AAUW board meeting to meet at Linda Fricka’s home at 6:00 PM and a Movie for all at 7:00 PM.  All members are always invited to attend the board meetings and participate in the discussions.

Movie to be determined.  Possibly “Miss Representation”.

Contact Linda Fricka to respond:  909-214-1642 or lfricka@icloud.com.

San Antonio Winery, Maddalena Restaurant and the Museum of Neon Art

Saturday, February 11

Please contact Beverly Pollard for more information and to R.S.V.P.  909-861-3525 or holabev@aol.com.

San Antonio Winery, Maddalena Restaurant

The Maddalena Restaurant is located inside the Los Angeles San Antonio Winery, situated in the heart of downtown.  Its unique décor, warm ambience, and distinctive visual menus invite you to come and make yourself at home inside this trattoria-style restaurant.  We offer a variety of hearty Italian and American dishes that range from fresh pastas, grilled meats, gourmet salads and sandwiches and tempting desserts.  Dine among redwood casks in our beautiful historical winery and restaurant and we’ll show you what  true hospitality is all about.

The Maddalena Restaurant is an order-first trattoria style.  Our visual menu displays the actual plate, so ordering is easy and quick.  All food is cooked to order and delivered to your table by our amiable servers.

When Sat, February 11, 11 am – 1:00 pm

Where: San Antonio Winery, Address: 737 Lamar Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031, 323-223-1401

http://sanantoniowinery.com/winery-location/los-angeles-historic-winery/

Museum of Neon Art (MONA)

The Museum of Neon Art encourages learning, curiosity and expression through the preservation, collection and interpretation of neon, electric and kinetic art.

Neon is a gateway between scientific principles and artistic expression. Neon illumination integrates electrical technology, creative design, and fundamental concepts of physics and chemistry. The Museum of Neon Art is the only museum in the world devoted exclusively to art in electric media, exhibiting electric and kinetic fine art, and outstanding examples of historic neon signs, for over three decades.

Description: The Art of Plasma: A Group Exhibit Featuring Works by Over 25 Artists Designing the Improbable: New Works by Wayne Strattman, Exhibit runs through July 30, 2017.

When: Sat, February 11, Open 12am – 7pm  Where: Museum of Neon Art, 216 S. Brand Blvd. Glendale, CA 91204 (map)  Phone Number: 818-696-2149

Admission: $10.00 Senior: $8.00.

Parking: City parking structure with 90-minute free parking at 120 S. Maryland Avenue, Glendale, CA 91209.   City parking lot behind the museum (accessible from Harvard or Colorado) is $1 per hour at pay station.  Brand Blvd. street parking is $1 per hour at pay station in front of MONA Gift Store.    http://www.new-neonmona.org/about/

Speech Trek:  “Is it Time to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment?”

The Diamond Bar/Walnut Branch of the American Association of University Women invites you to our local high school speech contest, SPEECH TREK.   Seven students from our local high schools have been selected to speak on this topic.

The Speech Trek presentations for our AAUW Branch Meeting will take place:

Wednesday, January 25, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm, City of Diamond Bar Library,Windmill Room,

21810 Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765

Please plan to be there early on January 25, so that you have ample time to receive all of the last minute instructions.  The speech judges will be the members of our AAUW Branch.  We will use the guidelines and rubrics provided by the State AAUW Speech Trek program.    Please remember that a speech shorter than 5 minutes or longer than 6 minutes will be disqualified.   Be sure to listen for fact and information sources cited in the presentations.  Remember that the contest focuses on original, student written, speeches.  Further information and rules can be researched through the California AAUW Speech Trek website:  http://www.aauw-ca.org/category/programs/speech-trek/

A DVD of the winning speech from our Diamond Bar/Walnut Branch will be forwarded to the AAUW State level competition.  In addition to cash contest incentives from our Branch, the top three talented students and their chaperones will be invited to the AAUW State Convention in April, where they will compete for substantial cash prizes.

We would like to ask our members to contribute water and packaged cookies for refreshments after the event.  Please contact Amer Holmes, Bev Pollard or Rita Smith for sign-ups.  amer.h.holmes@gmail.com, ritasmith@roadrunner.com,  holabev@aol.com,

Literary Lasses Book Group    See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIVRa3UKU0

We have two potlucks coming up and hope many of you, even if you have not read these books, will attend.  You do not need to be a regular member of the book group either.   It’s always a lot of fun to have an excuse to get together over a great potluck.  It’s also an opportunity for some of the newer members to get better acquainted with some of the regulars.  Please do not by shy.  You will be welcome.  We would like to get to know you too.     

A complete listing of all of the books for the rest of the year can be seen at                                       https://diamondbarwalnut-ca.aauw.net/groups/ .   

All members and guests are welcome at any of these meetings.   You may also wish to join the National AAUW book group at: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1286511-aauw or see the AAUW National Book Club Selections of the Adelante CA book group at: https://www.aauw.org/resource/adelante-book-of-the-month-reading-list-archive/

We will meet on the first Saturday each month at 8:30 AM, as usual, at the Whole Enchilada.  We will discuss current events or public policy, then eat breakfast, and socialize.   All members and prospective members are welcome to join in the lively discussions.  Please R.S.V.P.  to amer.h.holmes@gmail.com or 909-241-1386

The first event will host speaker, Aileen Rizo, who filed suit against the Fresno County of Education under equal pay and gender discrimination laws after discovering she was paid less than her male colleague who had less experience and seniority.  Several of the attending women had heard Aileen speak at the CA convention and were hoping to hear her once again.

January 8th, 2017, Kellogg West Conference Center, 3801 West Temple Ave. Pomona

The second luncheon will host speaker, Nathalie Gosset, BSEE, MS, MBA, who is the Legal Advocacy Fund 2016 Litigant.  She was selected unanimously by the LAF committee because the facts in her case, if true are egregious and truly violate Title VII.  She will share with the audience the impact LAF and AAUW have brought to her life.

January 21, 2017 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Luncheon Laguna Woods Village Clubhouse

72411 Moulton Parkway,  Laguna Woods, CA  92637

Window Snowfest Cancelled permanently this year due to weather.

The next board meeting is on Monday, November 1, 2016.

All members are invited to attend and contribute to the discussions.  It will be held in the home of Rita Smith.  Please R.S.V.P. to Rita at 909-861-7953.  7:00 PM to 9:30

NOVEMBER OUT TO LUNCH AND SELF DEFENSE CLASS

A self-defense class for women will be held on 10:00 am, Sat., Nov 12.  It will be a free two hour program in the World Martial Arts Training Center studio in Ontario.  It’s located off the 60 freeway at the Archibald exit.  Family and friends are invited.  Maximum class size will be 25 persons.  An out to lunch will take place following and more to come about the dress suggestions at a later date.

We will announce the lunch location before the meeting of the Defense Class.

Family and friends are invited.  Maximum class size will be 25 persons.  An out to lunch will take place afterwards at the San Antonio Winery in Ontario. The address is 2802 S Milliken Ave., Ontario.

We will meet on the first Saturday of this month at 8:30, as usual, at the Whole Enchilada.  We will discuss current events or public policy, then eat breakfast, and socialize.   All are welcome to join in the lively discussions.

Amer Holmes