<div dir="ltr"><span style="" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-69c483a1-b136-486d-daab-a191b7ab55c3"><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Good afternoon!</span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for your ongoing support and recent coverage of Soft Landing Missoula. We have an exciting opportunity that we would like to share regarding our next lecture series.</span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Please review the information below and let me know if you have questions or would like to schedule an interview!</span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Mary Poole</span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Soft Landing Missoula</span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Executive Director</span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:info@softlandingmissoula.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">info@softlandingmissoula.org</span></a><br></span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Soft Landing Missoula Presents Out of Syria: History, Conflict and Building a New Life</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fifth lecture in series to be held Tuesday, April 17, 2018</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Soft Landing Missoula today announces the fifth installment of the highly successful lecture series, “Soft Landing Missoula Presents”. The lecture, titled “Out of Syria: History, Conflict and Building a New Life” will be held on Tuesday, April 18 at 6 p.m. at the University of Montana UC Theater. The lecture will explore historic and present day Syria through the eyes of the refugee families that have been resettled in Missoula. This event is free to the public; all are welcome and encouraged to attend.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“It has been a gift to get to know these families from Syria” Mary Poole, Soft Landing Missoula’s Executive Director, said, “We are honored to have been given the privilege and trust to tell a small part of their stories and their incredible journey home to Missoula”.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Local Syrian refugees have offered much of the content for this talk and will reflect on their homeland and their experiences coming to the Missoula community. Topics such as what was left behind, hopes for the future of Syria, and thoughts on now living in Missoula will be explored.</span><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YQ5pSho71A-JN3WVxI0UkpZ9Xt0GvgCrjmbTl8-1VQAIVqOmtsnBuH4SWBQ0euTX0KBWuUVQGE7O47MbLCOmSeFhK-CwcQJANf2MEF0uIVUZ3mKT9AYEi1HNM4w256AomA" width="387" height="503" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);"></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The talk will be presented by Brendan Work, Missoula County Public Schools’ Arabic teacher since 2012. Work previously learned the language and used Arabic as a reporter and editor in the West Bank. He has volunteered in southern Lebanon, taken students to Morocco, and works with Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Missoula. He was educated at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and holds a master's degree in education from the University of Montana. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This lecture is sponsored by the University of Montana Global Engagement Office, UM College of Humanities and Sciences, and The Franke Global Leaders Initiative. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information or to schedule an interview, contact Mary Poole at </span><a href="mailto:info@softlandingmissoula.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">info@softlandingmissoula.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div>