At today’s meeting our club heard from Michelle Foote, who spoke about the Ray Lovato Recycling Center. We collected donations for Rock Springs Animal Control to help with the recent influx of surrendered animals (23 in one day) including: The club also inducted three new members! Please welcome Storm Adcock, Brenda Roosa, and Lynn Young to our organization!
Our club recently donated this stunning basket for the fundraiser for the McKenzie Home.
Our Busy Hands Sections spent a recent meeting helping the White Mountain Library with their Seed Library, but packaging seeds envelopes and their corresponding information sheets! Join us at the next busy hands meeting to help contribute to this and other important local causes!
At our January 16th, 2024 meeting the club presented Elizabeth Pergande with a college grant for WWCC. Best of luck Elizabeth, we’re rooting for you!
Our club recently made a donation to a the Rock Springs City Council to help with beautifying the columbarium at our local cemetery.
Members enjoyed themselves socializing at the annual Christmas party at the Boar’s Tusk Steakhouse in Rock Springs. Club members also exchanged gifts and brought donations of food for the local soup kitchen and toys and books for the local Stuff the Bus program, as a final bit of giving back to cap off the holiday season. We’ll see everyone next year!
Club members recently discovered a newspaper article, provided below, detailing the first ever holiday house thrown by the Women’s Club of Sweetwater County (then known as the Woman’s Club of Rock Springs).
Every year our club donates 10% of the income generated by our Holiday House raffle to a charity of the homeowner’s choosing. Our 2023 Holiday House hostess Carmen Lakey selected Alzheimer’s as the cause she wanted to support. The club ended up donating $240.
Club members recently put together a lovely italian themed prize basket for a raffle at the December 9th fundraiser for the Young at Heart Community Center.
We are happy to announce the winners of our raffle: Sapporo’s – Donna Eusek Coal Train Coffee Depot – Marianne Gatti Workman’s Warehouse – Joann Ruggera Harbor Freight – Doran James Les Schwab – JR Tronquet Ace Hardware – Sandy Seppie T-s Barking Boutique – Marianne Gatti Elements – Joy Chrsitian Mack and Co – Marcia Volner Coca Cola – Janet Tanner Christmas Reading – Margaret Gibbens The Yarn and the Tale – Maggie Choate Vintage vase – Karla Roich Wyoming Raised – Charlene Stillion
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