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🚀 **Business Networking Opportunity** 🤝 **Where meaningful connections translate into real business growth** Join a fast-growing professional business network that brings together local and international entrepreneurs, business owners, and decision-makers through structured networking sessions, referral exchanges, and collaboration-driven events. This network is built on **trust, visibility, and relationship-based growth**—focused on generating tangible business outcomes, not just exchanging contacts. In today’s competitive market, networking is no longer optional. Strong professional networks unlock partnerships, referrals, market intelligence, and sustainable growth. The right connections can shorten sales cycles, enhance credibility, and create opportunities beyond traditional marketing channels. **Why attend?** ✨ Connect with verified business leaders and decision-makers ✨ Build trusted, referral-based relationships ✨ Increase visibility for your brand and services ✨ Convert conversations into measurable business results 👥 **Ideal for:** Entrepreneurs \| Business Owners \| CEOs \| Sales Managers \| General Managers 📅 **Date:** Sunday, 25 January 2026 ⏰ **Time:** 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM 📍 **Venue:** Riviera Rayhaan by Rotana 🎟️ **Entry Fee:** QAR 75 🔔 **One room. One evening. Multiple opportunities. Register now.** 📞 **For more details:** (+974) 6682 6155 📧 [Luthfe@SheenInfotech.com](mailto:Luthfe@SheenInfotech.com) #B2BChampions #B2BNetworkQatar #BusinessNetworking #QatarBusiness #EntrepreneursQatar #CEOs #BusinessOwners #ProfessionalNetworking #ReferralMarketing #GrowYourBusiness #NetworkingThatWorks

🚀 **Business Networking Opportunity** 🤝 **Where meaningful connections translate into real business growth** Join a fast-growing professional business network that brings together local and international entrepreneurs, business owners, and decision-makers through structured networking sessions, referral exchanges, and collaboration-driven events. This network is built on **trust, visibility, and relationship-based growth**—focused on generating tangible business outcomes, not just exchanging contacts. In today’s competitive market, networking is no longer optional. Strong professional networks unlock partnerships, referrals, market intelligence, and sustainable growth. The right connections can shorten sales cycles, enhance credibility, and create opportunities beyond traditional marketing channels. **Why attend?** ✨ Connect with verified business leaders and decision-makers ✨ Build trusted, referral-based relationships ✨ Increase visibility for your brand and services ✨ Convert conversations into measurable business results 👥 **Ideal for:** Entrepreneurs \| Business Owners \| CEOs \| Sales Managers \| General Managers 📅 **Date:** Sunday, 25 January 2026 ⏰ **Time:** 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM 📍 **Venue:** Riviera Rayhaan by Rotana 🎟️ **Entry Fee:** QAR 75 🔔 **One room. One evening. Multiple opportunities. Register now.** 📞 **For more details:** (+974) 6682 6155 📧 [Luthfe@SheenInfotech.com](mailto:Luthfe@SheenInfotech.com) #B2BChampions #B2BNetworkQatar #BusinessNetworking #QatarBusiness #EntrepreneursQatar #CEOs #BusinessOwners #ProfessionalNetworking #ReferralMarketing #GrowYourBusiness #NetworkingThatWorks

For Adults: Beginner Macrame Plant Hangers January 31, 2026 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Create a basic cord plant hanger and then practice some simple macrame knots to use in future projects. Hosted by Metro Parks VENUE Inniswood Metro Gardens 940 S. Hempstead Rd. Westerville, OH 43081 Phone (614)895-6216

For January, we’re reading Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy. For fans of Flight Behavior and Station Eleven, a novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world's last birds--and her own final chance for redemption. Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and track their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani, to take her onboard, winning over his eccentric crew with promises that the birds will lead them to fish. As the Saghani fights its way south, Franny's dark history begins to unspool. Battered by night terrors, accumulating a pile of unsent letters, and obsessed with pursuing the terns at any cost, Franny is full of secrets. When her quest threatens the safety of the entire crew, Franny must ask herself what she is really running toward--and running from. Propelled by a narrator as fierce and fragile as the terns she is following, Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations is both an ode to our threatened world and a breathtaking page-turner about the lengths we will go for the people we love.

Start the year surrounded by Love From the Earth—with delicious vegan eats, sweet treats, artisan goods, and a chance to win one of our raffle baskets filled with plant-based goodies. Support small businesses, enjoy great food, and spend a cozy day with the community. We will reserve a table for this group if there is enough interest. Just comment "interest" below. Don’t miss out—see you there! Check [event page](https://www.facebook.com/events/893838639773267/) for a vendor list.

**Our February novel is: Julia by Sandra Newman** **This month is a classic, dystopian, fiction, literary fiction, women’s fiction, and science fiction novel. The book is 394 pages in print and 14 hours and 20 minutes on audiobook.** **An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman.** Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwell’s 1984. All her life, Julia has known only Oceania, and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeating every political slogan while believing in nothing. She routinely breaks the rules, but also collaborates with the regime when necessary. Everyone likes Julia. Then one day she finds herself walking toward Winston Smith in a corridor and impulsively slips him a note, setting in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story. Julia takes us on a surprising journey through Orwell’s now-iconic dystopia, with twists that reveal unexpected sides not only to Julia, but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe. This unique perspective lays bare our own world in haunting and provocative ways, just as the original did almost seventy-five years ago.

Our group, KIND MEALS, will be picking up the tab for pizzas, at MIKEY'S LATE NIGHT SLICE, on Sunday, February 8th from 12-2pm. We will be trying out MIKEY'S Vegan Fake-ass BBQ Chick'n pizza and Vegan Fake-ass Pepperoni pizza, as well as some other special vegan pizzas that are served there. All the vegan pizzas are covered with Selfish Cow vegan cheese. The pizza is free, drinks on your own. Join us to learn more about **[KIND MEALS](https://kindmealscolumbus.org)** (a 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Cols. Ohio, providing hunger relief services to those in need). All of the food we serve is fresh and vegan! If you love working with community, being of service, looking to hang with some fun like-minded people, and just love to socialize on a Sunday afternoon, join us for some FREE vegan pizzas at MIKEY'S LATE NIGHT on 4th and Main. Mikey said the more the merrier!

**I’m planning future book club meetups and would love your input. Please choose your top three from the list below—your picks will help decide what we read next!** **Book Options** *The Hong Kong Widow* – Kristen Loesch *American Spy* – Lauren Wilkinson *God of the Woods* – Liz Moore *Listen for the Lie* – Amy Tintera *The Swallows* – Lisa Lutz *The Drowning Kind* – Jennifer McMahon *The Eights* – Joanna Miller *The Quiet Librarian* – Allen Eskens Thanks so much for sharing your pick! Please **reply in the comments** with your top three. I can’t wait to see which books rise to the top and to discuss them together at our next meetups.

🎉 You’re Invited! 🍩 Join Columbus Vegan Meetup for a fun community gathering at Monster Baby Donuts, a vegan, peanut & gluten-free, local family-owned business that just opened their new storefront! They started as a beloved food truck, and now they have a permanent location. 📍 700 Bryden Rd, Columbus, OH 43205 🗓 Saturday, January 31 ⏰ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Come enjoy amazing donuts, meet other vegans, and help grow our community with people who share your values. It’s a great opportunity to connect, support a local vegan business, and have a good time. 🥪🥗 The shop also has ready-to-go sandwiches and salads. 🚗 Ample parking in the back. Everyone is welcome — see you there! 🌱💚