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!
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.
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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This year’s annual Holiday House fundraiser will take place at 518 Deer Creek in Rock Springs at the following times: Friday, Dec. 1, 4:00pm – 8:00pm Saturday, Dec. 2, 10:00am – 2:00pm Admission is $5 per person, children under 12 get in free! Crafts, a Bake Sale, and over 20 Raffle Items will be available! Raffle drawing to take place Dec. 2 at 1:00pm.
Tickets for our annual Holiday House Raffle will go on sale November 1st. Tickets cost $5 each, or 6 for $20. Contact a club member to purchase your tickets today! See all of our wonderful baskets pictured below!
Club members supported the 2023 Power of the Purse event to benefit Hospice of Sweetwater County.
For this year’s Advocates for Children week, our club gathered donations of items for children in foster care. Thank you to April Dittman, this year’s Junior Special Programs chair, for organizing this donation!
