Blog Events Join Us Grants & Programs Latest Posts2019 Annual Members Only Meeting & SocialOctober 16, 2019This is a members only event from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, followed by social, fellowship time with refreshments until 7:30 PM. Come hear a summary of FRWRC activities and efforts in 2019, vote for new Board Members and and discuss future plans for 2020! Join us for for both Meeting & Social, or feel free to attend either. We hope you will join us! RSVP - not necessary; however, it will help us plan for refreshments. Email - wrc@frwrc.org or call the office 540-636-7007... Read more...Thank YouOctober 16, 2019The 2019 Yard Sale was very successful, and due to good weather, dedicated volunteers, and a large amount of donations, we raised $1,450. Thanks to everyone who donated items, tables and time. Once again Weichert Realtors provided us with a wonderful venue and were very supportive by allowing us to store donations in their offices and using their parking lot for the sale. Unsold items were donated to Goodwill, Blue Ridge Hospice, Blue Ridge Housing agency, and Samuels Library. Special thanks for help at the end of the sale to the Bement family, Debbie and Joe Romero, Jen Avery, and Pam and David Price.... Read more...October 23 – Women In Networking (WIN)October 16, 2019Free Event Please join us and other women looking to be inspired! “More than just another networking group”. FRWRC WIN is open to all the women in our community. It was founded on the concept of women lifting each other up, through meaningful connections, opportunities to learn from one another and shared interests. We hope you will join us. Bring your lunch and business cards to share and a door prize if you like. Guest Speaker: To Be Announced Wednesday, October 23 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM 213 E Main Street (Open House-Meet in the Middle) Thank You What Matters W2, Beth Medved Waller for being a FRWRC Gold Business Partner & for sponsoring this event: Beth supplies this great meeting space ❤️ In late March 2016, we opened a new space on Main Street in the Middle of Main building. It is called Team Waller’s Open House: Meet in the Middle” and will serve as a resource to our community. We will offer a wealth of real estate and community information, as well as cutting edge technology to learn more about listings, the buying process, and our local community attractions and resources. This space is for the entire community. We will open our doors to community groups to educate the public about the causes that are close to their hearts and also offer our space as a meeting venue to anyone in need of a local location. Helping our community grow and serve as a resource to our neighbors is "What Matters” to us. ______________________________________________________ About The Front Royal Women’s Resource Center- a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996 to provide a support network for women in Warren County. Through monthly networking meetings, yearly grant presentations, special events, email connections and program activities, we have forged a link between women in our community. https://frwrc.org/... Read more...2019 October Book CommentaryOctober 15, 2019Donated Book – Now available at Samuels Public Library Front Royal Women's Resource Center and Royal Oak Bookshop co-sponsor donations to Samuels Public Library that are by or about women. Nan Hathaway, Book Donation Sponsor & Coordinator, chooses our books each year. Thank you Nan! We highlight one of these books every third week each month. Our 2019 Book Reviews and Commentaries are provided by JoEllen McNeal. Thank you JoEllen! Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing up Bernstein By Jamie Bernstein Commentary “You think you had a complicated father? In this wry and clear-eyed, ardent, and altogether terrific memoir, Jamie Bernstein lets us in on what it’s like to have a childhood as fraught as it was charmed. Plus, great gossip!” -Patty Marx The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television star, humanitarian, friend of the powerful and influential, and the life of every party, Leonard Bernstein was an enormous celebrity during one of the headiest periods of American cultural life, as well as the most protean musician in twentieth-century America. But to his eldest daughter, Jamie, he was above all the man in the scratchy brown bathrobe who smelled of cigarettes; the jokester and compulsive teacher who enthused about Beethoven and the Beatles; the insomniac whose composing breaks at four a.m. involved spooning baby food out of the jar. He taught his daughter to love the world in all its beauty and complexity. In public and in private, Lenny was larger than life. In Famous Father Girl, Bernstein mines the emotional depths of her childhood and invites us into her family’s private world. A fantastic set of characters populates the Bernsteins’ lives, including the Kennedys, Mike Nichols, John Lennon, Richard Avedon, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, and Betty (Lauren) Bacall. An intoxicating tale, Famous Father Girl is an intimate meditation on a complex and sometimes troubled man, the family he raised, and the music he composed that became the soundtrack to their entwined lives. Deeply moving and often hilarious, Bernstein’s beautifully written memoir is a great American story about one of the greatest Americans of the modern age. Jamie Bernstein is a writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker. She travels the world as a concert narrator and her documentary, Crescendo: The Power of Music, is now available on Netflix. She lives in New York City.... Read more...
