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A Community Conversation
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. On December 2nd, the, Camas Public Library will host a special workshop to help community members identify and assist those expirencing personal violence. Topics of discussion will included: • Creating more compassionate communities • Active bystander skills and tools • Learn the Green Dot technique • Help young people know they have a voice and a choice
• Resources, referrals, and larly those who work in the support for victims of schools, criminal justice sysabuse tem, and social and medical services. However, anyone Green Dot is a strategy is welcome to attend. aimed at reducing power- Facilitated by Darrel Harbased personal violence ris, social change coordina(including sexual violence, tor with the Advocates. He domestic violence, dating is a certified Green Dot violence, stalking, child Trainer, healthy relationabuse, elder abuse and ship instructor, and prevenbullying). tion educator. Come and be involved in This event will be held an engaging and interesting in the Audio Conference conversation about how to Room of the Camas Public increase our collective im- Library, 607 Soldier Road pact and create more com- in Fairfield, Idaho. passionate communities. ----- This community conver- For more information sation is geared toward pro- email or call Teri Beck, fessionals who live and work teri@theadvocatesorg.org in the community, particu- or 208-788-4191.
by L.T. Housman If you work for someone for a certain number of hours each week, and at the end of the month you receive a check, do you thank your employer for your pay? Likewise, if you repair someone’s automobile or computer or mend their clothing, do you thank them for their payment? We often say “thank you” in such situations as a way of being polite, but we are
not usually thankful for such things. Why? Because when we work for someone, either as an employee or by providing a service, we have earned a wage. Payment is therefore owed. Many of us practice religion in much the same way. We go to church, we uphold the law, we give to the poor, we take care of widows (the list goes on and on), all to earn our way to heaven and into the presences of God.
December 2, 2016
A True Thanksgiving
If we are good, God must let us in. The truth, however, is that none of us are as good as we think we are. An employee may spend their allotted time at a workplace, but achieve nothing of value. A repairman might fix something, but only temporarily. A person can attend church faithfully all of their life, and still have no relationship with God. continued on page 4...
November 23 , 2016 Volume 40 ~ Number 46 News from the Heart of Idaho Camas • Lincoln • Gooding
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Herrett Center Thanksgiving
The Herrett Center and Faulkner Planetarium are offering Thanksgiving weekend fun with a special schedule of planetarium shows, drop-in activities for kids and a sale in the gift shop. The Herrett Center will be open 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25-26. The Faulkner Planetarium will be have special showings at 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 7 and 8 p.m. both days. A mix of seasonal holiday favorites, an IMAX film and Pink Floyd will be available in the domed theater. Holiday fare includes The Star of Bethlehem playing at 1:30 p.m. both days, The Longest Night: A Winter’s Tale playing at 3:30 p.m. both days and Let It Snow! at 7 p.m. both days. Titans of the Ice Age, an IMAX film that transports the audience back to the time of the last ice age, depicts amazingly lifelike mammoths, saber tooth cats, dire wolves and other beasts of the Pleistocene Age at 2:30 and 4:30 both days. Guests looking for something truly different continued on page 4...