Faith in action: Festivals, Pagan Pride, Bible study and more.Salt Lake

FolkFest

St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church will host its 15th annual FolkFest.
When » Sept. 8, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Sept. 9, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Where » St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, 7405 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan

Tickets » Free

Rally Sunday

Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church will hold a Rally Sunday Carnival, which will include a barbecue picnic and carnival. You can "dunk the pastor" in the dunk tank, and there will be a bouncy house, cotton candy and games for the kids. Visit www.oslcslc.org for information.

When » Sept. 9, noon

Where » Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 3900 S. 2500 East, Holladay

Tickets » Free
Pagan Pride Day

Salt Lake Pagan Pride will hold its annual Pagan Pride Day at Murray Park Pavilions 1, 2 and 3. There will be music and booths. For admission, bring a nonperishable food item to donate for The Road Home. Visit www.saltlakeppd.org for information.

When » Sept. 9, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Where » Murray Park, 296 E. Murray Park Ave.

Tickets » Free

South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society minister

The South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society will welcome its new developmental minister, the Rev. Patty C. Willis.

When » Sept. 9, 10:30 a.m.

Where » South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 6876 S. Highland Drive, Cottonwood Heights
Bible Study Fellowship’s Genesis class

Women can register to study the Book of Genesis through the Bible Study Fellowship program. The class will meet Wednesdays from 9:10-11 a.m. except for Christmas and Easter breaks. Late registrations are accepted throughout the study year. For more information, visit www.bsfinternational.org.
Bible Study Fellowship’s Genesis class

Women can register to study the Book of Genesis through the Bible Study Fellowship program. The class will meet Wednesdays from 9:10-11 a.m. except for Christmas and Easter breaks. Late registrations are accepted throughout the study year. For more information, visit www.bsfinternational.org.

When » Sept. 12, 6:45 p.m.

Where » Mountain Life Church, 7375 N. Silver Creek Road, Park City

Tickets » $15

by:THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/faith/54833074-142/church-sept-tickets-free.html.csp

Hurricane Sandy A Major Money-Making Opportunity For Many Businesses

Oct 31 (Reuters) - As historic storm Sandy pummeled the U.S. Northeast, knocking out power and crippling transportation in New York City and beyond, the enterprising American spirit was running high - mostly for good, though sometimes leading to accusations of gouging.

Giovanni Hernandez, a tree surgeon working in affluent Millburn, New Jersey, said demand for his services had reached "madness" levels with hundreds of phone calls from people with damaged trees on their property.

"People want us to show up right away but we can't get there because of all the power lines that are still on the ground," said Hernandez.

Sandy was the largest storm to hit the United States in generations, killing at least 64 people and leaving millions without power. One disaster-modeling company said Sandy may have caused up to $15 billion in insured losses, and many small businesses will have suffered a lot of lost sales.

But on Wednesday - the first day after the storm when people tried to return to some kind of routine - scads of businesses owners, street corner entrepreneurs and, occasionally, good old-fashioned hucksters, were out in force to make the most of a rare business opportunity.

For some, the opportunities were natural and obvious. Bad news for homeowners is simply good news for construction firms and home supply retailers, many of whom have struggled in recent years as U.S. home prices slumped and unemployment rose.

On Manhattan's Upper West Side, Beacon Paint & Hardware, a neighborhood staple, was inundated with customers on Wednesday, with long lines to get served.

Gasoline and generators were in big demand across the region, where commuting is a fact of life. The queues at the pump were exacerbated because more than half of all gasoline service stations in the New York City area and New Jersey were shut because of depleted fuel supplies and power outages, industry officials said.

Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of Chatham, New Jersey-based equities brokerage Themis Trading, said the roads were full of tension and angst.

"It's like Mad Max, the movie," he said, referring to the 1979 film starring Mel Gibson that takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where fuel is at a premium.

"Everyone's looking for gas and protecting their gas when they buy it. We were actually on line before getting an extra bunch of gas to makes sure our generator goes on. Gas and generators are gold. They're more popular than an iPhone on release day."

The same could be said for livery drivers in New York. Black sedans and town cars were seen darting over to crowded bus stops in Manhattan's Inwood and Washington Heights neighborhoods to take on passengers tired of waiting for city buses, many of which were filled to capacity.

Fares, though, had usually gone up. Taxi meters weren't always on, lower early-riser car parking fees had disappeared, and a coffee and a pastry in a small deli could cost substantially more than its normal price.


RETAILERS GET CREATIVE

Some store owners found they didn't need to do much to lure in customers feeling cooped up after spending hours indoors.

Carl Darwisch, 45, and his cousin, Charlie, showed up Tuesday morning at their new store, Details Designer Shoe Outlet on the Upper West Side, to survey damage.

But they noticed the streets were teeming with people, who had no work to attend and were looking for things to do.

"I think it was cabin fever," Darwisch said from his packed store, adding that he sold more than 80 pairs of shoes.

Likewise, Orva Shoes, on East 86th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues, was bustling with customers shopping for rain boots.

Further downtown, L'Express, a restaurant on New York's Park Avenue at East 20th Street, set up a temporary counter outside its front door to sell $2 coffee. A sign proclaimed to passers-by: "We help you when there's no Starbucks," a reference to the popular coffee chain that closed its outlets during the storm.

Larger stores around the region also tried to lure in customers during and after the storm. Barney's New York had a "Settle in with Style" sale that began at noon on Monday, just as the hurricane-force winds were starting to pick up.

In a blast e-mail ad campaign, it offered sale prices on Japanese Sencha green tea, travel backgammon sets and $500 geometric throw blankets.

Some people were clearly drowning their sorrows as business was brisk at area liquor stores, an opportunity that Brooklyn's Gnarly Vines Wines and Spirits was quick to take advantage of. The store was open Sunday through Tuesday and saw a steady stream of customers, even during periods of high wind.

"Sunday was the busiest day of the year for us so far. Sales were almost as good as on last Christmas Eve," said store manager Ben Rosenthal, who said the store also worked through Hurricane Irene last year. "For us storms are basically the same as major holidays." (Reporting by William Schomberg, Caroline Valetkevich, Steven C. Johnson, Ilaina Jonas, Mirjam Donath, Patrick Flanary, Eric Platt, Edith Honan and Hoda Emam; Writing by Steven C. Johnson; Editing by David Gaffen, Martin Howell and Lisa Shumaker)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/31/hurricane-sandy-money-making_n_2052976.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000029#slide=1701705

Something to Talk About: Amazon Store

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Samhain/Halloween

Samhain(pronounced Sow-in, Sah-vin, or Sahm-hayn), known most popularly as Halloween, marks the end of the third and final harvest, is a day to commune with and remember the dead, and is a celebration of the eternal cycle of reincarnation. Samhain (once again Halloween) is the most coveted sabbat by the Wiccan (and many Pagan) religions.

In the European traditions, Samhain is the night when the old God dies, and the Crone Goddess mourns him deeply for the next six weeks. The popular image of her as the old Halloween hag menacingly stirring her cauldron comes from the Celtic belief that all dead souls return to her cauldron of life, death, and rebirth to await reincarnation.

Halloween, plain and simple is our favorite time of year. A true time for witches, Witchcraft itself, and Wiccans alike who feel that on this night the separation between the physical and spiritual realities is it's least guarded and it's veil the thinnest. It is a time for dimensional openings and workings, it is a somber holiday, one of dark clothes and thoughts for the dead, it is said to be the time when those of necromantic talents can speak with the dead and it is certainly a time to remember ones own dead. Witches believe it is a time of endings of relationships and bad situations and it is the time when one can see the glimmer of hope in the future. There are as many concepts attached to this holiday as any other, truly a time of remembrance of our ancestors and all those who have gone before.

With the death of the God, the Wheel of the Year turns again,
bringing us to Yule and rebirth. In paganism, death has never
been seen as an end, but as a transition. We, like our God,
will be born anew as the Wheel of the Year turns on and on.
The mourning begins.... So be it!

by:http://www.witchway.net/halloween.html

Hurricane Sandy: Help those in need.

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Hundreds of thousands of evacuees have already rushed to emergency shelters with their loved ones, and your support is desperately needed to help us keep as many people safe from the storm as possible. Please make your tax-deductible gift to the American Red Cross right now.

Hurricane Sandy has already wrought extensive damage in vulnerable communities along the coast, including severe flooding, power failures and wind damage. There’s no telling what kind of devastation communities will face in the storm’s aftermath, which means we must be ready for the worst.

How much help we can provide in the coming days will be determined in part by your generosity right now. As the storm’s effects become more widespread, more people will need our help. We’ve got to be there for every one of them.

With your help, the Red Cross has already:
Opened shelters in 7 states, deploying more than 1,000 Red Cross workers to support relief efforts
Mobilized nearly 170 Emergency Response Vehicles to move at a moment’s notice
Secured more than 230,000 shelf-stable meals
Readied thousands of supplies such as cots, comfort kits and clean up kits

Please donate today to help the Red Cross respond to those affected by the hurricane.

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Hurricane Sandy Update

For New Yorkers:
If you don’t have power, don’t expect it back anytime soon. Also, how are you reading this?! ConEd — which says Sandy was the “worst storm in [its] history” — is working to restore power to the customers who lost it, and some people might get it back tomorrow, but Bloomberg says “you should not expect the vast bulk of people who do not have service today to get service before the weekend.”
Bus service is back on tonight, on a Sunday schedule. Buses will be free today and tomorrow, and tomorrow will “hopefully” be a full service schedule, according to Gov. Cuomo.
Subway service, on the other hand, won’t be back for a while. The Army Corps of Engineers is sending specialists to help the state drain the tunnels, but they don’t even know the extent of the damage yet, and it could be a while — one previous study, which modeled the effect of a “perfect storm” like the one we just experienced, said it could be “21 days to several months.” Which is still shorter than the time between G Trains! Boom! Tip your waiters!
There are also some 4,000 taxis out on the streets. They still won’t take you to Brooklyn.
J.F.K. Airport will be open tomorrow; LaGuardia will not. To be honest, if you’re flying in or out of LaGuardia, it’s your own fault.
The Stock Exchange will be open tomorrow and the Marathon is still planned for Sunday, so 90 percent of New York’s horrible overachievers will be satisfied.
The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade has been canceled, thank God.
That fucking dangling crane: there is, apparently, a “plan” for it, involving another crane being built, to dismantle the first crane. Our recommendation, after the storm as during and before, is to never go north of 14th Street in Manhattan.

For New Jerseyans:
President Obama’s coming! What could be more helpful to storm victims? He’ll arrive on Wednesday to “survey” the damage with Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, who praised the president heavily to a deeply confused Steve Doocy this morning. Obama will bring a friendship bracelet and a five-page letter about his feelings that he will ultimately decide not to give to Christie.
The Turnpike is open south of Exit 14, so you can get to Ikea or whatever.
NJ Transit has suffered “unprecedented damage,” and it’ll be a while before it’s at full capacity. Two tug boats hit a bridge along North Jersey Coast Line, and some tunnels have been flooded.
Millions are still without power. They will get it back, you know, eventually. Jersey City is establishing a curfew on businesses without power, apparently to prevent long lines? This seems counterintuitive, but what do I know about running Jersey City.
New Brunswick, Atlantic City, and Warren County are all under boil water advisories.
Seven inmates escaped a Newark halfway house during the storm. Keep an eye out for inmates.

For Connecticutians:
As elsewhere, you may be a while without power. It’s going to take two days to even figure out the extent of the damage, and then an unknown amount of time following that. The good news is, all substations are back in working order.

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