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Leader........... |
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Description
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Walking
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Bill Franz |
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Take a leisurely one-hour walk in the Newburyport area on Thursday afternoons.
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| Movie |
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Kitty Krajci |
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Informal meet-ups, usually on Wednesdays, at local movie theaters with an opportunity for group discussion afterwards. Venues: The Screening Room, the Newburyport Library, Salisbury theaters, and an occasional trip into Boston will be considered.
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| Writing |
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Paula Wright |
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Monthly meetings with members who are interested in exercising and improving their writing skills. By actively listening to sample readings, members provide constructive feedback.
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| Scrabble |
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Pauline Derby |
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Meeting twice a month at the Emma Andrews Library, this group plays a few scrabble games, learns new words and strategies for gaining points, and enjoys a lot of laughter.
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Gingerbread
Group
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Various |
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This group assembles in the late fall to develop a Village creation for the annual Port Gingerbread Festival. At subsequent meetings, the group plans and executes the design, finally gathering at the venue for final assembly. In 2023, the group created an entire village and the 2024 theme centered on the core message of our mission statement: "We help and we have fun."
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Bocce
Ball |
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Maria Sterk |
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From spring to fall, weather permitting, this group meets at the Senior/Community Center's bocce ball courts.
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Plein Air
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Fran Butsavich
Betty Harrington
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Weather permitting, this group meets for "plein air light" in various bucolic spots in the greater Newburyport area. Some members have lots of experience while others have little, but they all enjoy the outdoors,  hone their skills, and share insights while sketching and painting.
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Book Group
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Sally
Milewski
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This group meets monthly at Illume Books in Newburyport to discuss their readings. |
Village Gardeners
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Bill Franz |
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This group created and maintains the Village Garden located on the rail trail along the Merrimack River opposite the Osprey sculpture.
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