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-- Gary (njarc@ica.net), November 25, 1998

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OTTAWA CENTRETOWN PREPAREDNESS GROUP MEETINGS


Ottawa East Meeting has just been announced for the area on Thursday, December.10 at 7:30 PM. Wesley United Church Main Street at Lees Avenue It will offer general Y2K information and aim to start a second preparedness group in Ottawa East.

Organizer- Sukhendu Das

Voice Mail; (613) 567-7814

Terry Cottam will facilitate both meetings.




-- Terry Cottam (y2k-ottawa@inode.org), December 07, 1998.


This past summer Robert Theobald and Northwest Regional Facilitators launched Resilient Communities to promote conversation, action and learning among people concerned with increasing their own level of personal, family, community and planetary resilience as we move into the next millennium. We began this project because we see Y2K as more than being prepared to weather some disruptions to "life as normal" in the coming year -- and then getting back to normal. We see it as a broader invitation to look at the direction of our lives.

The project uses a combination of live-satellite and internet technologies to link people with each other and with ideas, information and opportunities.

In just a little over two weeks we will be hosting our first live-satellite videoconference. Meg Wheatley and Robert Theobald will be the panelists in the studio, and we are expecting to have participating groups in about 100 communities across north america.

You'll find out more about the effort on our web-site: Web Site

I'd like to invite you to consider several things:

1. If you're interested in this sort of thinking and activity, bookmark our site and come back from time to time. Over the next six months it will continue to evolve as a resource center for connecting people with each other and with resources.

2. Look at our current list of participating communities (changes every day or so) -- List

The videoconference on the 22nd will be from 10:00 to 1:00 Pacific time. If there is already a site in your area, drop an e-mail to the coordinator if you would like to attend -- or help put it on. Registration is $10.

3. If you look at our materials and are really interested, perhaps you would consider becoming a site coordinator and putting together your own downlink site. What that entails is:

a) locating a site (local university or community college, county extension office, local sports bar, etc) that will let you downlink the program for free. Its coming out from our partner, Washington State University and being distributed through A*DEC (the American Distance Education Consortium). b) figure out who to invite -- mostly, we're looking for people who want to talk with others about the things in the world changing around us and who want to invite others into such conversations. c) facilitate the three on-site, 30 minute discussions and take care of local logistics.

This is fully explained in the program summary at Summary

I'm pretty excited about the work we are doing -- please let me know if you would like to be involved!

Best,

Bob

-- Bob Stilger (rstilger@nrf.org), January 06, 1999.


PETERBOROUGH TOWN MEETING ON Y2K A town meeting will be organized at the Main Library Auditorium in Ptbo on Thursday February 11, 1999 at 7:00 P.M on Y2K. All residents of the city and surrounding area are welcome. No politics, just questions and answers, informal, unstructured, no entrance fee. ''We want the facts M'am,just the facts'' Call Bruice at 705-743-8714 Thank you J.P. Struyven Keene, Ontario

-- John-Paul Struyven (jpstruyv@peterboro.net), January 24, 1999.

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