On Saturday, May 18, from noon-3pm, the Our Power campaign will be hosting a party for Midtown-area residents involved--or looking to get involved--in local energy solutions. This event follows a similar event on March 16 where 25 neighbors met together to discuss the efforts that neighbors in Corcoran and a few surrounding neighborhoods have taken to create energy solutions through:

In the earliest part of spring, when it may not feel too spring-like at all, you might step outside one night and hear it—a faint, mournful hooting, far overhead. If you look up then, and the skies are clear, you might be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of this spring phenomenon: a wavering white line of birds moving across the night sky, glinting in the moonlight. These are whistling swans, headed from their winter home on the East coast to their nesting grounds in the arctic.

Current drinking water limits appear to be “several hundredfold too high.”