Events Calendar
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Take a walk with a neighbor in the park. Check-in and out at Greer Relief.
Weather dependent unless otherwise noted.
Remember:
- Please be early. There are no late check-ins.
- The class is for adults only. Children can walk with you in the park if you (or someone) can watch them. They can participate if they wish, but only those 18 and older will earn a RENEW reward.
- Must attend in person and be present for the entirety of each class to earn RENEW Rewards.
- RENEW Rewards: $10
About RENEW: RENEW is an education, enrichment, and life skills program designed to improve the quality of life and well-being of the greater Greer community. We welcome any and all individuals who are passionate about learning and developing skills that will set them on a path of healthy living.
RENEW: Reaching Every Neighbor Every Way, for classes on: Financial Wellness, Job Services, and Healthy Living
Join New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash for a moderated discussion at the Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library (304 Biltmore Road, Easley, SC 29640) on Friday, October 6th, at 7pm. Ron will discuss his new book, The Caretaker and will be available afterwards for a book signing. This event is sponsored by the OPAL libraries (Oconee-Pickens-Anderson Libraries), and Fiction Addiction will be on-site for book sales.
There are two ticket options to this event. A $30 ticket admits one & includes a copy of The Caretaker. A $47 ticket admits two & includes 1 hardcover copy of The Caretaker + 1 paperback copy of In the Valley. We will have additional books for sale at the event.
If you are unable to attend, personalized copies can be purchased on our website.
Event tickets can be purchased online through Thursday, October 5th at 1pm. Tickets may be purchased at the door if still available, but buy ahead to guarantee your spot. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff.
Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash (“One of the great American authors at work today”—The New York Times) is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honor, and love.
It’s 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to serve overseas, Blackburn is charged with caring for Jacob’s wife, Naomi, as well.
Sixteen-year-old Naomi Clarke is an outcast in Blowing Rock, an outsider, poor and uneducated, who works as a seasonal maid in the town’s most elegant hotel. When Naomi eloped with Jacob a few months after her arrival, the marriage scandalized the community, most of all his wealthy parents who disinherited him. Shunned by the townsfolk for their differences and equally fearful that Jacob may never come home, Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer until a shattering development derails numerous lives.
A tender examination of male friendship and rivalry as well as a riveting, page-turning novel of familial devotion, The Caretaker brilliantly depicts the human capacity for delusion and destruction all too often justified as acts of love.
About the Author:
Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; five collections of poems; and seven collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Nothing Gold Can Stay, a New York Times bestseller, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Three times the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, his books have been translated into seventeen languages. He teaches at Western Carolina University.
Volunteers – Help us welcome veterans and their families. Volunteers are needed round the clock and encourage anyone over the age of 18 to apply for a 4-hour volunteer shift. No experience and a training session will be offered.
Volunteer
Water our garden plot at the Greer Community Garden located at 218 West Road, Greer, SC. Our plots are 13,19,25,31. Coming from the parking lot, they will be the last 4 plots to the far left of the first section.
The best time to water is when the temperature is before 80° (in the morning before the sun is too high or in the late afternoon once it’s begun to set).
If you need anything, email Jenn [email protected]
Course length: Full day
GNHA is organizing a Wilderness Medical First Aid Training event for October 7th.
This will be held in the Greenville area at Paris Mountain and the group size is limited to 15 people.
The event starts at 8:00am and runs to 5:00pm. The course details are below.
Admission is $25/person to cover the cost of the course as well as snacks. Participants will need to bring their own lunch and sleeping/exercise mat.
Admission can be purchased at the address below.
https://www.greenvillehiking.com/product-page/gnha-wilderness-first-aid-training
Note: After purchase, you will be added to the “going” list for the event on Meetup.
This training covers the most likely injuries we may see on a day hiking trip. The class will be presented by Jeff Kerby of the Wilderness Medical Associates. If you have never attended a Wilderness Medical First Aid Training class or need a refreshment, We’d encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity.
Proposed Outline/Schedule
0800-1000 MARCH Assessment Method
a. Lecture
b. Hands on Practice Bleeding Control
1000-1200 Basic Life Support/Head Injury
a. Lecture
b. Hands on Practice BLS
1300-1400 Musculoskeletal Injuries
a. Lecture
b. Hands on Practice Splinting
1400-1500 Toxins
1600 -1700 Thermoregulation/Heat and Cold Injuries
Public Used Book Sales are back! Book lovers, rejoice! The Friends of the Greenville County Library System are hosting this Used Book Sale featuring books, movies, music, including popular fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. Organized by subject, search this unique collectionfor your favorite series, authors, and specialty items including vintage, collector, and antique books.
Volunteers will be on-site to assist you throughout your shopping experience.
Volunteers – Help us welcome veterans and their families. Volunteers are needed round the clock and encourage anyone over the age of 18 to apply for a 4-hour volunteer shift. No experience and a training session will be offered.
Public Used Book Sales are back! Book lovers, rejoice! The Friends of the Greenville County Library System are hosting this Used Book Sale featuring books, movies, music, including popular fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. Organized by subject, search this unique collectionfor your favorite series, authors, and specialty items including vintage, collector, and antique books.
Volunteers will be on-site to assist you throughout your shopping experience.
Volunteers – Help us welcome veterans and their families. Volunteers are needed round the clock and encourage anyone over the age of 18 to apply for a 4-hour volunteer shift. No experience and a training session will be offered.
Volunteer
Water our garden plot at the Greer Community Garden located at 218 West Road, Greer, SC. Our plots are 13,19,25,31. Coming from the parking lot, they will be the last 4 plots to the far left of the first section.
The best time to water is when the temperature is before 80° (in the morning before the sun is too high or in the late afternoon once it’s begun to set).
If you need anything, email Jenn [email protected]
Take a walk with a neighbor in the park. Check-in and out at Greer Relief.
Weather dependent unless otherwise noted.
Remember:
- Please be early. There are no late check-ins.
- The class is for adults only. Children can walk with you in the park if you (or someone) can watch them. They can participate if they wish, but only those 18 and older will earn a RENEW reward.
- Must attend in person and be present for the entirety of each class to earn RENEW Rewards.
- RENEW Rewards: $10
About RENEW: RENEW is an education, enrichment, and life skills program designed to improve the quality of life and well-being of the greater Greer community. We welcome any and all individuals who are passionate about learning and developing skills that will set them on a path of healthy living.
RENEW: Reaching Every Neighbor Every Way, for classes on: Financial Wellness, Job Services, and Healthy Living
Volunteers – Help us welcome veterans and their families. Volunteers are needed round the clock and encourage anyone over the age of 18 to apply for a 4-hour volunteer shift. No experience and a training session will be offered.
Volunteer
Water our garden plot at the Greer Community Garden located at 218 West Road, Greer, SC. Our plots are 13,19,25,31. Coming from the parking lot, they will be the last 4 plots to the far left of the first section.
The best time to water is when the temperature is before 80° (in the morning before the sun is too high or in the late afternoon once it’s begun to set).
If you need anything, email Jenn [email protected]
The YWCA Racial Justice Workshop is open to our entire YWCA Asheville community – including our staff, volunteers, board, donors, program participants, Fitness Center and community members. This 90-minute workshop will take place on the second Tuesday of each month at 11:30 am and will be facilitated by Gerry Leonard, Racial Justice & Outreach Specialist and Lexus Walker, Tzedek Social Justice Fellow.
Claudia Whitmire Hembree, author of Jocassee Valley, shares the rich history of the area, including her eyewitness account of the 1970 flooding project and its impact on the area. Registration required. Call 864-268-5955 to register.
Volunteers – Help us welcome veterans and their families. Volunteers are needed round the clock and encourage anyone over the age of 18 to apply for a 4-hour volunteer shift. No experience and a training session will be offered.
Volunteer
Water our garden plot at the Greer Community Garden located at 218 West Road, Greer, SC. Our plots are 13,19,25,31. Coming from the parking lot, they will be the last 4 plots to the far left of the first section.
The best time to water is when the temperature is before 80° (in the morning before the sun is too high or in the late afternoon once it’s begun to set).
If you need anything, email Jenn [email protected]
Take a walk with a neighbor in the park. Check-in and out at Greer Relief.
Weather dependent unless otherwise noted.
Remember:
- Please be early. There are no late check-ins.
- The class is for adults only. Children can walk with you in the park if you (or someone) can watch them. They can participate if they wish, but only those 18 and older will earn a RENEW reward.
- Must attend in person and be present for the entirety of each class to earn RENEW Rewards.
- RENEW Rewards: $10
About RENEW: RENEW is an education, enrichment, and life skills program designed to improve the quality of life and well-being of the greater Greer community. We welcome any and all individuals who are passionate about learning and developing skills that will set them on a path of healthy living.
RENEW: Reaching Every Neighbor Every Way, for classes on: Financial Wellness, Job Services, and Healthy Living
Volunteers – Help us welcome veterans and their families. Volunteers are needed round the clock and encourage anyone over the age of 18 to apply for a 4-hour volunteer shift. No experience and a training session will be offered.
Volunteer
Water our garden plot at the Greer Community Garden located at 218 West Road, Greer, SC. Our plots are 13,19,25,31. Coming from the parking lot, they will be the last 4 plots to the far left of the first section.
The best time to water is when the temperature is before 80° (in the morning before the sun is too high or in the late afternoon once it’s begun to set).
If you need anything, email Jenn [email protected]