Connect Up Activities

Connect Up: Rich hosting Thanksgiving Dinner/Potluck, 11/27

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Thanksgiving will be here in just a few weeks: why not celebrate it with one hundred or more people at UUFC?   Members, friends, family, and out-of-town guests are welcome.  Instead of staying home and doing all the work and cooking, come here and do just a little work (if you are willing and able), a little cooking, and with little expense.  The Fellowship provides turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, beverages, and the Social Hour appetizers.  Also a five pound tofu turkey, vegan and Gluten Free.  Each family unit (of 1 or more humans) brings a potluck dish (salad, bread, dessert, veggie side dish, vegetarian/vegan main dish, cranberries, potatoes/yams, stuffing, etc.) or cooks one of the 4 turkeys (cost reimbursed).  The suggested donation is $5.00/person to cover costs, but no one is turned away for lack of funds.  Any surplus money will go to the Minister’s Discretionary Fund, or the South Corvallis Food Bank.

We need to know how many tables and chairs to set up for dinner, so sign up after Sunday service (starting at 10 AM) on 11/9, 11/16, or 11/23, or call Rich, or sign up on Breeze, by Wednesday night, November 26, and also tell him what food you will probably bring, and if you are able to volunteer for a job.

Schedule on Thanksgiving:

10:30 a.m.  Set up at UUFC.
4:30 p.m.  Social hour at UUFC.
5:30 p.m.  Turkey dinner with vegetarian/vegan alternatives.  $5.00 suggested.  Please RSVP.
7:30 p.m.  Conversation, table games, and clean up.  Please stay and mellow out, visit, or bring a favorite board game.   Is anyone interested in doing charades?

HELP! As of the deadline for announcements, we still need a point person/leader/coordinator for two activities:  Social Hour (preferably 2 or more people); and After-Dinner Activities. We also need 8-10 people to help Virgil and Rich set up Thursday morning (mostly moving tables and chairs), and put everything back in order after dinner.

Childcare is available!

Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.

LEGATO potluck, 11/12

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We have so much to be thankful for. Let’s share that feeling over a meal. The LEGATO potluck is Wednesday November 12 at 6:30 PM. Come early if you can help set up tables. Everyone is welcome whether you’re singing or not. Choir rehearsal is at 7:00 PM.

Bring a dish to share (please identify all ingredients), a serving utensil (if needed) AND YOUR OWN PLACE SETTING & WATER BOTTLE – this is a low impact meal. We will not use the kitchen.

This is a Connect Up Event with the purpose of building community within the UUFC congregation.

Childcare is available!

Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.

Monthly Vegan Potluck, 10/26 

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To support our status as a Green Sanctuary, the Fellowship hosts a Community Vegan Potluck on the 4th Sunday of every month.  Everyone is Welcome! The next gathering is THIS SUNDAY, October 26 at 5:30 PM in the Social Hall 

Bring a dish to share with others who are learning to eat in a more climate friendly way.  

Include Plant foods: grains, beans, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs & spices.  Exclude Animal foods: no flesh, fluids, or unborn young. 

Try it! You’ll like it!! 

Need recipes? 
https://www.pcrm.org/universalmeals/recipes

Need more info? Contact Ann M.

Childcare is available!

Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.

How to Write a Memoir, 10/28

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This Connect Up workshop will focus on how to write a memoir and either self-publish it or get it published. Kayla Garcia will share her experience with commercial publishers and with self-publishing. Kayla will offer practical tips on how to get started, keep going, and create a finished product that you can give or sell to others. Participants will start with blank pages and end up with an outline and a first paragraph.

Tuesday, October 28, at 5:30 PM in Room 3.

Please RSVP using the form below, or at this link.

Childcare is available!

Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.

LEGATO potluck, 10/8

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Everyone is welcome to join the choir and band for a meal of laughter, goodwill and perhaps song! The Fall weather beckons a warm, cozy meal shared with others. The LEGATO potluck is Wednesday, October 8 at 6:30 PM. Come early if you can help set up tables. This is followed by rehearsal at 7:00 PM.

Bring a dish to share (please identify all ingredients), a serving utensil (if needed) AND YOUR OWN PLACE SETTING & WATER BOTTLE – this is a low-impact meal.

This is a Connect Up Event with the purpose of building community within the UUFC congregation.

Connect Up Fall Festival, 9/27

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The Corvallis Fall Festival takes place on the last weekend of this month in Central Park. Saturday, September 27, 2025, 10 AM-6 PM.
Saturday Night Street Dance: 6 PM-9:30 PM
Get your steps in as you visit the artist booths and dance the night away! There will be UU friends there – check out the Benton County Historical Museum booth, for example.

There will be no Connect Up hike this month.

Connect Up Hike, 8/30

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We will hike the Takena Landing lollipop trail in Albany. Meet at the UUFC parking lot at 8:30 a.m. if you would like to carpool. We’ll gather at the trailhead under the bridge at 8:45 and begin hiking at 9:00. This 3.6 mile riverside hike in North Albany has little elevation gain. There are opportunities for wading and for agate hunting and blackberry picking.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM CORVALLIS: Take Highway 20 to North Albany. When you come to the stoplight/intersection with NW North Albany Rd, turn RIGHT into Takena Landing and proceed to the parking lot under the bridge.

RSVP here

Labor Day Tuna Roast, 9/1

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End the summer with a party! Specifically, a Tuna Roast on Labor Day from 4 – 7 PM at the Lions Shelter in Avery Park.

Since 1997; always on Labor Day, always at Avery Park, Lions Kitchen; a party for all UUFC members and friends, old and new. This event marks the beginning of the new church year and a welcome to our new interim minister Alex. It is a good place to bring kids as it is next to the swings, the old train, and the dinosaur bones. Teens can “hang out” or help with the barbecue. To cover costs we ask for a donation of $7.00 per adult and whatever you think is appropriate for your kids. Sliding scale because we want everyone to come, so no one will be turned away for lack of funds. This is about being in community, not a fund raiser. If there is any leftover money, Rev. Alex can direct it to an appropriate place.

We provide barbecued tuna, sweet corn on the cob, lemonade and sheet cakes. For vegetarians there will be veggie burgers and barbecued eggplant and zucchini. For picky kids there will be hot dogs. We ask you to bring your own plates and silverware and $$$.

A folding chair might be helpful. Especially, bring a potluck dish such as dessert, salad, bread, chips, dips, veggies, fruit, pickles, and lots more desserts.

This is a community event and it takes a community to run it, especially if you are able bodied and not herding little kids. We always need help setting up at 3:00 PM and cleaning up around 7:00 PM. We’re hoping that many people will take turns barbecuing. For these things just show up and jump in.

We do need someone to obtain the corn from WINCO, early arrivals can shuck the corn, and a couple of quiet people can cook it. We need a drink master, to make the lemonade and keep the jugs refilled. We need 2-3 people to help me prep the tuna on Monday morning. Finally we need someone to pick up seven rented tables at Special Occasions on Friday, and return them on Tuesday. If you have a truck with a bed long enough for 8-foot tables, that would be excellent. Otherwise we can borrow Lee Holt’s truck, but a driver is needed. Special occasions does all the loading and unloading so you don’t need to be muscular.

Contact Rich if you can help on these several jobs.

Connect Up Hike, 7/26

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Let’s explore the Crestmont Land Trust Area, see Marys River and the Fairy Circle!

Meet at the UUFC parking lot at 8:30 AM to carpool to the West Cardwell Hill trailhead: 24645 Cardwell Hill Dr, Philomath. We’ll gather at the trailhead at 8:45 and begin hiking at 9:00.

The hike will be approximately 3 miles with 250 ft. elevation gain. We’ll do a portion of the Cardwell Hill Loop trail. (https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/oregon/cardwell-hill-loop) We’ll be on gravel roads mostly. Bring plenty of water and consider bringing an “offering” for the Fairy Circle.

Please RSVP by clicking the button below and filling out the form.

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