In-Person and Zoom services resume 6 April 2025

April 2, 2025April 2, 2025Robert

In-person and Zoom services at West Fork Unitarian Universalists resume on Sunday, 6 April 2025.

We currently conduct a full worship service on the first Sunday of each month, and discuss a different short reading each of the remaining Sundays.

**If you wish to join by ZOOM and do not already have the link, please email us at westforkuu@gmail.com**

Please Join us for Worship.

Our services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on ZOOM and in person at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse.

Children are welcome. The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom. You may park in the lot on the west side of the building. Please enter through the door at the back on the west side of the building.

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A half hour for coffee, discussion, and socializing, including those who attend through ZOOM, follows from the end of the service until 12:00 noon. More about us.

If you have been a regular attendee and we had an email address for you, we have added you to our Google Group. If you have not gotten a group email already, please email westforkuu@gmail.com so that we can add you to the group. We encourage members to continue discussions through the week using the WFUU email group. Public announcements will continue to be posted here on the website and on our Facebook page as usual.

Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302

No In-Person or Zoom services until 6 April 2025

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025Robert

There will be no in-person or Zoom services at West Fork Unitarian Universalists until Sunday, 6 April 2025. Please watch this space for further information.

Daylight Saving Time begins (March 9, 2025)

March 8, 2025September 10, 2024Robert

Daylight Saving Time BEGINS (in those parts of the United States where it is celebrated) on Sunday, March 9, 2025, when 2:00 a.m. is magically revealed to be 3:00 a.m., leaving an hour-long hole in the night, an hour of sleep lost, and tired eyes and slight disorientation among the population for weeks to come.

Please remember to set your clocks forward one hour Saturday evening so you will be on time for all your important appointments on Sunday and during the coming weeks.

In case you’re curious about Daylight Saving Time and its effect on our lives, here are a couple of recent articles:
“Why Daylight Saving Time Messes With Your Brain” (Beth Ann Malow)

“Who Benefits from Daylight Saving Time?” (Lane Wendell Fischer)

In-person services canceled for 19 January 2025

January 19, 2025Robert

Because of the current weather conditions, we are canceling our in-person service this Sunday. Please join us on ZOOM.

In-person services canceled for 12 January 2025

January 11, 2025January 11, 2025Robert

Because of the current weather conditions, we are canceling our in-person service this Sunday. Please join us on ZOOM.

Daylight Saving Time ends (November 3, 2024)

November 2, 2024November 5, 2023Robert

Daylight Saving Time ENDS tomorrow, Sunday, November 3, 2024, when 2:00 a.m. is mysteriously revealed to be a repeat of 1:00 a.m., and we all have to relive that hour. But an extra hour of sleep might not be a bad thing.

Remember to set your clocks back one hour tonight so you’re not an hour early tomorrow morning! The coffee won’t even be ready yet!

West Fork Watershed Day

October 7, 2024October 7, 2024Robert

12 October 2024 at Watters Smith State Park

Celebrate our watershed at Watters Smith State Park, Saturday, 12 October 2024, 10 to 4

All ages are invited to bring a picnic lunch and spend the day, bring your mountain bikes and ride the trails, walk the trails or visit the Watters Smith farm museum. Or drop in for the morning, the afternoon, or just one activity.

Learn more at https://guardiansofthewestfork.org/2024/09/09/west-fork-watershed-day-at-watters-smith-state-park-12-oct-2024/

The Laramie Project at Fairmont State University

October 7, 2024October 7, 2024Robert

The Fairmont State Univeristy Masquers student theatre organization will present The Laramie Project, November 1-3 and 6-9, 2024, in the Wallman Hall Theater. Tickets can be purchased here.

From the Wikipedia article about the Laramie Project:

The Laramie Project is a 2000 American play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project … about the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder was denounced as a hate crime and brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in various states, including Wyoming.

An example of verbatim theatre, the play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members’ own journal entries, and published news reports. It is divided into three acts, and eight actors portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes.

See the full announcement for the Fairmont State University production here.

September 2024: Sunday Services Resume

September 3, 2024September 3, 2024Robert

On Sunday, 1 September 2024, we ended our 2024 summer hiatus with a Spiritual Outing to Deegan and Hinkle Lakes. Our regular schedule is now in effect as of 8 September with our first weekly service of meditation, short readings, and sharing. Our announcement for the 8 September service can be read here.

Ownership [of the hill] presumes that only man lives in time, and that the hill is merely present, merely a place. But the poet who lives, heeded or not, within the owner knows that the hill is also taking place. It is as alive as its owner. The two lives go side by side in time together, and ultimately they are the same.

— Wendell Berry, “A Native Hill”, in The Long-Legged House

Our services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on ZOOM and in person at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. A coffee hour, a time for discussion and socializing (including ZOOM participants), follows from the end of the service until 12:00 noon. More about us.

Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.

The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.

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If you would like to participate on ZOOM, please email westforkuu@gmail.com for details and a link, or for help with using ZOOM. If you prefer not to be seen, video is optional.