Ri Ra Irish Music Brunch On Sundays with Kathleen Donohoe and Seamus Dunning. You're invited to come check out Atlanta's newest shiny Irish pub, Ri Ra, and enjoy a great pint, brunch and Irish music. Offering Irish hospitality from Irish staff, fresh brewed coffee at your table, a full Irish breakfast with brown bread and lovely pints. Located at 12th St and Crescent Avenue in Midtown Atlanta - it is 'the' place to relax on Sunday. Entertainment will begin on Sundays at 12.30 until 3.30. Kathleen Donohoe will be joined by Seamus Dunning (the mad piper) on uilleann pipes, whistles and vocals. They will sing all your favorite songs, include some tunes and haunting pipe melodies. Free parking is available at the Bank Of America deck, on Crescent Avenue.

www.RiRa.com

Please join Forgotten Soldiers Outreach (FSO) on Saturday, Oct 24th and show your support for our Servicemen and Servicewomen deployed overseas. During this event we will be putting together care packages for soldiers serving overseas. Care packages include everything from basic toiletries to books, snacks and socks. We also include letters and notes from people like you, thanking them for their service.

If you've never done an event like this before, it is very humbling to think of all the little things that we take for granted that soldiers are currently lacking. You will be touching the life of Seamen, Airmen, Soldiers and Marines this day as we send a “little bit of home” to these men and women so far from home this Thanksgiving.

The packing event runs from 10am - 2pm (or until all the packages are completed). If we have enough volunteers, we'll probably be done a little earlier than 2pm.
Orientation is from 8:30 - 10am (for new volunteers).

Special Guest - Micenna from Micenna’s Mission, an organization helping veterans.

This packing event will be big and we will need all the help that we can get. We will have stations set up and when you come you will be assigned a station to work at.
If you do not have an FSO t-shirt you can order one through the web site at www.forgottensoldiers.org and it will be shipped to you, or you can wear something red, white and blue if you would like.

What better way to show your “Thanks” to our Servicemen and Servicewomen!!

For more information about FSO please visit our website at www.forgottensoldiers.org
Contact: Francine Thompson 770-899-2495

Please note - I will not be allowing Maybe RSVPs for this event, since they need to know how many volunteers to expect. If you're a Maybe, please wait to RSVP until you know for sure. I don't want to have a lot of last-minute cancellations or no-shows. Thanks!

Please join us for happy hour at The Harp Irish pub in Roswell. This is the first of hopefully many monthly happy hours around town.

The Harp typically has some kind of live music on Friday nights, so hopefully we'll get to hear some good music while sitting back sipping a pint.

I'm not sure where we'll end up (a table or the bar), but I'll wear a Meetup button so you can find me more easily.

Please try to RSVP either Yes or No, rather than Maybe. If you RSVP Yes, please be sure that you show up! We typically have to give venues a count of expected attendees, and they don't like it when we have a bunch of no-shows. If your plans change closer to the date, please remember to update your RSVP. Thanks for your cooperation. :-)

Update: I will be changing Maybe RSVPs to No on July 24th so please update your RSVP if you are a maybe. FSO needs to know as soon as possible if you are definitely able to volunteer, so they can set the schedules. I will forward the contact info for the Yes RSVPs to Shannon Grote, the volunteer coordinator, so she can communicate with you directly. Thank you!

This event is for the Forgotten Soldiers Outreach (FSO) organization. They're a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging our soldiers overseas by providing care packages and letters of support. In conjunction with Six Flags' military appreciation weekends, FSO will have a table set up to provide information about the organization and how people can help.

FSO is looking for volunteers to staff 4-hour shifts during Saturday and Sunday, over 2 weekends (the 19th - 20th and the 26th - 27th). Volunteers will be able to stay and play at the park after their shift only. Note: if you volunteer, it's for one 4-hour period on one day, not for every day.

This is a HUGE event for Forgotten Soldiers Outreach. These are the Military Appreciation Days at Six Flags. Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force. We need lots of volunteers and we need to know soon. The only people that will be allowed to enter the park at "NO CHARGE" will be the ones that truly want to volunteer for the 4hr shifts. The shifts run from 10am - 6pm at two separate booths. One will be at the entrance with a drop box and vouchers for Six Flags dollars to be spent in the park with their 5 item donation. The other booth will be inside the park with letter writing and general information about what we do. The booths must be manned from open to close with NO exceptions!! This is BIG for FSO and we must adhere to all the restrictions with no exceptions. As you know we will be able to make contact with about 250,000 people from all over the country. All volunteers will need to represent FSO with the same love and excitement you had the day you decided to make Forgotten Soldiers Outreach your charity of choice.

Booth @ Gate
10am - 2pm =2 Volunteers
2pm - 6pm = 2 Volunteers

Booth Inside Park
10am - 2pm = 4 Volunteers
2pm - 6pm = 4 Volunteers

All Volunteers will need to park in the employee parking lot and will need to be on time because security will escort everyone in at the same time. Please if you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Information about FSO can be found at www.forgottensoldiers.org

If you're in the area, please stop by and join me for happy hour at Keegan's Irish pub in Kennesaw. This will be my first official meetup as the new organizer, so I'd love to meet as many of you as can make it. This is short notice I know, but I hope to see you out there. If the weather's nice we'll try for the patio.

I am setting the RSVP deadline for Thursday so we can give them an idea of how many people will be coming and hopefully they'll be able to section off an area for us. They have said that Friday night is the busiest time for them.

If you RSVP Yes, please be sure that you show up! We have to give restaurants a count of expected attendees, and they don't like it when we have a bunch of no-shows. We will have a waiting list if this event fills up, so if your plans change and you can't make it please change your RSVP to a No so the next person on the waiting list can come instead. Thank you!