Your Community Spirit 2006-09-29

Treesong babbles while Aur travels. Happenings include the Free Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; Shawnee Trash Bash clean-up in the Shawnee on Indigenous People’s Day weekend; AIDS benefit drag show at Upside Downtown; local and national efforts to oppose Mountaintop Removal continue; and the Southern Illinois Renaissance Faire. News includes new sightings of ivory-billed woodpecker in Florida; aspen trees dying mysteriously in the western US; and a judge sides with caribou to ban snowmobiles from caribou recovery zone in Idaho. Music includes Playing with Fire Celtic CD and a song called Paradise played in honor of the Mountaintop Removal issue.