NOTICE: We have canceled our regular September OPAS membership meeting, which we would have held on September 15th. We decided to do this for several reasons including: new surge of COVID-19 infections, schedule slippage for the meeting room availability in the River Center’s expansion project, Zoom fatigue on the part of our potential speakers, and low attendance at our most recent Zoom membership meetings.  

 We plan for and fully intend to resume our regular monthly - in person - membership meetings on October 20 at 7:00 p.m. in the new Center’s main meeting room. We’ll likely be on old chairs and tables and using a portable projector and screen, but the room is expected to be usable by then. We’ll plan to park in the new parking area, east of the building. It may not be paved, but it will be usable. Please watch our OPAS website and Facebook pages for additional information on the status of the new building and its facilities. We’ll plan on having brief guided walk throughs of the new building, as a preamble to our October meeting, starting at 6:30 p.m.  

Again, watch for further electronic information on the October meeting as the date gets nearer. Thanks again for your  patience and support over the past year and a half. We will be back and better!  

 And, we’re unclear on how to plan for the fall and winter changes due to COVID-19 protocols and mandates. Public health conditions may again press us back into virtual programs? masks? social distancing? regardless of the status of the new building.

Look forward to seeing y’all again soon! 

Ken Wiersema