AMERICAN  ASSOCIATION  OF  UNIVERSITY  WOMEN FREMONT,  CA

Back to Welcome Page Locate your pointer in the middle of the picture.   Click to enlarge it. Use the web page back button to return the picture to its normal size. Fremont Mayor Promotes One Book, One Community.   Mayor Wasserman and AAUW Members at Fremont's 2009 One Book, One Community Reading Program Kickoff.       “Now, therefore, I, Bob Wasserman, Mayor of the City of Fremont, do hereby promote the One Book, One Community Reading Program and the reading of this excellent book to all Fremont residents.”       This is how, at the November 10th Fremont Council Meeting, Mayor Wasserman ended the proclamation that recommended and placed into the city’s record the universal reading throughout Fremont of Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, the reading project led by AAUW Fremont Branch.       The proclamation outlines the rationale for choosing the book:  partly because “the author supports sustainable farming and the small farm community and the locavore philosophy” and partly because of the author’s “passionate celebration of local foods, and her challenges to the reader to implement food habits that are healthy for the body.”       Seven Fremont Branch AAUW members were present at the meeting with their nametags on and the book in hand.       Mayor Wasserman welcomed the AAUW members and mentioned that this was the second book in the city’s One Book, One Community Reading Program.  He read the proclamation into the record and asked what the word “locavore” meant.   The Lead Chairperson for the project, Margery Leonard, was happy to explain this new word to the Mayor and told him a locavore is an individual who chooses to eat foods that are grown close to home.       Genevieve Angelides, co-chair of AAUW”s One Book, One Community project, invited the Mayor to have his picture taken with the Fremont Branch members.  He did so graciously and stressed the importance of the project and the benefit to the community of shopping and eating foods produced locally.       Genevieve reported that one of the council members, Bob Wackowski, offered to lead one of AAUW’s discussion sessions. Back to Welcome Page