Monday, July 13, 2009
Families come together over naturally grown, healthy foods at Morrow Memorial
The afternoon sun beat down on the blacktop of the Morrow Memorial Church parking lot but no one seemed to care. They came by car, by bike, and on foot—some not wanting to use unnecessary emissions on such an environment-friendly endeavor. Eager customers toting armfuls of reusable bags perused a blackboard indicating which fresh-picked produce they would get that day. They are members of a community supported agriculture group, or CSA, coming to pick up their green goodies. As participants in a CSA, they paid a farmer in advance—in this case $500 per share or $250 for a half share—for a portion of the season’s crops. This CSA has a pick up site at the church in Maplewood, where share holders receive produce weekly from June through most …
Friday, June 19, 2009
Morrow Memorial prepares for their month-long charitable sale.
The sun is shining, the tent is up; it must be Turnover time. Friday, June 19,saw the delivery of a 40 x 40-foot tent to the Morrow Memorial Church parking lot. The tent is not the only sign that the Turnover Sale is approaching; bright orange flyers listing sale dates—Opening Day is July 2—are posted in shop windows and bulletin boards all over the town. 2009 marks the 76th annual Turnover, a month-long rummage sale that volunteer organizers Mary Auth and Joyce Stibitz describe as “The Miracle on Baker Street.” For the month of July, Morrow becomes a department store, two floors, ten rooms, and a tent full of merchandise. The sale raises money for mission and charitable projects chosen by the United Methodist Women, and proceeds in past …
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Members of Maplewood's Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Holy Ascension are torn over their homeland's future.
As he gave his sermon, clad in a purple and gold robe, to a congregation of around 25 pastor, Oleh Hucul said prayers in Ukrainian for the people of that country, some 4,700 miles from New Jersey. “America is our home, but that is our homeland,” he said. For the 100 members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Holy Ascension the economic and political crisis in Ukraine is a nearly constant preoccupation. Politicians in Ukraine are split between pro-western and pro-Russian sympathies, as are many Ukrainian-Americans, Hucul said. Of the last two waves of Ukranian immigrants to America, spanning from the end of World War II through the '80s and from the '80s to the present, the former tend to be pro-Western while the latter are increasingly …
amy koehler
10:20 am on Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Great article, Brooke. I had no idea this group existed and now that I do I definitely want to become involved with it. Wonderful concept in so many ways.... more ›