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Friday, September 22, 2006

Harvest Festival in Missoula, Sept 29th & 30th, to Celebrate Local Food

LOCAL FOOD TO BE CELEBRATED AT MISSOULA HARVEST FESTIVAL
September 29th and 30th



Events include a public address by Anna Lappé, Songs for your Supper by Bill Rossiter, live music, local food and beverages, and a cooking demonstration using local foods by award winning chef Tom Siegel.

Events on Friday night include:

Address by Anna Lappé: "Eat Grub! Putting Politics on Your Plate." Anna is a national bestselling author and will focus on how our diet affects our health and the planet, and how we each can play a role in transforming the world.

Buy Fresh, Buy Local at your favorite restaurant: before Anna¹s address, folks can treat their friends and family to a locally grown meal at one of their favorite restaurants. Participating restaurants include Bernice¹s Baker, Big Dipper, Biga Pizza, Blue Canyon, Butterfly Herbs, Catalyst, the Good Food Store, Hob Nob on Higgins, La Parilla, Pearl Café, Posh Chocolat, Rattlesnake Gardens, Red Bird, Scotty¹s Table, The Shack, Shadow¹s Keep, Sushi Hana, Tipu¹s Tiger, Two Sisters, and the Union Club.

On Saturday at Caras Park, events include:

11:00 am Welcome Address by Bill Carey, County Commissioner

11:15-12:00 Cooking Demo by Chef Tom Siegel and his granddaughter

12:00-12:15 "Blues Chef" Improv Comedy about local foods by Martha Buser

12:15-1:00 "Songs for Your Supper" by Bill Rossiter: stories, songs and humor

1:00-1:30 "Reflections on the Missoula Foodshed", by Neva Hassanein, Environmental Studies Professor and CFAC Co-facilitator, and Josh Slotnick, Poet, Farmer, and PEAS Farm Director

1:30-3:00 Music by the Harvest Fest Bluegrass Band

Kid¹s Activities all day include cider pressing, cooperative games, live animals and arts and crafts.

Food and beverages featuring locally grown products. The festival is free and all are welcome to join us.

CONTACT:
Bonnie Buckingham, Community Food & Ag Coalition, 880-0543
Neva Hassanein, UM Environmental Studies, 243-6271
Martha Buser, Catalyst Café, 542-1337



LOCAL FOOD TO BE CELEBRATED AT HARVEST FESTIVAL
Event Features Inspiring Author, Local Food at Restaurants, and More

Building on their huge success last year, a broad-based coalition dedicated to building a strong local food system has once again organized a Harvest Festival. On September 29th and 30th, events will include a public address by Anna Lappé, Songs for your Supper by Bill Rossiter, live music, local food and beverages, and a cooking demonstration using local foods by award winning chef Tom Siegel along with his granddaughter.

"Harvest Fest gives us a chance to celebrate good local food and community," explained Bonnie Buckingham, the facilitator of the Community Food and Agriculture Coalition which is sponsoring the festival. "Part of CFAC¹s mission is to educate citizens about the value of healthy, fresh food and to promote making our entire community more food secure. Harvest Fest is a fun way to involve people in that process."

"Local food is tastier and more nutritious than food shipped half way round the world," explained local chef Martha Buser, who is also one of the festival organizers. "I like to support farmers from Western Montana whenever I can. And as a chef, I know the best meals begin with fresh ingredients."

Events on Friday night include:

Address by Anna Lappé: "Eat Grub! Putting Politics on Your Plate." Anna is a national bestselling author and will focus on how our diet affects our health and the planet, and how we each can play a role in transforming the world.

Buy Fresh, Buy Local at your favorite restaurant: before Anna¹s address, folks can treat their friends and family to a locally grown meal at one of their favorite restaurants. Participating restaurants include Bernice¹s Baker, Big Dipper, Biga Pizza, Blue Canyon, Butterfly Herbs, Catalyst, the Good Food Store, Hob Nob on Higgins, La Parilla, Pearl Café, Posh Chocolat, Rattlesnake Gardens, Red Bird, Scotty¹s Table, The Shack, Shadow¹s Keep, Sushi Hana, Tipu¹s Tiger, Two Sisters, and the Union Club.



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On Saturday at Caras Park, events include:

11:00 am Welcome Address by Bill Carey, County Commissioner

11:15-12:00 Cooking Demo by Chef Tom Siegel and his granddaughter

12:00-12:15 "Blues Chef" Improv Comedy about local foods by Martha Buser

12:15-1:00 "Songs for Your Supper" by Bill Rossiter: stories, songs and humor

1:00-1:30 "Reflections on the Missoula Foodshed", by Neva Hassanein, Environmental Studies Professor and CFAC Co-facilitator, and Josh Slotnick, Poet, Farmer, and PEAS Farm Director

1:30-3:00 Music by the Harvest Fest Bluegrass Band

Kid¹s Activities all day include cider pressing, cooperative games, live animals and arts and crafts.

Food and beverages featuring locally grown products. The festival is free and all are welcome to join us.

CFAC is a multi-stakeholder coalition that works to secure the health of our local food and farming system for the long term and that seeks to address community food needs in a comprehensive and creative way. For more information on CFAC and on the Harvest Fest, go to: www.umt.edu/cfa
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E-Rase your E-Waste of Helena a Success, More Electronic Recycling Events to Come

Helena's first Electronics Recycling Event, E-Rase your E-Waste, hosted and sponsored by Staples in conjunction with The S.A.V.E. Foundation, Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the Lewis & Clark City-County Health Department, Water Quality Protection District, and the Solid Waste Department, was a huge success.

More than 38,000lbs of electronic waste, a full semi-truck load, was collected with nearly $6,000 raised for local schools. If you are looking for upcoming electronics recycling event, please contact S.A.V.E., and we'll be sure to keep you posted. If you are part of a business with a large amount of material, call us at 406 - 443 - 6323 to arrange to be part of collection we will help organize this coming Fall/Winter.

- Savemobile.org

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Electronics Recycling on 15 & 16 to benefit Helena Schools!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

E-RASE YOUR E-WASTE: RECYCLE ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT IN HELENA AT SPECIAL EVENT

CONTACT: MATT ELSAESSER, SAVE FOUNDATION, 431-0815; JENNIFER MCBROOM, WATER QUALITY PROTECTION DISTRICT, 457-8584; or BOB BIERS, STAPLES STORE MANAGER, 441-1529.

Every year, millions of computers, printers, fax machines, and other electronics equipment are thrown away at local landfills or shipped to developing countries, where copper, lead, and other metals are recovered in a way that pollutes the environment.

But, on Friday, Sept. 15, and Saturday, Sept. 16, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Helena area residents and businesses will have a chance to recycle their old electronics equipment at Staples, 2930 Prospect Ave.

Called E-Rase Your E-Waste, this electronics equipment recycling event is the first-ever in Helena, and is sponsored by Staples, in conjunction with the SAVE Foundation, Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the Lewis & Clark City-County Health Department, Water Quality Protection District, and the Solid Waste Department.

Full computer systems (CPU, monitor, keyboard, and mouse), copiers, laptops, fax machines, scanners, printers, VCRs, DVDs, and televisions will be accepted at this event.
(For people recycling their computers, they can clean their hard drives by following the instructions at http:dban.sourceforge.net.)

Each item can be recycled for $10; a full computer system will be considered one item.

For the two-day event, Staples will donate the $10 to the Helena School District. In addition, participants will receive $10 off a $40 purchase from Staples for supporting the proper disposal of e-waste.

Smaller items, such as cell phones, PDAs, and the chargers and batteries that power them, can be recycled at no cost every day at any Staples store nationwide. Staples also offers customers a $3 off coupon towards a future purchase for each used ink or toner cartridge they return to any Staples store.

Businesses can recycle electronics too, but there is a 10-item limit for businesses that bring items directly to Staples. For businesses with more than 10 items, they need to pre-register by calling the SAVE Foundation at 431-0815 to arrange for collection before the event, along with other details. This will help prevent congestion during the event itself.

“We’ve been asked about electronics recycling by many businesses and individuals,” Elsaesser said. “We’re very excited that Staples is providing this opportunity in Helena.”

According to the International Association of Electronics Recyclers, one billion computers will be scrapped worldwide by 2010, at a rate of 100 million units per year.
The Consumer Electronics Association predicts that cell phone sales will reach 90 million units in 2005, and cell phones are normally replaced every one to two years. Broadcasters nationwide will be encouraging consumers to upgrade to digital televisions before 2009, when over-the-air analog broadcasting is supposed to end.

Many of these electronics equipment contain hazardous metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel, zinc, and chromium. When electronics are not disposed of or recycled properly, they can cause pollution.

“Safely recycling outdated electronics can promote the safe management of hazardous components and supports the recovery and reuse of valuable materials,” said SAVE’s Elsaesser.

For more information, call the SAVE Foundation at 443-6323 or check online at www.savemobile.org.

For more information about Staples’ electronics recycling programs, please visit http://www.staples.com/sbd/content/about/soul/environment.html.