Please join us for our next highway cleanup events. Our community appreciates your effort to make our roadsides look clean and beautiful! Friday, Sept 13 at 10am Please meet at the Middleton Park and Ride off Hwy 12 exit 249. Contact Stephanie Vanden Bush at sljacobs2@gmail.com or (920) 676-1441 with questions and/or your RSVP. ...

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Book Club

September 16 - in person,  at Maureen Kinds.   Contact Marjie Marion to be added to the list and obtain the time.    Forty Autumns: a family’s story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner  (2016 - 391 pp)  15 copies in the library 

Second Harvest

Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin 2802 Dairy Drive, Madison, United States

To volunteer for September 25  please contact Judy Thorpe (jthorpe12@charter.net or 608-772-5438) by September 23.  

Board Meeting

Zoom - within your own home! Madison, WI, United States

Monthly board meeting was rescheduled due to the Ghana outbound and Board conflicts in early September.  This will be the September/October board Meeting

North American Conference in Milwaukee

A super regional conference with Canada and the Midwest will be held in Milwaukee.   All are welcome to attend.  Watch newsletter for details

Holiday Party

Vintage Brewing Company West 674 S Whitney Way, United States

Holiday Party Saturday, January 4, 2025 12 noon - 3 pm Vintage Brewing Company West 674 S. Whitney Way Madison, WI

Book Club – In Person

We have one book selected for our meeting on Monday, October 21. It is This is Happiness by Irish author Niall Williams and it appeared on the FF International book list. Margaret Renkl of The New York Times calls it “a book so beautiful and so funny and so true that it will make you ...

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Second Harvest

Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin 2802 Dairy Drive, Madison, United States

You may join FF friends and other volunteers the last Wednesday of the month from 12:30-3:30. The staff is friendly and caring and will instruct you as to your “job” for that day. You’ll be able to take a break during that 3 hour shift to have some goodies and chat with friends.  Sign up ...

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Chengdu, China, Presented by Lin via Zoom

Zoom - within your own home! Madison, WI, United States

Many of you have savored spicy specialties from the Chinese province of Sichuan (old spelling Szechwan) at local restaurants. Ready for another “taste” of southwestern China?  In less than a week, Lin, a senior at UW-M majoring in philosophy and political science, will highlight her home city of Chengdu at 5:30 pm via zoom. The ...

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Dining on the 6th

Norski Nook 100 East Holum Street, DeForest

Our November gathering will be for lunch at noon at the famous Norwegian Norski Nook Restaurant and Bakery in DeForest. Please register by Monday, November 4, with host Gail Holmes, phone 608 249-1846 or email glholmes@wisc.edu.Looking forward to a beautiful fall day for our enjoyment. As always, please plan to wear your name tag.