{"id":18019,"date":"2017-11-14T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T18:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=18019"},"modified":"2017-11-14T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T18:52:17","slug":"2017-uusj-social-justice-awards-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/2017-uusj-social-justice-awards-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 UUSJ Social Justice Awards Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/50780\/images\/UUSJ%20SJA%20Celebration%20001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/50780\/images\/UUSJ%20SJA%20Celebration%20002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/50780\/images\/UUSJ%20SJA%20Celebration%20003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/50780\/images\/UUSJ%20SJA%20Celebration%20004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/50780\/images\/UUSJ%20SJA%20Celebration%20006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/50780\/images\/UUSJ%20SJA%20Celebration%20005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Members and friends of the UU community gathered on November 29 at Cedar Lane UU Church for UUSJ\u2019s bi-annual awards celebration. The event brought together UUs recognizing the outstanding projects and activities at seven different congregations. Since its first Awards Gala in 2007, UUSJ has honored individuals and congregations who are working to build a better world through social justice activities that support UU values. This year\u2019s awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>Collaboration Award<\/b>\u00a0presented to\u00a0<b>Accotink Social Justice Committee<\/b>, Accotink UU Church<\/li>\n<li>The Congregational Social Justice Program Award presented to Diana Herriman, Mount Vernon Unitarian Church<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>Emerging Leader Award<\/b>\u00a0presented to\u00a0<b>Heather Wiemer<\/b>, UU Congregation of Fairfax<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>Environment\/Climate Justice Award<\/b>\u00a0presented to the\u00a0<b>Environmental Justice Project of the Peace and Justice Ministry<\/b>, First Unitarian Church of Baltimore<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>Innovative Social Justice Programming Award<\/b>presented to the\u00a0<b>All Souls Reeb Project for Voting Rights<\/b>, All Souls Church, Unitarian<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/b>\u00a0presented to\u00a0<b>Ken Shilling<\/b>, Goodloe Memorial UU Congregation<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>Minister Award<\/b>\u00a0presented to\u00a0<b>Rev. Dr. Linda Olson Peebles<\/b>, Interim Minister of Accotink UU Church<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>Special Recognition Award (Advocacy)<\/b>presented to\u00a0<b>Lavona Grow<\/b>, UU Church of Arlington<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uusj\/albums\/\">Photos from the event will be posted on UUSJ&#8217;s Flickr account as they&#8217;re available.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members and friends of the UU community gathered on November 29 at Cedar Lane UU Church for UUSJ\u2019s bi-annual awards celebration. The event brought together UUs recognizing the outstanding projects and activities at seven different congregations. Since its first Awards Gala in 2007, UUSJ has honored individuals and congregations who are working to build a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/2017-uusj-social-justice-awards-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2017 UUSJ Social Justice Awards Celebration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,3,17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-news","category-news","category-unitarian-universalism","category-uusj-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18024,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions\/18024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}