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President's update 4/18/20

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 10:36 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

On behalf of the Board, I hope everyone is staying healthy and sane (?). I am personally finding it harder to maintain this social isolation.  I am bored with movies and fed up with zoom calls. But I persist knowing this will pass eventually. As of today, I am unaware of any of our members being sick with Coronavirus or any other issue.  If something happens, please let me know. I have been grocery shopping for some folks in senior living facilities and would be happy to help in other ways. The Caring Committee remains alert and ready to assist.  If you need groceries, a ride to the doctor, or refills of medication please call.  

It looks as if the social restrictions will remain in place at least until June. The Board is meeting on Saturday April 18 (via Zoom) to make arrangements to hold our annual membership meeting and Board elections without meeting face to face. We will share that plan with you as soon as possible,  We now have our own Zoom subscription with unlimited time and participants allowed. If you have ideas for a zoom activity please reach out to Iris Woodard, or Randy Best. We will facilitate anything that helps us stay in touch with each other - story reading, book discussions, movie discussions, social time among friends, etc. 

Here is an interesting article from the Washington Post. If you have a subscription you can read about how humanist groups are participating in Congress’s first caucus for nonreligious belief seeking a larger role in promoting science. https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/04/09/congress-freethought-caucus-science/


Finances:  Our community will continue to have financial commitments even though we are not meeting in person.  We will continue the salary of our paid staff, and have other payments due, though we will suspend our charity contributions until in person meetings resume. Your pledge payments can be sent to  Northern Virginia Ethical Society, P.O. Box 984, Vienna, VA 22183.  Someone will be checking the post office weekly. Please note:  Though you can find your pledge balance on the website, please do NOT use this method for submitting payments.  The Wild Apricot platform does not accept partial payments, so you will be charged your entire balance. 



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