CedarLight Grove, ADF is collecting blankets and warm clothes for the Lakota people in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Garry Rowland, a Lakota Elder from the Wounded Knee Visitor’s Center has been corresponding with CedarLight Grove, and says many of his people need warm blankets during the cold months.

From now until March 22nd, at the time of our Ostara High Rite, we are collecting blankets and warm clothes at CedarLight Grove to be delivered to the Lakota on Pine Ridge Reservation. Please contribute what you can to help our native peoples.

All blankets and/or clothing and jackets can be used, but must be clean with no pet stains/odors. They must be in good working order with no holes or tears in the fabric.

Washington-Baltimore Area Pagans:
Our Senior Druid, Crystal Groves, will be at WABA-PLC this year. We’ve had requests from the pagan community coming from out of town to the conference, if we could collect blankets at WABA-PLC as it is the only time they will be in town. Crystal will be more than happy to fill up her mustang with blankets on both days at WABA-PLC for donations.

Any questions can be directed to crystal _at_ cedarlightgrove.org.

We have posted our 2008 High Rite schedule on our events calendar. We have also been keeping the Local Events and ADF events up to date as well.

Anyone who wishes to receive email reminders of events can set up their own Google Calendar (a GREAT calendar program, and highly recommended by our Techno Druid), and then SUBSCRIBE to our CedarLight events, Local Events, or ADF Event calendars by clicking on the SUBSCRIBE button on the bottom right of each.

This will then display the events on your own calendar as if you had put them there yourself. You can then click on the events, a window will pop up and you can “copy to my calendar”. From there you click on the event to edit it and choose how long before the event you’d like to be notified by email, whether it’s a day or a week.

It’s a very useful tool for keeping track of CedarLight and Local pagan events, so don’t hesitate to utilize it and say in the “know”.

For our winter charity event, we gathered 3 boxes of clothes, 11 trashbags full of clothes, and 12 hand-knit scarves by our own members to donate to the STEP Mental Health Organization.

Huzzah to all of our members for a great turn-out for our clothing drive!

Don’t forget to join us at Yule for our gift raffle to support CedarLight Grove!

Congratulations to our new Witan (Board of Directors) to serve from Yule 2007 to Yule 2009:

Senior Druid:
Crystal Groves

Vice Senior Druid:
Kat R.

Pursewarden:
Caryn MacLuan

Scribe:
Tied, still to be decided
Renee Rhodes
Jack in the Green

Member at Large:
Frog

CedarLight Grove is holding a clothing drive for our winter charity this year. We will be collecting new or clean/gently used clothes to donate to the STEP mental health organization. We are looking for clothes in all sizes.

The drive will run from now till December 16th. We may need some bins donated to help carry/store these clothes as well.