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Hey LIX Chicks!

Just a reminder that our Monthly Coffee Meetings have moved to The Roasted Cherry at 93 O’Connor Street at the corner of Slater.

The next meeting is Tuesday, February 6th from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. We are very excited about having our own private space and look forward to showing it to you.

Thanks again to LIX member, Maggie, for finding us this space!

AND we have an update about the LIX dinner/speaker meeting. We have confirmed the final details and are very proud to announce that we have two lesbian authors speaking!

Helen Humphreys and Alex Brett will both be sharing the ‘stage’ at The Pantry.

Helen is an award-winning author of five books of prose and four books of poetry.

She will be reading to you from her latest novel Wild Dogs.

Some of you may have had the privilege of hearing Helen read at Wilde About Sappho in 2005.

We are absolutely thrilled that she agreed to drive down from Kingston for our LIX event!

Alex is an Ottawa gal. She has published two mystery books,
Cold Dark Matter and Dead Water Creek, both part of the Morgan O’Brien series.

We are delighted to introduce Alex to the LIX chicks.

Both Helen and Alex will have copies of their books for sale before and after dinner. And speaking of which…the dinner/speaker meeting will take place on Monday, March 19th at The Pantry Vegetarian Café, 175 Third Avenue in the Glebe Community Centre. When you enter on Third Ave., go up the main staircase to the second floor…where you’ll see the LIX table. Doors open at 6:00.

Carolyn, the owner of The Pantry, has created another fabulous menu for us!

We will all start with Thai Pumpkin Soup and then there is a choice of entrée…either Quinoa Stuffed Peppers or Bulgar Croquettes with Cashew Gravy. (The bulgar croquettes is a vegan dish.) Both entrees are served with salad.

For dessert, Carolyn will serve each of us a ‘three dessert sampler plate’ made up of three of her most popular desserts. Beverages include coffee, and a wide variety of teas and juices. (The Pantry is an alcohol-free café.)

Thai Pumpkin Soup

Quinoa Stuffed Peppers
or
Bulgar Croquettes with Cashew Gravy

Salad

‘three dessert sampler plate’

coffee, teas and juices

The dinner will cost $30. This price includes everything…your beverages, appetizer, entrée, dessert and tip. We will be taking reservations at the February coffee meeting and through the LIX email at info@girlswanttoknow.com. In order to hold your reservation, you need to pre-pay your $30 and tell us which entrée you’d like to have.

People reserving through email will have to arrange to pay either by coming to the coffee meeting, or by dropping off your $30 to Kerry at Capital Xtra (613) 237-7133, or to Marie at her home (613) 231-4347. The Pantry only seats 45 and last year’s dinner/speaker meeting sold out in the first week. We will only hold unpaid reservations for a week.