Organic Sacramento Update

Hello Organic Sacramento Members,

We have a few news items we would like you to consider:

1. Organic Sacramento Meeting March 7, 6:30 pm
2. Upcoming screening of "The Future of Food" March 31 & April 1
3. Loss of organic gardening column from the Sacramento Bee.

Scroll down for a larger info section on each of these topics:
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1. Organic Sacramento Meeting
March 7, 2005
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Stockton Blvd. Resource Center
5625 Stockton Blvd. (on the southeast corner of Fruitridge & Stockton)

Agenda:
"The Future of Food" screening planning.  We need lots of help spreading
the word and on the day of the event.  If you can help come to the meeting
or contact us.  We're also looking for sponsors, so if you know someone or
a business that would benefit from associating with this event let us
know.

"Meet your local farmers" event planned for late spring.  We are
developing the idea for this event.  Got any ideas?

Loss of organic gardening column in the Sacramento Bee.  (More info below)

West Nile Virus spraying program in Sacramento this spring. Get on the
list to not be sprayed!

And more....

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"The Future of Food" Screening
March 31st, 2005  Crest Theater, Sacramento
April 1st , 2005  Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Davis

$10 admission includes the movie, GE-free goodie bag, social hour, and
panel discussion

Program:
6:00 Social hour with information tables in the lobby.
7:00 Screening of the movie
8:45 Panel Discussion with the director of the movie and 2 of the stars of
the movie.
9:30 Optional after movie reception ($10 additional)

We need your help promoting this movie, so come out and bring along some
friends, and pass the word along.  We've attached our color flier to this
e-mail which you can e-mail on to your freinds or print out and distribute
also.

Learn more about how much of your food is genetically engineered without
you knowing about it, a science which has not been proven to be safe for
human consumption, and is definitely not healthy for the natural
environment.

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Loss of organic gardening column in the Sacramento Bee.

Steven Zien, one of Organic Sacramento's founding members, has been active
in Sacramento for the past 20+ years promoting organic gardening and
lanscaping.  This has for some time included him writing an organic
gardening column in for the Sacramento Bee.

But the Bee has decided to cancel the column, while telling Steven that
organic was becoming main stream.  This doesn't make sense to us.  While
we agree that organic is becoming more and more popular, why would the Bee
stop featuring this column?

We would like to see more organic articles, not fewer.  If you care at all
about this, write a letter to the editor, or come to our meeting.  We also
might circulate a petition.

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We hope you will take action on these issues and more that we are all
concerned about.  You can always find out more at our web-site,
organicsacramento.org, with updates on the schedules.
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Tom Ikelman
tom [at] organicsacramento.org