You are cordially invited to attend the second annual Lori’s Hands Does Chocolate!
We have a lot to celebrate this year: from resuming in-home visits to kicking off our third chapter in Metro Detroit, MI, Lori’s Hands has continued to connect more community members with chronic illness and student volunteers in meaningful, mutually beneficial service learning partnerships.
Lori’s Hands Does Chocolate will bring together friends new and old from near and far for an afternoon of chocolate tasting, trivia, and conversation. Sign up as a group or as an individual (we’ll do our best to stack your team!), but be sure to bring your A-game. The winning team will be rewarded with some of our guest chocolate sommelier’s favorite chocolates!
Estelle Tracy, founder of 37 Chocolates, is an expert in chocolate. She has specially selected chocolate for us to taste, learn about, and enjoy together.
When you purchase a ticket, we’ll send you 3 chocolate bars, which we’ll ask you to save for the event. Each chocolate bar delivery has enough for up to 4 participants to taste and enjoy. A cross-chapter event, we’ll be meeting via Zoom so everyone can join in together.
And don’t forget your raffle tickets to get in the running to win some amazing gifts! Once you’ve purchased your raffle tickets, we’ll send you an email with a link to tell us which items you want to win!
Can’t join us? Please consider sponsoring a client or student ticket!
Don’t wait! Purchase your tickets here. We hope to see you on May 1st!

The second annual chocolate night sounds like a good reason to get people in the same room. Our neighborhood group runs a bake sale every spring, and the organizing is mostly group texts and a folding table, so I get the appeal of an evening that’s just about showing up and eating.
My own paperwork this week was a school trip consent form and a stack of receipts for a reimbursement. The portal wanted a scanned-looking PDF and my printer has been out of ink since March, so I ran the digital file through lensup.ai — it nudges in a slight tilt and a little paper grain, which is roughly what a clerk behind a desk expects to see. The files stay on the laptop and the processing happens in the browser tab. The compression aims at the size you pick, though it can land a bit over, so I check the number before I hit submit.