indigenous Ecovillage Community
  • Project Drawdown – A Way Forward
  • Ways to Change Our Future

The Mountain is delighted to be partnering in collaboration with the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) and the Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary Program to offer this second Climate Justice conference.
Braving Space--Congregational Leadership Retreat with UUA Staff Facilitators

How do we identify our deepest values?  How do we recognize the things in us that get in the way of our living out those values?  How do we amplify our deepest values in the world? How do we know what the value is that we need to focus in on to make ourselves and the world a better place?  Are we afraid?

Click HERE to Register you and your congregation leaders for this special retreat.
SUUFI 2019--Aging to Saging

Together we'll take AGING to SAGING to the next level!

Keynote: Dr. Rita Brodnax, Neuroscience and Education Expert                                      

Dr. Brodnax brings her passion for applying brain research to teaching so every individual learns and reaches their goals. She delivers definite answers about how to use your own brain better and how to develop and grow the brains of others.

--Learn "Brain Basics" & How the Brain Processes Information & Creates Memory
--Review the Neuroscience of Aging with Its Challenges, Blessings and Benefits 
--Learn the Skill and Care Building Practices that Threaten or Enhance the Brain 
--Practice Strategies Tailored to YOU for Becoming a Superb-Ager

Click HERE to register for this potentially life-changing retreat experience.
To learn more about how your giving to The Mountain can help advance our mission, vision, and core values, click HERE. Thank you!
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