Lower Jack Rabbit Picnic Area, Spring Lake Park
5:15 p.m., social time and book browsing
6:00 buffet dinner catered by Oakmont Village Market
Member or visitor $23 (includes picnic dinner, plates, utensils, glasses, tax, and tip)

Reservation required by 8/13
 
BBQ chicken
BBQ ribs
Garden salad
Oakmont potato salad
Fresh fruit salad
David's famous baked beans
French roll and butter
Iced tea or water
Dessert
Vegetarian entree on request

 

BYOB and BB (bring drinks of your choice -- bring books for our sale)

Directions:  Take Hoen Avenue entrance to Spring Lake Park and bear left to 
Lower Jack Rabbit Picnic Area.  Regional Park parking fee applies.

Please donate your no-longer-needed books to our Annual Book Sale 
(All money goes to the Council)

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RESERVATION FORM  Please mail before August 13, 2010

8/20/10 – Annual Picnic

     □ $23 member or non-member  (reservation due 8/13)

     □ BBQ chicken & ribs or □ Vegetarian entree

Name______________________________________ Phone No.___________________

Mail your check and the relevant portion of this form to WACSC, P.O. Box 1433, Santa Rosa, CA 95402. 707-573-6014

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NOTICE TO WACSC MEMBERS – PROGRAM CHANGE – SAUDI ARABIA: PAST AND PRESENT

A most unusual evening is in store for WACSC members who attend the September 7 program at Spring Lake Village auditorium.  A very interesting change in the program resulted when the speaker, Hugh L. Renfro, received permission to show us the DVD version of the new IMAX movie “Arabia,” on which he was a consultant. The 40-minute  film is co-narrated by Helen Mirren and Hamzah Jomjoon, a Saudi film student.  It presents Arabia’s history, with some commentary about current issues. The film will be introduced by Mr. Renfro, who will allow ample time for questions and answers. 

"From the Academy Award-nominated producers of Everest and Grand Canyon Adventure comes an all-new IMAX 3D Theatre experience—Arabia 3D—about the extraordinary culture, history and religion of Arabia.

With the full force of IMAX cinematography, Arabia 3D takes viewers deep into an exotic land steeped in 2,000 years of ancient history and unique customs not found anywhere else in the world. As if on a magic carpet ride across this desert kingdom, audiences will discover the lost city of Madain Saleh, explore its ancient tombs, travel with a camel caravan along the early frankincense trade route, survive a desert sandstorm, dive the coral reefs and shipwrecks of the Red Sea, experience the warmth of the world-famous Beduoin hospitality, and join in the annual hajj pilgrimage, where 2 million Muslims gather in Meccah in the single largest gathering of people on Earth.   They will also discover modern day Arabia, which finds itself in the midst of monumental change.

A powerful and surprising giant screen tour de force, Arabia 3D will transport audiences and offer a deeper understanding of this most fascinating culture and way of life that has long been hidden from our view."

Best-selling author and journalist Robert Lacey served as an advisor on Arabia 3D.  The film is produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films for release to IMAX Theatres and IMAX 3D Theatres starting February 2010.

Ms. Hobbet lived in Kuwait for five years between the two Gulf wars, when Saddam Hussein was still in power and threatening a second invasion of this small, oil-rich desert nation. Hobbet will describe this experience, which left her impressed by Arab culture and history, and troubled by the social inequities of the region, particularly the frequent abuse of Third World migrant workers, who have few rights though they often far outnumber the natives who employ them. 

Home again after 9/11, she found media coverage of the Middle East superficial and sensationalistic, which inspired her to write her second novel, Small Kingdoms, a book The New York Times called 'captivating.' Published this year, the 20th anniversary of the first Gulf War, set in Kuwait and drawing on Hobbet's interaction with people at all levels of society, it tells the story of an abused housemaid and the handful of brave souls from widely-varied backgrounds who band together to help her. 

Ms. Hobbet studied  language and culture of the Islamic world, is a former freelance journalist, and works as a writer and editor.

Reservation required by 9/17

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RESERVATION FORM  Please mail before September 17, 2010

9/24/10 – Small Kingdoms by Anastasia Hobbet

□ $20 member or □ $25 non-member

Buffet luncheon

Name______________________________________ Phone No.___________________

Mail your check and the relevant portion of this form to WACSC, P.O. Box 1433, Santa Rosa, CA 95402. 707-573-6014

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To print a reservation form for mailing purposes, click your mouse arrow on

Print Reservation and then the printer button on your computer.