Woman’s Club of arroyo Grande bulleTIn fun, friends and Community Service

October 2015

October Luncheon—October 9th, noon

(doors open at 11:30)

Come join co-chairs Joan Goodall and Diane

Krajsa as we celebrate “Autumn Days” with the colors

of Fall. Come have a delicious catered lunch (still

only $12) and listen to docent, Carol Stave, speak on

the elephant seals who live on the central coast and

their unique behaviors. Come early to socialize, meet

someone new and get a good seat!

Message from President Karen Lujan This has been a year of travels for many of us. I will miss you at October’s meeting and have asked former president, Mary Carson, to run the meeting. By that time, we will have walked in the Harvest Festival whose theme this year is “Something to Crow About.” We will again team up with the AG LIONS at the festival to share information about our organization and maybe get a few more brick sales! Many of us will also have participated in the Empty Bowls event on Thursday, September 24th and come home with a beautiful handmade bowl in addition to supporting the

5 Cities Homeless Coalition. We have a right to “crow” and have reason to be proud. Last year, we were transplanted to St. John’s Lutheran Church for our meetings, groups, and events while the police were remodeling their station. We learned a lot about ourselves during our 18 months away from “home.” We are flexible and inventive. We are supportive of each other as well as our community. We have increased our donations towards scholarships and the community and steadily moved forward in spite of the “challenges.” We have continued to add new members to the Woman’s Club, making us stronger and more vital. We like to have fun! And, we also realized we like the long tables for our meetings! This will be a busy year. Check out this newsletter for upcoming events and mark your calendar for those activities you can fit into your own busy lives.

Volunteer to help out. Meet a new member and make a friend! - Karen

P.S. A huge THANK YOU to Loretta Newman, Mary Carson, Moe Boyd, & Melody Alcala for hauling boxes from the basement, unpacking, washing, and putting away the tea cups, saucers, glass coffee cups, coffee pitchers, etc., etc.

The Woman’s club of

arroyo grande

Welcomes new member

Cheryl Maples

YES, I plan to attend the

October Luncheon!

Name_______________

Send your $12 by October

5th to:

Diane Krajsa

871 Shafer

Pismo Beach CA 93449

or call:

710-3569

KEEP THE EGG CARTONS COMING!

Charlie Hanna is still collecting egg cartons for

the Food Pantry. Egg cartons provide a way to

easily distribute eggs to needy families. Call Charlie to donate

your empty egg cartons: 481-3503

or bring them to the next meeting!

Debbie Audet needs volunteers to be on her calling committee to remind members of monthly

meetings. Volunteers are only responsible to contact 7 or 8 people. This easy, fun activity takes

only a little of your time each month. Interested in helping? Call Debbie @ 550-8910

Back in the Clubhouse!

Sept. 11th

What a great start for

our return to the Woman’s Club

clubhouse! We had 54 members

& 10 guests, all treated to deli-

cious goodies provided by our

Board & committee members.

The Perfect Prepper

emphasized the

importance of being

prepared and ladies from

AG Public Arts shared

their goals. JoAnna had

an inspirational message about

9/11and Sharon shared correspondence,

including letters from scholarship recipients.

Barbara encouraged us all to join one or

more of the “Out and About” trips planned.

The Opportunity Drawing was won by

Arlene Rowan who went home $91 richer

than when she arrived. Per Toni, “The Club

also has $91.00 to add to our funds thanks

to the generous members who bought

tickets at the door. You can't win if

you don't come to the meeting

and buy at least one ticket”!

Vivien McClintock won October’s

free lunch. Woo Hoo!

DATES TO REMEMBER

Dessert by Board — $5 Sept. 11

Catered Luncheons - $12 Oct. 9, Nov. 13, Jan.8

(2nd Friday) March 11, May 13

Past President’s Lunch-$0 Feb. 12

Teas—$12 Dec. 11, Apr. 8

Past President’s Lunch—$0 March 11

Joint Board/Officer Installation June (TBA)

Scholarship Awards May 13

Harvest Festival Sept 24 @ 10am

Artisan Faire (Sat) Nov 14

Spirit Night (Wed) Dec. 2 (4pm-close)

Concert (Sun) Jan. 31 @ 2pm Bingo (Sat) March 16

Fashion Show (Sat) April 23

Kitchen Update

Now that we are back at the

clubhouse, it is amazing at

what simple changes like the

new kitchen floor and shutters

on the windows have made to

it’s appearance. I can only

IMAGINE how amazing the

new kitchen will look! Well, it

won’t be too much longer. We

have almost $79,000 & a plan

which will soon go out to bid.

We are told it will be approxi-

mately 6 months until the

start of construction.

A HUGE thank you for all the

ladies’ donations of both

baked goods and money for

the AG Water Symposium.

Between the AG LIONS Club

donation of food & drink

profits and WCAG sales, we

totaled $896 more towards

the kitchen. Mary Carson &

Laura Vopatek took the

unsold baked goodies home to

freeze for the September

meeting, but a little birdie told me that both Mary’s & Laura’s

husbands couldn't resist sam-

pling the wares!

DATES TO REMEMBER

Catered Luncheons - $12 Oct. 9, Nov. 13, Jan. 8

(2nd Friday) Feb. 12, May 13

Past President’s Lunch-$12 Feb. 12

Teas—$12 Dec. 11, Apr. 8

Salad Potluck —$0 March 11

Joint Board/Officer Installation June (TBA)

Scholarship Awards May 13

Harvest Festival Sept 26 @ 10am

Artisan Faire (Sat) Nov 14

Spirit Night (Wed) Dec. 2 (4pm-close)

Concert (Sun) Jan. 31 @ 2pm Bingo (Sat) March 12

Fashion Show (Sat) April 23

It takes a village….Ever wonder

who is on all our committees?

Please step up if one of these

ladies asks for your help!

Amenities: Karen Dixon

Auditor: Diane Krajsa

Bulletin: Cindy Moreno

Inspiration: JoAnna Van Blaricom

Hostesses: Charlie Hanna & Debbie Audet

E-Mail: Suzy Anderson

Photographer: Cindy Moreno

Publicity: Robyn Dunne & Sharon Boyajian

Telephone: Debbie Audet

Website: Dana Pojas

Yearbook: Mary Carson

Harvest Festival: Bobbi Cherry

Spirit Night: Barbara Schieffer

In-House Fundraising: Toni Kelly

Name Tags: Crafts Group

City & Kitchen Remodel: Mary Carson

Scholarships: Barbara Vasquez, Robin Dunne

Mary Ann Shoebridge , Sophia

McHugh, Elisabeth Koch-Murray

Budget: Gretchen Weckstein, Karen Lujan,

Alison Stewart, Loretta Newman,

Mary Carson, Suzy Anderson

Sunshine: Toni Kelly

Bylaws/Standing Rules: Charlie Hanna

Luncheon/Tea: Loretta Newman, Moe Boyd,

Melody Alcala, Bettie Gates

Left at the September meeting: large

glass Christmas plate & yellow fiesta

ware plate. See Loretta

Newman or call 801-8149

BLUEGRASS & BRUSHES! On October 17th, the Arroyo Grande Public Art group will hold their

Annual Fundraiser at our clubhouse. This marvelous event will include two “arts bars” for your creative

endeavors, live blue grass music, auctions, and much more. This is a great opportunity to support public

art in Arroyo Grande so please save the date! Call 709-6005 for information/tickets.

Dear Judi Boudreau,

I personally want to thank you for blessing me with the

Woman’s Club scholarship. I am majoring in pharmaceu-

tical chemistry at UC Davis where I will ultimately be

pursuing dentistry & orthodontics. I plan on one day

moving back to our little town of Arroyo Grande to open

my own private practice, to give back to the community

that once gave to me. You have placed me one step

closer to reaching my dreams. Sincerely, Olivia Galindo

8th ANNUAL ARTISAN FAIRE! On Saturday, November 14th, we will host one of our major fundraisers for this year: our eighth annual Artisan Faire! It will run from 10 AM to 5 PM and will be back in our Clubhouse. All the members of the club are asked to participate in some way to make this a big success. If you can, please volunteer to be part of our Cafe Crew either in the “advance

planning and preparation” stages in the weeks ahead of the Faire, or to provide extra hands for serving and clean up on the day itself. Also needed are lots of people to walk around the Five Cities area and place our flyers in storefronts (with permission) of the businesses, campgrounds, mobile home and camper parks, etc. etc. The more "feet on the ground" the better to draw both community residents and tourists to our event. If you can't do anything too strenuous, please think about reaching out online, by phone, or personally to your family, friends and neighbors and encourage them to attend. It is very important that members attend the Faire if at all possible to patronize our Cafe —as Café sales are the most significant source of our fund-raising for this particular event. We promise a variety of delicious lunch and snack food! Naturally we will also have at least one (if not more) raffle drawings for a fabulous prize(s) ! If you can't come to the Faire, please purchase one or more raffle tickets at our October and November club meetings. You don't need to be present to win a prize. Need more info or want to volunteer? Please call Alison Stuart at 473-1866 or email at: kalimom@sbcglobal.net

HAVE YOU PAID YOUR MEMBERSHIP DUES?

As our new financial secretary is Pat Lombardini,

all payments after May 31st should be to

OUT AND ABOUT

SCARECROWS OF CAMBRIA - Thursday, October 29th

The scarecrows will be in Cambria and so will we! Meet in the

Clubhouse parking lot at 9:30 am . After walking around Cambria

and enjoying the scarecrows, we will head on back to Arroyo

Grande, stopping for lunch on the way. (restaurant to be

determined - any ideas?) If you haven't done "the scarecrows"

before, it's an experience you don't want to miss. Please let us

know if you will attend and also let us know if you can drive that

day. Don't forget to wear comfortable shoes & bring a camera!

GREAT AMERICAN MELODRAMA - Friday December 4th @ 4pm

Join us at the Holiday Extravaganza at the Great American

Melodrama . $21 with a senior discount. This show sells out quickly

every year so we need your RSVP and ticket money no later than

November 1st so we can get seats together. We need a minimum

of 12 people for this event to happen. Please RSVP to:

Barbara Schieffer bs2you1942@aol.com or 473-2906

or

Judi Boudreau, judiboud@aol.com or 408-316-3747

for either or both events

Dear Woman’s Club of Arroyo Grande,

This is Nicole (Nikky) Heredia, a senior at

San Diego State University. Thank you so much for the $400 scholarship. It provided me the

opportunity to cover the cost of books and some of my

tuition fees. This past summer, I was enrolled in 2

classes: Psychology and Child Development, receiving

“A’s” in both. I also have begun 2 new jobs: one with Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla and one as clinical

nurse lab assistant at SDSU. I am blessed to be provided

these opportunities and will be constantly continuing to

grow and widen my knowledge. I also recently received

my Certified Nurse Assistant certification which required a written and skills test component and which has helped

supplement and build upon my current nursing skills and

knowledge. I just wanted to express my gratitude and

say thank you again for your support. I hope you lovely

ladies continue to enjoy the beautiful central coast weather. With gratitude, Nicole Heredia

October

2015

Group News

Back in the clubhouse!!

ART: Mondays, 10 a.m. until mid-afternoon.

Bring your art supplies & a sack lunch. All levels

welcome. Contact: Mary Carson, 473-5801 .

HAND & FOOT CANASTA #1: 11 a.m. , third

Wednesday of the month. Bring sack lunch and

drink. Call Patti Roberts at 474-0444.

HAND & FOOT CANASTA #2: 11 a.m., fourth

Wednesday of the month. Bring sack lunch and

drink Contact: Gretchen Weckstein: 473-1366

HAND & FOOT CANASTA #3: 10:30 a.m.,

fourth Monday of the month. Bring sack lunch and

drink Contact: Suzy Anderson: 473-1819

CRAFTS: 9:30 a.m.—12 noon, third & fourth

Wednesdays. Contact: Karen Lujan 489-2895

OUT & ABOUT: We are looking for ideas for

future “Out and About” activities. Have an idea or want to sponsor an outing? Contact a Board

Member!

DO YOU HAVE NEWS? W ould you like to subm it an article? Please call or email news to

put in the bulletin by the 15th of the month to: Cindy Moreno, editor at 441-5803 o595@hotmail.com

SUNSHINE LADY

Toni Kelly

Get Well cards were sent to Elisa Vega,

Francie Ainsworth, Michelle Walker, and

Annette Smith.

Also under the weather recently were Gayle

Quain, Carlene Legault, Robyn Dunne, and

JoAnna Van Blaricom.

Please keep each of them in your thoughts;

better yet, give them a call or drop a

thoughtful note.

Our new Sunshine Lady, who began in

September is Toni Kelly. Contact her at

474-4850 or tonik@pacbell.net if you have

Sunshine information to share.

new Additions/changes *

Beverly A. Baker 1195 San Sebastian Ct. Grover Beach Beverly_Peck@yahoo.com Valerie Kates 285 Sunrise Terrace Arroyo Grande 626-840-5985 vacates@gmail.com Chris Finney 151 Le Point Terrace Arroyo Grande 602-770-1939 cfinney4@cox.net Pat Schiller 135 Andre Dr. Arroyo Grande 93420 805-481-4444 pismodolphin@gmail.com Sofia McHugh sfentress65@yahoo.com (correction)