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President’s LetterNEWSLETTER – May 2019
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
President’s Letter 1-3
May Meeting Pictures 4-6
Birthdays & Activities 7
DATES TO REMEMBER
June 13th General Meeting: The Wine Guy
Ladies, fasten your seatbelts- we have a long ride and a lot to
talk about!!! First, thank you so much to the Program
Committee and its leader, Kim Hasler, for coming up with
such a fun and creative way to spend an evening playing Let’s
Make a Deal. And ladies, you outshone yourselves with the
creativity and time spent putting your costumes together. Fun,
Fun, Fun!!! Isn’t it nice to just let your hair down and be a kid
again. That’s what you did, and boy did we have a great
time—laughs abound!! In the June meeting, we will have a
tribute to the ins and outs of the wine industry and the
makings of one of our favorite beverages- WINE!!! Our own
Lake Jovita resident, Phillip Sobers, a wine educator (who
knew we needed to be educated to raise a glass or two of grape
juice!!) will show us how to blend our palettes with our noses
and better enjoy a bottle of one of the oldest and most refined
dinner drinks (or just plain anytime drinks!) of all time. So,
please come and learn and enjoy.
Just a preview of our upcoming events to round out 2019, our
July meeting will be an old fashioned “bring it back to our
summer youth” ice cream social. Don’t know what all that
phenomenal program committee is going to do, but we will
keep your informed. Sounds like a few calories, but who cares-
it’s summer, and we need this to keep the “dew off of our
Southern brows!” You need to put on your thinking cap for
our August meeting -TRIVIA!! We have done this in the past,
and it was a great way to get to better know our fellow
members and come together as a small group and beat the crud
out of our other fellow members! Lol!! Show your smarts and
show up to what will be another great evening. In September,
Kevin Fisher and our own Kathy Gilliam, will instruct us of
the joys and delights and need of bee keeping. Both own a
local honey farm in Dade City and will tell us how our these
little workers produce some of the much needed local honey
and how much our local bees are needed to keep our delicate
environment “buzzing!!” October will be a hoot—BOO
BINGO! Love it, love it, love it! I can’t imagine how our
committee is going to turn our October into a fun filled
evening, but trust me, it will be another “bring back the
childhood memories” evening of fun and costume making.
Please mark your calendars. November will bring us Pets for
Vets—one heartwarming evening of cold noses and furry legs
(not us!!), but an evening of how loving and caring dogs can
help the most deserved people on earth—our noble men and
women who give up everything to fight for our freedom.
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This evening will bring a smile to every face. And rounding out our year in December, will again be the
remarkable musical styling of Alan Darcy. Alan has entertained us before, and by popular demand, we are
bringing him and his partner back to keep our feet tapping and our hearts thumping for “Flannel, Fur & Fizz”
It will be a different but fun filled Christmas event.
As I mentioned at our last meeting, we are going to work (all of us!) to raise as much money as we can to help
the Pasco County Sheriff ’s Office K-9 Unit. This was the idea of Sharon Borland, and we are off and running
to bring 2019 to a close (and my and my board’s last year as your Women’s Club leaders) and using our efforts
to help not only our club but also our community and county. From now on, ALL fifty-fifty money raised at
each meeting will be split between a club winner and the K-9 Unit fundraiser. No more will be going to the
women’s club. So, bring your cash and buy those raffle tickets!! Also, we will be collecting donations from any
and all to put together raffle baskets for our upcoming craft show in November and our December meeting
which will also be raffled off in support of this fundraiser.
And last but not least because this needs its own paragraph—we have been donated two condos at two
different resorts to be raffled off!! Our own Gloria and Gene Provenzano have given us a week at the Barefoot
Beach Resort in Indian Shores, FL, and another glorious week in the mountain resort of River Stone Resort
and Spa in Pigeon Forge, TN. What a generous and kind gift from Gloria and Gene, and we will be raffling
off tickets at both resorts starting at the meeting on Thursday. Tickets will be one for $10, two for $15, and
three for $20. Please help to spread the word and get the checkbooks opened to help us fund this continuous
fundraising event for our K-9 in blue and the Pasco County Sheriff ’s Office. Tickets can be purchased from
Gloria Provenzano, 352-668-4548, Sharon Borland, 352-668-4078, and Susan Heiler, 540-273-5437. A
separate blast providing more details will be out shortly.
For those fundraiser baskets, we have three themes - Wine and Spa, Wine and Chocolate, and Wine and
Cheese. Please raid your pantries and closets and donate items so that these will also be great fundraisers for
this most worthy event. Also, if we have anyone who has possible ideas and items for other baskets, please let
us know. We are open to any and all ideas for the December meeting and the 2019 Arts and Crafts Show in
which all of these items will be raffled—second thought, just bring a wheelbarrow full of money to buy tickets
for everything!! More info will be forthcoming as we proceed into this noble effort to help our furry K-9
officers!!
Now for the list:
1. Our wonderful and talented Communications Liaison, Basia Watts, is leaving us as soon as she sells her
house. We wish her the best in her effort to move back to her beloved Carolinas, but we will miss her creativity
and accomplishments in this community and club. But it leaves us without a person to get out those E-vites
and newsletters. She is asking for a member to step forward and learn the ways of this position. She is willing
to spend as much time as necessary to train another person—she has it all set up in a way that you only have to
plug in the info and you are off and running. Please consider this position in our club (maybe a couple of
ladies or husbands can do this for us), and help keep our needed information going to our members each
month.
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2. As many times mentioned in this letter, please consider helping us and be a worker bee in getting items or
donations for the baskets, and also in selling raffle tickets for the condos. We need all the help we can get in
getting merchants and neighbors to donate to this worthy cause. Think about it and let us know how you
might be able to help.
3. We still have cookbooks for sale—great gifts and/or housewarming gifts! We have many new people joining
the Lake Jovita community, so please consider this a kind way to introduce these new residents to our little
piece of heaven!!
4. We also need three people who will volunteer to be this years Nominating Committee and provide us with
another slate of great club members to lead us into 2020. Please think about this and let me know so that we
can start contacting those of you who would like to help keep this club inspired!!
So, have a healthy and safe summer—yes, it is now summer in Florida! Yuck! But we love it, don’t we!!
Susie
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Book Club
Sher Liepold
610-417-1935
Canasta (Ladies)
Ann Swinford
352-668-3105
Helping Hands
Ann Swinford
352-668-3105
Metropolitan Opera in HD
Dayna Ohotnicky
203-525-3039
Stitchers
Joy Becker
352-534-0880
Theater Group
Jeanette Sowman
352-588-4862