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ORCA’s 2025 Annual

Arts & Crafts Fair

Drew a Large Crowd

On November 1, twenty-four of our very talented neighbors filled the Ridge Center with their beautiful creations.

Many of us went home with new art work, jewelry, resin work, stained glass, baked goods, soaps, pottery and so much more.

Sponsored by Ocean Ridge Charities Association (ORCA), the Annual Arts & Crafts Fair was held indoors for the first time, sheltered from any potential weather issues at its prior location, the Nature Pavilion.

Cards4aCause had beautiful, handmade gift tags available for a freewill donation. And the field studies group had a table highlighting their efforts to place bluebird nesting boxes around the neighborhood.

ORCA also sold raffle tickets for a beautiful holiday quilt which will be raffled off on December 6 at the Holiday Marketplace Raffle. Fair goers had the opportunity to pre-purchase their raffle tickets for the December event and International Dining Club memberships were also on sale.

For added convenience, the Sharper Edge Professional Sharpening Service was onsite to sharpen your knives, scissors and yard tools while you shopped. A portion of those proceeds also benefited ORCA.

Thank you to all who participated... crafters, lookers and buyers.

Special THANKS to the many ORCA Service Club volunteers who helped us in so many ways.. directing traffic, setup, ticket sales, clean up... We couldn’t do this without you!

Proceeds will be bundled with the monies from our other holiday events and will go to support Brunswick Electric's 'Warm Homes, Warm Hearts'.

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Next Hospice Doll Meeting:

Wednesday, November 12th

1:00 - 3:00 PM

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, November 12th from 1:00 - 3:00 PM at the Ridge Center.

This month we are making material Christmas trees to decorate Hospice patients’ rooms.

Please come join us. It only requires stuffing, folding and pinning fabric onto a Styrofoam cup.

Let’s have fun and show Hospice patients that we care and are praying for them.

There will be no Hospice Dolls meeting in December. See you in January.

Contact: Heidi Root

Cell: 910-880-5801 or email: heidimarie007@hotmail.com

‘Thank You’ for Supporting

ORCA’s Sweet Treats

Ocean Ridge Charities Association was very excited to partner with the Social Activities Committee, the Men’s Grilled Dinner Group and our many fabulous neighborhood bakers to offer ‘Desserts’ for purchase during the monthly ‘Tunes At The Pool’ events this summer.

Together we raised nearly $1,900 for The Veteran’s Welcome Home Center and Brunswick Family Assistance.

And a HUGE shout out to the numerous bakers (many of whom baked multiple times) for their amazing, delicious and creative cookies, bars, brownies and cupcakes. We could not have done this without EACH of you!

International Dining Club

Memberships Available!

The Ocean Ridge Charities Association (ORCA) is once again selling 14 month International Dining Club memberships.

Due to the printing schedule this time of year, we are able to offer a 14 month membership, good from November 1, 2025 through December 30, 2026. (Regular memberships are for a 12 month period.) The price remains at $35 per membership. ORCA makes $10 on your purchase.

These memberships will be available for purchase at the ORCA Annual Arts and Crafts Fair on November 1 at the Ridge Center. If you are unable to attend the fair and would like to buy one, please contact Sue Tunnacliffe at 609-529-5114, jasa25@aol.com.

There are some new additions this year, with over 100 restaurants/businesses. Each coupon is good for 12 visits at each location offering various discounts. A few examples of the restaurant choices are: Café Amalfi, Martini, Thoroughbreds, House of Blues, Greg Norman, Ciao!, La Cucina in Sunset Beach, Casa Villa Mexican in Little River and San Felipe in Shallotte. To see the full listing of possibilities, go to: www.idc241dining.com. Press the South Carolina button for more details.

If you enjoy going out to great restaurants and getting money off doing it, consider buying this membership. It’s also fun getting together with some friends and neighbors and buying them for nights out with your friends. These also make great presents for your friends and new neighbors!

This program, along with others we run and the generosity of you and your neighbors has allowed ORCA to donate over 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS (in cash and commodities) to charities in Brunswick County since 2010.