GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB held a fundraiser luncheon at the Groves Golf & Country Club to benefit Sunrise of Pasco County, a domestic & sexual violence center, which provides emergency safe shelter to women and children who are victims of abuse, as well as numerous support services.  Club members acknowledged October as the month designated to bring awareness to this problem and donated 2 carloads filled with needed personal items for the shelter residents, as well as a generous check for $1,000 presented to the staff members of Sunrise by the event chair Gail Howard and club President Elaine Bassinger.

 

GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB members, Nancy Taylor and Chair Gail Howard delivered a donation check to Rebecca Bacon of the Children’s Board Foundation of Hillsborough County to assist with its Children’s Programs. This donation was a part of the Woman’s Club participation in Child Abuse Awareness Month by selling blue pinwheels and placing in public places to bring attention to this problem.

GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB members, through its Arts & Culture Committee headed by Lois Cohen, presented a donation check for $900 to Stephanie Ensor (center), representing Old Lutz School, toward the purchase of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) device to be installed at the Historic Old Lutz School.

GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB members have partnered with their teen club, the Little Women of Lutz, as a joint effort to participate in the GFWC Florida Day of Service.  Together the clubwomen and girls collected over 300 pounds of shelf-stable food and pantry items for the food insecure in our community.  The foodstuffs were delivered to the St. Vincent DePaul Food Pantry in Land O’Lakes, Florida for distribution to the needy.

GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB President Elayne Bassinger and Vice President Peggy Andrews recently presented a large donation check of $5,000 to GFWC Florida President Linda O’Toole to benefit Camp Boggy Creek,  founded in 1996 by Paul Newman and Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. This camp is a medically-sound camp for children with serious illnesses to safely enjoy a carefree camp experience free of cost.  Florida GFWC President Linda O’Toole has chosen this particular charity to be supported by the Florida Federation statewide during her term in office.

 These local clubwomen volunteers held several fundraisers and worked very hard to raise their goal in this current climate when so many charitable organizations are in dire need of financial support.

GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB members of its ESO reading Sorority and Book Club met after each chose a book, to re-read and discuss, most of which have been in publication for many decades, however have now found that many such book(s) have been banned from school and library book shelves.  The club members, many of whom are retired teachers, then participated in a very lively discussion on why these books, many of which are classics, are now being banned and whether they should be. 

The Woman’s Club has long supported education, local schools and libraries.