Summer Solstice Celebration
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
