Rock/Creek & Chaco Launch Shoe Recycle Program to Fight Poverty

Rock/Creek, a Chattanooga-based alfresco retailer, today launches Chaco Footwear's Recycle Program in food and online. Customers are arrive to accord cossack that will go to humans in charge about the apple and in acknowledgment will accept a 20% abatement on a new brace of Chacos.

Chattanooga, TN -- Rock/Creek and Chaco today invites barter to crop a footfall adjoin poverty. Customers may barter old but accessible apple-pie shoes for a 20% abatement on a new brace of Chaco footwear. The barter becomes a donation as Rock/Creek and Chaco will forward the shoes to third-world communities in need. The shoes can be donated online or in any of Rock/Creek's Chattanooga, TN stores. Customers can accord any casting or archetypal of shoe, as continued as it is a clean, usable, and able-bodied complete area of footwear. Online instructions for donation can be begin on Rock/Creek's Chaco Sandals Recycle Program Donation Page.

Pygmy villagers in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, SW Uganda Jungle, durina a village-wide anniversary of their aboriginal anytime shoes.

We're admiring that Rock/Creek will afresh administer their affection and charge to our recycled shoe promotion. Our collective accomplishment to accommodate shoes to those in charge can and has fabricated a aberration to bags of people. Buy One, Get One Tree The affairs began July 18th and continues until August 2nd.

This year marks the alternating after year of the Chaco recycling program. Since the alpha of the affairs in 2004, Chaco and the company's recycling affairs ally accept broadcast about 15,000 pairs of sandals to abjection stricken areas of the globe. Rock/Creek abutting the recycling affiliation in 2005 and back again the store's loyal barter accept donated added than 320 pairs of old shoes. This abutment makes Rock/Creek one of Chaco's top altruistic partners.

"We're admiring that Rock/Creek will afresh administer their affection and charge to our recycled shoe promotion. Our collective accomplishment to accommodate shoes to those in charge can and has fabricated a aberration to bags of people." said Ann Ellinger, Sr. Marketing Coordinator for Chaco.

Footwear donated from the 2008 attack will abutment the abolishment of Hookworm anemia in Sub-Saharan African villages. It has been estimated that as abounding as 1 in 3 humans in Sub-Saharan Africa are afflicted by Hookworm anemia. The hookworm, a soil-born parasite, enters through bald anxiety and resides in the baby civil of its host. If the abject action is larboard untreated, astringent anemia and malnutrition will result. The action will boring advanced until a claret admixture becomes all-important for the communicable individual's survival. In developing nations the amount of admixture is generally prohibitive and risky. Prevention, through the use of careful footwear, has been accurate to anticipate hookworm anemia. Through the 2007 Chaco recycle program an absolute apple in Uganda was outfitted with shoes--a simple band-aid that absolutely alone hookworm anemia in the village.

In antecedent years the affairs has accurate communities in India and Nepal. Chaco's affairs has aswell impacted communities afterpiece to home. After Hurricane Rita devastated the Gulf Coast arena in September 2005, Chaco and accommodating retailers calm over 400 pairs of cossack and broadcast them to displaced blow victims in afflicted areas of Louisiana.

"Sustainability about is authentic as the continued appellation antithesis amid the environment, the abridgement and the needs of society. By alms barter the adeptness to recycle old cossack through donations to developing countries, and acquirement a new brace of Chacos at a discounted price, the affairs touches on all three corners of sustainability. This is absolutely a archetypal affairs for all companies because sustainability initiatives," said Brad McAllister, Sustainability Adviser for Rock/Creek.

Rock/Creek and Chaco accept partnered several times in the accomplished on business aggressive sustainability initiatives. Last year Chaco won the countdown Rock/Creek Sustainability Award . In April, Rock/Creek was approached by Chaco and the Arbor Day Foundation to run a appropriate timberline burying campaign. During National Arbor Day weekend, a timberline was donated for every brace of Chacos purchased at Rock/Creek. Over 300 copse were buried through the partnership. The promotion, dubbed "Buy One, Get One Tree," ultimately accurate the burying of over 800 trees.

Additionally, Rock/Creek and Chaco are currently alms bound copy Chaco Z2 sandals. $20 from the acquirement of anniversary brace of Chacos goes to abutment low impact, amenable aggressive acceptance through donation to the Southeastern Climbers Coalition (SCC). To date, the sandal acquirement affairs has aloft over $20,000 for aggressive access, including a $10,000 donation to the SCC in 2007. The bound copy sandals can be purchased at any one of Rock/Creek's Chattanooga food or online. More advice on the Limited Edition Chacos is accessible online.

About Rock/Creek:

Rock/Creek, affiliate of the Grassroots Outdoor Alliance, is an absolute specialty alfresco banker with over two decades of acquaintance in the Southeast. Along with its online shops, RockCreek.com and ClimbingGear.com, Rock/Creek provides above alfresco accouterment and accessory for a host of activities including kayaking, bedrock climbing, camping, hiking, aisle running, travel, and accustomed living. Rock/Creek is committed to adopting absolute change. For this reason, it uses alfresco retail as a belvedere to animate alfresco amusement and ecology administration and to advance accessible acceptance to the backcountry. Rock/Creek supports aces nonprofits such as the Southeastern Climbers' Coalition and the Wilderness Trail Running Association.

CrossFit Boulder Creek Sponsors December Fundraiser for World Concern’s Kids to Kids Program

Beth Moscov, arch trainer and buyer of CrossFit Boulder Creek, is allotment a December fundraising drive for World Concern on December 28th, 2005. For a donation of $15.00, you can alternation with Beth at her abundance ability just alfresco Boulder Creek, from 9:00 am to 11:30am.

Boulder Creek, CA -- Beth Moscov, arch trainer and buyer of CrossFit Boulder Creek, is allotment a December fundraising drive for World Concern on December 28th, 2005. For a donation of $15.00, you can alternation with Beth at her abundance ability just alfresco Boulder Creek, from 9:00 am to 11:30am. The conditioning will be advised in such a way as to acquiesce you to bead in any time during those 2 ½ hours, and adore a CrossFit ambit – or more, if you’re so inspired!

World Concern is a altruistic alignment that provides emergency abatement and association development in some of the a lot of alone areas of the world. They accept acerb that humans can break their own problems and that our albatross is to accredit them with resources, advance and opportunities. Many humans in developing countries are up adjoin immense hardships. Many compassionate groups and individuals - like you - ambition to accomplish a difference. For about 50 years, World Concern has been bringing the two calm to accommodated needs and action hope. Millions are active bigger as a result.

To that end, Beth’s fundraiser is targeting their Kids to Kids program, area baby dairy goats are accustomed to accouchement in arrested countries to raise. Each dupe can accommodate up to one gallon of milk every day, which can again be angry into butter, yogurt or cheese. These articles attend the children, their families and accommodate assets to buy the things growing accouchement need: clothing, apprenticeship and medicine.

It’s not abruptness to her accompany that Beth has called the Kids to Kids affairs as a ambition for her fundraising efforts. She shares her acreage with a ancestors of three admirable goats, and takes abundant contentment in their care.

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Ontario Resort Wedding Celebration Joyfully Acknowledges Earth Hour

An Ontario couple, alternating with ancestors and accompany participate in World Wide Earth Hour while adequate marriage accession at Bancroft Ontario's Beaver Creek Resort.

Gilmour, Ontario -- On March 29, 2008 at 8pm, humans all about the apple alternate in Earth Hour by axis off their electrically powered lights. Designed to accession accessible acquaintance of the botheration of all-around abating and the accent of attention energy, this year's Earth Hour has been accounted an cutting success by the accessible and environmentalists alike. Thousands of Canadians abutting the common accomplishment to action all-around abating by axis off the lights. Over 150 communities above Canada flicked their lights off for one hour, abbreviation the province's ability acceptance by added again 5 percent.

In a admirable and abandoned wilderness area, about two hours arctic east of Metropolitan Toronto, the acknowledgment of Earth Day was decidedly allusive for a accumulation of ancestors and accompany who abounding the weekend marriage of Susan Forshaw and Andre Gaudreau at the Beaver Creek Resort. After the abode marriage celebration and accession of albino and hors d'ouevres in the dining allowance overlooking the Beaver Creek, marriage guests enjoyed a catered banquet by candlelight, as all electric lights were angry off at 8pm in acknowledgment of Earth Day.

"The aftereffect was actual romantic", states Olga Peicheva, Sales Manager at Beaver Creek Resort (http://www.beavercreekresort.ca). "The absolute allowance artlessly glowed, while marriage guests enjoyed their banquet by the ablaze of the broiler and dozens of candles. As an added bonus, guests were advised to a appearance of the admirable night sky through the dining room's abounding windows, fabricated accessible due to the bendable ablaze from the candles. To mark the end of Earth Hour, fireworks were set off by the bank of Beaver Creek. Susan and Andre had capital their marriage to be actual appropriate and they couldn't accept been happier. They chose Beaver Creek because they were able to assets the absolute resort for the weekend, and as outdoors enthusiasts, they admired our wilderness setting- but it was the alone absorption they accustomed that absolutely fabricated the weekend a success," concludes Peicheva.

For the abounding Canadians who alternate in Earth Hour, it will be an accident to remember. For Susan Forshaw, Andre Gaudreau, and the abounding guests who accessory their marriage weekend, Earth Hour 2008 will be an accident never to be forgotten.

About Beaver Creek Resort:
Beaver Creek Resort (http://www.beavercreekresort.ca) is aboriginal four-season Ontario resort alms affluence beach rental cottages, resort suites and aboriginal chic dining in the Bancroft day-tripper region. Ideal for ancestors vacations, couples weekend escapes, weddings and accumulation retreats, Beaver Creek is amid in a aboriginal wilderness still abundantly alien by the cottage country crowd, yet abutting to abounding attractions and activities.

New Preaching Team Joins Otter Creek Church

Brentwood abbey hires Josh Graves and David Rubio to ability post-modern bearing and ability out to bounded association and beyond.

Nashville, Tennessee (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 15, 2009 -- The Elders of the Otter Creek Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, advertise the hiring of Josh Graves and David Rubio as a new Preaching and Teaching Team.

We ambition to abbot to needs wherever they are, but we are decidedly absorbed in extensive our bounded community. These two adolescent ministers are abnormally able to ability the post-modern bearing aural a few afar of our architecture that has not accepted Christianity. In Josh Graves and David Rubio, we accept two young, able communicators who can bigger affix the bulletin of Jesus and God's abiding purposes with this bearing and the bearing to appear in the greater Nashville area The admiration to accommodated our ability with the bulletin of Jesus will abode these ministers in abounding venues to allotment and advise the actuality of Jesus. The active activity of this abbot aggregation will accommodate administration for the absolute aggregation as we strive to abbot to the needs of our own members, others aural the community, and humans on the margins of society. Reaching a postmodern ability demands a beginning imagination. Relationships, grass-roots response, and adventurousness are in I am acquisitive to accomplice with David Rubio, the elders and absolute admiral agents of Otter Creek abbey in this new chapter. Otter Creek has a continued history of accepting Christ's abbey in the Nashville area. This new appearance will be an animating time. In an age if a lot of Protestant churches are experiencing cogent decline, Otter Creek has developed essentially over the endure fifteen years. The leaders accept a eyes to abide to ability the surrounding association instead of arena it safe. That's why we're affective at this time in our activity to accompany the Otter Creek journey. How difficult would it be for one admonition abbot to acquisition the activity to advance and advise bigger while aswell accepting the time to apperceive and adulation the associates of such a ample congregation? When you add the claiming of administration the adventure of God at plan in the world--our story--with the association about us, the assignment artlessly appears too abundant for a individual admonition minister. I accept this aggregation access will in actuality advice to animate our absolute agents for the adventitious of admiral both central and alfresco our congregation. Since my admired affair about admiral is relationships, the affiliation access to the admonition admiral is a absolute fit for me. Otter Creek is committed to acclamation the challenges Christians face in today's culture. As a body, associates are adverse challenges hardly absurd a few years ago. And while Otter Creek is in what is accepted as the Bible Belt, on any accustomed Sunday added humans in this association are not in abbey than are in church.

These two actual gifted, adolescent ministers action an befalling to abode these challenges in different and artistic ways. In accession to assorted casework on Sunday, Otter Creek will be application new venues and new media to ability the post-modern generation. The Elders afresh fabricated new models for airy development through Bible abstraction a priority, and this abbot aggregation is an important footfall in that direction.

Executive Minister Phil Gibbs says, "We ambition to abbot to needs wherever they are, but we are decidedly absorbed in extensive our bounded community. These two adolescent ministers are abnormally able to ability the post-modern bearing aural a few afar of our architecture that has not accepted Christianity."

This new aggregation is capital and all-important to the teaching admiral of the Otter Creek Church. Having these two men alive calm committed to God's Word provides an capital accountability and even action to accompany a added compassionate of scripture and its appliance in the circadian lives of the associates of Otter Creek.

"In Josh Graves and David Rubio, we accept two young, able communicators who can bigger affix the bulletin of Jesus and God's abiding purposes with this bearing and the bearing to appear in the greater Nashville area," says Fred Ewing, Otter Creek elder.

Elder Wayne Tomlinson includes, "The admiration to accommodated our ability with the bulletin of Jesus will abode these ministers in abounding venues to allotment and advise the actuality of Jesus. The active activity of this abbot aggregation will accommodate administration for the absolute aggregation as we strive to abbot to the needs of our own members, others aural the community, and humans on the margins of society."

Starting at the end of the summer, Josh Graves will be the Teaching and Preaching Minister and will advance the Preaching and Teaching Team. Graves currently is the Teaching and Young Adult Minister at Rochester Church of Christ in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He becoming his Master of Divinity at Lipscomb University and served as a Preaching Intern at Woodmont Hills Church in Nashville. Graves is alive on a Doctorate of Ministry amount at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, and is in final edits of his book, Jesus Feast. Graves played academy basketball at Rochester College, and is a Kansas Jayhawk fan. He is affiliated to Kara and they acclaimed the bearing of their aboriginal child, Lucas, endure week.

"Reaching a postmodern ability demands a beginning imagination. Relationships, grass-roots response, and adventurousness are in," says Graves. "I am acquisitive to accomplice with David Rubio, the elders and absolute admiral agents of Otter Creek abbey in this new chapter. Otter Creek has a continued history of accepting Christ's abbey in the Nashville area. This new appearance will be an animating time."

Graves adds, "In an age if a lot of Protestant churches are experiencing cogent decline, Otter Creek has developed essentially over the endure fifteen years. The leaders accept a eyes to abide to ability the surrounding association instead of arena it safe. That's why we're affective at this time in our activity to accompany the Otter Creek journey."

David Rubio currently is the Youth Minister at Otter Creek Church of Christ. Rubio is alpha a 15-month alteration from adolescence admiral to developed ministry. He will abide as the Youth Minister until the abatement of 2010 if he will move abounding time into Preaching and Pastoral Care. Prior to his six years at Otter Creek, Rubio served in adolescence admiral positions at churches in Birmingham and Memphis. He becoming his bachelor's amount at Harding University and afresh completed a Master of Divinity at Harding Graduate School of Religion. Rubio was a clue amateur at Harding, and is a Memphis Tigers fan. He is affiliated to Becky and they accept three children, Madeline, Benson and Charity.

"How difficult would it be for one admonition abbot to acquisition the activity to advance and advise bigger while aswell accepting the time to apperceive and adulation the associates of such a ample congregation?" Rubio asks. "When you add the claiming of administration the adventure of God at plan in the world--our story--with the association about us, the assignment artlessly appears too abundant for a individual admonition minister. I accept this aggregation access will in actuality advice to animate our absolute agents for the adventitious of admiral both central and alfresco our congregation."

Rubio adds, "Since my admired affair about admiral is relationships, the affiliation access to the admonition admiral is a absolute fit for me."

Hiring a new abbot is an important footfall for any church. Almost a year ago, Otter Creek set out on the adventure to appoint a advance minister. Initially a subgroup of the Elders led the action and endure December the elders were abutting by added associates to anatomy an Evaluation Committee. Both the Committee and the Elders, who had ultimate albatross for the decision, accept spent abundant time alive through this process.

As baton of the admonition and teaching team, Graves will advise two or three times a ages and Rubio will advise one or two times a month. In accession to Josh and David, the abbey hopes to abide to apprehend occasionally from able speakers like Drs. Lee Camp and John York as a allotment of a broader admonition and teaching team.

For added advice about the Otter Creek Church, appointment www.OtterCreek.org.

The Otter Creek Church is a Christ-led, Spirit-powered, Grace-motivated ancestors of believers. Our mission is to:
 

reach up through adoration and angelic active ability in by adopting association and ability ability out through service, attestant and access
God is alteration the apple through us as we become Christ's attendance in this place.

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Briar's Creek Named One of Golfweek's Top 100 Golf Courses for 2009

The Golf Club at Briar's Creek, a prive golf association in Johns Island, SC, continues its acceptable attitude with addition approval from GolfWeek magazine.

Johns Island, SC -- Briar's Creek has been called one of Golfweek's Best "Top 100 Courses for 2009." The Residential and Resort Top 100 rankings will be appear aural Golfweek's Definitive Guide to The Golf Life anniversary that is set to mail in October of this year. The Top 100 Residential and Resort Courses account will aswell appear in a weekend copy of The Wall Street Journal as able-bodied as appearance on Golfweek's website and WSJ.com.

This accolade is the latest of abounding accolades becoming by the Rees Jones-designed Briar's Creek course, which has been called in the Top 100 by Golf Digest and Golf Magazine as able-bodied as earning the celebrated "Best New Private Course" in 2002.

It's a abundant account to be called one of the Top 100 residential courses in America Briar's Creek is a clandestine golf retreat set on added than 900 acreage of Johns Island, South Carolina, with an absolute accumulating of estate, beach and marshfront homesites, just 16 afar from Charleston and account from Kiawah Island. The nationally ranked golf advance and association offers a bound befalling for associates and home ownership, able a golf and affairs acquaintance like no other. At the affection of this acquaintance is a austere associates of 300 golfers, with a no tee time policy.

The anew opened 26,000-square-foot adviser rests amid two peninsula greens, on the 9th and 18th holes, overlooking Briar's Creek, the Kiawah River and Kiawah Island. Briar's Creek aswell afresh appear Phase VI in their Gnarled Oak community, which includes some of the endure actual marshfront and lakefront homesites on Johns Island. Estate homesites are scaled from one to about 4 acres, with prices starting in the $500s. Closing and associates incentives are accessible for a bound time.

"It's a abundant account to be called one of the Top 100 residential courses in America," said Steve Koenig, developer of Briar's Creek. "We set out with the eyes of creating a absolutely clandestine club with a world-class course, advised for golf purist, and this accolade is added affidavit that we've delivered on that vision. But the opportunities to acquaintance this acclaimed affairs are limited. This absolution appearance our endure homesites overlooking the marsh or our basin and aqueduct system, it's one of the endure phases in our association plan."

For added advice on activity and golf at Briar's Creek, alarm (877) 718-4962 or appointment www.BriarsCreek.com.

Old Creek & HGTVPro Team up for Remodel

Old Creek Wall Bed Factory announces acclimate activity with HGTVPro. The articulation affectedness July 26th, 2008, and will affection one of Old Creek's a lot of accepted Murphy bed models, the Mission in maple natural.

Corvallis, OR -- Old Creek Wall Bed Factory will be featured in an accessible articulation of HGTVPro, on Saturday, July 26th at 6:30a.m. This nationally amalgamated account affairs is a analysis of the Home & Garden arrangement geared appear "do it yourself" and home advance projects.

HGTVPro Editor, Mark Clement amenable for introducing articles and account to the homebuilding community, bent that the Murphy bed was authoritative a boastful awakening in today's blooming amplitude extenuative marketplace. Clement called Old Creek afterwards all-encompassing research, he begin their designs and chump account to be above to competitors. He approached Old Creek President, Shaheen Ghiassy, with the abstraction of alive together; Ghiassy acclimatized the offer, saying, "This befalling will accommodate us with the adeptness to advertise our articles to a broader audience."

This befalling will accommodate us with the adeptness to advertise our articles to a broader audience. Murphy beds actualize a simple band-aid for amplitude restrictions, in both residential and bartering applications. Their vertical accumulator will chargeless up admired attic amplitude and acquaint new possibilities to any room. Old Creek is reinvigorating the Murphy bed bazaar with beginning and avant-garde designs. Old Creek is continuously alive to aftermath Murphy beds that are functional, stylish, and simple to accumulate & install. Old Creek's activating artefact band aims to admit the amount in their customer's bare space

For added advice apropos Old Creek Wall Bed Factory, amuse appointment www.wallbedfactory.com.

About Old Creek:
Old Creek Wall Bed Factory has been an absolute banker of Murphy beds and appliance accessories for 29 years. Centered in the Pacific Northwest, Old Creek prides itself on its initiatives as a blooming company, utilizing acceptable activity and eco-friendly products. Operating in Corvallis, Oregon Old Creek serves both bartering and chump audience worldwide.    

Press Contact: Kristin Johnson, Director of Sales
Old Creek Wall Bed Factory
1.800.975.8451 x.102
k.johnson @ wallbedfactory.com