News Flash - Coming to Pagan Pride Day
 
Blood Drive:
We are sponsoring a blood drive.  The Rhode Island Blood Center will be at the park on Pagan Pride Day with their van to collect donations from any and all who wish to donate blood.  If you donate blood regularly, please save your donation for that day.  If you have never donated before, this is the perfect time. It only takes about a half hour of your time, is virtually pain free, you just have to squeeze a ball, and they give you juice & cookies.  Tell your friends and family.  Let's show them what the Pagan community can do to support the RI community!
 
Planet Green Recycling:
We are also launching a new fundraising effort with Planet Green Recycling.  We are setting up collection boxes around the state to collect empty ink cartridges and old cell phones.  Planet Green takes them and refills the usable ones, cleans up the others and recycles the cell phones.  We get money for each item that we send to them.  The cost to us is zero - they provide the collection boxes and pay for mailing.
 
This is a win-win activity.  We get money, you get rid of your cartridges and we keep the toxic ink out of landfills.  Start collecting today from your friends, family, neighbors and where you work.  Almost everyone has a printer.  Place the items in a plastic bag and either bring them to a collection box or bring them to the Welcome Tent on Pagan Pride Day.
 
The collection boxes (as of 07/20/08) are located at The Silver Willow in Rehoboth, MA and The Bella Earth in West Warwick, RI. You can bring your cartridges and phones to these fine folks or bring them to our Town Meeting on August 22 @ 6:30 Barnes and Noble in Warwick RI. If you have any Questions please feel free to contactus@ripaganpride.com


http://www.planetgreenrecycle.com/promotions.html


Food Donation
This year we are returning to a traditional collection of non-perishable food items on Pagan Pride Day.  There will be collection boxes at the Welcome Tent.  Pagan Pride day is free to attend; we just ask that you support a charity.  If you take food from your closets, please check the expiration dates to be sure the food is still good.
 
With the high price of fuel and the rising food costs, this winter is going to be hard on lots of folks.  Let's really try to donate as much as we are able.  Again, ask your family, friends or neighbors to contribute.  Everyone understands hunger.  And this year mostly everyone understands going without.  If everyone asked for one can from everyone they knew, we could donate a kick-ass amount of food after PPD.
 
Thanks for supporting the community!
The RI PPD Committee
Jane
Co-Local Coordinator, RI PP
Vendor Coordinator, RI PPD '08
vend@RIPaganPride.com
or
jcat47@cox.net

Dayna
Co-Local Coordinator, RI PP
Workshop Coordinator, RI PPD '08
workshops@RIPaganPride.com

Cat
Public Relations/Press Releases,
RI PPD '08
publicity@RIPaganPride.com

Jane
Event Programs/Advertising, RI
PPD'08
programs@RIPaganPride.com

Dayna
Volunteer Coordinator, RI PPD '08
volunteer@RIPaganPride.com

Len
Community Outreach, RI PPD'08
outreach@RIPaganPride.com

Eve
Web mistress, RI PPD'08
webmistress@RIPaganPride.com

If you have anything you want to tell
us or suggest, you can either send
email to
Contactus@ripaganpride.com
RIPaganPride@yahoogroups.com
or select one of the buttons below
RI Pagan Pride's
Main Sponsor for 2008

Erzulie's Magical Boutique
35 Franklin Street, Newport, RI 02840
 401-845-2055

Newport - New Orleans -
England

www.erzulies.com


The Silver Willow
 54 Fall River Ave, Rehoboth, MA 02769
 508-336-8813

   www.TheSilverWillow.com

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Saturday - September 27, 2008 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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1583 Hartford Avenue,
Route 6
Johnston, RI
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