calendar:
july 2003

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Grant, New Officers
Mountain Pride Media gratefully
acknowledges the Samara
Foundation of Vermont, which
awarded us a $4,000 grant this
year. We are honored by Samara’s
ongoing support of Mountain Pride
Media's mission and goals.
Mountain Pride Media
thanks everyone at Bur|ington's
The Waiting Room restaurant who
helped make our Second Annual
Eat Out Event a huge success.
Thanks also to everyone who
stopped in to help support
Mountain Pride Media. We are

gearing up for our next fundraising
event — The Barony Of All
Vermont's 2003 Adornment. This is
a three-day event (August 8-10)
being held at the Holiday Inn in
Burlington, Vermont to benefit
R.U.1.2? and Mountain Pride
Media. For ticket and event info,
please contact baronyofallver—
mont@yahoo.com. We hope to
see you there.

Thanks to our volunteers
and supporters who marched with
us in the Pride March on June 14,
and to everyone who stopped by
our booth to say hello. We greatly
appreciate the time people took to

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fill out our 2003 Readership
Survey, If you didn’t get to our
table at Pride this year you can
still fill out the 2003 Readership
Survey by visiting our web site
(www.mountainpridemedia.org)
and clicking on the Survey link. .
We really want to hear from the
community — so go online, print
out the survey, and mail it in by the
end of July. Information from this
year’s surveys will be used to help
us make the transition to our new
format, which will be unveiled with
the August 2003 edition.

' Please join us in welcom-
ing the new officers of Mountain

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Stewart's convenience store. Open meeting otAA,
meanrngihar anyone with a desire to stop drink-
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..  new groupl: B.jt;. .Et;G. (Big:Loud Awesome .
 asource Group) 6-8pm: This new group does
fabulous hands on._ac' ities the tirst Monday of—
"each month. Ali sexual orientated & identified folk
‘ ages 22 and under canattend. 187 St. Paut St.
Burlington, VT 800’~Gl;B’-.CHAT or info@out~ ‘
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Pride Media: Dan Brink, A
President/Treasurer; Al Perkins,
Vice President; James Garris,
Secretary. We have an immediate
need to find someone to join the
Board to fill the position of
Treasurer.’ If you are interested
and have bookkeeping or account-
ing skills, please contact us at
mpm@mountainpridemedia.org.
We are saying goodbye and good
luck to Board member Jack Ryniec
who has moved to New Mexico,
and extend our sincere thanks to
Roland Palmer and Richard
Slappey, whose terms ended in
June, for their work as members of

the Board for the past 4 years.

R.U.1.2? Picnic celebrates

Volunteers
R.U.1.2? relies on volunteers to

get the job done here at the
Community Center. In the last
year, over 20 volunteer program
leaders and over 100 individual
volunteers gave of their time in
support of the Queer Summits,
Vermont Diversity Health Project,
The Vermont Queer Archives, The
Popular Education Initiative and
our Coming Out Support.

Groups. R.U.1.2? volun-
teers had a strong pres-