GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club has proudly awarded a total of $16,000 in scholarship funds for 2016 to 8 area students as follows:

Samuel May, $5,000 (Lutz Volunteer FD Endowed Fund)
Sydney Labban, $1,000
Nicole Sommer, $1,000
Mariah Berberich, $1,000

and not pictured:
Stephanie Pishock, $5,000 (Lutz Volunteer FD Endowed Fund)
Hailey Cuervo, $1,000
McKenna Smith, $1,000
Tessa Brooke Rodd, $1,000

The Woman’s Club has for decades placed its largest emphasis on education and considers scholarships one of its most important contributions to the community through our youth.

**Note that J C Audiology, Dr. Jay Nelson, Jerry McCarthy State Farm Ins. and Fraternal Order of Police Pasco Lodge #29 have supplemented the 2016 Scholarship Fund with generous donations.

GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club recently presented member, Elda Moyer, with a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of her years of contributions to the club’s International Outreach Project. Ms. Moyer spends hours each week, collecting, cutting and packaging cancelled postage stamps to benefit the Sons of Norway project for children with disabilities and other challenges. Last year alone, Ms. Moyer collected, trimmed and sent off a whopping 14,000 stamps to this organization.

GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB congratulates member, Lois Cohen, for placing 1st Statewide with her photography entry which was recently judged at the GFWC Annual State Convention in Orlando.

GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB recently honored 3 longtime members for their decades of service. Lea Griffin has volunteered for 35 years, Valerie Burris for 25 years and Faith Sincich (not pictured) also for 25 years of community service through this volunteer organization. President Cathy Mathes presented the ladies with their “year” pins commemorating their decades of service totaling a cumulative 85 years on behalf of the Woman’s Club and our community.

GFWC LUTZ-LAND O’LAKES WOMAN’S CLUB longtime member, Aniko Solomonson, was recently honored by Tampa GEM Sertoma, with its Service to Mankind Award. Board Chairman of Tampa GEM Sertoma, Donna Silari, presented Ms. Solomonson with a beautiful commemorative plaque in recognition of her contributions on behalf the homeless. She has made it her mission over the past several years to involve the Woman’s Club, other clubs in the Florida Federation, churches and service groups in crocheting and distributing sleeping roll bed mats from recycled plastic grocery bags for the area’s homeless population. Ms. Solomonson has taught numerous groups this method and as a result, her good work has multiplied and extended far beyond the Tampa Bay area and even internationally.