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Painting Empty Bowls
Thursday, February 12, 2026
The Retirees Association reserved space on February 12 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the WOW Factory in Star City for members to paint bowls for the Empty Bowls Monongalia luncheon. The WOW Factory provided paints, fired the bowls, and delivered them to the Empty Bowls staff in time for the event.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
The Retirees Association reserved space on February 12 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the WOW Factory in Star City for members to paint bowls for the Empty Bowls Monongalia luncheon. The WOW Factory provided paints, fired the bowls, and delivered them to the Empty Bowls staff in time for the event.
Friday, February 6, 2026
The February book was The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story by Dimitra Papagianni & Michael A. Morse. For hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals evolved in Europe parallel to Homo sapiens evolving in Africa and, when both species made their first forays into Asia, the Neanderthals may even have had the upper hand. In this important volume, the authors compile the first full chronological narrative of the Neanderthals’ dramatic existence―from their evolution in Europe to their expansion to Siberia to their subsequent extinction,