Healthy Community Update  #158
   May 19, 2008

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Market Opens Wednesday
- Joan Nelson


Allen Street Farmers Market Opens for
2008 Season on Wednesday, May 21

Allen Neighborhood Center is pleased to announce that the Allen Street Farmers Market, nestled within the Eastside of Lansing on the corner of E. Kalamazoo and Allen St., will be opening on May 21st and run every Wednesday through October 29th.  Our new extended hours of 2:30 - 7:00pm until Labor Day will make your after-work shopping so much easier.  Please join our many local farmers, vendors, friends and neighbors for this fun-filled event.  Credit/Debit, WIC Project Fresh, Senior Project Fresh and EBT welcome.  

See you at the Market as we kick off our 5th Season with an array of Garden Startin' Plants, Greens, and more!


Lunch Forum on Infrastructure May 20


Michigan’s Infrastructure at Risk?   Tuesday, May 20, 11:30 to 1:30 p.m.

The upcoming forum, Maintaining Michigan’s Infrastructure, is open for registration of anyone concerned about the upkeep and sustainability of roads, bridges, water, and power systems within our state. The May 20 luncheon forum comes just weeks after national news reports on a giant sinkhole at least 260-foot-deep and three football fields wide over just two days in Daisetta, Texas. Michigan citizens, like those across the country, are concerned about maintaining the state’s critical infrastructure since similar events continue to occur across the country. Speakers include Jan Beecher, Director of MSU’s Institute for Public Utilities, and Ken Boyer, Transportation Economist at Michigan State University. Held in downtown Lansing, this forum will offer an assessment of Michigan’s infrastructure and best-practice recommendations for sustainability. Click here to learn more about the 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. forum….

To register now:  Click here or call (517) 355-6672. There is no cost to attend. A light lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Location: Downtown Lansing, across from the Capitol Building at the Anderson House Office Building, Mackinac Room (fifth floor).  Directions: More information including directions may be found at www.ippsr.msu.edu.


Faith-Based Initiative on Housing Issues:  Monday evening, May 19th
-Valerie Hart


Action of Greater Lansing is having its annual Nehemiah Action Assembly on Monday evening, May 19 at 6:30 p.m. at Union Missionary Baptist Church. (same place as last year -- 500 S. MLK Jr. Blvd.) We're on a big push to reach our goal of 600 this year and we'll really need it to show our 'people power.' (last year we had a little over 400) There will be good music & dance, lots of cool people, but most importantly we'll be looking for a commitment from Mayor Bernero to address the 3 people every day who are being evicted from their rental properties in 24 hours due to code violations in Lansing (the red tags). We're also looking for more accountability for irresponsible landlords who are putting people into this situation. So, specifically, one of the things that we're looking at is a publicly accessible website on all of the registered rental properties in Lansing so that we can better police ourselves as a community (for example you would be able to see what the code compliance office is doing with the red tag property next door to you or would be able to check a property and its landlord before renting a property). This is just one of the things that we'll be asking for on Monday night.


Related Topics

Fresh Food Can't Get Much Closer
- David Sunfellow


This guy's off his rocker.  In fact, he's probably out in the front yard getting dinner.

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Gardeners Gone Wild
- Jim Hewitt


Check out the activities planned by the Red Cedar Wild Ones Chapter... click here


Keys to Unhappiness
- Lloyd Thomas


Lloyd's weekly column is often filled with practical, deep insights.  Click here.


Quote of the Week


“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

- Rumi

 

Ed. Note:  Our fear of death is one reason we spend so much on health care in this country. -LH

 

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