Blog Events Join Us Grants & Programs Latest Posts2019 June Book CommentaryJune 11, 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! Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America By Eliza Griswold Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking industry comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors’ mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children’s illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what’s really in the water and air. Against local opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their case in court and begin to expose the damage that’s being done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for redressing their ills. The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values – and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice. This deeply researched and beautifully told story exposes the terrible human costs of fracking but it’s also about so much more. It’s about community and our country and what holds it together and tears it apart. It’s about our nation’s fractured struggle to balance a need for energy with a compelling call for a clean planet. Eliza Griswold is the author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, which won the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. Her translations of Afghan women’s folk poems, I Am the Beggar of the World, was awarded the 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has held fellowships from the New American Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Harvard University, and in 2010 the American Academy in Rome awarded her the Rome Prize for her poems. Currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University, she lives in New York with her husband and son.... Read more...2019 Dare to Dream GranteesJune 1, 20192019 Dare to Dream Grantees The Front Royal Women’s Resource Center (FRWRC) announced its 2019 Dare to Dream grant recipients and Elaine Bromfield Memorial Scholarship recipient at an annual breakfast celebration at the Shenandoah Valley Golf Club. The FRWRC awarded a total of $7,500 in grant and scholarship money to nine local women, all with goals and dreams to better their lives, the lives of their families and the lives of other women in the community. View Press Release here - 2019 D2D Press Release Photography courtesy of Franzi Lee Photography (From right to left….Michelle Hamer, Brittany Welch, Rhiannon Linfeld, Kate Fristoe, Renee McDaniel Flowers, Megan Grove, Dian DiPasquale, Kimmee Hancock) Nikki Grove Megan Nicole “Nikki” Grove Nikki is a single mother to a 7-year-old daughter. She has been a Med Tech for 18 years. She currently works at an assisted living center in Bentonville where she works 48+ hours a week. Nikki is passionate about her work caring for the elderly and wishes to advance her skills in the field. She also dreams of instilling the values of love and compassion to her young daughter. Nikki is currently in the R.N. program at LFCC although she struggles to pay for classes and school supplies. Nikki was awarded a $1000 Dare to Dream grant to support her college costs. Katie Fristoe Katie is married with four children. Her family background is in the arts and she has pursued her path as an artist for the last ten years. In 2016 she began to screen print and create apparel of her designs. Her dream is to “share beautiful things with the world through design and illustration”. Kate recently developed her T-shirt business which has quickly taken off on social media. She designed and printed spirit shirts for Ressie Jeffries. The positive reaction to them was overwhelming. Kate was awarded a $750 Dare To Dream Grant to fund start- up costs and supply stock in order to grow her business and keep up with the demand for her beautiful and high-quality creative apparel. Check out her art on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/artbykatefristoe/ Dian Dipasquale Dian and her spouse of 47 years started their business, Front Royal Premier Copiers, in 2014. Their business services all makes and models of copiers. Their tagline is Service, Sales, Solutions and Supplies and provides services to many small businesses in the area. The Front Royal-Warren County Chamber of Commerce awarded Premier Copiers the 2018 Entrepreneurs of the Year award. Dian was awarded a $500 Dare to Dream grant to support Quick Books training which will help grow the vendor side of her business and help her provide better service to her customers. Website: www.frpremiercopiers.com... Read more...June 26 – Women In NetworkingMay 23, 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: Meghan Bowers Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) Wednesday, June 26 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM 213 E Main Street (Open House-Meet in the Middle) Meghan Bowers joined the HSWC in December of 2018. Her passion for animal welfare and rescue began when she adopted her dog Ginger in 2015, and since then, she has dedicated her every thought to helping animals in need. She brings to the Humane Society experience from The Chance Foundation in Catlett, VA, and Friends of Homeless Animals in Aldie, VA. Meghan lives with her Boyfriend Will, dog Ginger, and cat Angel in Amissville. They enjoy hiking and exploring the small towns around our area. _ _ _ _ _ _ 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...WomanGathering – June 20May 23, 2019THIS IS A FREE EVENT Please join us and other women looking to be inspired! WomanGatherings are informational and inspirational evenings intended to nurture the womanspirit in each of us. Guest Speaker: Robin Schroeder Topic: What is a Birth, Death & Bereavement Doula and what do they do? 5:30 PM - 213 E Main Street FB LIVE @ 6 PM with hostess Eka Kapiotis Pregnancy & Infant Loss – What is pregnancy/infant loss; the importance of acknowledging the loss that has been suffered; memory making; grief support; what family and friends can do; support services offered through Zanna’s HOPE Robin is a wife, mother, Navy Veteran, Birth Death & Bereavement Doula, Support Group facilitator, Reiki Level II Practitioner, Girl Scout Volunteer and all around, Jack-of-all-trades. While she is a mother to 3 living and beautiful children, she also is the mother of 6 much loved and desired babies who now watch over her and her family, giving her the passion and encouragement to help support others through pregnancy and infant loss. It is her own experiences with birth and death, not only of her children, but also that of other family members, which has put her on the path to companioning those experiencing not only pregnancy and infant loss, but women/families who are experiencing birth subsequent to a loss, as well as the terminally ill and elderly. It is Robin’s passion to serve the individuals and families she works with in assisting them to know and understand all options available to them, as well as support them in the best ways possible to bring their thoughts, feelings, preparations and wishes to fruition so that they may make the most of such sacred times of life’s bookends of birth and death, the life in between and the bereavement that follows.... Read more...
