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Local Residents Invited to Learn More About Multiple Sclerosis and Walk MS
About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body.
Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are leading to better understanding and moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million worldwide.
About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
The Society mobilizes people and resources so that everyone affected by multiple sclerosis can live their best lives as we stop MS in its tracks, restore what has been lost and end MS forever. Last year alone, through our comprehensive nationwide network of services, the Society devoted $122.2 million to connect more than one million individuals to the people, information and resources they need. To move closer to a world free of MS, the Society also invested $54 million to support more than 380 new and ongoing research projects around the world. We are united in our collective power to do something about MS now and end this disease forever. Learn more atwww.nationalMSsociety.org.
On Wednesday, July 27 at 6 pm Darrell Boggess, Solar Indiana Renewable Energy Network (SIREN) volunteer and retired industrial engineer, will present a talk entitled “Indiana’s Increasing Solar Energy Resource”. SIREN, a project of the nonprofit Center for Sustainable Living, is an educator and promoter of renewable energy and energy conservation. SIREN presents free public Going Solar programs at libraries, churches and civic groups to help people learn about renewable energy performance, cost and availability.
The Bloomfield Friday Farmer’s Market will feature “Small Business Night” and “Vintage Pop-Up Night” on Friday, September 9 from 4-7 pm. For a $5 fee, small businesses and vintage/collectable sellers are invited to set up a tent/table and advertise their business or sell their wares! The purpose of Small Business Night is to inform the public about the goods and services provided by small businesses in our own community, and to encourage residents to “buy local”. The Bloomfield market is held each Friday and is located on the corner of Spring and Franklin streets. Small Business displays will be set up in the grassy lot across Franklin Street from Bloomfield Manufacturing. Businesses can pay their fee to the market manager that evening. If there are questions, please contact the committee via our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Bloomfield.community.farmers.market/
$10 Adults, $5 children 12 & under
The residents of Bloomington will have several opportunities in July to interact with City of Bloomington department leaders outside of regular business hours. Everyone is welcome to meet and discuss concerns, current projects and future plans. These events are part of Mayor Hamilton’s ongoing Town Hall Meetings series.
The public is encouraged to attend any or all of these after hours opportunities to interact with City staff. There will be no formal agendas, just a chance to interact and share thoughts, concerns and ideas. All are welcome.
$10 Adults, $5 children 12 & under
$3.00 per player
Must be 21+ to enter.
QueerTalk is a confidential space for people identifying along the spectrum of queerness to share experiences, strengthen bonds, and develop the skills needed to inspire one another and ignite action in the communities where we live. The first workshop of this series, “Unpacking Queer”, will focus on working out how our labels and identities can both help and harm us. “Coming out & Being Out” will be our next workshop, on September 7th!
QueerTalk will meet the first Wednesday of every month through March 2017, Room 1C of the Monroe County Public Library. Childcare will be available! Feel free to contact us for any reason at [email protected].
Free
$5.00
4 different restaurants with plenty of food options, entertainment by Straight Davis, prizes and networking!
We hope to see several Chamber members at this event to show your support and network with local business leaders.
The Bloomfield Friday Farmer’s Market will feature “Small Business Night” and “Vintage Pop-Up Night” on Friday, September 9 from 4-7 pm. For a $5 fee, small businesses and vintage/collectable sellers are invited to set up a tent/table and advertise their business or sell their wares! The purpose of Small Business Night is to inform the public about the goods and services provided by small businesses in our own community, and to encourage residents to “buy local”. The Bloomfield market is held each Friday and is located on the corner of Spring and Franklin streets. Small Business displays will be set up in the grassy lot across Franklin Street from Bloomfield Manufacturing. Businesses can pay their fee to the market manager that evening. If there are questions, please contact the committee via our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Bloomfield.community.farmers.market/
Visit: www.gallerywalkbloomington.com for more details
Free refreshments, meet the artists, children welcome.
The Ivy Tech Culinary students make all our refreshments.
For Gallery Walk, Ekphrasis at The Venue
On Friday, August 5th, for Gallery Walk beginning at 5:00p.m., The Venue will feature paintings selected for this year’s Venue Ekphrasis.
We at The Venue have invited ten of Bloomington’s finest Artists and ten of our most accomplished Poets to participate in an Ekphrasis. Each artist has submitted a painting, and each poet has selected one of the paintings, that inspires them to write a poem. The paintings will be our visual show for the month of August.
On Saturday, August 20th, at 6:00p.m., and again on August 27th at 6:00p.m. at The Venue, five of the artists will explain the inspiration for their painting, and five of the Poets will read the poems that those paintings inspired. The interaction will elucidate and amplify their creative process.
Our gourmet soup and other special refreshments will be served. Join us.
The IU Fine Arts Theaters are at 1200 East 7th Street, on the north side of Showalter Fountain, next to the IU Auditorium. If you are standing in the middle of the fountain, facing the IU Auditorium, the Fine Arts Building is on your left.
The viewing experience at Fine Arts is similar to that of a traditional theater – reasonably comfortable theater seats on a sloped floor. There are two screening rooms – the downstairs theater seats 250, the smaller, more intimate upstairs theater seats 99. This semester, unless otherwise indicated, we are screening in the upstairs theater.
To reach the screening rooms enter the IU Fine Arts building through the second floor doors off of the circular drive. Look to your left and you’ll see the upstairs Fine Arts theater.
To reach the downstairs theater go to the end of the hall and walk down the stairs. You’ll find the downstairs theater on your right.
The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market holds the annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting Aug. 6 from 9 until 11:30 a.m. at Showers Plaza, 401 N. Morton St. Tomato tasting is free while supplies last.
Local farmers provide a variety of colorful heirloom varieties for tasting, including Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Black from Tula, Pineapple, German Johnson, Green Zebra, Mortgage Lifter, Blue Beauty and more. Most of the tomato varieties will be available for sale at the Market as well.
According to Farmers’ Market coordinator Marcia Veldman, heirloom tomatoes are varieties that were once widely cultivated but fell out of favor with producers because they neither shipped nor stored well, but were cherished by gardeners for their superb colors, textures, and flavors. Heirloom tomatoes are open pollinated and are grown from seed saved from earlier crops. Some maintain that to really qualify as an “heirloom,” seed must be passed from generation to generation like a precious family quilt.
Free parking is available at the Farmers’ Market north of City Hall in IU ‘C’ Permit spaces (in the lot located on the east side of Morton Street, at the corner of Ninth and Morton) and in City Hall Red Permit spaces. Metered parking is available on the streets surrounding the Farmers’ Market for $1 an hour, or in the parking garage at Seventh and Morton Streets for 50 cents per hour. Parking regulations are enforced on Saturdays.
For more information about the Heirloom Tomato Tasting, and to see a complete listing of varieties available for tasting, visit bloomington.in.gov/farmersmarket. To volunteer to help with the Tomato Tasting by slicing tomatos and dishing out samples, sign up at bloomington.in.gov/parksvol.