<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear RJUUAA members,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">This message is to specifically ask if you are interested in attending the:<b style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="text-decoration-line:underline"> National Association of Community and Restorative Justice conference in Chicago next July 6-9, 2022 </b>(</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">pre-conference session 7/6). </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The Conference
theme is:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">  </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(254,254,254)">The Gathering: Real Transformation. The
Time is NOW.  How do we get there TOGETHER</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(254,254,254)">? See link: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(254,254,254)">(<a href="https://nacrj.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=346&Itemid=1677" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://nacrj.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=346&Itemid=1677</a>)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(254,254,254)">We are asking for your input now because we want to get discounted registration fees which:  requires a minimum of </span></font></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">4
people + early bird registration </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">deadline of </span><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">12/1/2021.</b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The registration fee would be $275/person.  If you are interested in attending, PLEASE LET ME KNOW NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 15.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Currently we know that the following people are interested:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">  </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kathy, Carolyn, Mary Ann,
Priscilla, Donna (which means we already meet the 4 person minimum to qualify for the discount).  </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kathy will find out
what kind of deposit is needed to hold our conference reservation </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The NACRJ conference will call for juried sessions.  We may be interested
in offering one.  We will let the group know when NACRJ calls for papers.  Some ideas posed are: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">MA - as a </span>grassroots<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> organization - how we
organized, etc.; Returning citizens RJ project; generating interest in
congregational involvement in restorative justice.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">REMEMBER - </span>PLEASE LET ME KNOW NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 15</b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b> </b>if you are interested in attending the NACRJ Conference in Chicago next July.  Check out the link above for more information on the conference.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Have a great September and we will see you in a couple of weeks!  Take care.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">kathy friedrichs and Carolyn Madden</span></span><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br>Kathy M. Friedrichs<br><br><div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><font size="1"> "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:10pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div>