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July 9, 16, 23, 30 – Geyserville Kiwanis #K03810 meeting at Oriental Hall, 1000 Hwy 128, 7:30 p.m.

Got my ‘goat’

Ongoing through July 12 – Raven Players present Hello Dolly! At the Raven Theater. Start time

Water conservation update

“Dorothy Parker – What Fresh Hell Is This?” a biography by Marion Meade. 451 pages with index and illustrations. The question is one that Parker often used to answer her telephone. The subject of this biography is often irascible, willful and not easy to like; she became a leading voice in The New Yorker at its inception, followed by several years working in Hollywood, friends with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the entire world of New York writers who gathered at the round table in the Algonquin Hotel. Her response to meeting Will Rogers was, “I always liked a man I never met.” Meade manages to portray her subject in a sympathetic manner and gives us a portrait full of the life that Parker always exhibited across the years. Check it out.

Hang around a bit

Eating the Rainbow

Ongoing through July 12 – Raven Players present Hello Dolly! At the Raven Theater. Start time 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sundays at 2 p.m. www.raventheater.org.

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