GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club is celebrating Independence Day differently this year due to COVID-19 and the cancellation of its famous Lutz 4th of July Celebration.
On July 4th, members will display their new holiday banner at the Historic Old Lutz School and wave flags while being safely distanced.
The Woman’s Club wishes everyone a safe and well-distanced holiday on this very different 4th of July.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY EVERYONE AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB members have continued to collect and donate needed food, hygiene and clothing items to the needy and food insecure in our area during this difficult period of COVID-19 and job loss. Each week since March, club members have delivered food and supplies to St. Vincent DePaul Food Pantry in Land O’Lakes as Darlene Choe and Patricia Serio (pictured above) have done.
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB, although somewhat sidelined during the Covid-19 shut-down, members have continued to serve the community through very generous monetary donations and delivery of food items and supplies to several area food pantries. In the past several weeks, the club has donated $2000 to CARES of Pasco County and $2000 to Metropolitan Ministries for their missions of feeding the food secure in our area. In addition, many club members have individually stepped up and donated more than $1,000 in food donations weighing in at over 500 lbs. and delivered same to St. Vincent
DePaul Food Pantry and other local food banks.
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB proudly announces its seven 2020 Scholarship recipients for a total of $25,000 of awards.
Recent Steinbrenner High School graduates, Maddison Rametta (UCF), Noah Morrow (UF) & Crystal Nwokoye (FAMU), all residents of Lutz, have each been awarded $5,000 scholarships from the (decommissioned) Lutz Volunteer Fire Department Endowment Fund, administered by the Woman’s Club. The Woman’s Club congratulates the recipients and wishes them every success in their college careers.
Four 2020 Annual Club Scholarship awards in the sum of $2500 each were given to four recent graduates of Steinbrenner High School, Brianna Sandner (FGCU), Joseph Pereira (USF) and Maggie O’Shea (FSU) and Sunlake High School graduate Morghan Copeland (UF).
Nancy Taylor delivering donation of $50 worth of food for St. Vincent DePaul homeless & needy.
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB members visited 2 area cemeteries in Lutz and Land O’Lakes and placed flags on the gravesites of veterans. It has been as decades’ long tradition for the Woman’s Club to honor our veterans, however this year, due to covid-19, the group was smaller out of necessary caution and safety. Nonetheless, we respectfully remembered our veterans for their service with flags and with prayers of appreciation.
