Welcome to FRESH where Humanists gather to discuss sweet reason, honest science, fair nature while enjoying each others company.                                             Magna est veritas  et proevalebit. ‡ FRESH Meetings WASH-FRESH Meetings are normally held on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 1:30pm in the C. Burr Artz Library, 110 East Patrick Street, Frederick MD 21701, unless posted otherwise. After the meeting, we socialize and share scrumptious potluck refreshments which you bring. On Sundays, parking is free in the adjacent Municipal Garage.  All are welcome, ♂ & ♀ .
Monthly Meetings - CANCELLED: Due to the blizzard, the FRESH meeting scheduled for February 14, 2010 is cancelled. If possible, the program will be rescheduled. Topic: Secular Celebrant Speaker: Roy Bates Roy Bates, a Secular Celebrant in upstate New York and a First Responder with Final Exit Network, plans to conduct a facilitated discussion of end-of-life concerns with FRESH members and guests. The session will consider points such as: Expenses for health care in the last year of life often exceed combined total expenses for previous years. Is this a reason for the disinformation and lobbying campaigns against end-of-life counseling provisions of proposed health care legislation? Hospitals owned by religious organizations now are forbidden to abide by patients' advance medical directives if they don't comply with the organizations' tenets. Organizations have been formed to oppose government implementation of religious control of our lives and end-of-life choices. We need to consider these and other concerns for ourselves, aging parents, and siblings. Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 1:30 pm Topic: Pollination Is Needed for the World as We Know It! Why not be a Pollinator Pal? NOTE Date change. Speaker: Eldon Winston Whether we are carnivores, omnivores or vegetarians, we all depend on plants for our food, air and the cleaning of our water. Find out some of these relationships and what you can do to help nature help us all. While most of us have limited time to do things there are three things you can personally do to promote pollinator health and our mutual biosphere. based on pollination the corner stone of our survival.
Recent meeting topics: January 10, 2010 Whose Funeral Is It?, by Gary Deem December 13, 2009 Foundations of Evolution, by Mike Reid November 8, 2009 FRESH Annual Hyde Park Session October 18, 2009 Thomas Jefferson and Religious Freedom, by Gary Deem September 13, 2009 A Solar Energy presentation by Nicholas Pace. August 16, 2009 Annual Picnic at Winston’s Gardens. July 12, 2009 Six books of extreme interest were discussed in a What to Read? program. June 14, 2009 The movie Zeitgeist Addendum was viewed and spiritedly discussed. May 3, 2009 Ray lead a discussion of the movie Zeitgeist, Part 1. April 5, 2009 Dave lead a computer Tips session, followed by group discussion. March 8,2009 Let's Talk Darwin was a program of small discussion groups. February 8, 2009 Hyde Park Session - 5 minute open mike talks. January 18, 2008 Barry Kissin spoke about surveillance of nonviolent political activists.	Humanist Links FRESH Contacts
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