Community

Saturday, March 23, 12-3pm, Northside Branch Library, 1423 N. High St.

Welcoming any and all who would like to be trained to administer the overdose reversal drug Naloxone (Narcan) in the event of an opioid overdose. You never know when you could have the chance to save a life! Overdose deaths killed 72,000 people in America last year. Ohio is #2 in overdose deaths in the country.

Overdose deaths are preventable!

Friday, March 22, 7-10pm, Wild Goose Creative, 2491 Summit St.

We are delighted to celebrate the new issue of Story Magazine! Come hang out and pick up a copy of the Spring 2019 issue, meet the staff and board, drink and eat and be merry, and say “howdy!” to a few of the contributors.

Story is a 501(c)3 based in Columbus, Ohio, and is committed to making stories accessible and vibrant. We are monster fans of our Ohio community: the cover art and two works of fiction from the issue feature Ohio authors.

More details to come!

Thursday, March 21, 6-8:30pm, Southern Roots Sistah Center, 4343 E. Livingston Ave.

You are invited to join two local dynamite Black Female Authors, Cassandra McIntosh and Diane Ladybug Ivery, as they discuss the joys of writing and having a book published.

Cassandra and Diane will engage the audience by briefly walking through the book-writing process, answering questions from the audience, and reading an excerpt from their book.

Books will be autographed and available for purchase; light refreshments and drinks will be provided.

Sunday, March 17, 5pm-7pm, The Midden, 379 Chittenden Ave.

Come send books to prisoners.

All of our activities are guided by what prisoners ask for and tell us they need. That means we do lots of different things as methods to support people inside.

We do all sorts of projects, like:

• Setting up pen pals. Pen pals mean a ton to people in prison, and we have a big list of prisoners looking for someone to write to!

Sunday, March 17, 3-5:30pm, Southern Roots Sistah Center, 4343 E. Livingston Ave.

Sistahs, join us as we explore the topic: Strong Black Women.

• Are we helped or harmed when people identify us as the strong one?

• Are we able to get the support we need, when everyone is looking at us to be the strong one?

• Come out for great conversation, support, and sistahhood.

• We will break bread while we discuss different perspectives of the Strong Black Woman concept.

Saturday, March 16, 9am-1pm, United Methodist Free Store, 946 Parsons Ave.

Starting in March, we [Yes We Can: Columbus Working Families] will be hosting monthly volunteering events open to all members. As our movement continues to grow, we hope to be able to effect change not only politically, but also at the ground level by supporting organizations that are doing great work in the community.

Monday, March 11, 12:01am-11:59pm, anywhere on the Earth

The Ohio Green Party has officially endorsed Unplug Nuclear Power 2019. We are asking everyone to boycott grid-supplied electricity for the 24 hours of March 11, the eighth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, as a protest against nuclear power and to remember the victims past, present, and future of the nuclear radiation still being released at Fukushima.

• Level 1 is Conservation, turn off lights and minimize screen use.

Tuesday, April 2, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 4, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 9, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 11, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 16, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 18, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 23, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 25, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 30, 10am-12noon; Thursday, May 2, 4-6pm; Franklin County Board of Elections Voting Lab, 1700 Morse Rd.

The new Franklin County voting machines use paper ballots that may be marked with a “touch-screen” machine that prints a paper ballot [that the voter may examine before casting]; voters may also use a pen to mark their paper ballot.

Tuesday, April 2, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 4, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 9, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 11, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 16, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 18, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 23, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 25, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 30, 10am-12noon; Thursday, May 2, 4-6pm; Franklin County Board of Elections Voting Lab, 1700 Morse Rd.

The new Franklin County voting machines use paper ballots that may be marked with a “touch-screen” machine that prints a paper ballot [that the voter may examine before casting]; voters may also use a pen to mark their paper ballot.

Tuesday, April 2, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 4, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 9, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 11, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 16, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 18, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 23, 10am-12noon; Thursday, April 25, 4-6pm; Tuesday, April 30, 10am-12noon; Thursday, May 2, 4-6pm; Franklin County Board of Elections Voting Lab, 1700 Morse Rd.

The new Franklin County voting machines use paper ballots that may be marked with a “touch-screen” machine that prints a paper ballot [that the voter may examine before casting]; voters may also use a pen to mark their paper ballot.