General Meeting - Program- Preparedness/ Mid-South Food Bank Food Drive

Mercury One Memphis Meetup Group is holding a "Dutch Treat" Brunch meeting Saturday, November 12 from 9-11:00 am.

Agenda:

Business Meeting:

Topics to cover:

Current Food Drive: Planning evening meetings, workshops. Charity activity for December. Next Meeting Date? Announcements and General Discussions. (If you can't make the meeting please send any information that you would like to have announced)

Program:

1. SELF RELIANCE--FOOD STORAGE-Susie Mikell, Executive Director and Independent Consultant with Shelf Reliance and THRIVE Foods and a long-time avid believer in home storage/emergency preparedness and self-reliance will be available to answer questions regarding emergency preparedness. How to prepare yourself and your family with at least a 72 hour kit and an emergency plan should you find yourself in a disaster situation, information on how to create your own "home-store" as well as providing long-term food storage advice.
   Susie will have on display a variety of emergency preparedness products, as well as take home samples of delicious THRIVE Freeze-Dried foods. 2. EMERGENCY PREPARATION/COMMUNICATION
   Rick Pinelli will demonstrate emergency communication and lead a discussion of other preparedness topics of interest to the group. 3. EDUCATION - (If time) INTRODUCTION TO THE CONSTITUTION: HILLSDALE COLLEGE
   An online Lecture Series featuring Dr. Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President. We will view the introduction of the four part series, “The Rule of Law and America’s Future” (http://www.youtube.com/user/hillsdalecollege#p/u/5/4LfQb0miFck)
   by The Honorable Paul Ryan, made available by Hillsdale College. Robin Haraway will be prepared to lead a short discussion on the lecture using material provided by Hillsdale. Since each full lecture is 45min, so we will watch half of the lecture and have a ten minute discussion.