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The Planet Is Our Home – A Global Climate March Event!

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THE PLANET IS OUR HOME – WE LOVE OUR HOME

Come on out and celebrate this beautiful blue marble we call home!

When: Sunday, 29 November, 2015 beginning at 1 pm

Where: Main & Station, 168 Main Street, Parrsboro, NS B0M 1S0 (Parrsboro’s Old Post Office)

What: Bring Your Friends, Family, Instruments, Placards, Drums & Casseroles.  Dress Up In Your Finest or Silliest or Come As You Are.  Make A Speech or Sing or Dance or join in some Ceremonial Drumming, Tell A Story or Read A Poem (or Write One Here), Parade Up and Down Main Street, and Stroll Down to the Water to Throw In A Stone and Make A Wish for a Healthier, Happier Home!

This event is part of the Global Climate March. On November 30th, world leaders meet in Paris to start negotiating the next global climate deal. That’s why, the day before, people around the world will take to the streets and push leaders at every level of government to commit to 100% clean energy. Together, we can push the world towards a climate deal that gets us off dirty energy and unleashes clean energy for all. 

Let’s make history !

For more information visit the Avaaz website…

http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_countdown_to_paris/

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/event/globalclimatemarch/THE_PLANET_IS_OUR_HOME_WE_LOVE_OUR_HOME

If you are not going to be in Parrsboro on 29 November but would like to attend a Global Climate March event,  there are currently 2320 events planned worldwide… go here to find an event near you… https://secure.avaaz.org/en/event/globalclimatemarch

This week’s Nonesuch Coffee Talks: Publishing, Chiropractic, Gems & Minerals – a Billion Dollar Business, and Full Bore Mystic in residence

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Tracy Coffee TalkingTuesday, June 9             Clare Christie – Book Talk                                                    Retired teacher and lawyer and now author of several volumes and columnist for the Amherst News, Clare Christie talks about writing and publishing and explores some of the differences between self-publishing and being professionally published.

Wednesday, June 10            Mary-Irene Parker – Chiropractic in Canada           Chiropractor Mary-Irene Parker talks about the state of chiropractic in Canada; including history; education; research and development, and relationships within the health care world.

Thursday, June 11    Hans Durstling  – Gems and Minerals on the World Scale, A Billion Dollar Business and its Potential for Parrsboro  Moncton based gemcutter and jewellery maker Hans Durstling has taught at the Tucson Show and visited and researched Idar-Oberstein several times. In this talk, he’ll give a first hand account of both locations, and point out some possibilities that their development may hold for Parrsboro.

In a picturesque region of forests and castles and valleys and vineyards in Southwestern Germany not far from Luxembourg lies the legendary gem town of Idar Oberstein. With a population of some 30 to 40 thousand, it’s approximately the size of Fredericton New Brunswick. The hills around are Permian age basalt lava containing abundant nodules of agate. Just like the basalt of the Bay of Fundy. Very early the agate began to be processed. The first documented mention of an agate mine in Idar Oberstein dates back to 1354, more than 800 years ago. By a process of natural growth, the initial industry of polished stone attracted goldsmiths, tool-makers, import-and-export businesses, diamond cutters, carvers. Today, the concentration of stone related businesses is downright breathtaking: there may be a thousand or more separate businesses dealing in one aspect or another of precious and ornamental stone.
The Tucson "Electric Park Show", 2006

The Tucson “Electric Park Show”, 2006

While Idar-Oberstein is permanent, in Tucson Arizona the activity is packed into the three weeks of the “Tucson Show” in late January early February. During that time, Tucson is to the world of gems and minerals what Paris is to fashion. Hotel prices triple during the three weeks of the Show, which today is by a very large margin the world’s largest mineral and gem exposition. Its economic benefit to the City of Tucson has been estimated to be in the hundred million dollar range. Here again, just as in Idar Oberstein, Tucson’s present status as the number one exposition was not planned, but grew naturally, over decades, step by step.

Friday June 12        Mark Beebe & Julia Heimer Dadds  – in residence Artist’s Talk Full Bore Mystic, Indiana artists Mark Beebe & Julia Heimer Dadds, will be in residence at Main & Station for the month of June.

Nonesuch Café Hours!

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Janet listens to Tracy

The new hours for the NONESUCH CAFE  are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 AM until 2 PM  so come on by MAIN & STATION  (Parrsboro’s old Post Office) for delicious freshly made lunch and treats by Janet & Judith.

        The NONESUCH CAFE is also open for supper each Tuesday from 5 pm.

Please note that the café is ALSO OPEN BY CHANCE : if you see the sign outside, the door open, or the lights on, please don’t be shy to come right in to see what we have on offer in the café & to check out the new stock of secondhand books and art.

 

We also offer special event and private parties on site or catered.

For reservations, email [email protected] or call 514-979-3978 and leave a message.

The cafe menu changes regularly depending on our mood and what is in season.

 

                          Gluten and Lactose & Sugar Free Friendly.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NONESUCH COFFEE TALKS SERIES FOR SUMMER 2015 HAS BEGUN & YOU ALREADY MISSED SOME GREAT TALKS. FOR DETAILS & AN UP-TO-DATE SCHEDULE, SEE HERE… 

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