BREAKFAST with SANTA at Woman's Club of Spokane

                                              I do believe the children believed, I know I believed
Two years ago we starting thinking about fundraising ideas.  Things you love to do.  This was our first year with Breakfast with Santa.  A club member found a WONDERFUL  Real Santa Claus Fred at her doctor's office.  A local retirement home volunteered to cater the breakfast [Belgian waffles, strawberries, sausage and eggs and OJ!]  We had real tablecloths, real china, and great decorations.  The children were dressed up and had a great time. We had the children from several families sponsored from a community center in one of our poorer neighborhoods. This was the second event where our club's new C-3 Juniorettes volunteered. We learned so much.  Our goal next year is to have more children with at least half to be sponsored.

                                                            Santa and some C-3 Juniorettes

GFWC Preservation and Paint

                                                               Two of the four scaffoldings.

 

Rosemary [blue shirt and cane] gives a tour

We just had a fantastic weekend of collaborative volunteering at the Woman's Club of Spokane.  Our budget is minuscule, but our need to maintain our historic clubhouse is pressing each month.  Spokane Preservation Advocates [SPA] has a "Doing It" project about four times a year.  We were thrilled when they asked to help us with painting.  Our Large Auditorium ceiling is 2700 square feet and has 17 1/2 foot high ceiling; think lots of scaffolding and oceans of heavy plastic to cover hardwood floors, huge windows and dangling historic light fixtures. The club provided a speghetti lunch for 50 people and the paint.  Oh my gosh was this a great day. We were expecting 25 people and the weather was awful [slick black ice].  Imagine my surprise when all those people showed up and they wanted to work.  SPA also gave us a matching grant last year to replace broken window panes in the room below the Auditorium.