Thanks to Jo Poole for sharing an entry from Chuck Fager’s A Friendly Letter from July 21, 2022. (It’s actually excerpts from the New York Times: There’s a Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things by Bryce Covert) “. . . Why is it so much harder — right now, seemingly impossible — for our country to enact new programs that are customary in much of the rest of the world? It’s easy to blame one…
Are you interested in learning bridge? New Garden has been the site for weekly duplicate bridge games on Friday afternoons. Several people have asked about how to learn bridge. Here is an opportunity: “Learn Bridge in a Day”! Greensboro will host the one day training on Saturday, August 27 10-4:00. The local duplicate bridge group is sponsoring this training, the instructor is Patty Tucker, (Bridge Hall of Fame and Master Teacher) . Pre-registration cost is…
Summer Adult Forum Series This Summer we have been using Quakerspeak videos and discussion questions to learn more about Quakerism. All are welcome. Unsurprisingly, we have fallen behind schedule. Maybe we can get caught up next week. Please find the video links we have yet to watch, and those for next week. We will watch the videos together, but Friends may choose to watch them independently as well. • Quaker Spaces https://bit.ly/3oMnJWr • Understanding Quaker…
Results from the Peace and Social Concerns Spring Survey The Peace and Social Concerns committee requested New Gardeners to respond to an on-line survey to help us discern what were the priorities of the Meeting for study, advocacy, coordinated activities and use of our limited resources in awarding small grants to local non-profits. We asked people to rank a series of 14 issues from 1 (highest priority) to 5 (lowest priority) for the Meeting. (We…
The demand for food assistance is so high that over 100 household come each day, five days a week, to receive groceries from the Food Pantry. While the amount of donations have gone up over the last week, much more food is needed to continue meeting the weekly demand. The economy has driven many families to the pantry that have never had to as for food assistance before. Greensboro has always been a generous community…