Kayaking & Clean Up – White Rock Lake – Dallas (7/11/09)

Please join us at White Rock Lake as part of the Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce-up organized each month by the For the Love of the Lake organization. We will be joining the Kayak Power (KP) cleaning team. Optional group lunch follows at Another Broken Egg, which is located in the same shopping center as the For the Love of the Lake office.

Date: Saturday – July 11th, 2009

Meeting Locations/Times:
+ Option 1 – Meet at the For The Love Of The Lake office (1152 N Buckner Blvd, 75218 – map) after 8:00am to have a complimentary breakfast and pick up clean up supplies. Peter (green shirt) will be here until 8:40 and then drive over to meet the KP group.
+ Option 2 – Meet at KP’s adopted section of the lake, Jackson Point (West side of the lake; 4100 West Lawther Dr, 75214 – map) around 9:00am. Look for the truck and trailer hauling 20+ kayaks. See the above KP link for more info.

Weather Policy: Kayak Power will be there rain, snow, wind or shine. Unless this site states differently, so will the Young Sierrans.

Details: Kayak Power will provide all necessary kayaking and cleaning gear. KP cleans the shoreline of WR Lake from the water. Meaning, we’ll paddle around and collect debris on the lake which isn’t reachable or is challenging to reach from the shore. After collecting trash for about an hour, KP allows participants kayak around the lake. Plan on getting a little dirty and wet. We’ll kayak for as long as we want.

Cost: Free to participate!! Lunch – Individual responsibility.

Consider Bringing: drinking water, sunblock, hat, towel, appropriate weather protection (maybe pants – open kayaks expose your legs to the sun), change of pants/shorts.

Happy Hour / Dinner – Vapiano – Dallas (7/9/09)

Please join us for a Happy Hour/Dinner at Vapiano in Dallas, on Thursday, July 9th!

Vapiano is an innovative European concept serving made-to-order fire roasted pizzas, fresh, house-made pasta and hand tossed gourmet salads.  They have a number of happy hour specials too!

Arrive anytime after 6:00 pm for happy hour; dinner at 7:00 pm.

Please RSVP by noon on 7/9 to the Pingg invitation or the youngsierrans@dallassierraclub.org email address so we have a rough estimate for seating.

All 20s/30s welcome; you don’t have to be a Young Sierran or Sierra Club member to attend.  See you there!

Mockingbird Station / 5319 S Mockingbird Lane Suite 100 / Dallas, TX / 214-887-1557

Movie and Dinner – Food, Inc. – Dallas (6/28/09)

Let’s get together for an educational movie about our nation’s food industry.  After the flick, those that are interested can head to Taco Diner for food and conversation.

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer.  Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

Meet inside downstairs lobby of Magnolia Theater at 3:45 pm (MOVIE STARTS at 4:10pm)

Please RSVP to youngsierrans@dallassierraclub.org or the Pingg invitation by noon on 6/28.

Location: West Village / 3699 McKinney Avenue, Suite 100 / Dallas, TX 75204 / (214) 764-9106

Happy Hour / Dinner – Si Tapas – Dallas (6/24)

Please join us for a Happy Hour/Dinner at Si Tapas and Spanish Cuisine in Dallas, on Wednesday, June 24th!

Arrive anytime after 6:00 pm for happy hour; dinner at 7:00 pm.

Please RSVP by noon on 6/24 to the Pingg invitation or the youngsierrans@dallassierraclub.org email address so we have a rough estimate for seating.

All 20s/30s welcome; you don’t have to be a Young Sierran or Sierra Club member to attend.  See you there!

2207 Allen St / Dallas, TX 75204 / (214) 720-0324

Farmer’s Market – Bolsa (7/5/09)

Once a month, Bolsa is hosting a local farmer’s market that brings together a variety of local companies to sample and sell their products.  I attended this a couple of weeks ago and thought it was great, so be sure to check it out in July!

This is not a Young Sierrans organized event.

Meet the restaurant’s suppliers as well as neighbors, including the Texas Honeybee Guild, chocolatier Katherine Clapner, farmers and ranchers from Eden Creek Farm, Kessler Cookies and others. Live entertainment.

http://listings.guidelive.com/dallas-tx/events/show/87551788-farmers-market

Bolsa / 614 W. Davis St. / Dallas, TX 75208 / (214) 367-9367

Water-Wise Landscape Tour – Dallas (6/6/09)

City of Dallas Water Utilities, City of Dallas Stormwater Management, Texas AgriLife Extension and the Dallas County Master Gardeners are teaming up with surrounding cities to demonstrate the beauty of Water-Wise and EarthKind gardening with the 15th annual Water-Wise Landscape Tour.

Dallas County Master Gardeners will be conducting FREE 15 minute talks on Water-Wise gardening every hour on the hour at each of the tour headquarters. Dallas County Master Gardener volunteers will also be assisting homeowners and helping answer questions about the plants and landscapes on the tour.

Date: Saturday – June 6th, 2009
Time: 9am-3pm

Various Locations:
CENTRAL: City of Dallas – White Rock Pump Station, 2900 White Rock Road, Dallas, 75214
NORTH: City of Addison – Les Lacs Linear Park, 3901 Beltway Drive, Addison, 75001
SOUTH: City of Dallas – Kiest Park Recreation Center, 3012 S. Hampton Road, Dallas, 75224

For a complete schedule of the MicroTalks Schedule (by location) and a list of the Demostration Garden locations, please see the Water-Wise Landscape Tour website.  For more information, call the Water Conservation Hotline at (214) 670-3155, Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.