Welcome
Please join us for our Summer Forum Series of Guest Speakers
Sunday 7/14/2024 10am "Urban Water Users: Doing Our Part For Great Salt Lake"
Prof. Shannon Jones is the Executive Director of the U of U Center for Community Nutrition and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology. The Center for Community Nutrition creates innovative ways to overcome the barriers to healthful eating, working with local community members experiencing homelessness, homeless service providers, public schools, and other local organizations, such as Wasatch Community Gardens. Prof. Jones has received various awards and recognitions, specifically the Distinguished Faculty Service Award in 2023.
Jackie Rodabaugh is the Job Training Program Director at Wasatch Community Gardens, a nonprofit which empowers people to grow and eat healthy, organic, local food, through community gardens, education, and farm-based training. One program is the Green Phoenix Farm, which serves as a job training program for women facing homelessness.
Coffee Hour: In person in Eliot Hall following the presentation
Social Justice: Crossroads Food Collection
For the month of July, Crossroads Urban Center is having the annual Golden Celery Competition. Let's see if First Unitarian can be the congregation that donates the most food per-person for the month and get to keep the coveted Golden Celery Trophy for the year. Drop your donations off Sundays during Summer Forum Coffee Hour (bins will be in Eliot Hall or EH: Hallway).
Top Donation needs for this year's Food DrivePeanut butter, Cereal, Canned fruit/fruit cups, Individual snacks (granola bars,etc.), Ramen, Crackers, Canned Tomatoes/tomatoproduct, and Canned soup.