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Empower Your Ride: Basic Car Maintenance for Women (May)
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Empower Your Ride: Basic Car Maintenance for Women (May)

$29

with Louis Babcock

This hands-on workshop aims to empower women with essential car maintenance skills, building confidence and independence in managing their vehicles. Participants will learn foundational car care, safety checks, and problem-solving strategies for common issues, taught in a supportive, welcoming environment.  

Topics:

  • Understanding Under the Hood
  • Tire Maintenance & Changing a Flat Tire
  • Battery Maintenance and Jump-Starting a Car
  • Essential Emergency Kit & Safety Tips
  • Resources for more information

This is an in-person class.

Getting Your Affairs in Order-Estate Planning

$10

with Elizabeth Young

Calendar May 5, 2025 at 11 am, runs for 3 weeks

You accumulate assets over time and may forget to look at the big picture.  For example, you start a small retirement account at your first job and name a beneficiary at that time; you buy a piece of land while you’re still single; you inherit money and deposit it to your checking account.  When you die, each of those assets will follow different distribution paths. 

“Estate Planning” is about getting documents prepared to plan for your future AND about making sure you’ve got your i’s dotted and your t’s crossed.  You don’t have to be rich or old to go through this process.    

Join Rebecca Sargent and Elizabeth Young, with Jones, Kuriloff & Sargent, LLC, to learn about the documents and considerations.  There’s the financial power of attorney (i.e., who's going to pay your bills when you no longer can); medical power of attorney (i.e., who will make medical decisions if you’re incapacitated); and your Will (i.e., what happens to your assets when you die). 

This workshop is for people who want to learn the basics about estate planning.  If you have put off thinking about these issues because you don't know where to start or what questions to ask, this workshop is for you!  This is an in-person class.

Full Course
Composting with Worms (Vermicomposting) for Beginners
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Composting with Worms (Vermicomposting) for Beginners

$39

with Despe Lebel

In this class, we will explore how to turn our food waste, and organic waste matter into compost using the smallest little helpers around...worms! We will begin with a very brief overview of the whys and hows of composting, discuss worm bin options, what to compost in your bin, how many worms one might need, what kind of worms to use, what kind of bedding to use, troubleshooting your worm bin, and so much more! This will all be taught in two classes. In the second class, you will make your own bin to bring home so you can get started right away!

Despe has been in the business of creating healthier soils, and comunities for both and non-profit business for the last ten years. She began creating compost and experimenting with different techniques while working in the community gardens, as well as her own large production garden when she realized how expensivie the store bought could be! In 2023, she started Lebel's Lane Landscaping in hopes of pursing a more intentional way to help customers acheive beauty in their gardens, in a sustainable and eco -friendly way.

Dandelion Food & Tea Workshop

$65

with Jessica Steele

Calendar May 15, 2025 at 4 pm

Do you know all the amazing things you can make from dandelions?   

Join us in this class to learn how to collect and process these amazing plants. Learn recipes with dandelion greens, use dandelion flowers to make jams, teas and wines, and go over the beneficial properties of dandelion roots. We will taste, create and make some delicious dishes. This is an in-person class. If a student cancels within 10 days of class. The class becomes non-refundable.

Will run

Sewing-Mending Basics (Interest List Only)

Free

with To Be Determined

Sewing has become a lost art for most people.  Some sewing such as hemming, repairing tears and replacing buttons can save you a lot of time and money if you do it yourself. 

Join us to learn the basics. You'll learn the tools and techniques while making your own sewing kit, including sewing on buttons and snaps, repairing a rip in your jeans, or fixing a hole in your shirt. You'll also learn to hem pants and a skirt, and fix a separated zipper or broken zipper pull.  Supplies will be provided.  This is an in-person class.

Full Course




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