We are starting a standing Thirsty Thursday event for Guys' Night Out. We will meet on the Third Thursday of every month. Same time, same place. Cash bar. This is a Winchester Neighbors Club event but non-members are also welcome. Spread the word. Email Juleby Hirsh or Sven Andersen at if you have any questions or would like to be added to the email list. GET THIRSTY!

Winchester Cooperative Theatre presents Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at McCall Middle School, Special Performance Tuesday March 23rd at 4:00 pm. Proceeds to benefit the Ginn Playground Restoration Project. Tickets for this special performance are $15 and will be sold only at the door. Attendees to this special performance may also win a GOLDEN TICKET and a chance to win a Wonka worthy prize. Additional performances from 3/19-3/28.

Come share in the adventure of Charlie Bucket and four other lucky Golden Ticket holders as they tour the famed Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. Winchester Coop Theatre's group of 4th, 5th and 6th graders bring to life the magical world inside this delicious factory with song and dance. Replete with chocolate rivers, delightful Oompa-Loompas and an original score, this energetic production is not to be missed!

Let the Winchester Neighbors Club take you From Aspen to Antigua, all to benefit the Ginn Playground Restoration Project. Food by Green Olive, steel drum music by PanNeubean Steel, an open beer and wine bar, and the opportunity to purchase a variety of once in a lifetime experiences in silent and live auctions await you. Some of the amazing auction items include the opportunity to spend 2011's April vacation week at a fabulous 4 bedroom villa in the five star resort Peninsula Papagayo in Costa Rica, a private outing aboard a luxury Hinckley Picnic boat, and ice time with pro hockey player Paul Mara. Look for your invitations in the mail, and get your tickets soon! Beginning March 1, 2010, all remaining tickets will be sold for $125 to WNC members and the general public alike. For more information on the Ginn Playground Restoration Project, go to http://www.beGINNagain.com.

Tickets are $125 each. Please be sure to enter your desired quantity after you click the "Buy Now" button.

Our April meeting will be a discussion of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. We postponed this book discussion from February to April, to give everyone more time to get through it. Atlas Shrugged is a book about Ayn Rand's philosophy and vision for the world. In a 1998 Random House/Modern Library readers' poll, Atlas Shrugged was named the greatest novel of the twentieth century.