Whether you have an idea or just like to think business, plan to attend for a dynamic evening of networking with lots of creative people.  Everyone is welcome!  For more information, go to http://www.veda-wi.org/inventors_club.html or contact Sue Noble at 608-637-5396.

Thank you!
Sue

Economic experts don't think so. They believe creative food entrepreneurs are good for the economy, here in Southwestern Wisconsin and elsewhere.

That's why economic development dollars are being spent for a variety of innovative projects this year. Some of those dollars have been committed to
build a shared-use commercial kitchen in Gays Mills.

You have helped us demonstrate that there is substantial local interest in such a facility. Now we'd like you to help us design it and decide how to equip it.

Learn how the kitchen will be organized and see a preliminary plan for its layout.

Learn how some entrepreneurs are already making plans to use the kitchen.  And most important, tell us how you'd like us to support your food enterprise.

Who:  Brad Niemcek, Kickapoo Kitchen Project Team
      Julie Henley, Gays Mills Flood Recovery Coordinator

When:  6 p.m., Wednesday, February 10

Where:  Gays Mills Community Center

Why:  We need your ideas.

Indeed, "corporate personhood"--and the state's upholding corporate interests over those of "the people"--is but an expected extension of America's founding ideological fantasies. The US Supreme Court's decision in "Citizens United" was not some break with American "democracy". It was not some kind of "take over", in which "We the people" should get "our nation back"--we never "had" a nation to begin with. It was always John Jay's nation, Alexander Hamilton's nation. It was always the "minority of the opulent" who owned the country, and ran it as they saw fit, while distracting the "Great Beast" with political rhetoric and propaganda.

But we should note that every gain in civil rights history, every extension of liberty, has been made when "the people" see through the state's ideological fantasies, when the people civilly-disobey until the state acts according to the people's demands for justice. Only then does "Change" become more than just rhetoric, spouted by US presidents.

from BeginBeing

And if video speaks to you more potently, try this link to a work by Jonas Mekas "As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty". All these links were from @mhsteger on Twitter. Tomorrow's music will also be via this interesting person's work.

Winter celebration of local food and farmers.  Sat, Feb 6th from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Greenman Music Hall, downtown Viroqua. A local, light dinner with dessert will be served at 3:00 p.m. followed by the Viroqua premier of the critically acclaimed movie FRESH.  

Contact Valley Stewardship Network for more info 608-637-3615

Catherine Hall-Parrish & Ted Parrish
Tom Gullion & Friends Monika Sutherland & Students Joe Hart & Matt Shortridge