Sunday, June 1: 12:00 - 5:00p.m.. Softball benefit to support cancer research, at McIntire Field, Charlottesville. Featured Games Include:

Democrats vs. Republicans

Cancer Docs vs. Radio Jocks

Print vs. TV

Sunday, June 1: 7:00 River City Roller Girls at Skateland, 5512 Hull St. Road, Richmond. Info, tix at www.rivercityrollergirls.org

Saturday, June 7: 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (Rain or shine) The Rivanna Trails Foundation invites you to celebrate National Trails Day Get dirty, get wet, and meet dozens of wonderful folks who share your love of the Rivanna Trail with its incredible forests and streams. Help in the big bold push to build new trails north and upriver of our existing trail network.

Gathering place: Charlottesville Catholic School on Rio Road. Activities for all ages, all skill levels -- Trail building, stream clean-up, special construction projects. Participation is FREE but please PRE-REGISTER by Email to dfoster@newventure.com. (This helps us to plan both projects and food)

Attire: Wear long pants. Bring work gloves and drinking water; boots or old shoes if you want to work in or near a stream. Bring the following tools if you have them: hand tools such as hand clippers, pruning loppers, pruning saw, garden rake, shovel, hoe, mattock, and pick.

Saturday, June 7: 9:00 a.m. 1st Annual Golf Classic benefiting the University of Virginia Center for Politics Youth Leadership Initiative Boar’s Head Inn Birdwood Golf Course. Click for more information about how to register or the many ways you can participate! For more information on the day’s events please contact Vanessa Freeman at vfreeman@virginia.edu or by phone at (434) 243-3535.

Saturday, June 7: Noon - 3:00 p.m. Fluvanna County Democrats' Strawberry Social. At Glen Burnie, Palmyra. Mingle with Creigh Deeds, Brian Moran and Tom Perriello as well as local notables. $15 for all the strawberry shortcake you'd care to consume. Cash bar. Proceeds benefit the Fluvanna County Dems. Directions, map at www.fluvannademocrats.org or call Dave Sagarin for further info (434) 842 3287.

Sunday, June 8: 7:00 – 9:00 pm Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice annual meeting, at Trinity Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 1042 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville CCPJ will be electing a new 5-member Board for one-year terms.

If you would like to serve on the board, or if you know someone who you think would make a good board member, please speak to one of the current board members: Bill Anderson, Lorrie Delehanty, Tamar Goodale, David Swanson, or Ken Zelin. You can leave a message in our voice mailbox 434-961-6278 and a board member will call you.

REQUIREMENTS: a strong interest in peace and justice, attendance at 2 meetings per month, and miscellaneous work for CCPJ between meetings.

Wednesday, June 11: 5:00 p.m. Miller Center Forum: Contours of the National Debate: Health Care and Some Tentative Conclusions Please join us for a very special Forum that begins with a screening of the Debate on Health Care, the fourth presentation of the Miller Center's National Discussion and Debate Series that occurred on April 9 at historic Fanueil Hall in Boston. Following the screening, Susan Dentzer the debate's moderator, will speak and lead a discussion with the audience.

Susan Dentzer is editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, a leading journal of health policy and research. Forums are free and open to the public. 2201 Old Ivy Road, Charlotttesville. Further information, directions at www.millercenter.org

Friday, June 13: 11:00 a.m. Miller Center Forum: Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. Bestselling author Michael Scheuer is the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit and has two decades of experience in national security issues related to Afghanistan and South Asia. A book signing will follow his Forum. Forums are free and open to the public. 2201 Old Ivy Road, Charlotttesville. Further information, directions at www.millercenter.org

Monday, June 16: 5:30 p.m. Miller Center Forum: The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation Strobe Talbott assumed the presidency of the Brookings Institution in 2002 after his tenure as founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He served in the State Department from 1993 to 2001, first as Ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the Secretary of State for the new independent states of the Soviet Union, then as Deputy Secretary of State. A book signing will follow his Forum.

The successful 2007-08 Forum season will be celebrated with a wine and cheese reception immediately following the Forum. Attendance is limited to the first 200 people and registration is required. To register, please visit www.millercenter.org/forumreg or contact Tina Krall at 434.924.6057.

Friday, June 20: 6:00 p.m. Fifth District Dinner in Lynchburg at the James River Conference Center, 5th and Court Streets. $45 per person - speakers include Tom Perriello, the 5th District Congressional candidate will speak along with David Toscano, Del. Shannon Valentine from Lynchburg, House Caucus chair Brian Moran, and House Minority Leader Ward Armstrong. A bus (with wine) will make the round trip from Charlottesville for $20. Please send both your dinner check and your payment for the bus to 5th District Dem. Comm., P.O. Box 5698, Charlottesville, VA 22905.

Saturday, June 21: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.8th Annual Community Juneteenth Celebration Walkin’ & Talkin’ about Freedom in and around the V. Earl Dickinson Bldg at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Ongoing activities throughout the day include a friendly, competitive softball tournament; a children’s marketplace; historical re-enactments and displays; drumming workshops; hands-on community art project; history hunt; fitness activities; community healthcare professionals; artists; authors; voter registration; exciting 3pm closing performance by Kankouran West African Dance Company , and more . . .

Dating back to 1865, Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery. It was on June 19th that Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. (Note that this was two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.) The celebration of Juneteenth initially grew out of the freed slaves’ desire to remember that great day in June of 1865.

Saturday, June 21: 9:30 a.m. Monthly Albemarle / Charlottesville Democratic Breakfast. Aspen or Austin? Which way for Charlottesville? Gary F Henry, a community leader, entrepreneur, management consultant, and advocate for technology businesses, will look at two potential paths for the Charlottesville regional economy.

At JABA, 674 Hillsdale Drive, behind Fashion Square and adjacent to the Marriott Courtyard. The event is free, a light breakfast is offered and the public is warmly invited.

Saturday, June 21: 8:00 p.m. Women's Health Virginia's Solstice Soirée on Saturday, June 21, at Live Arts. The evening will start with the performance of String of Pearls at 8 p.m. followed by a reception featuring light fare and Virginia wines, with the cast and director Fran Smith, on the Live Arts rooftop terrace. It will be a great way to start the summer—and support Women’s Health Virginia's programs to enhance the health and well being of women & girls!

The play tells the stories of women whose lives have been touched by a single strand of pearls. Bridging many years and several continents, the story brings together the loves and losses of twenty-seven women –- all played by just four actors.

Tickets are $40, individual sponsorships start at $100. You can buy tickets online at www.womenshealthvirginia.org, by phone at 434-220-4500, or by mail with a check to Women's Health Virginia, 1924 Arlington Blvd., Ste. 203, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (a reservation form is available on the web site.)

Sunday, June 22: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Ann Mallek and Kate Mallek Pemberton invite you to Meet Tom Perriello candidate for U.S. Congress in the 5th District. Currituck Farm, 4826 Advance Mills Road, Earlysville. Bring a folding chair and your 5th district friends and neighbors. Please RSVP Phone: 434 978 1150 Email: amallek@comcast.net or kmpemberton@comcast.net