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April 21:
Earth Day - Saving the Indian River Lagoon
Sermon by Virginia Barker (in person)
Our speaker will discuss "The Save Our Indian River Lagoon Program" which funds projects that improve the health, productivity, appeal, and economic value of our lagoon and to reverse decades of degradation to this priceless natural treasure. Funding comes from a ½ cent sales tax, approved by Brevard County voters in 2016.
Virginia Barker completed undergraduate degrees in Science and Math and a Masters in Coastal Environmental Management at Duke. She has worked in Sri Lanka for US AID, as a research diver for the Florida Department of Natural Resources, and in marine and environmental management positions for Monroe County and Brevard County.
Ms. Barker is now the Director of Brevard County’s Natural Resources Management Department. During her 27 years with the County, she has been responsible for beach management, the stormwater utility program, mosquito control, and numerous environmental initiatives and programs.
Earth Day - Saving the Indian River Lagoon
Sermon by Virginia Barker (in person)
Our speaker will discuss "The Save Our Indian River Lagoon Program" which funds projects that improve the health, productivity, appeal, and economic value of our lagoon and to reverse decades of degradation to this priceless natural treasure. Funding comes from a ½ cent sales tax, approved by Brevard County voters in 2016.
Virginia Barker completed undergraduate degrees in Science and Math and a Masters in Coastal Environmental Management at Duke. She has worked in Sri Lanka for US AID, as a research diver for the Florida Department of Natural Resources, and in marine and environmental management positions for Monroe County and Brevard County.
Ms. Barker is now the Director of Brevard County’s Natural Resources Management Department. During her 27 years with the County, she has been responsible for beach management, the stormwater utility program, mosquito control, and numerous environmental initiatives and programs.
I would love to hold a town hall style event for people to ask a transgender woman questions about issues related to being transgender. Put another way an, "Ask a trans woman anything you were scared to ask." In my experience, most transphobia and discrimination against the transgender community originates from a lack of knowledge of someone who is transgender and of what it means to be transgender. I would like to dispel some of the myths and misinformation by sharing my story and perspective.
In full disclosure, I am a candidate for Florida State Senate District 19 (most of Brevard County). I do not intend this as a campaign event.
Vance was born and raised in South Florida where she developed a passion for science and music. When she wasn’t traveling through the summer with her family to historic sites of our past wars she was exploring the woods, rivers, and marshlands across her home state.
After High School, she served in the Navy for 4 years as a Hospital Corpsman where she learned to be a Surgical Technologist as the student class to maintain the Navy’s Flagship Hospital through Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
She first moved to Palm Bay in 1995 where she began her family. She now has four adult children and two grandchildren. In 2019 she came out as transgender to her family and friends and was finally able to begin living life as her authentic self at 48.
She began her drive as an activist in 2022 protesting racial disparity, restrictions on the LGBTQ+ community and women’s rights. In 2023 she announced her campaign to run for State Senate. When she is elected, she will not only be Florida’s first openly transgender State Senator, but the first transgender person to be elected to a state level position in Florida History.
In full disclosure, I am a candidate for Florida State Senate District 19 (most of Brevard County). I do not intend this as a campaign event.
Vance was born and raised in South Florida where she developed a passion for science and music. When she wasn’t traveling through the summer with her family to historic sites of our past wars she was exploring the woods, rivers, and marshlands across her home state.
After High School, she served in the Navy for 4 years as a Hospital Corpsman where she learned to be a Surgical Technologist as the student class to maintain the Navy’s Flagship Hospital through Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
She first moved to Palm Bay in 1995 where she began her family. She now has four adult children and two grandchildren. In 2019 she came out as transgender to her family and friends and was finally able to begin living life as her authentic self at 48.
She began her drive as an activist in 2022 protesting racial disparity, restrictions on the LGBTQ+ community and women’s rights. In 2023 she announced her campaign to run for State Senate. When she is elected, she will not only be Florida’s first openly transgender State Senator, but the first transgender person to be elected to a state level position in Florida History.
Amazon gives the following description:
One war: three collisions--in this vividly written, narrative history of the war in Ukraine, Michael Kimmage puts together the pieces of a complicated international puzzle to understand the origins of the current conflict that has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War.
In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, historically informed account of the origins of the current Russia-Ukraine war. Tracing the development of Ukraine and Russia's fractious relationship back to the end of the Cold War, Kimmage takes readers through the central events that led to Vladimir Putin seizing a large portion of Ukraine--the Crimea--in 2014 and, eight years later, initiating arguably the most intensive military conflict of the entire post-World War II era.
From the halls of power in Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow to the battlefields of Ukraine, Kimmage chronicles Putin's ascendancy to the Russian presidency, delves into multiple American presidencies and their dealings with Russia and Europe, and recounts Europe's efforts to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union. He tells the story of how Ukraine went from an embattled country on the edge of Europe to a formidable military power capable of pushing back the Russian military. Just as importantly, Kimmage captures how the current war has transformed multiple centers of power--from China to the United States--and dramatically altered the path of globalization itself. He makes the case that the war in Ukraine has shifted the direction of major macro-trends in world politics, contributing to the fragmentation of international politics, higher inflation, greater food insecurity, and the general collapse of arms control. These intersecting dangers amount to a new age of global instability, born in war and in the collision between Russia and the United States that has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War.
An authoritative interpretation of possibly the most important geopolitical event of the post-Cold War era, Collisions is essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this epochal conflict and its ripple effects across the globe.
One war: three collisions--in this vividly written, narrative history of the war in Ukraine, Michael Kimmage puts together the pieces of a complicated international puzzle to understand the origins of the current conflict that has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War.
In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, historically informed account of the origins of the current Russia-Ukraine war. Tracing the development of Ukraine and Russia's fractious relationship back to the end of the Cold War, Kimmage takes readers through the central events that led to Vladimir Putin seizing a large portion of Ukraine--the Crimea--in 2014 and, eight years later, initiating arguably the most intensive military conflict of the entire post-World War II era.
From the halls of power in Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow to the battlefields of Ukraine, Kimmage chronicles Putin's ascendancy to the Russian presidency, delves into multiple American presidencies and their dealings with Russia and Europe, and recounts Europe's efforts to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union. He tells the story of how Ukraine went from an embattled country on the edge of Europe to a formidable military power capable of pushing back the Russian military. Just as importantly, Kimmage captures how the current war has transformed multiple centers of power--from China to the United States--and dramatically altered the path of globalization itself. He makes the case that the war in Ukraine has shifted the direction of major macro-trends in world politics, contributing to the fragmentation of international politics, higher inflation, greater food insecurity, and the general collapse of arms control. These intersecting dangers amount to a new age of global instability, born in war and in the collision between Russia and the United States that has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War.
An authoritative interpretation of possibly the most important geopolitical event of the post-Cold War era, Collisions is essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this epochal conflict and its ripple effects across the globe.
January 7:
Humanism vs Theism: A Conversation With God
Humanism vs Theism: A Conversation With God