It was a hot day. The creeks and river waterflows are diminishing. It rained heavily the day before and even though the seasonal streams are drying up, there were a few new "puddles" in some of the draws where everyone and everything took advantage of the water.
I was pulling out on the highway when I saw this guy. I loved his get-up. I asked if he minded if I photographed him. He smiled and said, "Go ahead."
If you haven't been, you need to go to the 4th of July BBQ put on by the Rattlesnake Gardens - (406) 543-9962
So many people of all ages seemed to grin, visit, eat, dance and be merry from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. When it was over, the crowd left by bike, foot, and car and with in minutes, the place was quiet and clean. Amazing!
If you want to see for yourself, see the slideshow below. There are lots of photos so you might want to open it in a new window and buzz through it. Or, you can come for yourself next year!
Jack will be doing a benefit float on the Clark Fork River this Tuesday and Thursday for the Clark Fork Coalition 320 Float. They will be doing 320 miles in 20 days! Whew. He has decided to use the Rattlesnake Gardens for his lunches. That will be tasty! Lucky floaters.
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The real title of this post should be "The Faces of Children Affected by Unjust Budget and Policy Choices."
WASHINGTON, DC— On Thursday, May 7, as our nation prepares to celebrate Mother’s Day, a group of prominent Hollywood women––including Jessica Alba, Regina King, Keri Russell, Jurnee Smollett, Ali Wentworth and others―will join Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman and attorney and Washington, DC, First Lady Michelle Fenty on a children’s health reform Child Watch day in Washington, DC.
The group will conduct a CDF Child Watch visit to the Unity Health Care Upper Cardozo Clinic in Columbia Heights, where they will meet children at the clinic and hold a roundtable discussion with health care providers and working families from across the country about the struggles they face in accessing quality affordable health care for their children. The women will share these experiences when they meet with administration officials and Congressional leaders later that day to ask that they ensure all children quality affordable health care as part of the health reform legislation being drafted this month.
WHAT: Mother’s Day Visit to Washington to Promote Children’s Health Reform
WHO:
Jessica Alba, actress
Malaak Compton-Rock, founder and director, The Angelrock Project
Marian Wright Edelman, president, The Children’s Defense Fund
Michelle Fenty, attorney and First Lady of Washington, DC
Ruth-Ann Huvane, child advocate
Regina King, actress
Michelle Kydd Lee, executive director, Creative Artists Agency Foundation
Katie McGrath, child advocate
Shannon Rotenberg, executive director, just keep livin foundation
Keri Russell, actress
Krista Smith, senior West Coast editor, Vanity Fair
Jurnee Smollett, actress
Laura Wasserman, film music supervisor
Ali Wentworth, actress and comedienne
EVENTS: Roundtable Discussion at Unity Health Care Upper Cardozo Clinic
3020 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC
12:00–1:30 p.m. ET
This event will be open to the media but please RSVP to Ed Shelleby at 202-701-7806 or Eshelleby@childrensdefense.org
Meetings with Congressional Leaders
2:00 p.m. ET: Women Senators hosted by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
3:00 p.m. ET: Senate Finance Committee hosted by Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT)
3:30 p.m. ET: Senate Health, Education, Pensions and Labor Committee hosted by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT)
For Congressional meeting photo-ops, contact Ed Shelleby at 202-701-7806 or Eshelleby@childrensdefense.org
About the Children’s Defense Fund
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for 35 years to ensure a level playing field for all children. We champion policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education, and a moral and spiritual foundation. Supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations, CDF advocates nationwide on behalf of children to ensure children are always a priority.
The CDF Leave No Child Behind's mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
About the CDF Child Watch Program
The CDF Child Watch program seeks to educate the heart and the mind; tie the faces of children to unjust budget and policy choices; help influential decision makers see child needs in their own communities; show them positive alternatives; engage them in seeking solutions; and build bridges across race, faith and income. CDF’s goal is to get the movers and shakers to move and shake our policy, media and political leaders to action for children and create a new powerful cadre of leaders for children. The Child Watch program’s roots can be traced back to 1967 when a young civil rights lawyer named Marian Wright took Senator Robert F. Kennedy away from the marble corridors of Washington to the clapboard shacks of the Mississippi Delta to see what was happening to America’s children.
About Unity Health Care
Unity Health Care, Inc. (Unity), Washington, DC’s largest nonprofit health and social services organization, serves individuals and families in all eight wards of the District of Columbia through its network of 14 Community Health Centers, nine sites serving homeless individuals and a mobile medical outreach unit. In 2008, Unity served more than 81,000 of the most vulnerable residents of the District including the uninsured, working poor, homeless and the formerly incarcerated. For more information about Unity Health Care, Inc., visit our website at http://www.unityhealthcare.org/.
Today's hike was inbetween rain showers. We didn't see any game, but did see new life "springing" up. Buttercups are one of the firsts signs of spring!
