[SEMCO] Rachel Darson Dinner (Nov. 2)

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RACHEL CARSON DINNER   (November 2)

The Rachel Carson Dinner is an annual gathering of  Cape Cod  environmentalists, and others, who honor the memory and the work of Rachel Carson.    The dinners started ten years ago.   All people are invited.     

David Dow, representing the Sierra Club, will be honored at tonight's  Carson Dinner because of the Sierra Club's work in educating the public about "contaminants of emerging concern."
Support for this project was provided by Silent Spring Institute scientists and by Sue Phelan of GreenCape.     A letter to the editor that helps to explain their work appears in today's "Cape Cod Times."     (Saturday.)

Since August,   the Sierra Club fact sheet about "contaminants  of emerging concern" has been distributed at several health and safety events on Cape Cod.  Environmentalists want to reduce family exposures to unregulated chemicals, including some of the harmful chemicals found in drinking water and in consumer products.   In October,  local  environmentalists joined with others in support of national Drug Take Back Day.     (Consumers should dispose of unwanted medications in safe and appropriate ways.)

The Sierra Club is concerned about the excessive and unnecessary use of chemical pesticides on Cape Cod.

The Carson Dinner takes place at the Unitarian Universalist church,   840 Sandwich Road, in East Falmouth.    The doors open at 6:00 pm   This is an informal "church supper" with vegetarian meals and with ham and beans.    Entertainment by the Falmouth Fiddlers.     Tickets at the door are  $15  for adults.

All of the money raised at the Carson Dinner is donated to the community food pantries in Falmouth, Bourne, and Sandwich.



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