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Tunisia RPCV Debby Cary will share "Four Years of Observations of the Muslim World."
Tunisia RPCV Debby Cary will share "Four Years of Observations of the Muslim World."
Middle East pot luck
SANBORNTON — The Peace and Justice Committee of Sanbornton Congregational Church, UCC, is sponsoring a Middle East pot luck supper on Sunday, June 26 in the Undercroft at the church at 6 p.m. The church is located at 21 Meetinghouse Hill Road, off Route 132 in Sanbornton Square.
Special guest Debby Cary will share "Four Years of Observations of the Muslim World." Cary is a school psychologist turned weaver who spent two years in Tunisia with her husband and three children, volunteering with the Peace Corps as a family in the 1970s. In the 1990s she and her husband lived two years in Kuwait where she helped to start a school for children with learning disabilities and worked for the Museum of Bedouin Weaving.
There is no charge to attend, just bring a dish to share. For more information call 279-8848.
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June 5, 2005: Special Events
Vote in the NPCA Election for new board before June 15
"American Taboo" author Phil Weiss in Maryland on June 18
"Rainforests and Refugees" showing in Portland, Maine until June 25
"Iowa in Ghana" on exhibit in Waterloo through June 30
RPCV's "Taking the Early Bus" at Cal State until Aug 15
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