•  Next Green Sanctuary Committee meeting:  Green Sanctuary will hold their next meeting on Sunday, February 7th, in the Whitney Young room.  A light lunch will be served starting at 12:30, and the meeting will start at 12:45 P.M.  Brief project progress reports (including church building inefficient window replacement) will be presented, with the main focus to be planning the 1st Unitarian contribution to Omaha Earth Day this spring and brainstorming future Green Sanctuary projects.  All interested 1st UUs are encouraged to attend.

•  Green Announcement:  Individual Green Sanctuary members are collecting eyeglasses for Lions Recycle for Sight, kid’s books for Florence Clinics Reach Out and Read Program, and greeting cards for St. Jude’s Ranch for Children. St. Jude’s youth recycle old cards into new ones and are paid 15 cents for each, money deposited into their own accounts.

•  Green Announcement:  Tools Co-op, a new Green Sanctuary project.  See the signup sheet on our bulletin board on the Common Room east wall.  Fill in your name and phone number for:  HOME REPAIR/LAWN & GARDEN TOOL(S) I’M WILLING TO LEND and/or HOME REPAIR/LAWN & GARDEN TOOLS I WOULD LIKE TO BORROW.  Please do not bring any tools inside the church.  Make your exchanges in your homes or (for small tools) out in the parking lot before or after services.

•  Concerning your restaurant consumption of local foods—according to members of the Nebraska Food Co-Op, the following Omaha-area restaurants include at least some locally produced foods on their menus:  The Twisted Cork, The Boiler Room, Blue Planet Grill, French Café, V. Mertz, La Buvette, Sage Student Bistro, and McFoster’s.

●  If you have a Green Tip you would like to share, or if you have an idea for a green project in the church or community, please email or give it to Green Sanctuary Committee Chairs Ken Deffenbacher and Glenn Pollock.