GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club Chair Donna Losch and her committee recently delivered beautifully hand-knitted quilts to the Baldomero Lopez Veterans’ Nursing Home in Land O’Lakes as part of the club’s ongoing sewing projects for various local nursing homes. The Woman’s Club has for years supported the Lopez Nursing Home with bake sales, monthly bingo games and other fun events for the veteran residents.

GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club members, as is their annual tradition, visited a local cemetery and placed fresh flags on the graves of each veteran laid to rest there. The clubwomen removed torn and tattered flags from prior years and freshened the gravesites to honor our veterans over Memorial Day weekend.

GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club recently donated arts and crafts supplies and a group of 13 members visited the Lutz Senior Citizens’ Center and spent a very pleasant morning crafting together.

The seniors thoroughly enjoyed the project and the fellowship with the club ladies. The Woman’s Club, long active in our local communities, supports many such projects.

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Photos by Edwina Kraemer

Photo 1: Hacienda Board Member & GFWC FL Member Liasion, Sarah Anthony & Woman’s Club Member, Edwina R. Kraemer Photo 2: Ms. Kraemer’s SUV filled with clothing and supplies for Hacienda Girls Ranch

GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club has long supported Hacienda Girls Ranch in Melbourne, Florida. The Girls Ranch is the oldest GFWC Florida project and is a transitional residence for girls 10-17 years and young women over 18 but still in school. The young ladies are placed at Hacienda Girls Ranch due to dire circumstances of abandonment, divorce, neglect and/or abuse. Edwina R. Kraemer, District 8 Chair of this President’s Project, recently solicited, collected and delivered her SUV full of clothing, toiletries, shoes and other essentials for the girls to a very grateful GFWC Florida Club Liasion and Hacienda Board Member, Sarah Anthony.

The Visit

There were 8 boxes of clothes, jewelry and hygiene products given to a very grateful GFWC FL club liaison and Hacienda Board Member, Sarah Anthony. We learned from her that the entire Ranch is full with 14 girls (10-17 years old) and 7 young ladies in the transitional housing (over18 but not out of school).

The transitional housing guests are required to pay for a portion of their housing. This is where your generous gifts are critical. Towels, bed in a bag, food items or anything someone needs to live independently in a home. These girls have requirements and rules to follow. Sarah Anthony spoke about the circumstances by which these girls come to Hacienda Girls Ranch – abandonment, divorce, neglect, or abuse. How comforting your gifts are to them!

Thank you again for your generosity!

GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club members, as part of their Conservation Dept. educational project, participated in a birding field trip to Flatwoods Wilderness Park and learned much about native plants.

In addition to learning more information on the Eastern Bluebird, the ladies were excited to find a fossilized bone believed to be from a precursor to the manatee.

As a thank you to their guides, the GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club donated 2 bluebird boxes to Flatwoods Wilderness Park.