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21 May 2007

Libertytown classes

Just a Reminder…

Our Summer Pottery Classes begin the week of May 28!

Visit our website for details: www.libertytownarts.com

 

Class Space is Limited –

 

Call us at 371-7255 to Reserve Your Spot!

 

PLEASE NOTE:

**Beginning Pottery on Monday evening will begin one week later on June 4 (not May 28) at 7 pm

**Back by popular demand – Children's Clay Club class beginning on Sat. June 2, 1-3 pm, ages 6-12

**Also new this summer - an oil painting class with Bill Harris offered on Tues. eve. 7-9 pm, June 5-26

** Summer Art Camp for kids, grades K-5th, is in JULY (not June as listed in the schedule – sorry!) Correct dates: July 16-20, M-F, 10 am – 2 pm, taught by Mary Jane Bohlen and Elizabeth Seaver

**Paint outdoors with Kathleen Walsh  – "Watercolor Sketchbook", Sat., June 30, 12:30-4:30

**Many other pottery and art/craft classes are offered for kids and adults June, July and August!

 

Find our latest Class Schedule at www.libertytownarts.com

14 May 2007

A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work.

An interesting but bizarre Sunday here in my little slice of reality. I have a friend who is from Russia and is over here for a month or so for work. Last time he was here I told him that we would go fishing on his next visit so Sunday we ventured off to a park in Northern Virginia to try our luck. The one thing I needed to do was buy a fishing license. I knew that Walmart sells licenses and thought that a Walmart would be as easy to find as a Starbucks. Down here in the country you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Walmart but up there it was a different story. We drove all over the damn place looking for a Wally World and never saw one. Down here we cuss them like you cuss a stray dog in your yard. I guess the Nawthin' Virginians just won't frequent anything like Walmart. Guess they don't do much fishin' up yonder either because it took nearly two hours to find a place to get a license.

We finally ended up on the banks of the Potomac River, fishing in water that looked as if somewhere up stream somebody had just flushed something. After a few token casts into that water and 4 or 5 lost lures later and we packed it up. We tried one other municipal lake that was in the area and lost a couple more lures and I finally admitted that I had had all the fun I could stand for one day. We had beautiful weather on a textbook perfect spring day and there was good news and bad news. Bad news was that we didn't catch a bloody thing. Good news was that we didn't have any fish to clean.

07 May 2007

Gas Prices...hitting back

GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work


This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your consideration.


Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.

BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline

priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the

marketplace..... not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any

gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.

I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it.....

THREE >>>>HUNDRED MILLION >>>>PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?

Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

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