Saturday, August 1: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. JFK Club will serve lunch and assist with some activities at the Westhaven Community Day Celebration, and needs volunteers to assist. Look for the Information desk. It will be across from the stage, on Hardy Dr. Ask for Kelly Eplee, cell: 434-953-5249. Also need 2-3 people to pick up food between 11 and 11:30 on Aug. 1, and deliver it to Westhaven. Please call Russ Linden if you can help: 434-242-8586.

Westhaven public housing, Hardy Drive, near 10th and Page Streets (off Page). The easiest place to park is at the Region 10 offices, on Preston Ave, corner of 8th St. Just walk down 8th St. toward W. Main St (South); 8th runs right into Hardy Drive.

Saturday, August 15 - Sunday August 16: Fee-free weekend at National Parks. And some park concessionaires are also offering discounts. Information at http://www.nps.gov A full list of the fees that you won't be paying in our neighboring park is at http://www.shenandoah.national-park.com/visit.htm#fee

Sunday August 16: 4:00 p.m. Some City Dems are going to canvass for Creigh Deeds meeting at the parking lot of the Albemarle County Office Bldg on McIntire, where the campaign will give us some lit., street sheets, and send us on our way. All are welcome to join us.

Wednesday, August 19: 6:30 p.m. “Challenges and Opportunities in Rwanda” Professor Wendy McIntyre Chair, Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Redlands.

Rwanda is a paradox. Roughly the size of Vermont, it is one of the poorest countries on earth with almost every problem imaginable including water and food shortages, malnutrition and disease. Yet Rwanda is rich in its biodiversity, including some of the last remaining mountain gorillas. Rwanda became a household name after the 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of one in every eight people in roughly 100 days. Fifteen years later, the human population is over 10 million and there are many reasons for hope. Come learn about this tiny but remarkable country and the challenges and opportunities in the “land of one thousand hills.”

At Sojourners United Church of Christ, 1017 Elliott Avenue. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments.

Thursday, August 27: 6:00 p.m. Rep Tom Perriello Town Hall in Albemarle County Walton Middle School, 4217 Red Hill Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Friday, August 28: 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.the McIntire Botanical Garden group will have a meeting at the Central Library, with guest speaker, Warren Byrd, Landscape Architect, who will talk about the benefits a botanical garden creates and how other cities have accomplished this goal.