Happy New Year!  Welcome to a packed year of information and resources from the APPLE Center.  A few important upcoming events:

Concentric zones of water use

Next Wednesday: Exhibit Opening and guest speaker, Steve Rothert of American Rivers.  7-9pm $3-5 suggested donation.  Our new exhibit is titled: Water! Hungry for change, thirsty for solutions and examines varies levels of water issues from individual to state policy.

During the Wild and Scenic Film Festival the APPLE Center will host two extra events:

Saturday Jan 16th, 12-1pm SOUP LUNCH with Living Lands Agrarian Network - local and delicious!  Suggested $5 donation.

Sunday Jan 17th 8:30-9:30am Activist Breakfast with presentation on how the APPLE Center grew from a seed planted at last year’s Film Fest and how you can turn your Film Fest inspiration into ACTION this year!  $5 suggested donation for breakfast.  Special guests Jules Dervaes and his family from the Path to Freedom Urban Homestead!

Join us!

This Saturday, Dec 19th, between 10am and 2pm, kids from 4 - 10 years old are welcome to come make a gift or two for their family or friends while their parents shop, relax or dine in Nevada City.

Suggested $5 donation, for more information or to volunteer to help at this event, email info@applecenter.org or call 478-1700.

The APPLE Center is located right at the entrance to the public parking lot on Commercial Street, Nevada City at 412 Commercial.

We’ll be busy skilling, presenting and celebrating with you this weekend!  Saturday afternoon - wreath making workshop, Sunday evening, Seeds of Sustainability film premier, and Sunday evening reception for Blood, Gold and Medicine.  See our calendar of events for details.  See you here!

The A.P.P.L.E. Center for Sustainable Living is hosting an Open House this Saturday November 7^th to showcase their newest exhibit, “Celebrating the Holidays, New Traditions for Sustainable Living”

“Sustainability in the holidays has to do with managing personal stress levels as much as considering the environmental consequences of our purchasing decisions,” said Center Director, Mali Dyck.

The current exhibit addresses both of these ideas and more, with alternative gift giving, upcycling, gift-wrapping, Christmas trees and statistics on holiday related waste and pollution. With the help of Shuniaa Yoga Studio, the Center transformed its conference room into a “Decompression Lounge.” The lounge features comfortable furniture as well as a traditional Wishing Tree where visitors are welcome to write messages of gratitude or wishes for the New Year on upcycled paper ornaments to hang on the tree.

The exhibit is sponsored by the Briar Patch Community Co-op and Shuniaa Yoga Studio and will be on display until January 3^rd, 2010

This Saturday, November 7^th, the Center will host an Open House to introduce the new exhibit to the public.  From 2-3pm a local beekeeper will offer tasting of his 12 different flavors of honey, and from 4-6 Vanessa Smith will host Coconut Bliss Hour, with free samples of Coconut Bliss Ice Cream.  The Open house opens at

11am and closes at 6pm.

The Center has also added a few select gift items for sale for the holiday season, all locally created with sustainability in mind.

The A.P.P.L.E. Center’s regular hours are Wed – Sun, 11am – 5pm, but it will remain open until 9pm during Victorian Christmas with extra decompression activities for weary shoppers, including chair massages. The Center is located at 412 Commercial Street, Nevada City. Log onto www.APPLECenter.org for more information

This Saturday we will host a special presentation in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Learn how you can help to prevent breast cancer: 10am-noon at the APPLE Center.  Bring your sister, friend, mother, daughter, any woman you love!

Attention all future APPLE Center volunteers - your first opportunity to complete an APPLE Center volunteer training is coming up October 10th.

The training will cover:

APPLE Center basics and background

Volunteer responsibilities and job descriptions

Resources for volunteers and visitors

Training is from 3pm - 5pm at the APPLE Center.  Pre-registration is required - send an email to Mali@APPLECenter.org to register or for more information.

If you haven’t seen the APPLE Center’s facebook page with photo galleries, stories of the remodel, etc.  Check it out here!

If you’ve stopped by the new Center and seen the transformation for yourself, you know we couldn’t have done it without the generous support of volunteers and donors.

We have about $5000 left to raise/cover in expenses.  If you’d like to contribute to the APPLE Center’s Construction Fund, please send a check to: APPLE Center, 412 Commercial Street, Nevada City 95959, and include the note “Construction Fund.”  THANKS!!!

The APPLE Center will open September 20th with a ribbon cutting at 11:00am.

The festivities will continue until 5pm with food and live music.

To celebrate the opening of the Center and the this special time in history, we will write and draw our visions of a sustainable Grass Valley/Nevada City community for the year 2035 and compile our visions in a time capsule to be opened in 2035.

Come celebrate, learn, connect, inspire - September 20th, 11am-5pm.  412 Commercial Street, Nevada city.  For more information, contact Mali at 432-8734 or 913-7820