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The state primaries in both Kansas and Missouri will be held this Tuesday, August 5 - so don’t forget to vote, freecyclers!

You can find out more about the Kansas primaries here:
www.kssos.org/elections/elections.html

And the Missouri primaries here:
www.sos.mo.gov/elections/2008primary/

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Howdy y’all. I’m passing along this request from a KC Freecycle member who needs a pup or two to photograph for a fundraiser. She’s a member of the KC Clay Guild and is sculpting a piece for Greater KC Humane Society’s upcoming Art Unleashed auction on August 22. Details below.

If you can help, email Kelly at littlesilvertrout [at] yahoo.com.

Please and thank you.

6/22/08: Wanted: puppy to photograph for a charitable cause: Shawnee

I am a member of the KC Clay Guild (www.kcclayguild.org) and we are working on a group-project to donate to Art Unleashed (www.hsgkc.org/eventspage.html click on the “Art Unleashed” tab for more information. My donation last year is the yellow dog with big ears in the bottom right picture).

I need a smooth-coated puppy, such as a Weimaraner, Pointer, Doberman, Hound etc. to photograph so I have figure studies to work from. This will be a sculptural piece. Mixed breeds would be fine as well, just not any of the domed-headed toy breeds. I’m looking for a puppy in the six to twelve week age range that still looks “babyish”

I hope to find someone reasonably close to downtown Shawnee who would be willing to give me about thirty minutes of time in which to photograph their puppy. I would be willing to meet at your house or in a public park if you prefer.

Last year combined KC Clay Guild member donations to this event raised $1105.00 for the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City. This year we want to top that.

Thanks for considering my request,

Kelly Walsh
Publicity coordinator
KC Clay Guild

Updated 7/4/08 to add:

Someone did see my request and let me photograph her puggle puppies. The piece is nearing completion. I’ll send a photograph if you would like to see it. There is always an element of risk when firing ceramics, so I want to do a few more similar pieces as back-up and would like more photographs to work from.

As usually happens, I thought I had all of the shots I wanted, but once I got into it I wished I had more. It would be great if you could post my request on your blog!

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Meet author Jana Kohl and Baby June 25 in Kansas City.

Jana Kohl’s new book, A Rare Breed of Love: The True Story of Baby and the Mission She Inspired to Help Dogs Everywhere, will lift the curtain to show the evils of puppy mills. But the book, published by Fireside/Simon & Schuster, is also a celebration of one very small survivor — a three-legged poodle, and former puppy mill breeding dog, named Baby. In addition to important information about puppy mills and adoption, the book is filled with more than 60 heartwarming photos of Baby with some of her high-profile fans, including film and television stars, politicians from both sides of the aisle, sports figures, and cultural icons. And I was honored to write the introduction to the book.

Baby’s Rare Breed of Love Road Trip is visiting more than 20 cities across America to encourage rescue adoptions, raise awareness about puppy mills, and help promote the welfare of all animals. Jana and Baby are coming to your area soon. Please come to meet them at this book signing event.

June 25, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Rainy Day Books, Inc.
2706 W. 53rd Street
Fairway, KS 66205
913-384-3126

Thanks for supporting Jana, Baby, and the animals!

Sincerely,

Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States

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And since Dr. Stephen Colbert, DFA is just as refreshing as the wet stuff (and also due in no small part to the crazy amount of yard work I have to do today), I’ll let him give you the lowdown on WWD. Here are all five segments of Thursday’s Colbert Report Special ReporT, “Watershift Down: Getting the Sea Monkey off America’s Aqua-Back.”

If you’d like to learn more about World Water Day (this year’s theme: Sanitation), check out www.worldwaterday.org and www.worldwaterday.net. Also, you can read more about the awesome Dean Kamen here. (If you only watch one clip, make it Stephen’s interview with Dean, which is the fourth one down below.)

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Today, Kansas City Freecycle is proud to be one of fifteen thousand (!) blogs participating in Blog Action Day, a blogswarm to bring attention to environmental issues.

You can participate in one of three ways:

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

Blog Action Day is about MASS participation. That means we need you! Here are 3 ways to participate:

* Post on your blog relating to the environment on Blog Action Day
* Donate your day’s earnings to an environmental charity
* Promote Blog Action Day around the web

‘Course, since we’re all about green and free here at KCF, I’d also like to suggest freecycling as your enviro action of the day! Or, spread the Freecycle word to your friends, family, co-workers, heck, even your friendly Price Chopper cashier. It’s free, it’s easy, and it’s totally green.

Want more ideas? Go! Browse! Now!

Feel free to leave your favorite green suggestion in the comments.

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Submitted by a fellow freecycler….

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To: kcfreecycle-owner [at] yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:44 PM
Subject: INFO: Missouri River Cleanup - Oct. 6

I thought maybe you could pass this on to the KC Freecycle group. Perhaps they’ll want to volunteer as well…..

There is a Missouri River Cleanup scheduled for Saturday, October 6. I’ve volunteered for this before and had a really good time, even though it is hard, dirty work.

Here is a little info regarding the cleanup and the URL:

Register at their website: www.riverrelief.org.

Missouri River Relief will be hosting our fifth annual Kansas City area Missouri River Clean-up on October 6. We are expecting a big crowd, and we hope you’ll join us for the fun! We’ll be joined by a fleet of agency boat drivers who will shuttle you to select spots along the Big Muddy to clean up her banks. All volunteers will be served lunch when they return.

Thanks for letting me share this information.

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If you have any local enviro news to share, drop us a line at kcfreecycle-owner [at] yahoogroups.com (to email all the list moderators) or kelly [at] kcfreecycle.org (to get in touch with your blogmistress personally).

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