Hi, All.
How are you?
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TOPICS:
1. Upcoming Meeting
2. We need to talk…
3. A few topics
1. Upcoming Meeting
The next meeting is scheduled for Monday at 7PM in the Rappahannock Room on April 17.
2. We need to talk…
We are a small group and I enjoy our conversations. That said, we’ll have to decide if we want to go forward with our application to Charter. Let’s talk about it Monday night.
3. A few topics
We talked about a few of our favorite local rides and sights and I’m including them below.
Scenic Drives and Sights:
For cherry blossoms, go to Tenley Ave. in Kenwood, MD. Streets are lined with the trees and there isn’t as much traffic as in DC.
Burnside Farms Tulip Festival April 4th until April 26th (end date estimated)
BURNSIDE FARMS, 11008 KETTLE RUN RD., NOKESVILLE, VA 20181 Included in admission: play area for children, 5 free stems/flowers per person, purchase bulbs and stems. Buy tickets in advance on their site.
https://www.burnsidefarms.com/spring
The National Audiovisual Conservation Center, also known as the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, is the Library of Congress's audiovisual archive located inside Mount Pony in Culpeper, Virginia.
https://www.loc.gov/programs/audio-visual-conservation/about-this-program/packard-campus/
Old House Vineyards, 18351 Corkys Ln, Culpeper, VA
Barrel Oak Winery 3623 Grove Lane, Delaplane, VA
Government Island, Aquia - granite was mined for the Capitol Building. See https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/blog/cornerstone-american-history.
Website:
The American Library Association has a website devoted to banned books. https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks
Videos:
How Ikea was invented - a YouTube parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSR-jtuVU1c
Streaming TV:
- AppleTV: Ted Lasso
- PBS (free to stream if you’re a donor): Call the Midwife (also on Amazon Prime)
- National Geographic show about animals and their gestation periods
If you visited, read or watched any of the above, it’ll be interesting to hear what you think of them.
Please bring a list of any of the following:
- favorite websites
- your subscription magazines - how did you choose and what’s important to you about them?
- names of a few books you’ve recently read
- summary of recent articles of interest
- topics on your mind
We’ll use the list to determine topics.
I hope to see you Monday night.
Cheers,
Marcia
Marcia Stein, SHRM-CP PHR
C 408-203-9112