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Blog Entry 196 of 210 From the mountains to 6th Avenue
Many Evergreeners commute. It's been described as a commuter community. Accurate. So there is an etiquette to commuting. The first rule: Leave early. Even if you depart for a 9 to five job at 6:30 a.m., you will not be alone. If you like being alone on the highway, go to Montana. The second rule: Leave early If you don't get off til 5 p.m., take a book on tape, because you will be sitting in traffic near Federal and 6th, and entertainment of any kind is helpful. There are polite drivers, like me, who let others sneak in, especially in merge lanes. I try. You probably do too. The one thing I have decided that will not happen to me is that I will not be mangled in a car wreck on 6th Avenue or I-70 in either direction. What do you do to keep this promise to yourself?

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Evergreen Alternative fair a giving option

Article Contributed on: 11/9/2008 7:22:26 PM

Every year the Alternative Fair, which has been a tradition for I don't know how long, sets up shop in a church for a weekend to encourage people to shop for exotic goods made in predominantly poor countries.

I guess the fair outgrew the Church of the Hills, where it used to be.

Goods come from Guatemala, Haiti, the Himalayas. Individual nonprofits set up booths to sell wares from these countries that goes back to their faraway and often poverty stricken communities.

There were lots of people at Evergreen Lutheran Church on Colorado 73 between Evergreen and Conifer on Nov. 8.

The fair is a joint effort of ELC, Church of the Hills, and Church of the Transfiguration and features mainly charitable nonprofits from around the world, as well as local groups, like Friendship Bridge, which helps women in Guatemala start their own businesses.

The fair was a festive, colorful place. Scarves, jewelry, food, even Mexican vanilla.

People ooohed and ahhhed over all the handmade items and seemed to be happy to celebrate shopping and holiday joy.

I bought a fuzzy neck scarf knitted by the Church of the Hills Shawl Knitting ministry. The lady said they knit them for people who are ill or are in hospice or are grieving.

I bought another scarf at the Friendship Bridge table, red with little tassels.
I recognized the name of the woman who talked to me Jeri Aldridge as a teacher from my son's high school days.

This Himalyan Children's Fund booth was manned by Diane Lucas, who said she sold most of the products she brought. The total amount raised was not yet available, but she said, "We sold out."

It was a great way to pump up a holiday shopping spirit, even if the economy is in the pits.

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