AfterWords

Community Spaghetti Feed and Auction at Trinity Lutheran Church
Fundraiser for Edmonds Community College Student Association Project Home

May 30th, 2009 (Saturday) from 12:00-2:00 with a live Auction and ‘rummage sale items’

Trinity Lutheran Church
6215-196th St. SW
Lynnwood WA 98036

All proceeds benefit the Project Home Association of Edmonds Community College. The goal is to build funds in order to support our homeless students in the areas of transition housing, emergency funds, skill building education around life advancement activities, and food. Tickets are available the day of at the door.

Nicole A Allen
Executive Officer for Diversity
ASEdCC_Diversity@edcc.edu

Volunteers are encourge to post their reflection here.

The ODET (Organizational Development and Employee Training) department on campus had their annual Building Community Day on the non-instructional day on Friday (5/8). This year the ODET department also partnered with Sustainability Counsel to bring Awakening the Dreamer Symposium to campus. As explained on their website, the symposium “through dynamic group interactions, leading edge information, and inspiring multimedia, participants of this half-day event are inspired to reconnect with their deep concern for our world, and are empowered to make a difference”.

During the symposium, there was a non-verbal physical interaction. One of the partners I end up with during the second exercise became teary eyes as she stood there in silence staring back at me as the host spoke. Although the exercise did not have the same affect on me, I felted humbled by her tears and felt bad that I was not experiencing this in the same level as she was. In that moment, she felt safe to expose her vulnerability and to share it with me.

Towards the end of the symposium, one of the video showed a portion of a list of not-for-profit organizations in the world also trying to save the world. The list is apparently in counts of billions. Although I can list a few local community partners we work with on campus, I was reassured that we are not the only ones working towards change and that this is a common global goal.

Web links:
ODET Department
Sustainability Counsel
Awakening the Dreamer

This news from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources — It’s Native Plant Appreciation Week, celebrating 500 rare species and more than 300 ecosystems native to Washington State. The Natural Heritage Program’s Reference Desk maintains comprehensive data on native plant communities and a rare plant list for each county. The Department of Natural Resources is on Twitter @waDNR, with some recent tweets about new job openings, on YouTube, with a video about native plants at the Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve, and on Flickr with some beautiful photos of native plants such as the Pink-fawn lily (Erythronium revolutum).

Students, staff and community came together this weekend for this annual event planned by the First Nation Club. Many thanks to volunteers for dedicating their time to make this event successful. We welcome any feedback, reflection of your experience and any comments. Pictures of the event and my personal volunteer coordinator reflection will be posted shortly.

Updated on May 10th, 2009:
Similar to most of the volunteers, this was my first year attending EdCC Pow Wow and also my first time coordinating volunteers for an event. Since I have not participated in other pow wows, I am not sure how this event compares to the past years. In my perspective, the event went smoothly as the volunteers were wonderful in being adaptive with tasks I gave them. On Sunday tear down, with assistance from the lovely volunteers, we finished an hour earlier then predicted. With 12-hour long days, I realize that I fuel on others’ experiences and their excitement is what I strive towards. In the end, I was tired of fried bread and pop corn; however, I’ve gain a new understanding of interpersonal connection and I feel very honor to have helped with this year’s powwow.