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Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night at Dave and Buster’s – Greenville
Nov 7 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Dave and Buster's - Greenville

It’s the ultimate trivia mashup: Quiz by Geeks Who Drink, fun & games by Dave & Buster’s. The ultimate trivia party is finally here. Geeks Who Drink and Dave & Buster’s have teamed up to bring you the Dave & Buster’s Trivai Show. It’s a whole new format that combinest he super-social Geeks Who Drink trivia night with all the frenetic game-show action you’d expect from Dave & Buster’s. Get ready for pop culture-centric trivia where winners receive Power Cards. In between rounds, join in on the physical challenge fun for bonus prizes – or just gawk at the people who do. All in all, it’s two hours and it’s free to play. No reservations needed, just show up! Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies)—or come solo. We can always help you join a team!

This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Oct 3, 2023 to Dec 26, 2023 and happens every:
Tuesdays: 7:30pm – 9:30pm EDT

Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Give Back to Homebound Veterans
Nov 8 all-day
online

This Saturday, November 11 is Veterans Day and we want to say thank you to all of our homebound clients who served our country—we thank you for your service.

We are proud to deliver #MoreThanMeals to over 200 veterans.

In honor of Veterans Day this Saturday, consider making a donation that will bring nutrition, connection and independence to homebound veterans in Greenville County.

Mealed It! Giving Tuesday fundraiser
Nov 8 all-day
Meals on Wheels- Greenville

Our Mealed It! Giving Tuesday fundraiser is exactly three weeks away!

We are excited to introduce you to our fierce competitors who will be battling each other, and the clock, on Tuesday, November 28 for the Mealed It! champion title.

Team CFSA | Diana Jahries, with Prisma Health’s Center for Success in Aging and Meals on Wheels of Greenville Board Member, has teamed up with coworker, Angela Hayden, to battle it out in our Mealed It! kitchen.

Team Muncaster | Richard Muncaster, owner of Muncaster Financial Group and Meals on Wheels of Greenville Corporate Route Partner, is bringing his wife Sheri and son Mills to help him take home the Mealed It! trophy.

Team Pressly | Lucy Pressly, Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals member, has teamed up with fellow member, Megan Gasser, to win Mealed It!

Donate-to-vote for your favorite Mealed It! team

Click each team name to view team profiles and vote ($10 per vote) for your favorite team. Voting is open now until the end of Mealed It! which will go live via our Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 28. Good luck teams!

Cakes, and icing, and sprinkles OH MY!

Meals on Wheels of Greenville is headed back to the kitchen for your favorite decorating battle of the season…Mealed It!

Join us in welcoming all new competitors this year and witness the fun – or – mayhem as these three new teams battle it out for the title of Mealed It! Champions. They will battle the clock, and each other, as they attempt to re-create a confection presented by Tayler Profit, owner of Sweets Tayler Made.

Mealed It! will go live on Tuesday, November 28 at 7 p.m. via our Facebook page (live link to come). You’ll be able to watch the live stream and donate-to-vote for the team you think did the best job replicating our professionally decorated confection. Stay tuned afterwards for the winner reveal via our Facebook Live.

Our goal is to raise $50,000! 

Your donations and votes will immediately impact Meals on Wheels of Greenville as we continue our mission of delivering #MoreThanMeals to our homebound clients.

This event is the culmination of our Giving Tuesday efforts. These funds will help purchase Holiday bags for all of our clients. During this Holiday season, it’s more important than ever to show support to those who are isolated and struggle to prepare a warm meals during the cold months.

Thank you for your support.

Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals: CauseBars
Nov 8 all-day
Meals on Wheels- Greenville

Get a jumpstart on your holiday shopping with Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals’ holiday edition CauseBars! Perfect for stocking stuffers, gifts for coworkers, or teacher appreciation baskets. These gourmet chocolate bars come in Milk Chocolate or Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt.

For every CauseBar purchased for $10, a homebound client will receive an emergency meal kit to use in an emergency event. Purchases can be made online, over the phone (864-233-6565), or in-person at our office.

Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza
Nov 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
New Groove Artisan Brewery

Come out to New Groove and enjoy dinner and beer – then test your mental mettle with Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza! General trivia with a Stupid Hard Question.

Weekly Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd – Quarterly Tournaments with Overall Winners and a Booby Prize for the frequent flier non-winner. 🍻

Make your Wednesday plan for Trivia with Fischer at New Groove in Boiling Springs, SC!

Thursday, November 9, 2023
Give Back to Homebound Veterans
Nov 9 all-day
online

This Saturday, November 11 is Veterans Day and we want to say thank you to all of our homebound clients who served our country—we thank you for your service.

We are proud to deliver #MoreThanMeals to over 200 veterans.

In honor of Veterans Day this Saturday, consider making a donation that will bring nutrition, connection and independence to homebound veterans in Greenville County.

Mealed It! Giving Tuesday fundraiser
Nov 9 all-day
Meals on Wheels- Greenville

Our Mealed It! Giving Tuesday fundraiser is exactly three weeks away!

We are excited to introduce you to our fierce competitors who will be battling each other, and the clock, on Tuesday, November 28 for the Mealed It! champion title.

Team CFSA | Diana Jahries, with Prisma Health’s Center for Success in Aging and Meals on Wheels of Greenville Board Member, has teamed up with coworker, Angela Hayden, to battle it out in our Mealed It! kitchen.

Team Muncaster | Richard Muncaster, owner of Muncaster Financial Group and Meals on Wheels of Greenville Corporate Route Partner, is bringing his wife Sheri and son Mills to help him take home the Mealed It! trophy.

Team Pressly | Lucy Pressly, Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals member, has teamed up with fellow member, Megan Gasser, to win Mealed It!

Donate-to-vote for your favorite Mealed It! team

Click each team name to view team profiles and vote ($10 per vote) for your favorite team. Voting is open now until the end of Mealed It! which will go live via our Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 28. Good luck teams!

Cakes, and icing, and sprinkles OH MY!

Meals on Wheels of Greenville is headed back to the kitchen for your favorite decorating battle of the season…Mealed It!

Join us in welcoming all new competitors this year and witness the fun – or – mayhem as these three new teams battle it out for the title of Mealed It! Champions. They will battle the clock, and each other, as they attempt to re-create a confection presented by Tayler Profit, owner of Sweets Tayler Made.

Mealed It! will go live on Tuesday, November 28 at 7 p.m. via our Facebook page (live link to come). You’ll be able to watch the live stream and donate-to-vote for the team you think did the best job replicating our professionally decorated confection. Stay tuned afterwards for the winner reveal via our Facebook Live.

Our goal is to raise $50,000! 

Your donations and votes will immediately impact Meals on Wheels of Greenville as we continue our mission of delivering #MoreThanMeals to our homebound clients.

This event is the culmination of our Giving Tuesday efforts. These funds will help purchase Holiday bags for all of our clients. During this Holiday season, it’s more important than ever to show support to those who are isolated and struggle to prepare a warm meals during the cold months.

Thank you for your support.

Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals: CauseBars
Nov 9 all-day
Meals on Wheels- Greenville

Get a jumpstart on your holiday shopping with Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals’ holiday edition CauseBars! Perfect for stocking stuffers, gifts for coworkers, or teacher appreciation baskets. These gourmet chocolate bars come in Milk Chocolate or Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt.

For every CauseBar purchased for $10, a homebound client will receive an emergency meal kit to use in an emergency event. Purchases can be made online, over the phone (864-233-6565), or in-person at our office.

The Wall That Heals
Nov 9 all-day
Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport
WallThatHeals-Winsted-MN-58 copy

The Wall That Heals, is a mobile replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. The traveling exhibit honors the more than three million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces in the Vietnam War, and it bears the names of the 58,281 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam. The Wall That Heals is a program of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, founders of The Wall.

It will visit 31 communities across the U.S. during 2023, and we are pleased that The Wall That Heals will be coming to Spartanburg County.  We are excited that the exhibit will be here on Veterans Day, as more than 100 communities sought the opportunity to host The Wall That Heals, and we are the only South Carolina community it will visit on the 2023 tour. The Spartanburg County Veterans’ Affairs Office will host it, and we are excited to be leading Spartanburg’s The Wall That Heals Committee.

Please mark these dates on your calendar as all are invited to visit The Wall That Heals. Visit the other links for more information on the In Memory Program, escort, events and how you can support The Wall That Heals visit and to volunteer.

The WalL

The Wall That Heals exhibit features a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The replica is 375 feet in length and stands 7.5 feet high at its tallest point. Like the original Memorial, The Wall That Heals is erected in a chevron shape, and visitors can do name rubbings of individual service members’ names on The Wall. The replica is constructed of Avonite, and machine engraving of more than 58,000 names along with modern LED lighting provides readability of The Wall both day and night.

Mobile Education Center and Information Tent

The 53-foot trailer that carries The Wall That Heals transforms into a mobile Education Center. Providing insight into the history of The Wall and Vietnam war.

Displays include:  

  • Hometown Heroes – Digital rotating display of photos of service members on The Wall who list their home of record from the local area.
  • In Memory Honor Roll – Digital display of photos of Vietnam veterans from South Carolina who were added to VVMF’s In Memory program which honors veterans who returned home and later died of Vietnam-related causes.
  • Videos and timeline on the history of The Wall.
  • A display representing the types of items left at The Wall in Washington, D.C.
  • A replica of the In Memory plaque that honors those veterans who returned home from Vietnam and later died.
The Wall That Heals
Nov 9 all-day
Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport

The Wall That Heals, a mobile replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, will be in Spartanburg Nov. 9-12 at the Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Auditorium. The exhibit displays the names of the 58,281 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam. The Wall That Heals is open 24 hours a day, except after 2 PM Sunday, and parking and admission are free.

The Open Book Project Charity Golf Tournament
Nov 9 @ 12:00 pm
Smithfields Country Club

The Open Book Project will host a Charity Golf Tournament on Thursday, November 9, 2023 at Smithfields Country Club in Easley, SC. Registration and Brunch begin at 10:00 am with Shotgun start at Noon. Fees will include Brunch, 18 holes of golf, Awards Dinner and Live Music. Proceeds will be used to fund literacy programs in the Upstate of South Carolina.

Hub City Writers Project Gala with John T. Edge
Nov 9 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
TBA

Join Hub City Writers Project for an evening with John T. Edge, author, TV host, and historian. Hosted by Dorothy Chapman Josey.

Join Hub City Writers Project for an evening with John T. Edge, author, historian, host of TRUE SOUTH, and Founding Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance. Light refreshments will be provided. All proceeds will benefit the Hub City Writers Project. Hosted by Dorothy Chapman Josey.

John T. Edge has written or edited more than a dozen books, served as culinary curator for the weekend edition of NPR’s All Things Considered, and has been featured on dozens of television shows from CBS Sunday Morning to Iron Chef. He is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun and has served as a columnist for the New York Times and the Oxford American. His magazine and newspaper work has been featured in eleven editions of the Best Food Writing compilation. He has won four James Beard Foundation awards including Beard’s M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award in 2012 and 2020.

Edge holds an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. And an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College.

His 2017 book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Publisher‘s Weekly, and a host of others. Since 2018, he has hosted the television show TrueSouth, which airs on the SEC Network, ESPN, and is available on Hulu.

At the University of Mississippi, he directs the Mississippi Lab, serves as Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, and serves the Southern Foodways Alliance as Founding Director. Edge is a distinguished visiting professor in the MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program at the Grady College of the University of Georgia. Edge lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, Blair Hobbs, a teacher, writer, and painter.

Friday, November 10, 2023
Give Back to Homebound Veterans
Nov 10 all-day
online

This Saturday, November 11 is Veterans Day and we want to say thank you to all of our homebound clients who served our country—we thank you for your service.

We are proud to deliver #MoreThanMeals to over 200 veterans.

In honor of Veterans Day this Saturday, consider making a donation that will bring nutrition, connection and independence to homebound veterans in Greenville County.

Mealed It! Giving Tuesday fundraiser
Nov 10 all-day
Meals on Wheels- Greenville

Our Mealed It! Giving Tuesday fundraiser is exactly three weeks away!

We are excited to introduce you to our fierce competitors who will be battling each other, and the clock, on Tuesday, November 28 for the Mealed It! champion title.

Team CFSA | Diana Jahries, with Prisma Health’s Center for Success in Aging and Meals on Wheels of Greenville Board Member, has teamed up with coworker, Angela Hayden, to battle it out in our Mealed It! kitchen.

Team Muncaster | Richard Muncaster, owner of Muncaster Financial Group and Meals on Wheels of Greenville Corporate Route Partner, is bringing his wife Sheri and son Mills to help him take home the Mealed It! trophy.

Team Pressly | Lucy Pressly, Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals member, has teamed up with fellow member, Megan Gasser, to win Mealed It!

Donate-to-vote for your favorite Mealed It! team

Click each team name to view team profiles and vote ($10 per vote) for your favorite team. Voting is open now until the end of Mealed It! which will go live via our Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 28. Good luck teams!

Cakes, and icing, and sprinkles OH MY!

Meals on Wheels of Greenville is headed back to the kitchen for your favorite decorating battle of the season…Mealed It!

Join us in welcoming all new competitors this year and witness the fun – or – mayhem as these three new teams battle it out for the title of Mealed It! Champions. They will battle the clock, and each other, as they attempt to re-create a confection presented by Tayler Profit, owner of Sweets Tayler Made.

Mealed It! will go live on Tuesday, November 28 at 7 p.m. via our Facebook page (live link to come). You’ll be able to watch the live stream and donate-to-vote for the team you think did the best job replicating our professionally decorated confection. Stay tuned afterwards for the winner reveal via our Facebook Live.

Our goal is to raise $50,000! 

Your donations and votes will immediately impact Meals on Wheels of Greenville as we continue our mission of delivering #MoreThanMeals to our homebound clients.

This event is the culmination of our Giving Tuesday efforts. These funds will help purchase Holiday bags for all of our clients. During this Holiday season, it’s more important than ever to show support to those who are isolated and struggle to prepare a warm meals during the cold months.

Thank you for your support.

Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals: CauseBars
Nov 10 all-day
Meals on Wheels- Greenville

Get a jumpstart on your holiday shopping with Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals’ holiday edition CauseBars! Perfect for stocking stuffers, gifts for coworkers, or teacher appreciation baskets. These gourmet chocolate bars come in Milk Chocolate or Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt.

For every CauseBar purchased for $10, a homebound client will receive an emergency meal kit to use in an emergency event. Purchases can be made online, over the phone (864-233-6565), or in-person at our office.

The Wall That Heals
Nov 10 all-day
Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport
WallThatHeals-Winsted-MN-58 copy

The Wall That Heals, is a mobile replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. The traveling exhibit honors the more than three million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces in the Vietnam War, and it bears the names of the 58,281 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam. The Wall That Heals is a program of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, founders of The Wall.

It will visit 31 communities across the U.S. during 2023, and we are pleased that The Wall That Heals will be coming to Spartanburg County.  We are excited that the exhibit will be here on Veterans Day, as more than 100 communities sought the opportunity to host The Wall That Heals, and we are the only South Carolina community it will visit on the 2023 tour. The Spartanburg County Veterans’ Affairs Office will host it, and we are excited to be leading Spartanburg’s The Wall That Heals Committee.

Please mark these dates on your calendar as all are invited to visit The Wall That Heals. Visit the other links for more information on the In Memory Program, escort, events and how you can support The Wall That Heals visit and to volunteer.

The WalL

The Wall That Heals exhibit features a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The replica is 375 feet in length and stands 7.5 feet high at its tallest point. Like the original Memorial, The Wall That Heals is erected in a chevron shape, and visitors can do name rubbings of individual service members’ names on The Wall. The replica is constructed of Avonite, and machine engraving of more than 58,000 names along with modern LED lighting provides readability of The Wall both day and night.

Mobile Education Center and Information Tent

The 53-foot trailer that carries The Wall That Heals transforms into a mobile Education Center. Providing insight into the history of The Wall and Vietnam war.

Displays include:  

  • Hometown Heroes – Digital rotating display of photos of service members on The Wall who list their home of record from the local area.
  • In Memory Honor Roll – Digital display of photos of Vietnam veterans from South Carolina who were added to VVMF’s In Memory program which honors veterans who returned home and later died of Vietnam-related causes.
  • Videos and timeline on the history of The Wall.
  • A display representing the types of items left at The Wall in Washington, D.C.
  • A replica of the In Memory plaque that honors those veterans who returned home from Vietnam and later died.
The Wall That Heals
Nov 10 all-day
Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport

The Wall That Heals, a mobile replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, will be in Spartanburg Nov. 9-12 at the Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Auditorium. The exhibit displays the names of the 58,281 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam. The Wall That Heals is open 24 hours a day, except after 2 PM Sunday, and parking and admission are free.

Saturday, November 11, 2023
Give Back to Homebound Veterans
Nov 11 all-day
online

This Saturday, November 11 is Veterans Day and we want to say thank you to all of our homebound clients who served our country—we thank you for your service.

We are proud to deliver #MoreThanMeals to over 200 veterans.

In honor of Veterans Day this Saturday, consider making a donation that will bring nutrition, connection and independence to homebound veterans in Greenville County.

Mealed It! Giving Tuesday fundraiser
Nov 11 all-day
Meals on Wheels- Greenville

Our Mealed It! Giving Tuesday fundraiser is exactly three weeks away!

We are excited to introduce you to our fierce competitors who will be battling each other, and the clock, on Tuesday, November 28 for the Mealed It! champion title.

Team CFSA | Diana Jahries, with Prisma Health’s Center for Success in Aging and Meals on Wheels of Greenville Board Member, has teamed up with coworker, Angela Hayden, to battle it out in our Mealed It! kitchen.

Team Muncaster | Richard Muncaster, owner of Muncaster Financial Group and Meals on Wheels of Greenville Corporate Route Partner, is bringing his wife Sheri and son Mills to help him take home the Mealed It! trophy.

Team Pressly | Lucy Pressly, Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals member, has teamed up with fellow member, Megan Gasser, to win Mealed It!

Donate-to-vote for your favorite Mealed It! team

Click each team name to view team profiles and vote ($10 per vote) for your favorite team. Voting is open now until the end of Mealed It! which will go live via our Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 28. Good luck teams!

Cakes, and icing, and sprinkles OH MY!

Meals on Wheels of Greenville is headed back to the kitchen for your favorite decorating battle of the season…Mealed It!

Join us in welcoming all new competitors this year and witness the fun – or – mayhem as these three new teams battle it out for the title of Mealed It! Champions. They will battle the clock, and each other, as they attempt to re-create a confection presented by Tayler Profit, owner of Sweets Tayler Made.

Mealed It! will go live on Tuesday, November 28 at 7 p.m. via our Facebook page (live link to come). You’ll be able to watch the live stream and donate-to-vote for the team you think did the best job replicating our professionally decorated confection. Stay tuned afterwards for the winner reveal via our Facebook Live.

Our goal is to raise $50,000! 

Your donations and votes will immediately impact Meals on Wheels of Greenville as we continue our mission of delivering #MoreThanMeals to our homebound clients.

This event is the culmination of our Giving Tuesday efforts. These funds will help purchase Holiday bags for all of our clients. During this Holiday season, it’s more important than ever to show support to those who are isolated and struggle to prepare a warm meals during the cold months.

Thank you for your support.

Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals: CauseBars
Nov 11 all-day
Meals on Wheels- Greenville

Get a jumpstart on your holiday shopping with Meals on Wheels of Greenville Young Professionals’ holiday edition CauseBars! Perfect for stocking stuffers, gifts for coworkers, or teacher appreciation baskets. These gourmet chocolate bars come in Milk Chocolate or Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt.

For every CauseBar purchased for $10, a homebound client will receive an emergency meal kit to use in an emergency event. Purchases can be made online, over the phone (864-233-6565), or in-person at our office.