Date Event
Monday-Thursday The Walking Club
Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 Book Club
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 Games Night
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025 The KFNV Friends Club Luncheon
Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 Coffee and Conversation
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 Highlight Event
Events
The King Farm Neighbors Village (KFNV) started its 2025 events with Movie Club yesterday where participants discussed the movie, Women Talking, a 2022 drama based on the Canadian 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews. Participants agreed that the movie was a beautifully written screenplay about the horrors that women suffered through mass serial rapes in a Bolivian Mennonite settlement of Manitoba Colony. Although disturbing to watch, Movie Club reviewers agreed it was a film that more than deserved to be watched.
Other events that are planned for January are:
- The KFNV Walking Club continues its daily jaunts Monday-Thursday at 4 pm, except in the case of inclement weather. The group meets in the park across from The Fontina Grille.
- On Thursday, January 9, 2025 from 12:30 -2:00 pm, KFNV Book Club participants will discuss the Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich. Based on events from the life of Erdrich’s grandfather, The Night Watchman is about tribal chairman Thomas Wazhashk’s efforts to fight against the push for Indian termination in 1953, which would have resulted in the dispossession of Native American lands.
3. On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, the KFNV will host its monthly games night from 7:00-9:00 pm in the King Farm Community Center. Come out and enjoy some competitive fun with your King Farm neighbors. You do not have to be a member of the KFNV to join in the fun. The KFNV will provide various board games, but you are welcome to bring your own game(s) as well. In addition, please bring your own snacks and drinks to nibble on and sip as you play your favorite board game.
4. On Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 1:00-3:00 pm, please join The KFNV Friends Club for their monthly lunch at Farmsook Thai Restaurant, 800 King Farm Boulevard, Rockville, MD. You do not have to be a KFNV member to participate in this luncheon; although this is a KFNV Friends Club meetup and everyone is responsible to pay for their own lunch. Come out and join your friends for the first Friends Club lunch of 2025!
- On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, Coffee & Conversation participants will meet in the King Farm Community Center from 10:00 -11:30 am to discuss the Coffee &Conversation topics for the new year: What places in the area would you like to visit, which topics would you like to discuss, and which speakers would you like to hear from?
- On Thursday, January 23, 2025 from 4:00-5:00 pm in the King Farm Community Center, Ms. Ann Garrett “Garrie” King Black, the granddaughter of W. Lawson King, who in 1925 purchased the farmhouse and land that became known as King Farm will offer her presentation: The Story of King Farm. The KFNV hopes to join with many community members in exploring the origin story of King Farm through Ms. Black’s presentation. Membership in the KFNV is not required for attendance at this presentation
Services
The KFNV continues to support King Farm residents with its community services: transportation to appointments, simple household tasks, friendly phone calls/texts, and friendly visits. Please feel free to avail yourself of all of the community services that the KFNV offers. If you are in doubt about whether a task could be performed by one of the KFNV volunteers, go ahead and fill out the service form on the KFNV website. Our Operations Team will get back to you to determine if the task is under our umbrella of tasks. Also, please note that services are open to KFNV members only; however, membership is free and an easy process. See below on how to contact the KFNV to schedule any of the services or with any questions that you may have about the services as well as how to become a KFNV member.
Volunteers
The KFNV is always looking for “Neighbors helping Neighbors” to provide community services to its members like drives to appointments, friendly visits and phone calls, and help with simple household tasks. Volunteers are an important part of the KFNV. Please feel free to contact the Operations Coordinator for any questions you may have about becoming a KFNV volunteer by calling (301) 799-8104, emailing to kfnvinfo@gmail.com , or viewing the KFNV website at www.kfnv.org for information as well as an on-line form to fill out to become a KFNV volunteer. The KFNV thanks you for your consideration in becoming a KFNV volunteer.
Contacting the KFNV
For most of the KFNV monthly events as well as the services, membership is required; but membership is as easy as filling out an on-line or mail-in form with residency in the King Farm community being the only membership requirement. We are a multi-generational Village; therefore, the KFNV welcomes all adult King Farm residents of all ages.
Although there is no fee to become a KFNV member, the KFNV does, however, accept and welcome donations; for these donations help defray the cost of KFNV services and events. The end of year is a perfect time to donate to the KFNV as contributions to the KFNV are charitable contributions per the IRS.
For information on how to register for any of the above events, to request a service or a ride, to become a KFNV member or a volunteer, or to make a donation, please contact the Operations Coordinator by calling (301) 799-8104 to leave a voicemail, emailing the KFNV at kfnvinfo@gmail.com , or viewing the KFNV website at www.kfnv.org.