The kind folks at The Unity Center of Peace celebrated the summer solstice with the inauguration of their new medicine wheel in a traditional Native American ceremony, a ground breaking for the serenity trail with the stations of peace, a new spiral labyrinth and topped off the evening with a potluck dinner!

Welcome to the Unity Center of Peace

Anne Viscarra, Olivia Coen

Sage bundles are used as smudge sticks in the cleansing ceremony

Debbie Hall, Mark Malachi

Olivia Coen uses a sage bundle to “smudge” her mother Victoria Loveland-Coen

Olivia Coen

Greg Louie, Connie Janik

Gaines Steer leads the ceremony to inaugurate the medicine wheel

Bob Russell and Gaines Steer explained the tradition of the medicine wheel

The medicine wheel contained different markers along it’s route

Donna Denton

Everyone participated in the inauguration of the wheel

It is traditional to leave a white rock behind after walking the medicine wheel

Mary Wiley, Rosemary Hyde

Lorraine Lewis, Phillip Rego

Greg Louie, Vanessa Vendola, Victoria Loveland-Coen

Dave Misbet, Amanda Graham, Marti Sherman

Victoria Loveland-Coen and Pete Bikas show off their fabulous taste in cowboy boots!

Pete Bikas, Anne Viscarra