Quarterly Meeting: Zawadi Nikuze Bulletin Announcement Revised

RantWoman enthusiastically urges Friends writing bulletin announcements to be more descriptive of the content than the version RantWoman was called to edit to get to an extract of comments below. Word!

Let the Living Water Flow with Zawadi Nikuze of the Africa Great Lakes Peace Initiative, http://www.aglifpt.org/index.htm

http://www.aglifpt.org/publications/peaceways/fall2009/congofall2009.htm

Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting September 27-29, 2013 The registration packet for the upcoming Fall 2013 session of Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting is available for downloading from our website, pnqm.org. The main registration deadline, after which a late registration fee of $25 per form will be charged, is September 11th. We still have a "pay what you can" policy, encouraging those who can afford more to pay more than the suggested amount so that those with more limited resources can pay less as needed.

Our suggested fees also provide extra subsidy to encourage attendance by families with children and to encourage camping so that we don't need to assign too many Friends to upper bunks in the buildings.


RantWoman tips and quibbles:
RantWoman enthusiastically encourages Friends to register in faith. RantWoman is also blessed with a possible overabundance of quibbles.

RantWoman frequently finds helpful information on the Lazy F camp website, our venue http://www.lazyfcamp.org/

RantWoman has multiple times with the same technology on her desk run into some website accessibility issue; RantWoman cautiously recalls having better results with a different screen reader version elsewhere. RantWoman still considers her own challenges a problem: RantWoman tends to lose patience quickly with websites she only infrequently needs to interact. RantWoman KNOWS this means she has in the past missed important info down a couple screens on the Lazy F website.

Pacific NW Quarterly Meeting has worked with Lazy F for years. Camp staff work hard to meet our needs but we are all ministers of God as far as helping connect Friends to other Friends who can help with challenges. Sometimes this might be a Lazy F staffperson or the Registrar. Sometimes this might be M&O. Sometimes this might be just someone to listen.

RantWoman goes about in perpetual accessibility monitor mode. RantWoman recognizes that this may make RantWoman appear tiresome to others. Guess what! If that is the ONLY reason RantWoman is tiresome, it's probably a good day. Let us all hold each other in the Light on that score.


RantWoman's accessibility cop points in addition to the website issue above:
--The camp is in several buildings. Some of the buildings have stairs at entries. Some of them are quite wheelchair accessible. The dining hall has gently graded paths to take on to the doors upstairs and downstairs. Friends' milage will vary as far as ease of getting to and from different buildings. RantWOman is always grateful for the presence of everyone who gathers.

GENERAL LODGING ISSUES
The Quarterly Meeting registrar is the soul of discretion and care for people's needs. If you need to bring a service dog or have allergies and need to avoid animals, mold.... be clear about your needs as soon as possible.

RantWoman occasionally tries to work up enthusiasm for camping but RantWoman neither owns necessary equipment nor knows anyone whose tent she wants to invite herself into.

RantWoman DOES know how to take mattressess off top bunks and sleep on the floor and has found this entirely workable at times.


WILD FIRE ISSUES
RantWoman remembers many Friends getting smoked out before Quarterly Meeting by nearby wildfires. RantWoman attended anyway and did not find the smoke any more of a challenge than an occasional really cold day with everyone in her neighborhood firing up woodstoves; still RantWoman is trying not to minimize the difficulty of Friends with different breathing issues. RantWoman remembers seeing notes on the Lazy F website about fire and smoke issues as the date of Quarterly Meeting approached.

This year RantWoman by accident has been following media accounts of a wildfire on the Manashtash Ridge miles to the south and west of Lazy F camp.

Manashtash Ridge Fire in the search engine of your choice will provide updates. Per today's Yakima Herald the fire is in a remote area far from Lazy F in a remote are with considerable unburned fuel. The fire is not contained and is being fought indirectly. RantWoman HOPES that fire and smoke issues are well under control by the time we are all to gather.