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Meditation Group
All are welcome to meet at CUUC on Wednesdays at 5:30 P.M. for silent meditation. In the UU tradition, all meditation styles are welcome. We will begin each meeting with a short reading from a wisdom tradition, meditate in silence for twenty-five minutes, and close with a brief reading. Instruction is available for those new to meditation. For more information, please contact Amy Rowland at 303-815-5181 or amy.rowland@comcast.net.

CUUC Bike & Hike
ate: July 31, 2010
Event: bike
Time: 9:00 AM

Where: Begin at Wes Howe's house which is at 7985 S Niagara COURT, Centennial 80112. You may park in the cul-de-sac or on Mineral Avenue near Niagara Ct or on Mineral Ave next to Foxridge Park which is a couple of intersections east of Niagara Ct.

The route: paved subdivision trails north to Dry Creek Rd underpass, then on gravel through Willow Spring Open Space. We will take one of two alternate routes to Forest Way and Holly Street to catch Little Dry Creek Trail behind Lenski Elem School through Heritage Village Park, then under Colorado Blvd to meet up with the High Line Canal Trail. Then:

A. To make a loop back to our point of beginning we make a dogleg west and then head south through deKoevend Park and continue on Big Dry Creek Trail to Colorado Blvd. From there it's quiet subdivision streets, except crossing Holly St, back to the POB. Or

B. Ride toward or to deKoevend Park and reverse our tracks back to POB. Or

C. Go the opposite direction when we first get to the High Line Canal Trail and take the "estates leg" of the High Line Canal Trail as far as we choose and then reverse our tracks to POB.

The only significant uphill parts of these routes are a short one as we leave the Willow Spring Open Space to get up to Holly St., and in alternate A to get from Colorado Blvd up Links Pkwy to Links Dr.

To make the ride family-friendly for youngsters I would say we should choose B or C.

Toilets (that I know of) are at the POB, deKoevend Park (Goodson Rec Center) and at Orchard Rd on the estates leg of the Highline.

Future events:
August 7. No event. You may attend the Church Council meeting. All are welcome.
August 14: Hike, Maxwell Falls (originally scheduled for July 24).
August 21: No event. You may attend the Fall Choir Retreat if you sing.

Please contact Wes at 720-529-4406.

Book Club In July

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett

The Book Club will meet July 28th to discuss "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole
Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not
be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women — mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends — view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, "The Help" is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

At this meeting those present will select a book to discuss in September.

The Book Club meets in the church lounge at 7:30 PM the fourth Wednesday of each month. You need not have read the book to participate. Visitors are welcomed.

See the list of books the book club has read and discussed since 2004 HERE.

Annual CUUC Book Sale

Attention all you book-lovers! CUUC is holding its annual Book Sale for three weeks starting May 23rd at 12:00 after services in the community room. There are still plenty of books left as of June 3rd -- especially children's books, but many others as well.

 Sue Zloth  zloths@q.com (720)733-7935