2012 has gotten off to a great start, with a lovely presentation on Sausalito’s sister-city, Viña del Mar, Chile, held at the Spinnaker restaurant in downtown Sausalito. Kudos to Lee Daley for coordinating the event, and for working with the presenters who were in attendance. Over the course of the...

Joining our ranks as an Active Member is San Francisco-based Mary Jean Pramik. We look forward to welcoming Mary Jean in person at our next meeting.

Wear your green and celebrate the launch of BATW’s Writer’s Anthology at Book Passage, in Corte Madera, on March 17. More details to come as we approach the date.

Last year was a busy one for the Board: bylaws revisions, updating the member handbook, launching the From the Board column, launching the first BATW travel anthology, launching evening meetings, hosting the largest-ever Associates trade show, producing a stellar line-up of programs. The list goes on. And...

Maria Lenhart, of San Francisco, returns to the BATW fold as an Active Member. We look forward to seeing her at upcoming events.

BATW February Evening Meeting February 15, 2012 – 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Presidio Branch of the San Francisco Public Library Thanks go to Lakshman Ratnapala for presenting this stellar evening (first evening meeting of the year!) and securing all the prizes; also to Erin Caslavka for arranging the venue,...

Only two people I know can make it snow on command – Mother Nature and Molly Blaisdell. November’s BATW meeting was a colorful kickoff to the holiday season, complete with snow in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco. (See Georgia Hesse’s article for the full story.) But while...

Audrey Medina joins us from Placerville (heck-of-a commute!) and Eren Goknar, from Sunnyvale. We look forward to meeting both new members at our upcoming events.

BATW January Meeting January 21, 2012  – 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Spinnaker Restaurant, Sausalito Thanks go to Lee Daley, who has planned the January 21 meeting at one of Sausalito’s most notable restaurants. We plan to meet and greet at 11 a.m., followed by the general meeting and a presentation by...

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