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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Hi GREN Exec,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>I met a woman recently – some of you may know her – at the Multicultural Festival at the Humanist Booth. She has co-authored a book which I said I could review for the paper. She’s very interested in environmental issues and is also a webdesigner, BUT this was her recommendation for the GREN website: </span><br><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>“</span> <span style='color:windowtext'>For </span>the web site, I would suggest contacting Conestoga College and connecting with the teacher who does the Web Design courses. This looks like an excellent project for students. If they set it up as a 'Content Management' site, different parts of your group could have password access to update their own sections and things would stay up to date. We've just taken that approach with Interfaith Grand River. The students will be submitting their designs to us at the end of July. I'll try to find out more about who to contact and let you know.<span style='color:windowtext'>”</span> <span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Also, she said these nice things about the water forum we hosted: </span><br><br><span style='color:windowtext'>“</span>I attended the Water Symposium at rare in 2013. It was excellent - very informative. I'd be happy to be involved in planning public educational events like that, including such things as the Town Hall meetings with candidates, etc. I have to get through the NonCon (<a href="http://www.thenon-conference.com/">http://www.thenon-conference.com/</a>) in August first, but I'll look forward to attending your September meeting and seeing where that leads.<span style='color:windowtext'>”</span><br><br>Best,<br> Karis<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>On 08/07/2015 12:11 AM, Susan Koswan wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>I’m on the executive of the Grand River Environmental Network. <a href="http://www.gren.ca">www.gren.ca</a> and yes our website needs redoing. I made it – completely winging it – but no one seems to have the ability or time to maintain it and keep it current and active. We meet fairly infrequently, but have an email discussion list and recruit each other for “bums in seats” and sharing info as needed. Our strength seems to be submitting comments and papers on local policies and official plans...I think there are a few copies of things we’ve submitted on the website. And with the upcoming federal election, we’ll partner with a few other groups and have a forum for candidates for their positions on environmental issues. That will be something I will be actively involved in organizing. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Talk later! 8-)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Susan </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Netscapades [<a href="mailto:escapade@netscapades.com">mailto:escapade@netscapades.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> July-07-15 4:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> Susan Koswan<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: book trade?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Susan,<br><br>I really enjoyed meeting you today as well!<br><br>Thank you for all of this information. I am so grateful for these tips, since this is a whole new world for me. I will follow down every suggestion. <br><br>Your environmental activism sound intriguing. I was quite serious about volunteering to help with whatever environmental issues you are working on, if not now then in the future. I'm so glad our paths have crossed!<br><br>Have fun making music tonight,<br><br> Karis<br><br><br><br><br>On 07/07/2015 3:19 PM, Susan Koswan wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Hi Karis,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Really enjoyed meeting you today! </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Here are some ideas...while they’re still fresh in my mind...otherwise they disappear! Lol</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Chapters – both stores, contact them and they will take books on consignment and can set you up for a book signing (hopefully they do still do this)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Wordsworth Books will take a few books, but only keep them for a short time due to their smaller retail space</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Talk to book acquisitions people at KPL and WPL</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Cannot make any guarantees on review being published in Record, but I will certainly write one. There are 2 other possibilities came to mind – send Greg Rothwell the info about your book launch event for the book page and just thinking now that it would be worthwhile contacting the religious page editor – don’t know who it is now, but easy enough to find out. You might be able to get an article in the Sat paper about your book and pantheism etc.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><a href="http://www.thebookband.com/">http://www.thebookband.com/</a> - these are the people who carry indy published books and go to different community events. They also seem to be linked with the Niagara Literary Festival <a href="http://www.nlaf.jigsy.com/">http://www.nlaf.jigsy.com/</a> - and it was St. Catherines that I ended up reading – not too far..</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Eden Mills Writers’ Fest <a href="http://www.edenmillswritersfestival.ca/">http://www.edenmillswritersfestival.ca/</a> - you can rent a table cheaply, and lots of people go, but the attendees seem more into the celebrity author thing...but worth doing once – it’s a very pleasant event. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>There is the annual Elora Writers Festival <a href="http://elorawritersfestival.blogspot.ca/">http://elorawritersfestival.blogspot.ca/</a> but there’s also an “open stage” kind of writers festival that is organized by Donna McCaw where you go, sign the sheet and read for about 5 minutes – I went for the first time this spring and there were about 10 people reading and there’s another one organized for the fall sometime. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>If I think of anything else, I’ll let you know. 8-)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Susan </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Netscapades [<a href="mailto:escapade@netscapades.com">mailto:escapade@netscapades.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> July-06-15 11:34 PM<br><b>To:</b> Susan Koswan<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: book trade?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Confirmed. On both counts. <grin><br>See you soon,<br> Karis<br><br>On 06/07/2015 11:31 PM, Susan Koswan wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Hi Karis,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Just confirming our lunch tomorrow. And bring book!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Susan </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Netscapades [<a href="mailto:escapade@netscapades.com">mailto:escapade@netscapades.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> July-04-15 6:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> Susan Koswan<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: book trade?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Susan,<br><br>Lunch sounds good. Cafe 22 does some nice lunch salads and other lunch items. It is in Uptown Waterloo, across from Famosa Pizza (the old Rude Native), in other words across from Waterloo Square and up a bit. Let's say 11:30 - 11:45 so you don't need to rush. <br><br>See you Tuesday,<br> Karis<br><br><br>On 04/07/2015 12:53 PM, Susan Koswan wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Hi Karis,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Good to hear back from you. Tuesday can work for me. I jam with the “old folks” at Rockway Tuesday morning until 11:15, so I could meet you at 11:30 or after lunch after 1:30. Or for lunch. Your call. 8-)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Susan </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Netscapades [<a href="mailto:escapade@netscapades.com">mailto:escapade@netscapades.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> July-04-15 12:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> Susan Koswan<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: book trade?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Susan,<br><br>My first boxes of books have arrived. Would you like to get together for coffee and a chat and a book exchange? Sometime Tuesday, July 7 could work for me. I would suggest Cafe 22 on King Street in Waterloo, but feel free to suggest someplace else if you have a preference.<br><br> Karis<br><br><br><br><br><br>On 22/06/2015 4:33 PM, Susan Koswan wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Karis,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I spoke with you briefly at the Multicultural Festival on Saturday and checked out some of the information you gave me. It all sounds good. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I had mentioned that I would like to get a copy of Why Men Made God (which you failed to mention you were a co-author of 8-)) to review for The Record. You can either drop off a copy with Greg Rothwell at the Record and let him know to hold it for me to pick up, or snailmail it, or I can meet you someplace to get a copy. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Happy to trade books, too. This is mine: <a href="http://www.volumesdirect.com/detail.aspx?ID=4372">http://www.volumesdirect.com/detail.aspx?ID=4372</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Susan Koswan</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>