WE KICKED OFF THE NEW YEAR WITH A BANG AND SOME GREAT CHEER FOR THE WORK WE DID IN 2019. Thank you so much to Ann Farnell who once again made sure children and families were taken care of during the holiday season of giving. As a recap on the Angel Tree, we supplied 64 gifts for the children and families of the Emergency Services/Homeless Coalition. The remaining funds from the cash donations will be used to purchase backboards for the basketball courts. Your donations are so appreciated because they make a difference.
Outreach will begin the New Year with tours of the facilities of three of our charities. T
The tour of Port in the Storm, a shelter for homeless teens, is scheduled for Monday, January 13th at 10:30.
The tour of Emergency Services/Homeless Coalition will take place on Tuesday, January 21 st at 1:30.
A February date for a tour of Betty Griffin Center—Rape Care Unit is being discussed with the Director of this facility.
Each of these tours can accommodate a limited number of people, so if you are interested in attending, please contact either Camille Kay or Hilde Berdine. For each tour, we will meet in the Club parking lot one-half hour prior to the scheduled tour start time so that we can carpool and arrive at the facility on time as a group.
Our charity liaison speaker series continued this month with the focus on Food4Kids. Liaison Adrienne Lyons spoke, helping us better understand how we can be of support. Food for Kids provides backpacks of food during weekends and summer months for over 200 underprivileged students and their siblings at South Woods Elementary School in Hastings. To feed one child costs $300 for the year. Anyone interested in wanting to support a child can offer their monetary contribution. They always need volunteers to pack the backpacks. MCWA will primarily provide monetary funding for food as well as occasionally supply items for the children.
Now that the New Year has arrived, our efforts will be directed towards our Charity Fundraiser “Sip and Savor” which will take place on March 23rd at Barbara and Charles Mahoney home. They have graciouslhy agreed to host another year. Please save this date; and if you are interested in lending a hand, please let us know.
Tickets can be purchased by putting a check in the envelope in the ladies locker room. Please write in the memo of the check “for fundraiser.” The cost is $75 per person. We are limited to 150 tickets and we already sold half at the luncheon.
Please continue to donate bottles of wine valued at over $20 to donate to the wine pull as part of the fundraiser. You can drop the wine off at the front desk with Jennifer at the clubhouse or bring to the next luncheon in February.
