Hello WES Community! We are so excited to share with you that our Reunion campaign was a success! To date, over 40 members (plus some non-members!) have contributed almost $40,000. This campaign has helped narrow the budget deficit left by the pandemic. Between the Reunion Field Day, the Bake Sale, and more, we have come … Continue reading Closing the Gap Campaign Results
Dear Ones, Throughout my time with you, members have found creative and compassionate ways to care for one another. Caring News updates have moved you to drop off casseroles, send cards, offer rides, and text each other when one of you is experiencing a milestone or a twist and turn with life. Caring for each … Continue reading Presenting: WES Pastoral Care Associates
Dear Ones, These are exhilarating days. WES is preparing for a new chapter and a new Senior Leader. Current events demonstrate an urgent need for an expression of WES’s values. Members are putting together the pieces in their own lives for moving forward into a COVID-normalized world. A lot is going on that calls WES … Continue reading Join the Reunion Campaign!
Hi WES! I’m writing on behalf of the finance team to keep the membership informed about our current financial position and what we’re looking at as we move into the summer. This update includes information on the following: -Our deficit of $80k and its staffing impact -Ways you can help WES make up for the … Continue reading WES Financial Status 2022
With great excitement, the Board of Trustees announces that KC Slack will be the new Senior Leader for WES! At Sunday’s special membership meeting, 92% of WES members present, either in person or by Zoom, voted yes to confirm KC as our next leader. KC will start in August and we look forward to welcoming … Continue reading Senior Leader Vote Results!
WES Reopening Plan Spring 2022 (Updated April 2022) WES VALUES The WES Reopening Plan is grounded in our ethical values and our commitment to not leave our most vulnerable members of our community behind. We do not want to make them choose between their safety and their community. Our return to in-person operations has been … Continue reading COVID Precaution Update
On June 20, the 2022 WES/Global Connections Delegation will travel to El Salvador to accompany our sister community of El Rodeo. The community has asked that we bring the following items: * Spanish dictionaries for the school (20-30. The team will buy them here) * Adult (soft) toothbrushes (140) * Fluoride toothpaste in med-large tubes … Continue reading Request from the Global Connections Team — Supplies Needed for El Rodeo
(Earth Ethics Action Team) Fossil fuels in buildings At the end of last year, New York City passed bill 2317-2021 to phase out fossil fuels for all new buildings, a milestone in the fight against climate and health-harming pollution. Carbon emissions from buildings are a major driver of climate change in three ways. (1) During … Continue reading Thoughts from the EEAT: Gas Appliances
And now the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the Leader Search Committee is thrilled to present to the WES community the candidate to be our next Senior Leader: Rev. KC Kvasnička-Slack (ka-vaz-NEECH-ka slak)! KC has spent the last four years serving as the minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Verdugo Hills in the Los Angeles area. Listing … Continue reading Introducing the Senior Leader candidate—KC Slack!
The Mohammadi family, headed by Abdul, 40, and Fereshta, 35, has been through untold difficulties, danger and, worst of all, months of not knowing their future. Since leaving their home in Afghanistan at the end of August, they have lived on two different US military bases and more recently in an extended-stay hotel in Silver … Continue reading WES Welcomes Afghan Refugee Family
