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The Orange County Republican Executive Committee (OCREC) is hosting the Lincoln Day Dinner event at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, 9939 Universal Blvd., Orlando, FL 32819. The event will be held on March 12, 2010 and Sarah Palin will be the guest speaker.

To learn more, please visit www.palintickets.com. For information not included on the site, please e-mail lincolnday@ocrec.org or call 407-385-5156.

The Northwest Orange Republican Women, Federated (NORWF) is pleased to announce Frances Rice, Esquire – Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (Retired), co-founder and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association as our program/speaker for the February 18, 2010 general membership meeting and luncheon at 11:00AM at Errol Estate Country Club. She speaks frequently to groups on the role of African Americans returning to their roots in the Republican Party, the party of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the King family.

Frances Rice’s great-great-grandparents were slaves.  She spent her formative years in poverty in the segregated South during the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s. Over the years Frances pulled herself out of poverty.  She joined the Army in 1964 as a Private and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel after 20 years of active service. 

To learn more, please visit the NBRA website: www.nbra.info

NORWF meets the third Thursday of each month at 11:00AM at Errol Estate Country Club. The cost of the luncheon is $17 and advanced reservations are required. Please call Mary Smothers at 407-889-4009 for more information or mail your check to NORWF, PO Box 56, Apopka, FL 32704-0056 to be received by February 12, 2010.