weekly announcements

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.

Classroom Wing Status Update

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A giant THANK YOU! to all who have already volunteered painting time or signed up to do so on June 13, 14, or 20.

We have completed Phase One of interior painting, and 2/3 of the exterior siding staining. Everything looks clean and fresh!

Commercial painters will paint the new Fire Suppressant Sprinkler System pipes starting (tentatively) July 7. After that 3 – 4 day job, they will also paint the remaining 1/3 of the exterior siding in areas unsafe for volunteers.

We are re-scheduling the planned Move-Back-In weekend from June 28 – 29 to July 19 – 20. Requests and sign-up sheets will start in early July.

Painting Help
Phase Two Painting starts Friday June 13 and Saturday June 14 9 AM – 12 PM and 1 – 4 PM, and Saturday June 20 9 AM – 12 PM and 1 – 4 PM.

We especially need 2-3 people on the 14th 9 – 12 shift, and more help on June 20 both shifts.
(Please sign up on sheets on foyer table or contact Wolfgang)

General Help needed (time TBD)
Tasks include installing many shelves in the mezzanine storage room; installing blinds in windows in all the rooms; installing bulletin boards, fire extinguishers, signs, cabinets.

Contact Wolfgang Dengler in Breeze with questions.

UU-owned goody stand supports Linn-Benton Food Share

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Buy treats from a local UU-owned goody stand to support Linn-Benton Food Share (LBFS)! Holley Lantz, Donn Zellet and Nora Cohen operate a goody stand selling homemade jams, old-fashioned fudge, and scrumptious chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. This is the 17th year they have sold treats to benefit the food bank. They donate all proceeds to LBFS, and last year raised $1,024! Your purchases of jam, fudge, and cookies make a difference! LBFS is filling a critical need feeding more and more people who can’t stretch dollars far enough.

The goody stand is at 2921 NW Ashwood Drive – a small “C”-shaped street halfway between Circle and Walnut west off 29th – at the top of the driveway. It’s always open! Goodies are sold on the honor system. Leave cash or check (made out to LeoNora Cohen) in an envelope in the upper right cubbie. Take change if you need it.

Fudge and cookies cost $1 per piece, 6 for $5. Jam is $7 for one jar, or $6 per jar for multiples.

The fudge is made by Holley Lantz from a 1946 recipe. It is grainy like your grandma used to make and is deep, dark chocolatey goodness! Donn makes the most delicious, large chewy oatmeal cookies full or chocolate bits, cranberries and raisins. Cookies and fudge will be available June 8 or earlier. The jam is made in small batches by Nora Cohen in her kitchen. There are multiple flavors available:

Strawberry Mango (Shuksan U-pick strawberries, frozen mango)
Italian Plum (from Nora’s trees)
Apricot
Fig (from Nora’s tree) with toasted walnuts, honey, fresh ginger and cinnamon
Sweet Cherry and Mango
Strawberry-Red Currant
Blueberry

The selling season ends August 15!
And thank you for returning jars and rings.