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St. Mark AME Zion Church and Allen Memorial United Methodist Church are asking for monetary donations for the purchase of tote bags for packing food for a food giveaway, which is given out monthly. The churches have an urgent need to purchase these bags on a monthly basis. The public is asked to donate as often as possible. For more information, contact Linda Buchanan at 423-745-9193.

Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Etowah: is seeking donations to continue mowing. Send checks payable to Pleasant Grove Cemetery and mail them to: Karen Wear Taylor, 131 County Road 903, Etowah, TN 37331. For more information, contact Taylor at 423-462-5042. The cemetery is not owned by Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church.

Monday

Meigs Lodge No. 213 F&AM: Mondays, 7 p.m., for practice in degree work, except 1st Monday of the month, which is business meeting. Light refreshments served.

Pilot Club of Athens: 1st and 3rd Monday, 6 p.m., at Western Sizzlin’.

Etowah Masonic Lodge 653 F&AM: 1st Monday, 7 p.m., at lodge on 9th Street, Etowah. Practice will follow.

Sons of the American Revolution: 4th Monday, 6:30 p.m., at Mexi-Wing in Downtown Athens, for program and meal. For info, email [email protected]

McMinn County Republican Women: 2nd Monday of the month, 5:30 p.m. (dinner on your own), 6:30 p.m. meeting begins. Location alternates between Western Sizzlin’ in Athens and Michael’s Restaurant in Etowah.

Chattanooga Brain Injury Association: 3rd Monday, 6 p.m., at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, located on Peerless Avenue in Cleveland. For info, call 423-634-1572.

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“It would be entirely fitting if the angry troublemakers came from the ranks of those of us who are older. For one thing, we’re the ones who caused the problem. If someone has to sit down on the tracks of the coal train and get arrested it should be the grandparents who have been pouring carbon into the atmosphere for half a century. …. But there’s something else, too: the greatest moments in the lives of the baby boomers were precisely the times when they raised their voices, when they declared their selfless devotion to peace or civil rights. For too many, the decades that followed have made a quiet mockery of that earlier idealism. It turns out that we’ve excelled, most of all, at consuming. Now is the boomer’s chance to reclaim their better natures and to end their run as they began.” - Bill McKibben, The Last Best Chance for the Boomers”

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