weekly announcements

Best Practices with Service Animals

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Part of being a safe and welcoming community for everyone who chooses to be in covenant with us is learning about how to be awesome with service animals when they are present. Curious about best practice when you encounter a service animal out and about? We’ve got you covered!

  1. Notice when an animal is in a service vest, signaling that it is not a pet, but a working companion.
  2. Ask the human how the service dog helps them and get permission before interacting with the service dog.
  3. Speak directly to the human, not the service dog.
  4. Give extra personal space to the service dog and its person.
  5. Always assume the service dog is busy working, not off duty.

More information is available from Guide Dogs of America to deepen your understanding and skills. Thanks for helping us live our values of inclusivity!

Time to Set Up your ’25-’26 Pledge Fulfillment

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Thank you to all who pledged to support the UUFC in 2025-26. That support enables our Fellowship to pursue its mission: Explore. Love. Act. We gather as an inclusive religious community to search for meaning, build deep connections, and inspire action toward a better world for all.

Fiscal Year 2025-26 begins on July 1st, and it is now time for Step 2 in the stewardship process: updating your contribution payment method and assigning it to Pledge ‘25-’26. If you authorized us -– the UUFC treasurer or business manager – to update your pledge payment in Breeze, that is being done.

If you chose to do the update yourself, please do so by July 1, but wait until after your final pledge payment for ’24-’25 has completed. Instructions on how to do the update can be viewed by clicking the button below, but if you need additional help, email <treasurer@uucorvallis.org> or <businessmgr@uucorvallis.org>.

View pledge update instructions

A final ask: please email <treasurer@uucorvallis.org> once you have updated your pledge, saying that you have done so.

Thank you.
Michael Hughes <treasurer@uucorvallis.org>

Connect Up Hike, 6/28

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Come join the Connect Up Hiking group on a Jackson Creek Lollipop Loop hike! Meet at the UUFC parking lot to carpool at 9:30 AM. We’ll gather at the Chip Ross Natural Area trailhead (west end of Lester Ave. in Corvallis) at 9:45 AM and begin hiking at 10:00 AM. We’ll take the Chip Ross Trail (named for one of our founding UUs, Charles Ross), the Lower Dan’s Trail and then loop around Jackson Creek on forest road 612 and back to those same two trails toward the trailhead. Total distance: about 2.5 miles; elevation gain: about 200 ft. An easy summer hike.

If you’ll be joining us, please fill out this RSVP form so we know you’re coming!

RSVP Here

Democracy Gathering, 6/15

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Democracy Gathering
Sunday June 15, 11:45 AM, UUFC Social Hall

Join us in the back of the Social Hall for a SHORT (less than an hour) gathering to share our No King’s Day experiences and to watch Scott Pelley’s Wake Forest University inspiring commencement address. Help us plan – do face-to-face gatherings at UUFC help keep you active? How often should we meet? What kind of agenda?

UUFC Services Auction, 6/15 – 6/23, 6/28

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It’s almost here – our biggest FUNdraiser of the year! We’re building community together!
2025 UUFC Online Auction: June 16, 9:00 AM – June 23, 5:00 PM
You’ll find the online catalog at https://fundraiser.bid/2025online

We hope you will join us for the bidding fun and a light supper at our 2025 UUFC Live & Silent Auction, Saturday, June 28, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM.

Sign up here to donate a salad for dinner or to volunteer to help during the live and silent auction. We need your help to make our auction successful.

Click here to sign up!

UUFC Night at the Corvallis Knights! 6/29 @ 5

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Buy your ticket and meet us in section 2 of Goss Stadium on June 29th for a night of scream singing Sweet Caroline and cheering for the home team!

Opening pitch is at 5:00. Come a little early so we can all sit together! By registering HERE, you’ll help us know how many seats to try to save, but there’s no guaranteed seating in general admission. If enough people register to buy a discounted block of tickets together, I will let you know the week before.

Last LEGATO potluck, 6/11

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With gratitude and hope, we share food with one another at our last LEGATO potluck on June 11 at 5:45 (arrive at 5:30 if you can help set up). Hope to see you there.

Bring a tapas (hor d’oeuvre) dish to share (please identify all ingredients) and your beverage of choice. We’ll aim to sit on the patio.

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