{"id":32,"date":"2011-03-08T06:41:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T06:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2025-04-14T02:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:20:33","slug":"gatherings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/?page_id=32","title":{"rendered":"Global Gals Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>January 29 &#8211; Volunteer at San Diego Food Bank<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 26 &#8211; Planning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 20 &#8211; Estate Planning and Fiduciary &#8211; Rachel Allums, Estate Planner and Markala Comfort, Fiduciary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 23 &#8211; Accessory Exchange at Heather&#8217;s Home<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 29 &#8211; Poker at Heidi&#8217;s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 25 &#8211; Sunset walk in La Jolla<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July &#8211; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August  &#8211; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September &#8211; Catamaran with Heidi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October &#8211; <em>Suffs<\/em> at the Civic Theater<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November  &#8211;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>December &#8211; Holiday Giving &#8211; San Diego Rescue Mission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Previous Years<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 25 &#8211; Planning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 29  &#8211;  Long Term Care after Retirement with Heidi Fifield<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 21 &#8211; Special speaker Shamail Amiri (former asylum seeker)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 25 &#8211; The Hot Spot pottery painting in Liberty Station<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 23 &#8211; Cake decorating with Angela Cavendar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 26 &#8211; Sunset walk in Ocean Beach<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July 24 &#8211; Balboa Park twilight concert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 28 &#8211; Casual friend fest at Julie&#8217;s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 22 &#8211; Sunday Funday on the Catamaran with Heidi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 24 &#8211; Election prep at Suzanne&#8217;s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November  &#8211;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>December 4 &#8211; Holiday Sponsor-A-Family &#8211; Interfaith Community Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 26 &#8211; Planning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February  &#8211;  None<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 23 &#8211; A Few of Our Favorite Things<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 27 &#8211; Councilmember Raul Campillo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 25 &#8211; Native Plant Gardening and Bees, Patricia Simpson, hosted by Heather<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June &#8211; Annual beach walk, Coronado<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July 27- Dr. Barbakoff, DC, DACNB, hosted by Jen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 24 &#8211; Joanne Standlee, Housing 4 the Homeless, hosted by Sharon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 28  &#8211; Book Exchange<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 19  &#8211; Lisa Silvestro, Nurse Practitioner, La Jolla Recovery<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November  &#8211;  None<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>December 7  &#8211; Holiday Sponsor-A-Family &#8211; Interfaith Community Services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 20 &#8211; None<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 24 &#8211; The Power of Philanthropy with Gretchen Viehl <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 31 &#8211; Vision Board<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April &#8211; None<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 18 &#8211; Planning for the Rest of 2022 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June &#8211; None<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July 31 &#8211; Mission Bay Walk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 24 &#8211; Chocolate Making at Sweet Petite <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 2  &#8211; Boat cruise around San Diego Bay &#8211; Linda Rees<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 19 &#8211; Election Prep<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November  &#8211; None<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>December 7 &#8211; Holiday Adopt-A-Family &#8211; Interfaith Community Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 20 &#8211; Celebrate the Election of Kamala Harris, VP of the United States &#8211; Inauguration Day &#8211; Zoom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 24 &#8211; Essence of Life Pre-Party &#8211; Guest Speaker Gretchen Veihl, Dir of Philanthropy, ElderHelp San Diego &#8211; Zoom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 25 &#8211; City of San Diego Recycling &#8211; guest speaker, Andrea De Leon &#8211; Zoom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April -none<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May &#8211; North Park walk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June &#8211; Summertime Creative presented by Megan Moore, Business Coach<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July &#8211; Drag show at The Rail &#8211; Hotel Diablo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August &#8211; none<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September &#8211; none<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October &#8211; Soup&#8217;s On &#8211; Share your favorite fall soup recipe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November &#8211;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>December 2 &#8211; &#8220;She the People&#8221; at Lyceum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 30 &#8211; Essence of Life Pre-Party &#8211; Guest Speaker Gretchen Veihl, Dir of Philanthropy, ElderHelp San Diego<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 27 &#8211; 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(Limited to 9 gals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 8 &#8211; Hang out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 12 &#8211; Canceled<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 10 &#8211; Public Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 14 &#8211; Canceled<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July 12 &#8211; Dr Amy Chadwick, ND, FACEMIP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 9 &#8211; Kundalini yoga and meditation &#8211; Sharon Wampler (hosted by Sharon in Bird Rock)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 13 &#8211; Heidi Klippel &#8211; Family Estate Planning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 11 &#8211; Favorite Things<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November 8 &#8211; Nicolee McMahon &#8211; Practice Immediacy in the Arts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>December 6 *** Earlier date*** SAY San Diego Adopt-A-Family Giftwrap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jan 13 &#8211; Planning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 10 &#8211; Heather Harris, photo storage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 9 &#8211; none<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 13 -Meet and Greet &#8211; Bring a girlfriend or 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 11 &#8211; 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