GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB members participated in the annual ‘Strides Against Breast Cancer’ Walk, together with their Juniorette Club, Little Women of Lutz. The ladies manned the Welcome Booth, distributed water to participants and joined the Strides Walk.A donation of $1500 raised by the club was delivered to the American Cancer Society in support of medical advances in eradicating breast cancer.
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB has entered the busiest time of its calendar year: the holidays! Members delivered over 200 handcrafted Thanksgiving favors for Meals on Wheels meal trays, another member group dropped off a vehicle filled with food donations destined for Father & Son Food Pantry and a large team of club ladies wrapped huge donation boxes in holiday paper for donated Christmas gifts for Meals on Wheels clients.
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB members enjoyed a fun break from their busy schedule of community service projects and volunteerism for a bit of Halloween tricks ‘n treats at their monthly meeting.
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB member Jan King, her Club Booster husband, John King and Booster friend Carole Moore and husband Bob Moore, again volunteered to man the grills and serve picnic barbeque fare at the recent Quantum Leap Family Picnic Day lunch. This Odessa facility provides equine assisted therapies, serving veterans, children with Pediatric Cancer, PTSD victims and people on the spectrum. The benefits of equine therapies are improving coping strategies and communication skills facilitated by a team of certified and licensed equine and medical professionals.
The Woman’s Club has supported this local service organization for a number of years.
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.
