The Lake of the Woods Democratic Club will meet at 1 p.m., Wednesday, November 10 in Classroom A of the LOW Community Center.
During the meeting, members will consider new officers for 2022 and plans for the annual holiday luncheon. There will also be discussion of the experiences of club members who were involved in the recent General Election campaigns.
Come and help us celebrate the passage of the infrastructure bill in Congress.
The Lake of the Woods Democratic Club will conduct a food drive for the Lions Wilderness Food Pantry from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, November 6.
Donations of non-perishable food items will be collected across Lakeview Parkway from the security guardhouse at the front entrance of LOW.
The food pantry is preparing to provide Thanksgiving dinners to 70 needy families in Orange County.
In addition to donating food items, community members are encouraged to write checks made out to the Wilderness Food Pantry. These funds will be used to purchase food for these holiday dinners.
The Food Pantry is operated by the LOW Lions Club and the LOW Lioness Lions Club. The pantry building is located on Route 20 in Locust Grove behind and to the right of the Locust Grove Town Center mall.
Annette Hyde, Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates from the 30th District, is scheduled to appear at the Oct. 13 meeting of the Lake of the Woods Democratic Club.
In addition, Jackson Miller, regional organizing director for the Virginia Turnout Coordinated Campaign, will provide an update on the statewide races and what we can do between now and Election Day to help the Terry McAuliffe / Haya Ayala / Mark Herring ticket win.
The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. with a time for meeting and greeting and the program will commence at 1:30 in Classroom 2 at the LOW Community Center.
Invite your Democratic, Republican and Independent friends in meet the candidate and pose your questions. Everyone is welcome.
As we come to the end of another successful year, it is time again to elect new officers for the Lake of the Woods Democratic Club.
We’ll select a chair, a vice chair, a treasurer and various committee and project chairs at the December meeting of the club.
Our club is only as strong as its members are prepared to make it. Give some thought to putting your name forward. You can help make 2022 our best year yet.
To volunteer or ask questions, call Gerri Colucci, chair of the Nominating Committee at 540-972-1731.
“Combating Food Insecurity in Central Virginia” will be the subject of the September 8 meeting of the Lake of the Woods Democratic Club.
Dan Maher, president and chief executive officer of the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank, and Nicki Buell, director of the Lions Wilderness Food Pantry in Locust Grove, will speak about the role of their organizations in addressing the needs of our food insecure neighbors. They will also discuss the impact of COVID-19 on their programs and offer suggestions for ways citizens can help.
The meeting will begin with a meet-and-greet session at 1 p.m. in Classroom 2 of the Lake of the Woods Community Center at Sweetbriar Park. The program will begin at 1:30 p.m.
Maher, who grew up in Hampton, Virginia, attended The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, where he earned a B.B.A. degree in business management. He continued his education at St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, obtaining a master of divinity degree.
Subsequently, he spent almost 15 years in a variety of roles in ministerial and religious settings in northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., before returning to Virginia to work three years as director of education at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News. His non-profit organization career path then led him to the Beaumont, Texas, area, where he served as vice president for development and communications with Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas for four years, followed by nearly eight years as chief executive officer of the Southeast Texas Food Bank within the Feeding America network.
Maher’s recent move within the Feeding America network has returned him to Virginia. He began serving the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank in January of this year.
Buell has has been an active volunteer with the Lions Wilderness Food Pantry since 2017. For the past four years she has been responsible for setting up the “link to feed” program as well as preparing and submitting all monthly federal reports.