Unless otherwise noted, Quarterly Membership Meetings begin at 6:00 PM on the first Friday of March, June, September and December. The business meeting follows supper at the Old South Pancake House unless changed. The December meeting is traditionally our Holiday Party and the meeting where official business and election of officers takes place. Members, guests, and interested persons are invited to attend any of our meetings. Location and details will be published in the newsletter, and provided below.
Holiday PartyPlanning for our Holiday Party is getting started. Check back later for details. If you have a suggestion for entertainment, contact Connie Cross (817) 875-2381.
This is also our annual general meeting of the club, when official business is conducted. We will be electing officers for 2025 and conducting any other necessary business. Nominating committee results will be published here soon.
The Nominating Committee's nominees for 2025 are
Nominations from the floor are accepted so long as the person has agreed to serve prior to nomination.
Board meetings generally are held immediately following our Ethnic Luncheon on the third Saturday of each month at the restaurant. No Board meeting is scheduled for those months with a quarterly meeting. Contact an officer or Board member for information, if you wish to attend a Board meeting.
Ethnic Luncheons are held at noon on the third Saturday. Please
contact Judy Williams (817) 680-9316 [text, not voice] by Wednesday prior to the dinner, unless otherwise noted below, in order to assist in determining a reservation count.
Restaurants have come and gone. Do you know of a new ethnic restaurant or an old one that we haven't visited in a while? Contact Judy Williams and let her know. She would really like to have your suggestion.
Rockfish Seafood Grill (click for menu)With the postponement of our Sarasota Inbound, our ethnic dinner and board meeting have been changed to our normal day and time.
This is the newest Rockfish location, in Fort Worth.
Rockfish is noted for a wide selection of excellent seafood items, with everything from Alaskan cod to crawfish etoufee.
Beer, wine and spirits may be purchased.
Join us for good food, good friends and lots of good conversation. Guests and interested non-members are always welcome.
We have an "It's a match" to host Azerbaijan. Details will be announced at a later date.
We have not been assigned an international inbound journey for 2024.
New Zealand, November 8-21, 2024
Unfortunately, there was not enough interest in this Journey to reach a minimum level of participation.
Memphis, Tennessee
Sarasota, FloridaAfter our Journey to Sarasota, we will do a reciprocal hosting of Sarasota. Sharon Jackson is the Journey Coordinator for this inbound. They will be hosted first by Dallas, and we are anticipating that they will arrive at the Trinity Rail station on Lancaster St. (parking on Vickery).
Due to Hurricane Merlin making landfall at Sarasota on the day they were planning to fly to Dallas, the Sarasota Inbound Journey has been postponed. New dates for this journey will be set once Sarasota has recovered from the hurricane.
Western North CarolinaWe will journey to Western North Carolina next July. Check back for details soon.
Sarasota, FloridaFifteen ambassadors from five different clubs were hosted by the Sarasota club, and we really enjoyed the people and the interesting features of Sarasota that they showed us. Bad weather disrupted a planned boat tour and ski show, but everyone found alternative activities, and a second boat tour went off without a hitch, even though the day started off rainy. The planned activities included
Ambassadors had fun doing many other individual activities with their hosts.
Linda Doyle, as usual, did a great job of coordinating this Domestic Journey.
The Saints and Sinners Cemetery Tour is an entertaining and informative afternoond of Fort Worth history, as we wander the cemetery and are introduced to some of Fort Worth's most colorful citizens of the past.
Optionally, you can join us for lunch at 11:00 AM:
Mercardo Juarez (click for menu)
1651 East Northside DriveCheck back for more details later.
If you have an interesting place, within 150 miles or so, that you think our club would enjoy, and would be willing to help organize, contact Jeri Edmunds (682) 559-9335. We can put it on the list for this year or next.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, FFI and other groups created numerous interesting and entertaining opportunities for Friendship Force members to help us stay involved in international "virtual" cultural events. Many of these activities, including the Book Club, are still going on, post pandemic. The latest Virtual Experiences are available HERE on the FFI website, or go to your My Friendship Force member portal.
FFI also includes a time zone converter link on appropriate Virtual Experience blog entries.
