Happy February, Club Sisters! Another month is upon us, and we are as busy as ever. Lots of activities and projects still to do before the end of our club year. The best part is we get to do so many of these things together!
“Set Goals, Push Yourself, Move, Don’t Quit, No Excuses, Be Awesome, You Got This!” —GFWC California Federation of Women’s Clubs
I am borrowing this quote from our Sister Clubs in California. They sent this to all of their club members, and I thought it was so inspiring. We do so much for our community and for those in need, and we continue to stay relevant and really do make a difference. So when you get tired just remember, I already know that all of you are awesome…and…We Got This! Together we can accomplish anything!
Our report forms were sent in on time and are being reviewed as you read this. Our Honor Roll and Order of the Lily recipients have been sent to Headquarters and the charms have been ordered. The announcement of our recipients will be at our April Meeting.
Three members of our club attended the Virtual Garden District Meeting and this President made sure to brag about all of you. See our Federation Secretary’s Report on upcoming District and State Activities.
Thank you to all club sisters who donated clothing, gift cards or money to the West Deptford Fire Victim Families. The families have expressed their appreciation for everyone’s generosity as they start to rebuild their lives.
Another thank you to Debbie H. and Lisa H. for donating food to the Rutgers Student Food Pantry. Jill M. and her husband Gil did the rounds in the Garden District and very kindly picked up our donations at my home.
Every year, our Club Parliamentarian and a committee go over our club bylaws and checks to make sure they are up to date and correspond with the State changes. Please make sure you review the bylaw changes recommended for this year as we will be voting on them at our February meeting.
For the rest of the club year, there will be many things that will need to be completed. Your Executive Board has been busy making up lists of things to get done. One of the items on the agenda is our Donations List. We would like to share a tentative list of organizations on our Donations List to have your vote on at our March meeting. If you have an organization you would like to have considered to add to our list, please send me an email. I will share all suggestions with the Board. I will send out last year’s list before our February meeting for you to look over. We do not have the money we had before, but we did well with our basket raffle and internal fundraisers, so we have some money to donate. We will go over the suggestions and the list from last year and will share it with you at our March meeting. At that time, we will discuss the suggested organizations on this year’s list and vote.
I will also be sending out the description of each of the Club Committees next month as well. You can read about what some of our committees do each month in Tidbits as well as hear their reports at our meetings. Each one of our committees is amazing in the work they do. When you receive the descriptions of each committee, see which committee you might be interested in working on. All of you have great ideas and would be an asset to any committee. ?
The NJSFWC Convention will be held on April 24th to 26th. I know we already have some people who will be attending and many who will be going on the 26th. Let me know if you are interested in attending for the three days or just on the 26th. Please read our Federation Secretary’s article on convention and I will share more about convention at our meeting.
Our Social Committee has many events planned and I am ready to attend several in February. I read our Book Club selection and am looking forward to discussing it on February 2nd. Then there is dinner at Gia Nina’s and crocheting. Busy month of February.
Our internal fundraisers are one of the main ways that we build our club treasury to help those in need within the community as well as fund our donation list. Make sure you get those hoagie orders into Linda J. at our February meeting. Delicious hoagie packages and money in the treasury…Win/Win!
Finally, our thoughts and prayers are with our Club Sister Peg S. and her family during this difficult time. Her husband Ray was their Patriarch and I know he will be genuinely missed.
As of this writing, our February Club Meeting will be in person at St. Paul’s Methodist Church for 6:30 pm. If that changes, you will all receive an email; however we are going to really try to be in person. Also…Let’s wear red and celebrate Valentine’s Day!
Stay warm and safe as we travel the rest of the winter months. We want to see all of you at our next meeting!
Warmly,
April