B2B Things You Love Potluck Feb. 9

The Feb. 9 meeting of the McDonald County Back to Basics Community Group will be held at the New Mac Community Room, Old Highway 71, north of the high school, in Anderson.

The Valentine’s “Things You Love” potluck begins at 6:30 p.m. February is the month for love, so bring your favorite most-loved dish to this month’s pot luck. Love it all? Then bring anything you like, including main dishes, sides and/or desserts. Please bring your own table service (plates, utensils) to conserve resources. B2B will be furnishing beverages.

Peggy Wooden and Marilyn O’Brien will provide the entertainment by clogging for us.

The speaker will be Marie Strader, who will be filling us in on how she instructs her students in the culinary arts at MCHS. Her students and their “food art” will also be featured.

Paul Rouse will have a new trivia segment for us, and it is a surprise. Gotta come to find out!

Be thinking about places we can volunteer as a group. We will be talking about having a B2B volunteer day each month. Not only will this be fun, but we can also give something back to our community area, which includes surrounding towns. Some suggestions have included Faithful Friends, Habitat for Humanity, Crosslines, Headstart, nursing homes and New Bethel School. What do you suggest?

Remember, for winter, if McDonald County Schools are closed due to weather, there will not be a B2B meeting.

Please bring a canned or packaged food donation to be given to Crosslines (must be non-expired and non-dented). If everyone brought just one can, there would be 40 or 50 cans to help feed some hungry folks. The drawing for monthly door prizes continues. One entry for the prize will be awarded for each can or item of food brought.

This group is on Facebook at McDonald County Back to Basics (B2B) Community Group. Anyone can post tips, pictures and news.

The McDonald County Back to Basics Community Group was formed in 2008 as a grassroots effort to combine education, information, community services and a social outlet so that they can support each other in good times and bad. This activity is fun, free and open to all including surrounding communities.

For more information, call 417-845-0170.