We are focusing on the need for foster families in Orange County, as well as in N.C.  We have three guests from the Orange County Social Services Department who will speak about the challenges, and needs of foster care. Courtney Byrd: Foster Home Licensing Social Worker. Courtney has many years of experience both as a […]

Each fall, EHST has a meeting of members, friends, and visitors to discuss how the current year has gone, and what looms ahead for the next calendar year.  Our programs, budget, board activity, and needs are reviewed during the meeting.  Questions are encouraged, which we will attempt to answer, as is feedback, to allow all […]

EHST Member Gretchen Niver joined a few members of the Skeptics Society, and others, on an Arctic and Greenland cruise on the Swan Hellenic Vega in early October. Learning about Inuit societies in Greenland and Northern Canada, and visiting such unique landscapes was a thrilling experience, which also included Northern Lights, sled dog puppies, icebergs, […]

We will discuss the results of the November 5th election and what it means to us individually as well as an organization dedicated to nontheism, separation of church and state, and freedom of and from religion.  Will the election make our lives and our commitments easier or more difficult?  What lessons do we take away […]

What inspires an ordinary person to volunteer in a distant country that's at war, where even the alphabet is unfamiliar? What would the experience be like? And why might they be willing to return? You're invited to hear the story of Philip Semanchuk who has been to Ukraine three times in the past year and […]