Category Archives: Village

Green Acres Village to be inducted into Bicentennial Green Legacy Hall of Fame

Oh my! This email came in yesterday out of the blue, or rather, the green . . .

Dear Ann,

We at Sustainable Indiana 2016 deeply appreciate your work toward a sustainable future. As you recall, we featured your work as one of our Green Legacy stories on our web site. 

Green Acres Village has been selected to be inducted into our “Green Lights Hall of Fame.” You are one of 200+ groups and individuals across Indiana whose efforts promote a sustainable future and you are being honored with this award. We congratulate you.

A celebration of these Green Lights will be held on September 20, 2016, at IU’s Whittenberger Auditorium in Bloomington. We ask that you confirm your attendance at this event. You may respond by visiting http://sustainbleindiana2016.org/glc

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Weekly Community Dinner: Arielle in the lead, serves old family favorite

“My grandmother makes a pot roast with potatoes and carrots every time we visit her,”

— says Arielle, who wanted her dinner to be one that reminded her of her family. At some point I asked her how we were doing. Fine! She said.

Arielle, one of our new podmates, in last night’s second weekly Community Dinner of the new semester, served her family pot roast up for all of us along with other goodies made by and with her step mom Leslie, who also participated, calling this second-ever (for her) Community Dinner already a habit. Aaron’s mom Joanne also attended, a welcome surprise. She comes once in a while, and this time brought with her news of a new film to be shown downtown at the Buskirk Chumley on Sunday afternoon, at 4:30 p.m. I plan to attend.

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