The 81st Race for the Rain Forest Thread

This is our 81st thread and we take pride in doing each one.

We cannot ignore the fact of global warming and the detrimental effects that has on our daily lives and especially the future of our children. This could be slowed or even stopped by saving our Rain Forests all over the world.

Can you spare a minute to save a tree and possibly help secure and make better the lives of our children and grandchildren? If so, by taking a minute to click FREE to save a Rain Forest tree you could potentially do just that.

There are millions of people worldwide clicking each day to help preserve Rain Forest all around the globe. In the Race for the Rain Forest we - the AKTBIRD57 team - are the NUMBER ONE team in the world. We have saved over SIXTY-FOUR ACRES to date and are saving more each day.

To join, go to the Race for the Rain Forest at Care2.com. http://rainforest.care2.com

Just click on the Rain Forest button and somewhere in the world, you'll save a lot of square feet of rain forest. You will also have the opportunity to save other parts of our environment - prairie, or wetlands, -- you choose! Corporate sponsors show their logos when you click, and in return, they pay for the habitat saved.

To register for the first time, create your own Distinct Log-in name and Password. Then each time you visit the site to click you simply Log-in and click on the Rainforest button. It's that simple. The site is FREE. If you have a question, we have plenty of answers. FREE.

After clicking, feel free to post on this thread. We have the most wonderful and helpful group of people clicking here. Anytime you can't click, we can arrange for a substitute to click for you.

A hearty and sincere WELCOME to all who come on board.

The festival springs to life at 7 a.m. Saturday, when costumed market vendors sell their wares. The town crier will loudly announce the festival officially open at 9:30 a.m. at Market Square followed by piper-led procession and Victorian puppet theatre.

Costumes guides will provide walking tours from 1-4 p.m. while storytelling of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales takes place at the downtown library at 1 and 4 p.m.

At Studio 22, an art gallery at 320 King St. East, second floor, Hersch will exhibit Victoriana from 1-4 p.m.

Irish dance and music will be presented at the celtic cross on Lake Ontario, beside the Marine Museum on Ontario Street, at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday night, at 7:30 p.m., the Harvest Festival Ball takes place at St. George's Cathedral with music by the Kingston Ceilidh Band. Norman and Beatsie McLean and their students will demonstrate Victorian ballroom dancing.

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Sunday service at St. George's Cathedral at 10:30 a.m. features traditional Choral Mattins (Morning Prayer) in 19th-century mode. There will be lessons, a psalm and a 19th-century sermon, as would have been delivered by George Okill Stuart two centuries ago.

The 19th-century service music will be sung by the Cathedral Choir directed by Edward Norman. The Cathedral will be decorated for Thanksgiving.

Over at the KAC Gallery, 126 Wellington St., David L. Smith presents photos and information detailing the restoration and history of The Grand Theatre. Silent movies with a player piano will run at 1 p.m. upstairs at the Kingston Brewing Company, 34 Clarence St.

Tales of the Great Lakes, with live performances, runs from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, 55 Ontario St.

A community historic mural will be created at Boucher Park, on lower Clarence St., at 1 p.m. Sunday. The Block House Museum at Kingston Mills Locks will be open in the afternoon.

And up on Fort Henry Hill, pioneer harvest dinners featuring a three-course meal (squash, turnip and carrot soup, choice of turkey, prime rib, salmon or vegan and apple or pumpkin pie and Scottish cream concoction) costs $25 each for adults, $15 for youth. Call to reserve at xxxx.