Board News

Fall 2010

The Redwood Mountain Faire Provides $15,000 for Nonprofits

VWC Board Lauds Steering Committee’s Dedication and Success

SLV non-profits are celebrating checks totaling $15,000 from the June 5th Faire. Steering Committee members and the VWC Board are delighted that the Faire was a great event and benefited so many groups providing crucial services to our community.

Organizations sharing in the proceeds had provided volunteers for the dozens of tasks needed to put on the event. The many diverse organizations benefiting this year include the Santa Cruz Mountain Arts Center, Mountain Community Resources, Valley Churches United, Boy Scout and Girl Scout Troops, Glen Arbor Preschool, Camp Joy Gardens, SLV Community Band, SLV High Boosters, SLV High Football Team, South Street Centre, SLV Pop Warner, Cabrillo College Football Team and the SLV CERT Team. Many other organizations benefited by having informational booths at the event.

The VWC did not keep its share of the proceeds, but decided to increase the funds distributed to the other nonprofits this first year back.

The Faire, returning after 14 years, was a success in many ways. Almost 2,000 people were there enjoying excellent music, admiring beautiful treasures, eating wonderful food, sipping special beverages, learning about nonprofits in our community, finding shade under huge oak trees, listening to the train, watching their children have a great time, and just enjoying the event and the generations of people it brought together.

350 volunteers from 15 local nonprofits worked at the event or helped with it organization. (Half from the VWC.) Over 1500 hours of help the day of the Faire, worth over $20,250 in donated labor!

53 talented musicians, in 13 bands, helped by their support teams, performed on two stages. Local artists and artisans provided creative and wonderful items to view and buy. Tasty and abundant foods and beverages (those 5 great microbreweries!) fed the crowd. Our local government representatives, State Assembly Member Bill Monning, and Supervisor Mark Stone, came on stage with proclamations honoring the Faire and the Valley Women’s Club.

Everyone loved Georgianna Clark’s wonderful Roaring Camp, encircling the Faire with the beauty of our Valley at its best: the trees, the meadow, the unique Old West town, and the train blowing off steam and whistling loudly, often at just the right time in a song.

In 2011, a two-day Faire is planned for June 4th and 5th and the organizers are already hard at work to provide another magnificent event. Think about how you would like to help! (www.redwoodmountainfaire.com)

VWC Fall Meet & Greet: October 3rd

The VWC will be holding its annual Meet & Greet, a chance for VWC members and friends to catch up with each other in a lovely outdoor setting, on Sunday, October 3rd at Highlands Park from 2 to 4 pm.

This is a casual event aimed at strengthening the ties between VWC members and their families. Look for us on the redwood deck near the playground in between the Main House and the Senior Center.

The harpists who played at the Meet & Greet last year were so well received that they’ve been invited back again this year to add a heavenly touch to the festivities.

We’ll be serving light refreshments and childcare will be available.
If you know anyone who is thinking about joining the VWC, let them know that the Meet & Greet is a great way to make new friends and get a feel for the club.

Scholarship Rummage Sale

The weather was a little on the gloomy side but that did not deter bargain hunters from wading through the piles of cast-off treasures at the VWC’s Scholarship Rummage Sale on June 19th.

Proceeds from the annual event are used to give scholarships to SLV High School students headed to Cabrillo College. This year’s recipients are:

• Andre Perez, who is planning to become an architect;
• Chellia Clendon, interested in a career as a graphic designer; and
• Shannon Fox, who hopes to get a teaching credential

Thanks to the generosity of the SLV Water District, sale organizer Hilary Stanley was able to store all of the donations in an unused water district building until the day of the sale.

Hilary is very grateful to all of the people who helped out on the day of the sale: Pat Armstrong, Karen Burman, Sheila and Jerry De Lany, Mary Hammer, Nancy Macy, Dixie Mitchell-Clow, Kathy Phillips, Vince Waskell and Donna Ziel. According to Hilary, “Because we know what we’re doing, it goes pretty fast.”

Donations to the Scholarship Fund can be sent to Valley Women’s Club Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 574, Ben Lomond, CA 95005.

Email Messages from The Valley Women’s Club

For a little over a year now, the Valley Women’s Club has been using a service called iContact to send email messages about VWC events and issues to our membership.

If you’re a member of the VWC and you are not receiving these emails, it most likely means that you have anti-spam software that is filtering out our emails as junk mail.

If you would like to start receiving club emails, add our email address, news@vwcweb.org, to the “white list” or “safe sender” list in your spam software. (That is the list of email addresses of people you have authorized to send you emails.)

You don’t need to worry about getting deluged with VWC emails: we only send 1 or 2 emails a month.

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