November 2024

Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1:00 pm. Lunch Bunch, Olive Garden, 204 High Point Drive, Victor
(across from Eastview Mall). RSVP by Nov. 4 to Eileen Hartmann via email or by calling (585)704-4876.

Wednesday, Nov. 11, – 3:30 pm. Great Decisions – via Zoom. Jean Keplinger will lead our discussion of Reading #8, Pandemic Preparedness: ending the deadly cycle of panic and neglect. Looking back at the Covid-19 pandemic, there are many lessons to take away in terms of domestic and international policies. Although this pandemic seems to have waned, how can we apply these lessons to future pandemics? Will countries cooperate, and will a consensus emerge on how to manage global health challenges? Watch for the Zoom invitation from Marilyn Monkelbaan.

Wednesday,  Nov. 20, 10:00 am – Branch Program, Perinton Community Center, Rm 209. .Join us to learn how Lifespan of Greater Rochester can assist us in recognizing financial exploitation.  Lifespan has a Scams and Fraud Team dedicated to programs that teach us how to recognize those traps that are part of everyday online activity and/or person-to-person interactions. The program will be presented by Dan Lyons, Lifespan’s Fraud and Scams
Program Manager. The program is free of charge and open to the public.

Monday,  Nov. 25, 7:30  pm – Book Group – via Zoom. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins Valdez is based on a true event from 1973 and tells the story of Alabama nurse Civil Townsend, fresh out of Tuskegee Institute, working at a public health clinic offering gynecological services to poor Black women and girls. When Civil becomes aware that the birth control drug she is sent to inject into two sisters under 14 years of age is not yet FDA approved and is causing dangerous side effects, she elects to skip some doses, and takes the sisters under her wing. When her supervisor discovers the drug omission, the supervisor arranges for both girls to be surgically sterilized.” Civil’s involvement with these two girls changes the course of her own life dramatically. As Civil prepares to retire at the end of her health care career, she is compelled to take steps to ensure this type of harm is not repeated in the future. All who are interested in the book or topic are welcome to participate in the Zoom discussion. Please join us!