The Harrisonburg International Festival

Fairfield Center is increasing Harrisonburg’s capacity to use Restorative Justice to address crimes and conflict that impact local people and communities.

The Shenandoah Sustainability Summit is scheduled for April 23, 2011, and promises to be a Saturday focused on “Bringing Ingenuity Home” – Valley ingenuity, that is.  Fairfield Center is hosting the Shenandoah Sustainability as an extension of its summit series of the past two years.  

The Fairfield Center seeks community participation in the Harrisonburg Justice Summit on Saturday, November 13, 1-6pm at Eastern Mennonite University’s Campus Center.   Professionals, neighborhood leaders, students, advocates, policy makers, analysts, researchers, organizers, businesses, and institutes are encouraged to register online to attend the summit, which will address issues facing Harrisonburg and Rockingham County related to [...]

Guest post by Harvey Yoder.  Harvey is organizing a Community Forum on Corrections on October 11 from 12-1:30pm at the Massanutten Regional Library. Are there more effective ways to combat crime than by simply locking up offenders for increasingly lengthy prison terms?  According to the official US Crime Statistics, Virginia’s growth in imprisonment rate per [...]

PDF Press Release August 30 Harrisonburg Student Citizen Summit Harrisonburg, VA, (August 12, 2010)-  Fairfield Center’s Harrisonburg Summits series continues with a evening focusing on creating connections between local college students and the community at the Harrisonburg Student-Citizen Summit.  The free event is scheduled from 3:30- 9:00 pm on Tuesday, September 21st, and will convene [...]