Name: Pot-luck introduction to theme of grace
Start: 2025-11-02
End: 2025-11-02
Location: Unitarian Fellowship of London

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ANNOUNCING….. OUR FAMOUS AND FABULOUS FALL FUNDRAISER!!!!

It’s that time of the year when leaves fall from trees and a committee of UFLers plan our annual fundraiser. This year’s event is scheduled for November 15, 2025, at the UFL beginning with a cocktail hour at 5 pm., when guests can choose a beverage and meet and greet fellow congregants and any visitors and guests. Dinner begins at 6:30, and the first session of the live auction begins at 7:15; the second session of the live auction begins at 8:30. There will also be a silent auction between 5 pm and 6 pm.

Our fair and equitable services auction doesn’t require anyone to bid using real Canadian currency. An attendee makes his or her most generous donation at the front door and receives, in return, a bidding card, $600 worth of Unibucks to spend during the silent and live auctions, and a list of the donated services being offered. (If you don’t know what Unibucks are, they are like Monopoly money.) Tax receipts will be issued for the amount of the donation, less $10.00 for cost of the dinner. Couples who make separate donations at the door will each receive $600 in Unibucks. Childcare will be available for young children in the child care room in RE.

The party theme is Oh Canada : The TRUU North. Yes, we are Canadian UUs, so we will be celebrating everything about life here in the True North and in the TRUU North. We will listen to a playlist of Canadian music; watch a powerpoint display of photos of our beautiful nation combined with fun facts and trivia; and play Canadian Jeopardy. The theme of the dinner is “The Melting Pot”, which is an exciting opportunity to highlight our members’ vibrant food cultures. We are looking for volunteers to make and share their favorite dishes with the congregation.

What can you do to make this event a success? Donate a service, by filling out a Service Auction Donor form, on Sundays, or filling one out online. Examples of donated services in past auctions have included such items as : 2 hours of yardwork, 2 hours of handyman repairs, home baked loaves of bread, providing a meal for 4 or 6 in your home, or delivering a meal to the successful bidder’s home, theatre tickets, a drive in the country, movie tickets, a Tim Horton’s gift card. We want all our members and friends to attend this fun-filled fundraiser so save the date. We also need many volunteers. There are lots of jobs to choose from, beginning with set-up on November 14, to the clean-up at the end of the evening.

Any questions? Please contact one of the Service Auction committee members : Jen Sadler, Imran Khan, Kat Proctor, and Linda Lincoln.

Vegetable Garden Update

Every gardening year is different. Like in many aspects of life, there is experimentation, challenges, and successes. This year, we faced a cold, late spring, a very dry summer and fall, and an unwelcome proliferation of thistles. Nonetheless, we produced carrots, cabbage, kale, tomatoes,peppers, zucchini, beans, beets, herbs and a few pumpkins. And of course, we grew a lot of rhubarb.

We hope that everyone enjoyed the vegetables. Donations raised almost $600. Proceeds will go to the London and Area Food bank. About 25 lbs of produce were also donated.

Some of you may have noticed a few “weedy” areas (see picture below). What you see is a cover crop mix of oats, tillage radish, crimson clover, and lentils. These will die over the winter, and/or be worked into the soil in the spring. Together these plants help improve the structure and fertility of the soil, add organic matter, suppress weeds, prevent erosion, and retain water and can provide a habitat for the overwintering of beneficial insects.

Cover crops also help fight climate change by sequestering carbon, and reducing or eliminating greenhouse gases that result from the use of synthetic fertilizers. Improved soil structure and water retention means that the soil can better handle heavy rains and droughts. You can learn more here.

Our vegetable garden is one small way we can address food inequality and walk more gently on the earth and help us live out our 2nd and 7th principles.

I’d like to acknowledge the many people who supported the vegetable garden this year: Sam, Cyril, Goddy, Lucky, Judith, Laura, Julia, Elizabeth ,Thomas, Patrick, Kat, Candas, Samuel, Celestine, Ellen and of course, Bill. Thanks for helping with the watering, weeding, mulching, planting, torching,harvesting, clean-up and with donations of seeds, plants and other useful items to the project. Whether you gave a little or a lot, you made a difference.

In gratitude, Ann

Meet The Board

Over the next few months, the UFL Board members are each going to write an article introducing themselves to allow the congregation to get to know them better. This series is aptly named Meet the Board.

Hello,

My name is Imran Khan, and shortly after coming to a UFL movie night in 2018 and reading the principles posted in the hallways, I became a UFL member, although my journey to UFL started much earlier. I was born in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, and my family moved to London, Ontario when I was 6 years old. After high school, I took the Culinary Management Apprenticeship program at Fanshawe College. I gravitated toward pastry due to the technical and proactive nature of this type of work, and I came to thoroughly enjoy the artistic expressions possible with desserts. I worked in production kitchens, hotels, and restaurants across Canada, the UK, and Australia.

After these travels, I returned to Canada and wanting a different lifestyle, I entered the UWO MOS program in accounting. In my fourth-year or university, I completed a supply chain internship at McCormick, then graduated, and worked at Ernst & Young in assurance and gained exposure to several industries and clients. It was around this time that I joined UFL, and accepted a request to be Treasurer, a position I would hold for four years. I have been involved in different events at UFL including the Fall Fundraiser, Stewardship Campaign, and Rhubarb Fest. I enjoy getting back into the creative process of designing dessert ideas for Rhubarb fest and the Fall Fundraiser. After a year off from the position, I started a new term as Treasurer in summer 2025.

In October 2023, changed jobs to the London Health Sciences Centre, first in the Medical Affairs department, and now in Corporate Finance.

Outside of work I enjoy gardening using permaculture principles and nurturing a small food forest, cooking, playing acoustic guitar, hiking, yoga, and reading.

Thank you,
Imran

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