5/28/11

1 Year Anniversary

Counterpoint Celebrates its 1 Year Anniversary!
View a 15-minute presentation about our activities and accomplishments in our first year!
http://www.counterpointgroup.org/uploads/MyVideos/1_Year_H.wmv

5/26/11

May 2011

Upcoming Events
  • Counterpoint Dinner Party - Tuesday, June 21, 6:30 PM, Torrance, CA 
  • Kitchen Drive: We will be collecting kitchenware of all kinds for local transition center for the homeless.
    • Pots and Pans
    • Plates, Bowls
    • Cups, Glassware, Coffee Mugs
    • Utensils, Knives, Spoons, Forks
    • Gadgets
Things You Can Do
  • Rummage through your kitchen and see what you can find that you can spare. 
    • Bring them to our next dinner
    • Email us for a pick up
    • Drop them off at a shelter or transition center near yo
May Dinner Topics
  • Counterpoint had its 1 Year Anniversary!:  We had a wonderful evening reminiscing the past year and looking at all our accomplishments as individuals and as a group.  Hear's to another year!
  • Filtered Vodka Tasting The results are in!  In a blind taste test it was unanimous - the cheap vodka filtered through a water filter tasted better than the expensive vodka out of the bottle.
    • How is this relevant?  In out April dinner we were discussing how bad plastic bottles were to the environment.  One alternative is to filter your own water instead of buying bottled water.  Then it was mentioned that filtering could make cheap vodka taste as good or better than expensive vodka, so we had to try it.  (You had to have been there...
  • Lend A Hand for Japan George McMullen conducted his Los Angeles Harbor College Studio Jazz Orchestra at this Charity Fund raising event with Live Jazz Music and Art in Long Beach, CA on May 15.