Drink & Draw Benefit Night at Winter Hill Brewery Sept 19

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Via Somerville Media Center:

Thursday, September 19; 7:00 – 9:00pm

@ Winter Hill Brewery (328 Broadway, Somerville)

Join SMC at our Drink & Draw Benefit Night at Winter Hill Brewery! Comics artist and SMC Programming Coordinator Dave Ortega will host this chill-vibes event where folks get together and draw in the same space, working on whatever they choose.

We’ll have simple supplies like paper, pens, pencils, erasers, and markers if you are in need. Work on your own stuff or use one of our prompts. We’re also happy to give you points in the right direction if you want to learn to draw.

Reserve a space here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drink-draw-benefit-night-at-winter-hill-brewery-tickets-70921637527

Winter Hill phone tree for this century...

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Hey folks: one of the things on our last meeting agenda was creating some other kind of quick messaging system for short messages (meeting reminders, water main breaks, other breaking neighborhood safety issues, stuff like that).

In the past, people would use phone trees for things like this. 

But we know everyone doesn't use a smartphone. Many people are not on facebook or are concerned about privacy issues related to them. Signal is bad at group texts, we hear.

We are considering alternatives.

I asked my world-wide twitter cabal, and they suggested these things other neighborhoods are using:

Slack
Nextdoor (there is a Winter Hill nextdoor I'm told, but Nextdoor keeps insisting on putting me in Medford so I refuse to join)
Facebook
Whatsapp
Groupme https://groupme.com/en-US/ (a friend said she's in several of these, seems to meet our criteria)
 
We are open to suggestions if anyone has ideas for a lightweight, low-volume, non-smartphone requiring option. Or any other communication strategies you might want to offer.