The GFWC Woman’s Club News APRIL 2017 THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON THURSDAY, APRIL 6, at 12 noon Sponsored by the Public Issues Department Our Program : BEV PAYNE GFWC Florida Woman ’ s Club Member-At-Large Make your luncheon reservations and place to-go orders with or your Department Secretary by MONDAY, APRIL 3 Come early, meet your friends, and bring your wallets for department fundraisers! The Bee Line from President Merle Johnson April is scheduled to be a busy month for our club. We have several important events scheduled and look forward to everyone parcipang and sharing in the events: Come to the Spring Fever Market at Roberts Hall in Lynn Haven on April 1 and do some shopping with our Ways & Means commiee. We have the First Responder Luncheon on April 3 sponsored by Public Issues. The April 6 General Membership Luncheon will feature Bev Payne, Florida Woman’s Club Member at Large as our speaker. Please plan to aend and hear Bev, a dynamic, entertaining speaker represenng the state of Florida GFWC organizaon. We are also hosng the District 2 quar- terly meeng on April 29. Members from all District 2 clubs will be represented at this meeng. As sponsoring club, it would be great to have a large number of our membership aend. It ’s a great op- portunity to meet other club members and share ideas and experiences. Help will be needed to make sure all of these events are successful. If you can volunteer with any or all events, please give me or any member of the Board a call. Spring Convenon in Orlando will be April 21 to April 23. If you are interested in aending or would like more informaon, please give me a call. We have several members who are planning to aend and we would love to have you go with us. We have a good me learning more about our organiza- on, bringing that informaon back to Panama City and pung it to work in our departments. CLUB DUE$ ARE DUE: Plan to pay your $120 annual Club dues now! The deadline is May 15! This is the last year you can split your dues payment in two. See Kathleen Vance at the Luncheon for details. RENTAL CHAIRS NEEDED Not furniture, we need YOU, preferably two of you to take over our Club’s Facility Rental business. One of our primary sources of income is coordi- nang and managing the Club- house rentals. If you have landlord experience or want OJT, this is the job for you! MANY THANKS TO CAROLINE WINDHAM AND HER CO- CHAIRS FOR THEIR SERVICE!
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The GFWC Woman’s Club News
APRIL 2017
T H E G E N E R A L M E M B E R S H I P L U N C H E O N
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, at 12 noon Sponsored by the Public Issues Department
Our Program :
BEV PAYNE GFWC Florida Woman ’s Club
Member-At-Large
Make your luncheon reservations and place to-go orders with or your Department Secretary
by MONDAY, APRIL 3
Come early, meet your friends, and bring your wallets for department fundraisers!
The Bee Line from President Merle Johnson
April is scheduled to be a busy month for our club. We have several important events scheduled and look forward to everyone participating and sharing in the events:
Come to the Spring Fever Market at Roberts Hall in Lynn Haven on April 1 and do some shopping with our Ways & Means committee. We have the First Responder Luncheon on April 3 sponsored by Public Issues. The April 6 General Membership Luncheon will feature Bev Payne, Florida Woman’s Club Member at Large as our speaker. Please plan to attend and hear Bev, a dynamic, entertaining speaker representing the state of Florida GFWC organization. We are also hosting the District 2 quar-terly meeting on April 29. Members from all District 2 clubs will be represented at this meeting. As sponsoring club, it would be great to have a large number of our membership attend. It’s a great op-portunity to meet other club members and share ideas and experiences. Help will be needed to make sure all of these events are successful. If you can volunteer with any or all events, please give me or any member of the Board a call.
Spring Convention in Orlando will be April 21 to April 23. If you are interested in attending or would like more information, please give me a call. We have several members who are planning to attend and we would love to have you go with us. We have a good time learning more about our organiza-tion, bringing that information back to Panama City and putting it to work in our departments.
CLUB DUE$ ARE DUE: Plan to pay your $120 annual Club dues now! The deadline is May 15! This is the last year you can split your dues payment in two. See Kathleen Vance at the Luncheon for details.
RENTAL CHAIRS
NEEDED
Not furniture, we need YOU, preferably two of you to take over our Club’s Facility Rental business. One of our primary sources of income is coordi-nating and managing the Club-house rentals. If you have landlord experience or want OJT, this is the job for you!
MANY THANKS TO CAROLINE WINDHAM AND HER CO-
CHAIRS FOR THEIR SERVICE!
ARTS Meets 4th Thursday at 10:00 am Contacts: Beverly Long or Normandy Cooper
Our department hosted the February and March patron events for the Music Association, and have logged almost 70 service hours and earned $250 in tips! In February we visited the Bay Historical Society and learned
more about our local history. In March, we met at the historic St. An-drews Publishing Museum and Visitors Center. Center Director Ryan Ledford explained what printing the Museum still does and described their processes.
We have several project groups working on fundraising and fun efforts. TOTES: Several designs were demonstrated by Jessica Guidroz at the last project core group meeting. Plans were made for completing the totes in time to sell at Ways & Means table at Lynn Haven’s Spring Fever Mar-ket on April 1. We are also working with Nancy Wyatt of the Conserva-
tion Dept., who will be selling aprons hand-made by club members. COOKBOOK: The Cookbook project core group is planning the format, style, volume and marketing methods for our new cookbook to be online-produced and printed on-demand with recipes from club members, their friends and families. CROCHET CRAFTS: Normandy Cooper and the Knitters, Hookers, and a Cook group have made stuffed teddy bears, as well as crocheted glasses holders. All project sales will benefit our Club.
EDUCATION Meets 4th Tuesday at 11:30 am Contact: Allison Mizell
CONSERVATION Meets 3rd Thursday at 11:30 AM Contact: Pat Fenaes
We will be delivering vegetable seeds in pots to share with the Health Department’s community garden. The ferns we planted around the bare spots here at the Clubhouse to minimize erosion and make the grounds look better are thriving! Spring clean up will continue with bench cleaning and heavy bed mulching to prevent weeds. OUR WEED-BEATING SECRET: lots of newspapers, black cover cloth and thick top layer of mulch.
Nancy Wyatt has put together a gardener’s gift wagon for an April opportunity drawing at the next luncheon. We will also support Ways & Means’ April 1 Spring Fever Market sales with aprons and more. If you have green thumbs or not, join us for lunch at Po Folks.
Our department has focused its efforts this year on tutoring 3-4 afternoons a week at Girls Inc. and encouraging reading by having children sign the We Pledge to Read.
Kay Hicks recently enthralled a group of young children with a good story. As our year winds down, we can say with pride that our members have made a real difference in our community this year!
HEALTH & WELFARE Meets 4th Wednesday at 10:00 am Contact: Paula Bunch
At our March business meeting, we will firm up our plans for a “shower” for local domestic violence pro-grams at the GFWC District 2 meeting here at the end of April, pending Board approval. Our Fundraiser Hat
project has been well received. For April, we will devise an Easter Bonnet with lottery tickets on it. Plans are well underway for the May 20 Domestic Violence fundraiser, held annually at the Springfield Community Center. We will sponsor two tables at this event and welcome the Youth Department’s participation. Everyone is welcomed at this event.
INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH Meets 4th Thursday at 9:30 am Contact: Betty Bowen or Charmian Cretney
In April, Mary Davenport will report on Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, “...a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world, meeting wom-en in Asia and Africa who have overcome extreme situations.” Mary is a great story teller herself. In May, we will end the year with a Luncheon, so we will make plans for that as well.
WAYS & MEANS is Spring-ing into Action!
We have several “fun fundraisers” ahead! On Saturday, April 1, W&M will sell arts and crafts made by our members of the Arts and Conservation departments at the Spring Fever Market in Lynn Haven at Roberts Hall from 9am-3pm. Come shop! We are collecting your unwanted gold for the Solid Gold Fundraiser at the April and May luncheons. Tickets for the Mystery Dinner Theater on May 5-6 are on sale now for $20. A spring yard sale was proposed for May 13 but we have now rented the Clubhouse. Normandy Cooper agreed to make labels for “Women Make a Change” jars, a project to allow club members to collect their spare change in a designated place and turn them in to their directors when it is filled. Jars and labels will be provided. Look for them at the next Luncheon. Help support our Club and our good works!
YOUTH Meets 3rd Thursday at 6:00 pm Contact: Jane Rigby
At our March meeting, Kelly Forehand and Terri Gainer from After School Assistance Program (ASAP) updat-ed us on their new building fundraising progress. We intend to give them a letter of intent to support this worthwhile project. We will also support Public Issues’ First Responders luncheon in April with desserts and woman-power for set up and clean up. We will support the Domestic Violence fundraiser in May with Health & Welfare. Our April meeting will focus on the finishing touches on the menu and decorations for the May General Membership luncheon.
PUBLIC ISSUES Meets 3rd Tuesday at 11:30 am NO MEETING THIS MONTH
Contact: Darcie Brooks
We hosted our Spring Bunco Party on March 14. The Clubhouse was decorated in hot pink and black. Jane Groom’s hot chicken salad, marinated mixed vegetables, fruit and jello salads, and garlic bread were served buffet style. We gave out 21 door prizes along with prizes awarded for the most wins, the most losses (even losers win at Bunco!), and the most Buncos. A bejeweled purse with $100 sure made the rounds! There was lots of laughter and screams of “Bunco” all evening long. Our department was screaming with glee at the $1200 we made after expenses! Thanks are due to all members who supported this event. It was a great feel-ing to have had every department represented. We also gave out our membership applications that night. Having fun is an excellent membership recruitment tool!
We will not meet this month as our next event is the big First Respond-ers’ Child Abuse Prevention Awareness luncheon on April 3, immediately followed by this month’s General Membership Luncheon! Please show your support for our first responders and agencies that work so hard to combat child abuse. Your help before, during and after is appreciated!
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR GFWC WOMAN ’S CLUB EVENTS!
SAT, APRIL 1 9 AM - 3 PM WAYS & MEANS at SPRING FEVER MARKET See page 3 for details
MON, APRIL 3 11:30 AM FIRST RESPONDERS’ LUNCHEON Help is needed! See page 3 for details
THURS, APRIL 6 12:00 PM GENERAL MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON See page 1 for details. RSVP today!
THURS, APRIL 13 10:00 AM KNITTERS, HOOKERS & A COOK - See page 3 for details
THURS, APRIL 20
9:30 AM BOARD MEETING
11:30 AM CONSERVATION DEPT MEETING - Lunch at Po Folks See page 2 for details
6:00 PM YOUTH DEPT - See page 3 for details
APRIL 21-23 GFWC WOMAN’S CLUB SPRING CONVENTION, Orlando
9:30 AM INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH - See page 3 for details TUES, APRIL 25
11:30 AM EDUCATION DEPT - See page 2 for details
WED, APRIL 26 10:00 AM HEALTH & WELFARE DEPT - See page 2 for details
THURS, APRIL 27 10:00 AM ARTS DEPT MEETING - See page 2 for details
