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·         (June 12) FW: Dunbar Literary Circle: Father's Day

·         (June 17) FW: "U.S. Park Police Aviation and the Air Florida, Flight 90 Rescue"

·         (June 18) FW: World Refugee Day

·         FW: Ombudsman Office Biennial Report

·         FW: GDCC June 2016 Newsletter

·         FW: Photo Contest - Celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month and WIN!

·         FW: PEACE DAYton June Update

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From: Dayton's National Park
Subject: Dunbar Literary Circle -- Sunday, June 12

Dunbar Literary Circle
Father's Day

Sunday, June 12 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
House tours at 1 pm; light refreshments follow.

"It doesn't matter who my father was," Anne Sexton once wrote, "it matters who I remember he was." That memory-of the enormous, perhaps protective, perhaps absent, often mythic man-looms large in poems about fathers.

During the month of June our literary circle will celebrate fathers' day.

Originally slated for the third Sunday of June our Literary Circle is back on track to our second Sunday of the month schedule.

So join us on June 12^th and come to our Dunbar Literary Circle as we celebrate father's day with poetry and short stories -- read your own poetry or a poem by your favorite poet or writer or simply listen and enjoy.

The Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site is located at 219 Paul Laurence Dunbar Street, Dayton, Ohio. Please enter through the Visitor Center entrance on Edison Street (around the corner from the Dunbar House).

Tours of the home are free and available from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (last tour at 3:30 pm). For more information call 937.224.7061.

The Dunbar Literary Circle meets on the second Sunday of the month.

Each month we touch on a different topic.

Just ahead: July 10 - Freedom  

 

 

From: "U.S. Park Police Aviation and the Air Florida, Flight 90 Rescue"  ---  Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Subject: Aviation Speaker Series June 17 at 7:00

"U.S. Park Police Aviation and the Air Florida, Flight 90 Rescue"

By Donald W. Usher on June 17 at 7:00 pm
The Engineers Club of Dayton, 110 East Monument Avenue, Dayton, Ohio

Join the National Park Service for an hour-long presentation on aviation's role in visitor and resource protection in and around national parks. The Aviation Unit of the United States Park Police began in April 1973 with a Bell 206B Jet Ranger, known as Eagle 1, and a staff of three pilots and three rescue technicians. Today the fleet has expanded to four choppers and 24 hour coverage. Their mission includes aviation support for law enforcement, medevac, search and rescue, high-risk prisoner transport, and presidential and dignitary security. Donald Usher, former pilot of the Eagle 1, earned national commendation for his role in the rescue response after Air Florida flight 90 crashed into the Potomac River in 1982. Don's law enforcement career with the federal government spans five decades.

For more information, call (937) 225-7705 or go online at www.nps.gov/daav. This event is free and open to the public

 

 

From: Kirenga, Eugenie
Subject: World Refugee Day

 

 

From: Shirley Dunson on behalf of Diane Welborn, Ombudsman
Subject: Ombudsman Office Biennial Report

See the report:
http://www.dayton-ombudsman.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/biennial-report-14-15.pdf

 

 

From: Rev. Dr. Crystal Walker; Executive Director, Greater Dayton Christian Connections
Subject: GDCC June 2016 Newsletter

Please click on the link below for the June newsletter. This format was suggested by the board of directors.

http://christianconnections.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/GDCC-June-2016-Newsletter.pdf

 

 

From: Melissa Bertolo
Subject: Photo Contest - Celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month and WIN!

Enter Our Facebook Photo Contest TODAY!

June is Immigrant Heritage Month, and Welcome Dayton is marking the occasion with a Facebook Photo Contest! 

Post a photo to the Welcome Dayton Facebook Page that tells your immigrant heritage story. Our Program Coordinator will select the best three to win one of our great prizes:

• Tickets to Vive La France!
• Annual membership to Link Bike Share
• 4 tickets to a Dayton Dragons baseball game

Visit our website to get the full details and rules. Contest ends June 24!

 

 

From: J. Fred Arment; Facilitator, PEACE Dayton; Executive Director, International Cities of Peace;Liaison to the United Nations IDP Committee
Subject: PEACE DAYton June Update

The United Nations theme for International Day of Peace, 2016, is "The Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Peace." The United Nations Goals for 2030 are an opportunity for everyone to find purpose: schools, governments, service groups, faith-based, recreational organizations, arts, safety and security, and commerce (i.e. PEACE DAYton). 

How will the Dayton Region respond?

With Unity. Look at what's happening for our community-wide celebration this September... From celebrity keynotes by authors Marianne Williamson and Capt. Paul Chappell to honoring our veterans and local peace heroes,  the entire Dayton Region is leveraging International Day of Peace to build the UNITY it takes to actually accomplish a sustainable peace for our children.

Twenty-five (25) individual events confirmed, so far, for September!

JUNE MEETING:
Wednesday, June 15, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at a NEW LOCATION: The Northwest Branch Library
Near the corner of Salem at 2410 Philadelphia Dr. Phone:(937) 463-2665

UPDATE: 
The following are confirmed PEACE DAYton collaborative events for September, 2016. 
Details are not firm and will be finalized before they will be placed on the calendar.

Official Kickoff: – "Peace Heroes Walk", Sept. 11, sponsored by the Dayton International Peace Museum, WYSO, and NCCJ
-- The Alicia Titus Memorial Run for Peace, Urbana, Sept. 10, by Sept. 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
-- Miami Valley Problem Oriented Policing Community Conference, Sept. 10, United Against Gun Violence
-- Keynote Marianne Williamson and the World House Choir, Sept. 11 in Urbana at the "Community Day of Remembrance"
-- In Springfield, author Capt. Paul Chappell at Wittenberg on Sept. 12
-- In Yellow Springs: AACW Jazz Fest to collaborate with Peace Day celebrations
– Honoring our Veterans event hosted by the Montgomery County Commission
-- MVOTSE Panel on Death Penalty including Bob Taft, Crystal Walker, Melinda Elkins-Dawson, and John Paul Rion
– Peace Tree Planting by the Sisters of Precious Blood and Five Rivers Chautauqua
– Feast for Peace in the Garden on Salem by the Salem Avenue Peace Corridor
– Interfaith Prayer Breakfast by the Greater Dayton Christian Connection
– Dayton Peace Trail geo in planning by the Dayton International Peace Museum
– Non-Violent Covenant initiative by the Greater Dayton Christian Connection
– Family Day for Peace Week by the Dayton Art Institute
– Labyrinth Walk for Peace by the Marionist Environmental Education Center
– Dayton Peace Trail coordinated by the Dayton International Peace Museum
– Panel Presentation by the Marionist Environmental Education Center
– Feast for Peace and Panel event by the Miami Valley Ohioans to Stop Executions
– Preach Peace Initiative by the Greater Dayton Christian Connection
-- United Against Violence of Greater Dayton is planning co-sponsored events
-- Joint Montgomery County Baha'i Community event for peace day
-- Mt. Vernon neighborhood Global Feast for Peace
-- White Pine Peace Tree planting at Sisters of the Precious Blood
-- Lighting of the Miamisburg Mound and Fiver Rivers Chautauqua Global Feast for Peace
-- Screening of movie "Free Land"
-- Global Feast for Peace at Roaring Brook Farm in Bellbrook
-- Humanitarian Mission exhibit at the Northwest Library Branch
Official Closing of September Peace Day/Week/Month Events: TBD

IN PROCESS
– More Feasts for Peace, including a possible fundraiser for Sunwatch
-- Two more initiatives engaging Wright Patterson Air Force Base
-- An initiative to engage Dayton and Regional School Superintendents
– Bell Ringing initiative for faith-based groups on Peace Day
-- Your organization, family, or neighborhood event

PEACE DAYton is thriving and growing thanks to your work. 
Send this email to others. All groups and individuals are welcome to particpate.

Make sure you plan a "FEAST FOR PEACE" WITH YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, OR GROUP! We look forward to the day when our entire community breaks bread together with the entire world to "celebrate the peace we have; contemplate the work to be done".

 

End of MPEN e-Newsletter (June 11, 2016)