Blog Events Join Us Grants & Programs Latest PostsApril 2019 Book CommentaryApril 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! Climate Justice By Mary Robinson “The most dramatic symptoms of our changing global climate – rising sea levels, extreme weather events, increasing desertification, and water scarcity – disproportionately affect vulnerable communities that are often far removed from the causes of human greenhouse gas emissions….Robinson makes a powerful and compelling case that the climate crisis is a crisis of humanity….” – Richard Branson Climate Justice is an urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change. In this vital book, Robinson shares inspiring stories and offers vital lessons for the path forward. Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would have to share the planet with more than nine billion people – people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal. Mary Robinson’s mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to heartening revelations: than an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. From Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small former who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda, Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change. Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope. Mary Robinson is president of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice. She served in two capacities as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change. She is the former and first female president of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom (presented by President Obama) and the Indira Gandhi and Sydney Peace Prizes.... Read more...April 24 – Women In NetworkingApril 4, 2019THIS IS A FREE 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: Amber Valentine Wednesday, April 24 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM 213 E Main Street (Open House-Meet in the Middle) Amber Valentine is a Master of Direct Sales, Team-Building Expert, and Dream Activator Amber Valentine is a self-made success, going from a small-town girl with a less-than-glamorous beginning to teaching millions how to #LiveOutLoud from the stage. She made her first impact through Direct Sales driving around a Pink Cadillac and helping others transform externally with her make-up artistry. Now, she travels the world with her message of internal transformation through speaking and coaching. Her ultimate goal is to add eternal transformation by helping others LOVE, on the deepest level, who they are and what they can do every day to make the world theirs, and lead others by example. Amber is on a mission to transform the world Externally, Internally, and Eternally with the message that you can do anything today to make tomorrow better than yesterday, and every time you SHINE and live out loud you give everyone around you permission to do the same. Links: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Amber-Valentine-301243127180386/ Business Facebook https://www.facebook.com/scalethelimit/ Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-valentine-410941164/ Website for Scale the Limit www.scalethelimit.com 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. ... Read more...April 18 – WomanGatheringApril 4, 2019This event is postponed... Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed. New Date: October 17th Guest Speaker: Melanie Forde Topic: Reinventing Hillwilla: A Novel 5:30 PM - 213 E Main Street FB LIVE @ 6 PM with hostess Eka Kapiotis Melanie Forde is a veteran ghost-writer, addressing diverse foreign policy topics. Under her own name, she has published numerous features about the natural world, as well as her Appalachian trilogy (culminating in Reinventing Hillwilla) and her Irish family saga, Decanted Truths. She lives in Hillsboro, West Virginia Reinventing Hillwilla: A Novel: Life on a llama farm, set in remote “Seneca County,” West Virginia, transitions from contented to chaotic in this final novel in the Hillwilla trilogy -- all under the watchful eye of canine guardian Ralph. Five years after we first met northern urban transplant Beatrice Desmond, she is finally adapting to her mountain hollow among the wary “born-heres” and is more open to the blessings in her life. She has developed a rewarding mother-daughter relationship with troubled local teenager Clara Buckhalter and is inching toward marriage with dashing, but complicated entrepreneur Tanner Fordyce. Meanwhile, Clara sets off on a productive new path, one that would have been unthinkable had Beatrice never come into her life. All of that progress is suddenly jeopardized by Clara’s scheming mother Charyce. Ultimately, the upheaval touched off by Charyce’s schemes serves as the catalyst for new beginnings for the Seneca County misfits (even Ralph). Check out her book on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K6TQC3R/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2 Website: http://www.melanieforde.net/ Facebook page: https://bit.ly/2WnxhGV Twitter: https://twitter.com/FordeMelanie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melaniefordeauthor/ 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.... Read more...March 20, 2019Our March 21 WomanGathering has been canceled. Robin Schroeder has been rescheduled to June 20th.... Read more...
