July 2009 Report: Community Service Goes On!
Community Service is an active group; we met twice this month. We had our regular meeting at Joyce Reece’s home and met at Beverly’s craft and fabric store. We would like to extend a special thanks to Joyce Reece for allowing our committee to meet at her home every month. We are able to store our fabric and supplies at Joyce’s home, as well as have our regular meetings there. We have a great time and anyone interested is invited to come help and share in the work and fun. These people have attended most of our regular monthly meetings: Jackie Kelly, Mary Jane Motter, Lila Erl, Alice Coleman, Elaine Mason, Vera Karnes, Shir Lee Belilse, Charlotte Westlake, Ruth Schindler, Blanche Wood, Elfrida DeLany and Joyce Reece. Sharon Moos, Liz Hutzler, Clair Kinsley and Kathy Grabowski have each attended one or two times. We will be delivering 70 finished quilts to children in local hospitals at the end of this month.
In addition to our regular meeting at Joyce Reece’s home this month, we also spent one day at Beverly’s in Carmichael, quilting tops that had been completed. We would like to thank Beverly’s and Shir Lee Belisle for making this arrangement for us. Those that helped at Beverly’s were: Shir Lee Belilse, Ruth Schindler, Janet Van Wert, Carol Zelinski, Jackie Kelly and Mary Jane Motter.
Thanks to all the quilters that picked up quilts last month and returned them completed this month. We had a lot of quilts turned in at our June meeting and at our Community Service meeting. The following people turned in finished quilts or quilt tops: Elaine Mason, Mary Jane Motter, Elfrieda DeLany, Lila Erl, Alison Koch, Vera Karnes, Joyce Reece, Dee Irwin, Caroline Lunstra, Shir Lee Belisle, Sherry Werham, Janet Van Wert, Judy Horne. Kristy Updegraff, June Gladney, Charlotte Westlake, Kathy Mitchell and Allison Ware. Vera Karnes, Joyce Reece and Katherine LaRue also turned in bags to give to the Children’s Receiving Home.
We delivered quilts to Mercy San Juan, Neonatal and Pediatrics, Mercy Methodist Pediatrics and Sutter Memorial Pediatrics on July 6. Everyone was glad to see us and very grateful for our donations. We also have a donation ready to go to Kaiser Pediatrics (which has relocated to Roseville). Thanks to Bob Kelly for driving Jackie and Mary Jane around to all the hospitals. It made the trip easy.
Our thanks to all our quilters who have helped finish quilts that were worked on at our Community Service Night and to those who have completed donations of their own creation. The people that have contributed are: Dee Irwin, Caroline Lunstra, ShirLee Belisle, Sherry Werham, Janet Van Wert, Judy Horn, Kristy Updegraff, June Gladney, Charlotte Westlake, Joyce Reece, Vera Karnes, Elfreda DeLaney, Kathy Mitchell, Allison Ware, Alison Koch, Marie Nelson, and Patricia Pratt. Katherine La Rue, Vera Karns and Joyce Reece turned in some bags to given to the Children’s Receiving Home.
We had a nice meeting at Joyce’s house on July 1. We met outside on the deck, in the shade. We assembled and tied some quilts, put on labels, did some machine quilting and other handwork. We all worked hard and had a good time doing it.
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