Karen Lockwood's New Grandson

 

Maverick

Karen's Daughter Elizabeth, Husband Trevor Beeler -- Holding Baby Maverick

L-R: Daddy Trevor, Baby Maverick, Older Brother Archer

Last month, Karen Lockwood's youngest daughter Elizabeth, her husband Trevor, and two-year-old Archer, welcomed Maverick to the family! Congratulations to Karen and her blossoming family! 🧡

Supporting P.E.O. Projects

 

L-R: Jill Hyde, Beth Herbert, Annie Gaddy, Vicky Hughes, Marguerite Lipton, 

Karen Lockwood in Foreground (donating her dimes)

L-R: Jill Hyde, Annie Gaddy, Beth Herbert, Karen Lockwood, Marguerite Lipton, 

Vicky Hughes in Foreground (donating her dimes)

Background, L-R: Joyce Kozeliski, Honored Guest Sarah Raessler, Roberta Meyer

Hostess Cindy Weber in Foreground (donating her dimes)

At today's chapter meeting, sisters enjoyed a fabulous interactive "spend-the-dimes fund-allocation" exercise. Our treasurer, Jill Hyde serves as co-chair of the Operations Committee. The other co-chair is Guard Tanya Lynn. Together, they led this exercise.

Jill explained that each dime represented $20. Tanya distributed dimes to each sister. We had two rounds of "dime-distribution" into a variety of cups labeled with the names of the various P.E.O. projects. The first round was to determine how much money we would give to Colorado projects. The second round was for determining fund allocation to P.E.O. International projects.

Sisters enjoyed distributing the dimes they were given "to vote" how much money they wanted our chapter to donate to each project. Some sisters shared a few of their dimes with our two honored guests at today's chapter meeting: Deborah and Sarah Raessler, who seemed to enjoy joining in on the fun of the "dime distribution." 

All the effort to fundraise this past year enabled us to enjoy today's joyful determination of how we will support P.E.O. projects this year! Blessings abound! 🧡

Note: The chapter retained $2,000 to fund the chapter's "Bright Futures Scholarships" (available to young women in their senior year of high school).

STATE: 

Marguerite Fund - $1,000

Marguerite Fund Shower - $400

Share The Care - $160

Chapter House - $200

CPCC - $300

CSSF - $400

CCSF - $540

TOTAL = $3,000

 

INTERNATIONAL:

ELF - $540

IPS - $600

PCE - $1,100

PSA - $400

STAR - $760

Cottey - $360

Foundation - $240

Total = $4,000

McDonnell Quarterly Connections Group Met Today

 

L-R: Judy Lawrence, Kathie Burson, Belinda Alkula, Maggie McDonnell, Beth Herbert, Annie Gaddy

Group Captain Maggie McDonnell orchestrated today's gathering at the Morning Glory Farm Fresh Cafe in Lafayette. Sisters enjoyed delicious food and delightful conversation! 

Blessings were shared, and all money donated to the "blessing bag" supports our chapter's "Bright Futures Scholarship" fund (available to young women in their senior year of high school). Indeed, blessings abound!

Last Book Club Gathering in 2022

Center Background (then clockwise): Vicky Hughes, Hostess Cindy Weber, Maggie McDonnell, 

Beth Herbert, and Honored Guest Deborah Raessler

Cindy Weber invited sisters to her lovely home for today's book club gathering. Peng Shepherd's The Cartographers was the book Cindy chose for today's discussion.

Lovingly Supporting Sisters with Prayer Shawls

 

Beautiful Prayer Shawl Knitted by Annette Oakley

We give thanks for sisters who lovingly knit prayer shawls for others in our chapter -- to wrap them in our love and show them our support: Annette, Joyce, and Kathie!

Birdhouse Decorated for Halloween Now!

 

This past summer, Beth Herbert participated in our chapter's birdhouse-decorating event in Mary Jean Cardinale's beautiful garden. 

This month, Beth's young grandson delighted in decorating it with Halloween decorations. And he pronounced that they should decorate it for each upcoming holiday! What fun!

Great Chapter Meeting!

 

Growth Committee Co-chair presents daisies to Beth Herbert, welcoming her to the chapter!

Treasurer Jill Hyde presents recommendation for next year's budget.

What a great chapter meeting we had today! It was with great joy that we officially accepted Beth Herbert as our newest Sister. Beth moved to Colorado this year from Chandler, Arizona. Beth is Just Incredible, and she is a welcome addition to our chapter!

Treasurer Jill Hyde shared the wonderful news about how this year's fundraising goals were surpassed, so we have a lot of money to donate to P.E.O. projects and philanthropies! We voted to retain $2,000 to fund the chapter's "Bright Futures Scholarships" (available to young women in their senior year of high school), $3,000 to give for Colorado State projects, and $4,000 to give for P.E.O. International projects.

We appreciate Marguerite Lipton inviting us into her lovely home. And we appreciate Marguerite and co-hostess Jill Hyde providing delicious refreshments and chocolate goodies to make our time together extra sweet!