<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="4">Why did Humpty Dumpty have a great fall? </font></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-692e82e9-7fff-5207-033e-7afcd4841e34"><font size="4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Card Shower for Squish and Joey!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">To honor and celebrate the upcoming (Oct. 4) wedding of Stephanie \u201cSquish\u201d Rector and Joey Thomas, we will hold a </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">card shower</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> immediately after Coffee Hour (starting at 1 p.m.) on Sunday, Sept. 14. </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">You\u2019re invited!</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Please bring a card of good wishes to give to the happy couple.</span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><font size="4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Coffee Hour Volunteers Needed!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Coffee Hour volunteers are urgently needed for </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">the third Sunday of odd months</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">(starting Sept. 21</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">), the </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">first Sunday of even months </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(starting Oct. 5), and the </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">fourth Sunday of even months</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (starting Oct. 24). That\u2019s a three-hour shift just six times per year! If you can help, please talk to, email (<a href="mailto:fuusm.office@gmail.com">fuusm.office@gmail.com</a>), call (740-373-1238), or text (812-320-3449) Dawn, the church lady. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c83c7279-7fff-b98f-994b-88e5c035656a"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Can You Chip in for Purchase of Holiday Cards?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Holidays are coming! Please help us </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">purchase</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> holiday cards for our annual greeting card project, in which we send notes of holiday joy and encouragement to every resident of our local nursing homes and rehab facilities. A donation box is in the social hall. Thanks!  \u2014Membership Committee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Save the Date: You&#39;re Invited to a Party!</b></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Our Buildings &amp; Ground Committee is planning a Work Party on Saturday, Sept. 27, from 10\u2013noon, and you&#39;re invited. Jobs include yard work as well as minor indoor repairs and maintenance. No tools required--just two hours of your time and willingness to help. And even if you can&#39;t make it to the party, you can help bag up/containerize the excess yard waste in the rear of the courtyard\u2014at  your convenience\u2014in preparation to move it to a place where the critters within can live and maybe even thrive as the biomass decomposes. (Dawn&#39;s ravine.)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Today, Monday, Sept. 8</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">6:30 p.m., </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">FUUSM Board of Trustees meeting, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">RE parlor.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">2 p.m., </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Caring Committee</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> via Zoom</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Tuesday, Sept. 9</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">2:30\u20136:30 p.m., Girl Scouts in social hall. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Wednesday, Sept. 10</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">6 p.m., <b>Women\u2019s Group potluck,</b> social hall. Steph Rector and Anita Newhart will host. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent">To make up for his miserable summer.</span></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sunday, Sept. 14</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">9:30 a.m., </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Choir practice,</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> sanctuary. </span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">11 a.m., </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sunday service, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">sanctuary. Don Poole will present the highlights of the 2025 UUA GA.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Coffee hour!  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:&quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>1 p.m. </b>Wedding Card Shower for Squish and Joey! You&#39;re invited!  </span></p></li></ul></font></span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dawn Hewitt</div><div>Office assistant</div><div>First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta</div><div>232 Third St.</div><div>Marietta, OH 45750</div><div>(740)373-1238</div><div>Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 10 a.m.--2 p.m. <br></div></div></div></div>