<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear Rotary Club Members and Friends,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">You are invited to the World Bee Day Celebration in Rotary Park in Mendocino on Sunday May 16 from 12-2 PM. We ask that you wear a mask, stay distanced, bring a watering can, and enjoy the fresh air and beauty we are creating on World Bee Day. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Warm regards,</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Donna </div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Lavender Cinnamon</strong> <span dir="auto">&lt;<a href="mailto:lavender@thanksgivingcoffee.com">lavender@thanksgivingcoffee.com</a>&gt;</span><br>Date: Mon, May 10, 2021 at 4:59 PM<br>Subject: World Bee Day Participation for May 16th<br>To: Lavender Cinnamon &lt;<a href="mailto:lavender@thanksgivingcoffee.com">lavender@thanksgivingcoffee.com</a>&gt;<br>Cc: Maddie &lt;<a href="mailto:fernfootevents@gmail.com">fernfootevents@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br></div><br><br>



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<div>Thank you for joining us to celebrate the bees of our world. I hope that we can gather together in a good way and celebrate the abundant and beautiful future we want together.</div>
<div>Please see invitation below to send to your people to spread the word. We want to insure a successful occasion for us all.</div>
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<div>We are filming the event and will stream the recording on May 20th (actual World Bee Day) for International viewing.  Please let me know if you do not want to be filmed.</div>
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<div>This is the final list participants with tables for this Sunday.</div>
<div>There is no charge for the tables this year as it has been such an unusual time for us all. </div>
<div>Any donations are welcomed and we will have donation jars at the Bee Bold Alliance table. </div>
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<div>Conservation Works</div>
<div>Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center</div>
<div>Rotary Club Mendocino</div>
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<div>Mendocino Art Center</div>
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<div>Pinoleville Pomo and youth table</div>
<div>Wavelength Farms</div>
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<span style="font-kerning:none">We are participating in the 4th annual <a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/bee-day" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,227)">World Bee Day</span></a> Celebration on May 16th, 2021. </span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning:none">This is a day to acknowledge the Bees for all the essential work they do for our biodiversity and local food security.</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning:none">We are celebrating the opening of the Bee Bold Alliance’s first Pollinator Sanctuary at the Rotary Park in Mendocino, CA. This is the first of many to come as part of Thanksgiving Coffee Companies commitment to World
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<span style="font-kerning:none">If you are concerned about the loss of our Biodiversity and crumbling Food System,  I invite you to join our Pollinator Protector Pledge and visit their <a href="https://beeboldalliance.org/b2balliance" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(53,134,255)">B2B
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<span style="font-kerning:none">There will be Music and Dance from the Honey Hive Ensemble, Exploration of Intentional Creativity, Information about Traditional Ecology Knowledge, plus Ecoartists, Conservationists, Youth activists and more.</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning:none">There will be Native drought tolerant pollinator plants, honey, art,  and youth engagement for take home activities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning:none">The event will begin with an honoring of the Ancestral Lands of the Northern Pomo and will</span> close with a water ceremony to give respect to the Big River Water Shed.</p>
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<span style="font-kerning:none">* Please bring a Watering Can to participate. We will water the newly planted pollinator plants together:)</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning:none">Together we are creating a &quot;Honey Heart Habitat&quot; for pollinator protection at Mendocino’s New Rotary Park in partnership with the Bee Bold Alliance</span></p>
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I acknowledge that my home office sits within the ’<a href="https://native-land.ca/maps/territories/northern-pomo/" target="_blank">Northern Pomo</a>&#39; land today that is the unceded traditional ancestral homelands of the Pomo People.</div>
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