Speakers

Josh will present Restoration Now’s mission and will talk about how they do this through their Global Youth Initiative program: professionals partnering with youth in our community.  The mentors: by getting to pour their lives out for someone (give back what they have been given or use what they have accomplished for good). The youth: by learning a skill, being invested in, learning about something larger than themselves, gaining a global perspective and giving back to others through what they have been given. And how the result of the project provides a basic need for an underserved person in Northern Colorado or for a community in a developing country.

Ted Harvey will discuss Initiative 107–The dangerous, devastating and Irreversible idea to introduce the Canadian Gray Wolf into the Colorado ecosystem

Richard will talk about the Philosophy of Mr. Rogers.  He will explain how Mr. rogers addressed three of the traditional philosophical dimensions - the aesthetic, the ethical, and the metaphysical.  The aesthetic was evident in the artistry which  went into producing 'Mr. Rogers Neighborhood." The ethical was shown in his enacting moral  positions amid the racially and war-torn era of his lifetime; the metaphysical found expression in how he enacted unconditional acceptance of persons as they were created to be