Hello everyone! It appears that summer has arrived. Schools are out, temperatures are up and people are going on vacations. While this means that attendance at services might be down a bit, we will hold services every week unless we announce otherwise.
Soup Kitchen Weekend
This is once again our weekend to provide desserts for the Soup Kitchen. Please plan on helping us meet the need by either baking up a batch of whatever dessert you would like to contribute or picking something up at the store and bringing it by the Temple no later than 9:30 this Saturday morning (June 17). If you don’t have time to do either of these, finacial donations are also apprecited! Please let Fran Jacobs know if you will be bringing a dessert item to donate.
2017 Handy Fest
If you haven’t already added it to your calendar, a “must do” for this summer is attending the WC Handy event at the Temple that will be held on Saturday, July 29. Rabbi Nancy and her husband, Scott Whitehead, will share their talents with all who join us at the Temple for their performance. As the date grows closer, I will be asking for volunteers to assist in the preparations for and clean-up following the event so please consider helping out – we won’t need a lot of volunteers but it would be nice to see some new faces! Stay tuned for more details as I get them. By the way, this year’s WC Handy Festival runs from July 21-30 – I hope you can get out and enjoy many of the events!
Redecorating
Many thanks to Don Welch for taking on the work needed to allow for some redecorating in the Temple hallway and classrooms. He has repaired the walls where art work and other items previously hung and has painted over that repair work. In addition, he has worked with Emily Kelly and me to hang various pieces in their new locations. He has additional work to finish-up related to the removal of 2 of the 3 white boards in one classroom and, once other pieces of artwork have been repaired/reframed, these too will be put back up. Take a look around the next time you are in the building and see what you think!
Service Schedule
The schedule for our remaining services for the month of June, is as follows:
- June 16 – Robert Adler
- June 23 – Rabbi Nancy
- June 30 – Buddy Bernstein
A draft of the July schedule has been shared with me but, because I have not yet heard that it is final, I do not want to post it here at this time. I expect I will be able to share it next week.
As always, congregants and members of the Shoals community, at large, are invited to attend the weekly Torah Study session which is held each Saturday morning at 9:30, at the Temple.
Reminder items:
- Soup Kitchen – Saturday, June 17 – please bring dessert items to the Temple no later than 9:30am
- WC Handy Festival – Saturday, July 29 – stay tuned for more details
- A Day at the Lake – Saturday, August 12, 11am-5pm – stay tuned for more details here too
If you are aware of something in the community that you would like me to draw some attention to in my message, please let me know! And, as always, if you have any announcements you would like for me to share with our membership, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.
I hope you all have a wonderful week. Chances are I will be one of those that does not make services this Friday so, if that is the case, I will look forward to seeing you all again next Friday!
Shalom!
Traci Welch
