NEXT MEETING

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 6:45 pm West Deptford Pub. Library WearRedforHeartHealth! Refreshments Snacks: Cold Beverage: February Birthdays 10—Joanne Kg.

February 2019 — Vol. 25 Issue 9 Monthly Newsletter of the GFWC Woman’s Club of West Deptford • PO Box 381 • Thorofare, New Jersey 08086 • www.wdwomen.org

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Carol Frisby & Louise Avery Dear Members, Carol, the board and I hope you weath-ered the cold temperatures from the end of January. We are excited to see where 2019 takes the Woman’s Club of West Deptford and our amazing club women. We know with all of you wonderful women, our club will continue to make a difference in our community. The Bingo committee is looking for a few members to chair a couple of sub-committees. Please consider helping out if you can. Because of the dedication of these women, our club is able to help many organizations. Heart disease is the number one killer of women, claiming more lives each year than all forms of cancer combined. Go Red for Women was on February 1st and February is designated as American COLLECTIONS ♥ Peggy: Plastic bottle caps and shoes for Veterans’ program ♥ Clara: Old cell phones, wallets, tools, keys, credit cards/used gift cards, bags & suitcases for K-9 training ♥ Louise: Sports bras for SERV ♥ Carla: Boxtops for Education ♥ Joan or Dorothy: Feminine hygiene products & coupons for feminine products for Greater Woodbury Area Cooperative Ministries ♥ Nancy B: Unexpired canned goods for West Deptford Food Pantry & clean towels & bedding for Gloucester County Animal Shelter Woman’s Club of West Dep ord Member of General Federa on of Woman’s Clubs (GFWC), New Jersey State Federa on of Woman’s Clubs (NJSFWC), Garden District of NJSFWC. Presidents: Carol Frisby & Louise Avery; Membership: Kim VanZoeren-Czoch; Info: 856-848-8585 or membership@wdwomen.org

Heart Month. PleasewearredattheFebruarymeetinginsupportofAmer-icanHeartMonth. In Federation Friendship & Love,

Louise & Carol

CONTINUING TO CELEBRATE our Club's 25th Anni-versary, Clara C. and Sandy M. filled the display cases at the West Dep ord Free Public Library with Club memo-rabilia. Be sure to stop by and take a look!

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SPECIAL STATE PROJECT: CASA NJ Jeannette Wood CASA-NJ stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates for children and pro-vides a voice for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courts and in the community. At our January meeting we collected 25 sweatshirts and 6 sweatpants for the children. Ifyoustillwanttodonatesweats,wewillcollectthematourFebruarymeeting. We have a speaker from CASA, Julia Frank, Recruitment & Training Coor-dinator, presenting at our February meeting. A special thank you to Debbie Hinkle and the other club women who made 16 leece blankets for the children of CASA-NJ. Debbie also donated 14 new chil-dren’s books. We will give the additional sweatshirts/sweatpants, new children books, and the leece blankets to our speaker at our meeting. Theprojectofmaking leeceblanketsforCASA-NJisasuggestionforall

SPECIAL CLUB PROJECT: FAMILY PROMISE Jeannette Wood Our club is the only group that provides these duf le bags. So we will continue to help! What is needed is NEW21inchorlargerDuf leBags. If you do not want to shop, bring your monetary donation to our meeting and I will do the shopping and delivery. There will be a cardboard house-shaped box at the meeting to put your donations. A special thank you to Elaine Rudolf who found a terri ic sale and purchased three

Family Promise of Gloucester County con-tinues to help homeless families get into their own homes. There were two families in the pro-gram when I went to the Day Center to drop off the duf le bags. The di-rector, Vicki Peters, was interviewing another family the following day. Each new family receives a duf le bag to carry their clothing when they travel to sleep at lo-cal churches. Even the children get a duf-le bag if they need one for school.

clubsbytheNewJerseyStateFederationofWomen’sClubs,sowewillcollectthemallyear.Sug-gested sizes are 36X36 for infants, 42X48 for toddlers, and 48X60 for older children. If you would like to make a dona-tion for this organization, at each monthly meeting there will be a collection box for our Special State Project. Thankyouforyourcontinuedsupport.

CASA NJ BLANKETS: Ten club members met for two marathon sessions of blanket tying and made a total of 16 blankets for the children of CASA NJ. When a child is taken from home in the middle of the night and placed in foster care, a fuzzy fleece blanket is something to hold onto.

duf le bags in addition to the four bags purchased with the money collected at our January meeting. Thankyousomuchforyourcontin-uedsupporttohelpthehomelessinourcommunity!

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SOCIALLY SPEAKING Cynthia Holmes-Butler, Peg Shirey Paint Night Paint Night on January 27th was a huge success! Gina Hicks guided us step by step into completing beautiful cardinal acrylic paintings. We enjoyed wine and other beverages and some delicious snacks. February Book Club We are reading WheretheCrawdadsSing for our Winter Book Club. It’s a great book and we are enjoying it! Our meeting is on Wednesday, February 27th at 3:30pm- tea time! Discussion will start at 4pm. Denise Pitchford is hosting the club. Please send me or Denise your name if you plan on coming and haven’t signed up previously.

Temple Trip A trip to the Madir Temple in Rob-binsville is being planned for March. A sheet (blue)was handed out at the January meeting with information about the Temple and trip. We could have lunch after at Mastoris or another restaurant nearby. To have a group tour we need a mini-mum of ten people. The pictures I found on the internet look amazing– a couple are here to the right. Please sign up at the February meeting if you’re interested in going. A date will be chosen later.

ARTS CREATIVE Linda Jones Paint Night The winter cardinal paint and sip night was a relaxing and enjoyable experience instructed by art teacher, Gina Leonar-do Hicks. We had fun using tempera paints on canvas and socializing with various snacks and beverages. Now we have requests for another future paint night, perhaps in the fall. Eight ladies

have a beautiful painting to display for the next several cold months. Book Festival Our WD Library will have their annual BOOK FESTIVAL in May. The art depart-ment will provide a "make and take" craft for the children to assemble. Club volun-teers can help prepare approximately 100 pre-made kits using construction paper, straws, and glue. A sign up sheet will be pro-vided in March for a group of us to help make the kits for chil-dren attend-ing this event.

Spring Arts & Achievement Day The GFWC Garden District will partici-pate in the annual SPRING ARTS AND ACHIEVEMENT DAY on April 18, 2019. This event is fun to attend, participate in, and enter a project or two of creative artwork. There are twenty- ive catego-ries which include door decorations, knitting, paper art, computer art, up-cycle, holiday, painting, and photog-raphy. We encourage our club members to par-ticipate in this contest. Last year nine members attended and enjoyed all the artistic entries of other clubs as well as a delicious luncheon. We were proud of our numerous winners in various cate-gories. Information packets and registration forms will be available at our February club meeting. Please think about enter-ing an item or two as we enjoy a day of remarkable talent in our Garden District. We will carpool together as a group to attend this Spring Conference.

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WOMEN’S HISTORY Joan Baur The following narrative and the Report Worksheet were mailed to Carol Niemiec, the State Chairman. NJSFWC Women’s History Report --- 2018 The Woman’s Club of West Deptford was chartered in 1993. In celebration of the 25th Anniversary the club decided to combine the anniversary celebration with the annual Holiday Dinner on De-cember 11, 2018 at a local restaurant. A seven-member committee was formed with the purpose of making the anniver-sary celebration a special tribute to our club members and to highlight our 25 year members. Over a 10 month period of time the committee met many times to plan the event, make gifts, order other gifts, organize decorations, design invita-tions, and make party favors. The guest list included NJSFWC President Mary Wolfe, Garden District Vice President Patricia Dahl, and the nine Charter Mem-bers who have helped to guide the club for the irst 25 years. The nine honorees received silver lanterns decorated with club colors and motifs. They also were presented with a 25-year federation membership pin.

FEDERATION NEWS Joan Baur Upcoming Events PerformingArtsDayThursday, March 21, 10:30 AM at Salem County Community College, Snow Date: March 22. Carol F. has more details. SpringMembershipOpenHouseTour Headquarters and celebrate 125 years of federation. Saturday, March 30, 1:00—3:00 PM at NJSFWC Headquarters RSVP by March 25. See Carol F. for more details. SpringConference/AchievementDayThis is an opportunity to enter your Arts

Creative and Conservation projects in the district contests. Thursday, April 18 More details are available from Carol F. or the CSP Chairmen. NJSFWCConventionTheme: CelebrateaProudLegacyMonday-Wednesday, May 6-8 This year a pre-Convention Lunch is planned before the opening Business Ses-sion. Order a Box Lunch to take with you to the lunch. Members from each district are asked to wear a designated color. Teal is the Garden District’s color. Wear a teal-colored out it or order a tee-shirt with the federation shield logo for $10. See Carol F. for more details.

Each attendee received a purple (a club color) tote bag imprinted with a club motif and notepad with the club name. The party favor was a purple mesh bag illed with candy and other items to match an attached poem with the charac-teristics of a clubwoman. This poem was originally used by two honorees, who were also past club presidents. Prior to the Anniversary Dinner the West Deptford Town-ship Committee issued a procla-mation to honor the club’s work in the community and the state. The club Co-President Carol Frisby and twenty club members attend-ed a township meeting to accept the proclamation. I estimated 14 projects, 359 hours, $1,909.00 Dollars Donated and $1,580.00

In-Kind Donations on the Report Work-sheet. Most of the hours and money were attributed to the Anniversary Celebration. Other projects included joining the 1894 Society (NJSFWC) and 1734 Society (GFWC), visiting GFWC Headquarters, vis-iting the GFWC Women’s History and Re-source Center on-line and researching NJSFWC History/GFWC History to report to the membership in Tidbits.

♦ Clara and Bill C. are proud to announce their son Timothy has been named Teacher of the Year by Cumberland County Technical Education Center. Tim teaches A.P. Language & Composition and English III. Tim is also the Interact Advisor and is currently serving as Un-ion Secretary. ♦ Congratulations to Karen D., who was sworn in for another term on the Gloucester County Commission for Women, a fact- inding and advisory commission focused on the concerns of women in the county.

WELCOME GUESTS & NEW MEMBERS! We were pleased to have five guests in January. Three have already joined, and we hope the rest of you do, too! We have a great club that does great things!

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS Louise Avery, Linda Marple Many people think of sexual abuse, emo-tional abuse or psychological abuse; however, batterers also control their partners with inancial abuse. It, like oth-er forms of abuse, often begins subtly and progresses over time. In the begin-ning, a partner might make taking care of inances seem like an act of kindness. Over time, the abuser takes more and more control, allowing his or her spouse less access to money. The survivor in-creasingly becomes more inancially de-pendent on the abuser. So, how do you know if you are the vic-tim of inancial abuse? Ask yourself if your partner does any of the following: ♦ Forbids you from working ♦ Sabotages employment opportunities ♦ Controls how money is spent ♦ Denies you direct access to bank accounts ♦ Gives you an “allowance” ♦ Forces you to write bad checks or ile fraudulent tax returns ♦ Runs up large debt on joint accounts without your permission ♦ Forces you to work in the family busi-ness without pay

♦ Refuses to pay bills for accounts that are in your name in order to ruin your credit ♦ Forces you to turn over paychecks or public bene it checks ♦ Forces you to account for all money you spend by showing receipts ♦ Applies for credit cards using your name & personal information ♦ Withholds money for basic necessities like food, clothing, medication & housing ♦ Spends money on himself or herself but doesn’t allow you to do the same ♦ Gives you gifts or pays for things & ex-pects something in return ♦ Forces you to work while he or she does not & yet still controls all the money If you answered yes to any of these ques-tions, you may be a victim of inancial abuse.

Our 2018 Bingo Sponsors

♦ Main Street Hair Salon ♦ Grasso Girls Farm Market ♦ Goodeal Transmission ♦ Mount Royal Inn ♦ Riverwinds Restaurant ♦ Hoffman & DiMuzio Law Of ice ♦ Campbell Comfort Systems ♦ The Taylors ♦ Ace Ford ♦ Country House Restaurant

PUBLIC ISSUES Robin Evans, Carol Frisby Just a reminder that we have an oppor-tunity to show our Vets we love them. To show our gratitude, you could get togeth-er as a group, with your grands, students or neighbors, and make handmade valen-tines cards. Store bought cards are great as well! Below are the addresses for four areas where you could mail your cards. You can also bring your cards to our meeting on February 12, and we can mail them out. 1. Veterans Memorial Home, 524 N.W. Blvd., Vineland, NJ 08360 2. Philadelphia VA Medical Ctr. 3900 Woodland Ave., Philadelphia, PA. 19104 3. The USO Dept., WS, PO Box 96860, Washington, D.C. 20090-6860 4. Defenders of Freedom, 320 Highway 121, Suite 208, Coppell, TX, 75019 Thanks for your support. Xo

BINGO Donna Blocher, Elaine Rudolf, Carol M. Introducing this Year’s Team ♦ Licenses: Elaine R. & Donna B. ♦ Administrivia: Carol M. & Donna B. ♦ Publicity: Nancy B. & Denise H. ♦ Game Bags: Clara C. & Donna B. ♦ Tiebreaker Bags: Elaine R. & Janice M. ♦ Silent Auction: Elaine R. & Janice M. ♦ Dessert Buffet: Jeannette W. & Cheryl F. ♦ Regular Basket Raf le: Joanne Kg. & Linda J. ♦ Door Prizes/Supplies: Joanne Kg. & Debbie H. ♦ Super Basket Raf les: April M. & Sherry W. ♦ 50/50 Raf le: Chris T. & Karen D. ♦ Program Booklet: Denise H., Donna B., Agnes K. ♦ Tickets: Cynthia H-B. & Sue N. ♦ Facilities: Sandy M. & Kim VZC.

Thank you all so much for helping us begin 2019 Bingo with a BANG! COORDINATORSTILLNEEDED for Bin-go Game Supplies. Please consider volun-teering. Talk with any of our Coordina-tors for more information.

Next Bingo Meeting Wednesday, March 27 at 7 p.m. at Carol M.’s house. If you’re interested in help-ing, why not come? Join the team!

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DEAR SECRET PAL To my Secret Pal, HAPPY NEW YEAR!. You have blown me away already! Was it a cowinkedink or what that I am presenting a project to make leece blankets for CASA and I am presented a leece Vera Bradley travel blanket that goes from a pillow to a blan-ket. Today as I was taking the blanket out of the bag to attempt to fold it back into the pillow, I noticed that the bag was heavy. I dug around through all the tissue paper and found CHOCOLATE covered pretzels. Thank you so very much - you are so thoughtful. —XOXO Debbie Dear Secret Pal, I can not thank you enough for my birth-day presents. I love to read and you chose two of my favorite authors! Now I can look forward to a dismal winter day that is just right for a hot cup of tea, a warm blanket and a good book! —Clara

Service Hours Hi Ladies, I have revamped the Service Hours form and sent it out to all of our members. I will have extra copies at our next meeting. Don't forget to start illing in all the incredible things you do for our club. I am in awe of all that you do and I know the hours you have submitted to me does not begin to cover all you do for the club. Thank you for all you do!!!! —April Dear Secret Pal, I can't thank you enough for my Irish tea cup/pot and the Irish scarf!!! You totally hit a home run. My favorite things - Irish anything and tea things. These things just made me feel good. Thank you, thank you!!! —Joanne 😘

Winter’s chill is in the air! At least some days… What better way to keep the home ires burning than with a delicious hot soup? In recognition of Heart Health Month in February, here’s a recipe from the Ameri-can Heart Association. Butternut Squash Soup This recipe makes 6-one cup servings; 64 calories, 2g protein, 2g iber per serving. 2 tsp canola or corn oil 2 medium shallots, chopped 1 medium butternut squash, peeled and cubed (about 3 cups) 3 cups fat-free, low-sodium veg-etable broth 2 tsp minced, peeled gingerroot 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp black pepper 1/3 cup fat-free half-and-half 1/4 tsp freshly grated or ground nutmeg

Heat oil in pressure cooker on saute. Cook the shallots for 3 minutes or until soft, stirring frequently. Turn off the pressure cooker. Stir in the squash, broth, gingerroot, salt, and pepper. Se-cure the lid. Cook on high pressure for 20 minutes. Allow the pressure to re-lease naturally for 10 minutes, then quickly release any remaining pressure. Turn off the pressure cooker and re-move lid. Allow the soup to cool slightly. Working in batches, transfer the soup to a blend-er (vent the lid) and puree until smooth. Return the soup to the pressure cooker. Or use an immersion blender in the pressure cooker pot. Stir in the half-and-half. Cook on the saute setting for 2-3 minutes until heated through, stirring fre-quently. Ladle the soup into bowls and sprinkle with nutmeg.

GUEST SPEAKER Natalie Fortunato from the South Jersey Dream Center at our January mee ng. The organiza on can use elementary school age clothing and men’s XXL sizes. Visit the Center on Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Volunteers needed, too!

Dear Secret Pal, Thank you so much for the beautiful box of teas. It has de initely come in handy this month! I loved the different lavors and the presentation is so pretty. —Fondly, April HOME LIFE Debbie Hinkle

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The evening began with special guest, Natalie Fortunato from the South Jersey Dream Center. She spoke about the need for items for those in need. Volunteers can help on Wednesdays from 11:00-2PM. Items can be dropped off during those times also. Debbie noted it is a good time to clean out items for donation. Elementary school clothing and men’s XXL sizes are wanted. The regular meeting was called to order at 7:32 by Co-President Carol. Chris T led the Collect for Club Women and Linda M led the Pledge of Allegiance. Carla started America the Beautiful and December and January birthdays were recognized. Carol and Kimberly welcomed six guests: Rita Dooling, Cheryl Fairchild, Holly Foulke, Lisa Krawitz, Ruth Nelson, and Kay Pierson. Roll Call: Carol, Carla, Clara, Vicky, Rita, Anne, Karen, Doris, Debbie, Cynthia, Den-ise H., Linda J., Agnes, Joanne K., Linda M., April, Sandy, Carol M., Mary, Nancy M., Janis, Peggy, Denise P., Elaine, Ellie, Ellen, Jo, Chris, Kim, Sherry, Jeanette and Patty. Carol F. noted that reports are due by Jan-uary 15 and offered help to committee chairs. Members who sang at Manor Care were thanked. Four members will attend the January District Council. April reported that hoodies will be availa-ble at the February meeting.

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WestDeptfordPublicLibrary Ongoing collections were on the table and upcoming events were listed on the agenda. In February, members will send Valentines for Vets as we thank Veterans and the club members who have spouses who are veterans. The meeting was adjourned at 8:42 PM and Secret Pal gifts were distribut-ed. Clara won the drawing. Submitted by Doris

Sandy read thank you notes from SERV, Linda M., Clara, and Denise P. The Operating account and the Games of Chance account reports were given. Elaine and Donna stated that January 22 will be the irst Bingo meeting for Coordi-nators. Donna noted two people will be expected for each aspect. Clara said all 8 girls will be able to attend GCI. Debbie asked for volunteers for Fri-day and Monday from 10:00 -2:00 PM to help with making blankets for CASA. Den-ise H. motioned that the club spend $50 to purchase leece material for the backs of the blankets. Karen re-ported that Scholarship information was sent to the high school. Jeannette collected 31 sweatwear items for CASA and they will be taken to Dis-trict Council. Sweats for CASA-NJ