Nancy Taylor delivering donation of $50 worth of food for St. Vincent DePaul homeless & needy.
Woman’s Club Honors Vets For Memorial Day
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.
Lutz 4th of July Celebration and Parade Cancelled
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB, after closely monitoring the situation due to the covid-19 pandemic, regretfully finds it necessary to CANCEL its traditional Lutz 4th of July Celebration, Parade, Guv’na Race, Cake Bake and other associated events on that day. As the main sponsor of this beloved celebration, the Woman’s Club had to make the very difficult decision out of concern for the safety and well-being of its members, the public with all the families, youngsters and oldsters and everyone in between, who have attended and enjoyed these festivities for decades. We are cancelling out of an abundance of caution and with a heavy heart but look forward to planning an even bigger and better 4th of July Celebration in 2021.
The Woman’s Club wishes everyone a VERY Happy and Healthy 4th of July holiday this year and reminds everyone to be cautious and safe.
WOMAN’S CLUB CARRIES ON DURING CORONA
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB President Annette Bellingar has kept its 100+ members informed, in-touch and entertained during these long weeks of solitary at-home work, being unable to meet and carry on its usual busy calendar of events and projects to benefit the community. Kudos to Ms. Bellingar for introducing her members to ZOOM meetings, as well as fun “game days” including Zoom Bingo and a Scavenger Hunt, with more games to follow. The club women have been far from idle, continuing to donate funds to Metropolitan Ministeries, CARES of Pasco, Christian Social Services of Land O’Lakes and others, as well as sewing hundreds of face masks for the community, sleep mats for the homeless and so much more. These ladies are anxious to return to their normal schedule of community service but are certainly keeping busy during this cautious period of dealing with covid-19.
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WOMAN’S CLUB MEMBER BRINGS COMFORT TO HOMELESS POPULATION
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES longtime member, ANIKO SOLOMONSON, has single-handedly made a cottage industry of crocheting recycled plastic bags into weatherproof sleep mats which she has distributed to the area homeless since 2014. Ms. Solomonson has taught fellow club members and many other groups how to fold the bags into lengths of “rope” and crochet them into mats. Members, under Aniko’s guidance, have saved countless vehicles full of recycled plastics from going to landfills and have helped those living on the streets with these sleep mats. Aniko alone has produced 300+ mats and delivered many to The Well, which serves the home-insecure population in Tampa. Ms. Solomonson has temporarily halted this project to give priority to sewing more than 70 face masks for various groups and, post-corona, will be resume her “mat” work.
Photo submitted by Patricia Serio
Woman’s Club Supports Prevention of Child Abuse
GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB members, although curtailed during the corona ‘shelter at home’ necessity, Sabrina Scott and Nancy Swanton observed safe-distancing and wore masks while planting a “Pinwheel Garden” to bring awareness to the Prevention of Child Abuse. April is traditionally the month during which projects and events are put in place by the Woman’s Club to bring this issue to the forefront in our community. The garden has been planted in front of the historic Old Lutz School in downtown Lutz.
