UpFront Theater – Wednesday night,
New Year's Eve Special!!The Upfront Theatre is excited to bring you our annual New Year's Eve Special Show!! They sell out quickly.December 31st- 11pmTickets $15Champagne toast and count down at 11pm show!
Dan Witter and I will go to the NEW YEAR's get-together at 10:15.

· New Year’s Day – I am going to "hike" from Bellingham to Fairhaven along the Interurban on New Years day at 11:00. Meet at Woods coffee, across from La Fiamma. It is flat and will take 45 mintues to walk it one way!

E-mail me at kaz1@wildmail.com or call me at 393-1121 if interested

YAG Service Projects

A list of possible service projects for YAG, gathered at last night's planning meeting, and assembled by Michael Light:

Year Long Focus on Food Issues: The YAGers thought it could be good to focus our service efforts on a particular issue for the year and support the Bellingham Food Bank, started by BUF many years ago. Here is a short list of initial ideas:

o Food Drive Trick or Treating / Costume Exchange Party – Let’s get dressed up and go door to door asking our community members to give us non-perishable treats to share with the food bank
o Connecting with Gleaning Project to do a BUF Gleaning Drive
o BUF Food Drive Potluck – we provide dinner and entertainment, and BUFsters bring the goods!
o Other BUF social events - where participants can donate food for attendance. E.g. movie night, concert

· Golden Chalice BlurbBook - Bios of our senior members created with Middle School Group, turned into a book that members can purchase. Michael, Beth and Erin to get details and present for the spring. Will connect with Rachel of Daytimers group and Crystal from RE

· Adopt a Highway – YAGer Darrin Rankin is in a group that adopted a portion of the Meridian Highway. He is looking for interested people to help for a biannual clean-up. Darrin to email more details and submit for the Blog.

· WWU Van Ride - One Sunday each month try to coordinate using the BUF van to pick up the WWU-UU group for service, maybe do a special YAG brunch afterwards? Michael to contact North and Erin to coordinate first drive!

· YAG presentation in service in June – Even if we don’t do anything formal, it would be neat to have some mention of our group in a service. We can talk about what this could look like in the coming months

· Auction Item – YAG to Donate 4 hours of spring cleaning! This could be indoor and outdoor to suite the interests of group members

World AIDS Day, Schedule Updates

Join Evergreen AIDS Foundation downtown on December 1st to honor World AIDS Day. There will be an event at Railroad and Holly until 5pm, followed by a 5:30pm Mayoral Dedication at Depot Market Square and a candlelight vigil / march. At 6:30 our own Doug Wadkins will speak. Hope to see a few familiar faces this evening!

If you're a fan of incredible music, T-bone Taylor (Crystal Ravenwood's husband) plays at the Archer Ale House every Monday beginning at 7:30. Stop by and check it out some time!

On December 3rd, there's a 20th Birthday event for Evergreen AIDS Foundation from 6-9pm at the Wild Buffalo on Holly Street. Music by the amazing Dawn Angelosante who you may remember from her performance in service a while back!

There will be a planning meeting for all who wish to come on Tuesday, December 9th at The Woods at Boulevard Park, 5:30-?. Attend this meeting and let us know what you want to do with YAG, what events you think might be fun, whether you'd like to participate in a service project, etc.