Hello Friends And Neighbors (and neighbors who are friends; after all, not everyone is lighting off fireworks along Foothills Blvd.)
Join UUVerdugo this week for some inclusive, enlightening, and/or just plain entertaining activities
Last Sunday’s Service
(image: Laura Joy)
Yes, we may have talked about how Tom Petty’s music qualified the late American musician as a stealth UU, and musical guest Laura Joy related that his songs had actually saved her from peril in an “interconnected web of existence” sort of way. As UUs and Tom Petty say, “You believe what you wanna believe.”
Speaking of, this Saturday’s (June 17) Verdugo HUUT, featuring Ms. Joy, The Raymond Ave. Refugees, Scott Memmer, Mitchell Schaffer, Guy DeVillez, Andy McAllister, and Richard Penn, is a vertically-integrated tribute to Tom Petty that we’re pretty sure you’ll enjoy, especially when you see what happened to the eponymous American Girl of the song.
And, while you ponder your favorite Tom Petty songs, please join us Wednesday night (June 14) for an informational meeting hosted by No Canyon Hills, a community conservation group seeking a long-overdue environmental impact survey on a proposed 220-luxury home gated community fixin’ to be erected by the 210 freeway and Wentworth Ave. For more information, visit their site. The event begins in our sanctuary at 7 p.m.
Join us for our monthly Third Friday Potluck at noon (June 16) for the finest in UU potluck etiquette and conversation. Note: The rock band summer camp will be in full swing in the sanctuary a building away, so you might be contending with the occasional bass drop over your lemon squares.
This Sunday’s Service, June 18: For the Fathers
Yes, Fathers’ Day is the Arbor Day to Mothers’ Day’s Easter, but we still celebrate this lesser-known and archaic Hallmark holiday regardless, as UUs are fond of quaint traditions. We promise that, if you stub your toe on the way into church Sunday, no one will tell you to “just walk it off!” but someone may subject you to a Dad Joke or ten.