HEY ALL YOU PEACE PALS!

Just a few bits of the latest information on what’s happening with World Peace Gardens, just in time for SPRING!

WORLD PEACE GATHERINGS BUILDING COMMUNITY
World Peace Gatherings going great! Our non-sectarian gatherings focused on celebrating oneness, inner peace world peace draw more than 60 people each Sunday to Green Valley Spa to connect, share, inspire, laugh, celebrate and create community! For more information about the great list of speakers, performers, artists, etc., log on to our web site at: www.WorldPeaceGardens.org/gatherings if you would like to be a speaker, presenter or performer at a gathering please contact Janice Brooks at: JaniceBrooks@WorldPeaceGardens.org or (702) 521-2635

ELAN MAGAZINE FEATURES WORLD PEACE GARDENS
In the latest issue of Elan Magazine, March/April 2009, there is a great article about the story and the people behind World Peace Gardens. Thank you Darci Moore & Gina Jrel for helping make this happen and generously promoting World Peace Gardens! For more information on Elan Magazine, www.ElanWoman.com

WORLD PEACE GARDENS OUTDOOR SANCTUARY FLOOR PLANS NOW COMPLETED

A huge “Thank you!” to architect, Ward Dawson for donating much of his time to create the the very first World Peace Gardens’ Outdoor Sanctuary, floor plans/blueprints. Ward and Daniel have been working together to develop the floor plans in hopes that eventually some of these outdoor sanctuary/gardens will be built on donated land or through an organization promoting world peace. Both floor plans include beautiful designs for outdoor patios, garden areas, pathways and a central gathering place called “The inner garden” which is complete with pillars and cross-beams, inspired, in part by places like Stonehenge. Interest for building these outdoor sanctuaries in various locations has come from as far away as India and in more than a dozen locations in the U.S.. For more information on creating a World Peace Gardens, Outdoor Sanctuary, please contact Daniel Pettegrew at: Daniel@WorldPeaceGardens.org or for architectural advise please contact Ward Dawson at: jwdaiainc@beyondbb.com

ORGANIC COMMUNITY GARDEN NOW FORMING

A group of “green thumbs” from the World Peace Gatherings is now planning and planting a community garden! The group is focusing on growing mostly organic, heirloom seeds, fruits, veggies and a variety of herbs. The garden will be at the home of Candy Roger’s, right in the heart of St. George at 352 South 500 East. For any of you who would like to help out please contact Brenda Rogers at: rogersbrenda@infowest.com, (435) 688-0493

WORLD PEACE GATHERINGS COMING TO SPRINGDALE, UTAH IN APRIL

World Peace Gatherings now in Springdale, Utah, right next to Zion National Park starting April 5th, 2009 at 10AM every Sunday. Now all you peace pals in eastern Washington County, from Hurricane, LaVerkin, Leeds, Toquerville, Virgin, Rockville and Springdale have a place closer to home to create community around oneness, inner peace and world peace!

For more information on the World Peace Gatherings in Springdale, Utah, please contact: Marcia Rasmussen at: marcia@worldpeacegardens.org or (435) 619-3069

Note: For those who are interested in starting World Peace Gatherings in your area, there is now a Gatherings Manual with all the information and support needed! Please email us at Gatherings@WorldPeaceGardens.org or (435) 703-0077

FLUTE & DRUM FESTIVAL COMING IN MAY!

A big, exciting festival celebrating the rhythms of Mother Earth is just around the corner! The Zion Flute & Drum Festival is scheduled for May 15th, 16th & 17th, 2009 and will help raise funds for World Peace Gardens. This special event will bring well-known flute players and drummers from many parts of the U.S. to Unity Park and Tuacahn Center for the Arts in Ivins, Utah. During the day there will be performers, shopping booths and delicious foods. On the evening of Saturday, May 16th there will be a special concert at Tuacahn Center for the Arts. If you would like to sell items at the festival or perform the flute or drum or help volunteer please contact: Marty Lisonbee at: marty.lisonbee@gmail.com or (435) 680- 2629. Check out the web site at: www.ZionFluteandDrumFestival.com

WORLD PEACE GARDENS IS AN “ALL VOLUNTEER” ORGANIZATION

As you may know World Peace Gardens is a 501 (c)(3), non profit organization, no one receives a salary and everything from speaking, performing, managing, organizing, designing, etc… all services and participation are donation by dozens of people. All donations we receive are greatly appreciated and help “all volunteer” organization to keep promoting world peace, inner peace and oneness. World Peace Gardens now has a PayPal account so donations can be made easily and securely by logging onto our web site at: www.WorldPeaceGardens.org/donations Note: All donations to World Peace Gardens are tax deductible! For more information on making donations, please contact: Kyle Kamalu at: KyleKamalu@WorldPeaceGardens.org or (435) 632-4622

SPECIAL THANKS

A special thanks to Thorsten & Baerbel Schneider, for donating many hours with technical and design support on the World Peace Gardens web site. Thorsten & Baerbel are originally from Berlin, Germany and are now living near Zion National Park and the owners of a gift shop called Crystals & Creatures http://www.crystals-creatures.com. Crystals & Creatures offers a 25% discount off purchases at their shop to anyone who mentions World Peace Gardens and they also make a generous donation to our organization as well! Also a special thanks to Xetava Gardens Cafe and 25 Main Cafe for donating coffees to the World Peace Gatherings “Meet & Greet” on Sunday mornings. www.Xetava.com, www.Twentyfivemain.com

The 7th Annual World Sound Healing Day is just about a month away-February 14, 2009. As always, the main World Sound Healing Day event will be at noon Eastern Time, though events will be happening throughout the day. We’ll be sending more focused information about this soon. For more immediate information on World Sound Day, please go to this link: World Sound Healing Day.

Last year, we established Temple of Sacred Sound in order to assist in maximizing the enhancement of this power day when people throughout the planet sound an intentionalized “AH” for global peace and harmony.

This year, we’re looking to the Healing Sounds Blog to assist us as well. We’ve always received such extraordinary feedback from you with regard to your participation in World Sound Healing Day. Now’s an opportunity to post this feedback on our new Blog.

I’d like to invite anyone and everyone who is planning to tone along with us on Feb. 14th, and particularly those who may be organizing an event around this day to let us know via the Healing Sounds Blog. Let us know your thoughts, ideas and activities. Share ways to expand this important event and make it even more potent. And let the rest of the world know about it too. Through this kind of activity we can truly create a global sound community-manifesting a celestial choir that rings in harmony and peace throughout the planet.

Thank you so much for your support and for your participation in this important new resource for exchanging ideas.

Blessings of Light & Love through Sound!

Jonathan Goldman

Contact Information

email: blog@healingsounds.com
phone: 303-443-8181
web: http://www.healingsoundsblog.com

S H A R I N G
World Peace Gatherings are about sharing your heart, your struggles, triumphs, your fears, your love. Your very presence is a gift to all of us…thank you for sharing. ~Winter 2009~

DID YOU KNOW?……the idea for World Peace Gardens was born on November 11th, 2007 (11/11/07) and that the organization received its non profit status in “record time” from the US Government in March, 2008? One night over dinner a gentleman who heard about the idea of World Peace Gardens and on the spot, gave $25,000.00 to “get the ball rolling”…our story has begun and you are part of this ongoing, unfolding story of creating world peace because you are here today!

LET’S CELEBRATE!
Sunday Gatherings are an important facet to creating together new levels of community focused on inner peace, oneness and world peace. After all “it takes a village”. Indeed it takes all of us to work, share and celebrate together on a regular basis. So let’s gather at 11AM every Sunday, rain or shine at the Green Valley Spa!

FESTIVALS!
There are two new festivals “in the works”. A spring festival will be The Zion Flute & Drum Festival, Celebrating the Rhythms of Mother Earth, May 15th-17th, 2009. The fall festival is called Peace by Peace, Celebrating Artists Celebrating Peace, to be scheduled sometime in early November.

To volunteer or participate in either of these events or other World Peace Gardens activities please contact us at: Events@WorldPeaceGardens.org Both festivals are fundraising events for World Peace Gardens. For more info, visit www.WorldPeaceGardens.org/festivals.

SOMEDAY…
Let’s create a World Peace Gardens, outdoor sanctuary dedicated to world peace in our area. Through land donations, volunteerism, any kind of support, just “spreading the word” can help create support for change through people creating community around peace, love and oneness. Kyle Kamalu is our donations manager, is now working on a Donations & Volunteer packet which will be on our web site. World Peace Gardens is a 501 (c)(3) organization so all donations are tax deductible. For more information check out our web site at: www.WorldPeaceGardens.org/donations or contact Kyle at (435) 632-4622 or kamalukyle@gmail.com.

GRASS ROOTS…
community is the birthplace of change and world peace. Creating change in our world begins within your own heart and in your own back yard. For example putting together a block party for your neighborhood and calling it a “Peace Block Party”, you could have a “Peace Parade” with “Peace Punch & Cookies”. It’s a great way to build neighbor friendships and cooperation around oneness and peace. Or how about a “World Peace Community Garden”, growing herbs, fruits and veggies or creating a native plant garden to help inform people about the natural world. There are many great ways to “share the love” and bring people together through the healing and nurturing activities of working with the earth. For world peace to really happen, it needs to be an ongoing choice within each of us and through interaction with others around the message of oneness and world peace… one back yard, one neighborhood, one garden at a time.

SPEAKING OF NEIGHBORHOODS…
World Peace Gatherings are “sprouting” in other locations at this time. A Gatherings Packet/Manual is being created to help others start World Peace Gatherings in their area. This packet of information will eventually be on our web site as a PDF file and available for free to anyone, anywhere on the planet through the World Wide Web! A few of the places where people are getting more involved in the process of creating world peace within their communities are Virgin, Utah, Phoenix , AZ, Moab , UT, Truchas, NM and Oslo, Norway.

LET’S COMMUNICATE!
To keep you informed about all our gatherings, events and activities just add your name and information to our email list, we’ll put you in our database and we don’t give/or sell your information. Email us at: Info@WorldPeaceGardens.org.

THANK YOU!
We could thank so many people for helping get World Peace Gatherings “off the ground” but we really want to say a HUGE “thank you!” to Green Valley Spa for generously donating their beautiful facilities for the World Peace Gatherings. Thank you so much Alan & Carole Coombs and Mike Rice for creating such a wonderful place and sharing it with all of us! For more information on Green Valley Spa, check out their amazing web site at: www.GreenValleySpa.com.

BTW: Carole recommends these books:
Walking a Sacred Path by Dr. Lauren Artress and The 8tth Chakra by Jude Currian PHD

And remember World Peace Gardens folks get a 10% discount on all books & merchandise at the Green Valley Bookstore! AND a shout out to Xetava Gardens Café of Ivins/Kayenta for donating your organic coffees for our Meet & Greet at our Sunday Gatherings! www.Xetava.com

World Peace Gardens
Creating Community, Celebrating Peace
Web: www.WorldPeaceGardens.org
Email: Gatherings@WorldPeaceGardens.org

For more information about World Peace Gatherings please contact: Janice Brooks at: (702) 521-2635 or Daniel Pettegrew at: (435) 703-0077
Thank You!

For the first time in southwestern Utah , a group of people focused on world peace, inner peace and oneness will begin gathering on weekly basis in the St. George area.

World Peace Gardens , is a locally inspired, non profit organization focused on creating world peace at the grass roots level. “The focus on world peace must be an ongoing practice and lifestyle, not just a once in a while thing, or when war breaks out. Like preventative medicine, we must become proactively involved in the process of creating world peace, starting within our hearts and where we live.” Says Daniel Pettegrew, the founder of the organization.

Pettegrew along with a growing group of others are now developing the first of weekly, non sectarian Sunday gatherings which will include discussions and speakers from all walks of life, drumming, flute playing and other kinds of music and vocalists, dance, poetry, art and more. The Sunday gatherings will also include a “Meet & Greet” time for getting to know each other and making new friends as well as a World Peace and Visioning Circle for sharing stories and visioning world peace as a group.

World Peace Gatherings which will be held every Sunday, starting on January 11th 2009 at 11AM. Gatherings will be held at Green Valley Spa which is located at 1871 Canyon View Dr., St George, UT 84770 There is no charge for attending World Peace Gatherings.

For more information call (435) 703-0077
www.WorldPeaceGardens.org

The little tomatoes from Daniel's garden... One by one ripening.

Today I took this image of some cherry tomatoes I plucked from a plant growing in my back yard just a few days ago. Imagine vine-ripened, organic tomatoes growing in your yard until December! (In southwestern Utah, near St George). I have found that plucking them off the vine the day before the first hard frost occurs (I watch the weather forecast for night-time temps approaching 30 to 32 degrees). I bring the lil’ green babies into the house and place them in a bowl on the counter. One by one, as they ripen and turn red, I enjoy them often into February, when it’s almost time to start my little desert garden again.

“It is truly amazing how much nature will provide, if we take just a little initiative, learn and open to her bounty. Imagine if we all grew just a few food items in our backyard (herbs, tomatoes, squash, beans, etc.). Sometimes they even grow on their own like the plant that produced these ones in regular ol’ red, sandy dirt, next to a big pot in my backyard. The plants tap into the water from the drip system lines, which use very little water. And this one plant produced more than 150 cherry tomatoes!

Daniel Pettegrew
Founder, Creative Director (and green thumb)
World Peace Gardens

On Tuesday, November 11, World Peace Gardens threw a one-year birthday party! Daniel Pettegrew, Founder and Creative Director invited several friends that have shown great interest and who have been actively involved in the creation of World Peace Gardens.

We all had a great time celebrating with fabulous food, good wine and amazing company at the home of Elise West. Ricardo performed the Native American Flute and his beautiful wife, Josie, led us in a visioning peace circle. In attendance were Daniel Pettegrew, Elise West, Dane Brewer, Gordon Eddington, Pam Fisher and her friends, Patricia, Karen and Lois who were visiting from Salt Lake City. Also attending were Cathy and George Sylvia, Michael and Shannon McBride, Ricardo and Josie Delasantos, Pat Purser and Marianne Manuele. We’re hoping next hear we’ll be hosting our 2nd Year Birthday Party at a World Peace Gardens!

World Peace Gardens, is donating more than 100 desert willow trees (Chilopsis linearis) to residents of southwestern Utah. Desert Willows are also known as Desert Orchids because of their beautiful, pink and purple abundant blooms that look like small orchids.

These trees are popular with hummingbirds and grow easily in the desert heat providing shade and shelter for desert homes and gardens.

World Peace Gardens is going to be just a bit more famous than before. Our first public service announcements will start being featured on D-TV in November. D-TV is a local television station through Dixie State College of Southwestern Utah. D-TV uses airtime to promote non profit organizations and local government information. The public service announcements will feature the World Peace Gardens logo and information about our web site and contact information for those who may be interested in becoming involved. Hollywood here we come!

We are excited to announce we are now recognized by the Federal Government as an official 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization! This is such great news! We received our letter in record time…what normally takes 3-12 months, we received approval in less than two months. We could not be more thrilled and feel World Peace Gardens are really needed on this planet! Check back often for updates on Events and Gatherings. And a huge thank you goes out to all of our current supporters of World Peace Gardens and look forward to many more!

We are now in the process of organizing weekly Sunday afternoon gatherings, which will begin in January 2009. These gatherings will focus on visioning world peace as well as discussing and celebrating world peace through a variety of activities, speakers, artists, musicians and other uplifting forms of support for personal and community transformation.

Most gatherings will be held outdoors to help us connect with the natural world. During inclement weather, gatherings will be indoors at homes and other locations, which will help develop community participation.

A “Gatherings Calendar” will soon be created, listing upcoming gatherings, themes, speakers, locations and times. If you are interested in becoming a part of our gatherings, please feel free to contact us. We’d love to hear from you!