GFWC-Woman s Club of Deerfield Beach

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1 Officers President: Bett Willett 1st V.P.: Marge Hilton 2nd V.P. Marti McGeary 3rd V.P. Fay Swalley Financial Secretary/Membership: Phyllis Mavrikis Treasurer: Mickey Rosenkranz Auditor Director: Eleanore DeBoo Recording Secretary: Verna Rosenzweig Corresponding Secretary: Mary McKenna Evening Division Meets 3 rd Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. Director - Denise Bogner Vice Director - Claire Riccardi Secretary - Pam Militello Treasurer - Katy Freitag Liaison and Parliamentarian Phyllis Mavrikis Committee Chairs Chaplain - Thomasina O'Shea Building/Rentals Marti McGeary Greeters Anita VonHold Newsletter Bett Willett, Pat Pollotta Phone Tree Phyllis Mavrikis Public Relations Eleanore DeBoo Relay for Life Kitty Cole Scholarship Committee Fay Swalley Scrap Book Marti McGeary Department Chairs Arts/Social - Sally Brinkworth, Sally Cloeren Conservation Sally Chase Education Fay Swalley Home Life Anita VonHold International Outreach Open Public Issues - Open 910 E. Hillsboro Blvd. Deerfield Beach FL GFWC-Woman s Club of Deerfield Beach 2016 Bett s Bits Thanks to all members of our club, you are awesome! We had a chock full month, we showed up in numbers at the Historical Society s Wine and Cheese celebration and were wowed by their new gift shop the Alice B at Pioneer Grove. Our Lasagna Dinner fund raiser for our building maintenance fund put about $1,000+ into our account. And, all who attended had a great time and a super dinner catered by Toula Amana. We had a ball at the Pioneer Days (formerly Founders Day) Parade. A big shout out and thanks to Marie Ettinger, Sally Cloeren and Rita Masi for the loan of their convertibles.

2 We had a booth at the beach to inform residents about our Club and our upcoming Paws for a Cause. Our Paws for a Cause event was SPECTACULAR! The weather was glorious, and the crowds showed our efforts at passing out flyers paid off. Pam, Denise, Barbara, Katy, Phyllis and others chased down participants and donations for our raffle baskets which brought in funds for our donation to Canine Companions. The Evening Group Woman s Club News Submitted by Denise Bogner Meets 3 rd Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. Thank you to all members who were involved in Pioneer Days. We were able to tell people about our Club and Paws for a Cause. We will have a booth at the March 13th and April 10th Green Markets - Denise@dbwc.org if you are available to help. Thanks also to the Coral Springs Woman s Club who ran the snack booth. Thanks to all who participated, you are what Woman s Club members are all about! Rachel Gavin, Editor of the Observer Newspaper, will speak at our March 16th meeting. Rachel was first published at the age of six. But her real professional career didn t start until much later. Always an avid writer, Rachel has felt that she has a natural ability for the written word. In 1998, while working in sales at Talent Magazine in Los Angeles, she was offered the chance to become a theater critic. It was those few tear sheets that led her to the career she holds today. The City of Deerfield Beach will be holding Spring Fest to celebrate Earth & Arbor Day on Saturday, April 30th from 3 pm to 7pm at Pioneer Park. We will have an information booth at the event so mark your calendar.

3 March 8, 1:00 p.m. Program Pete Wise as Aaron Burr, a Reenactment (Background) The third vice-president of the United States was involved in two of the most sensational episodes in the America of his day. In a duel in 1804, when he was forty-eight, he killed Alexander Hamilton, one of the country s founding fathers, and three years later after complicated legal proceedings he was questionably acquitted of treason. Aaron Burr came from a prominent family of clerics and scholars, but he always had a wild streak. The young Burr fought with distinction in the War of Independence. He became a prosperous lawyer in New York City and went into politics, both of which created a poisonous rivalry with Alexander Hamilton. In the 1790s Burr was a United States senator and from 1800 he was vice-president to President Jefferson, but he was not picked to run again with Jefferson in The animosity with Hamilton reached a point at which Burr challenged him to a duel. Each man fired one shot. Hamilton missed, but Burr did not. Hamilton fell mortally wounded, with a pistol ball lodged in his spine, and died the following day. those days the justices of the Supreme Court also presided individually in the federal district courts. The proceedings took months. Burr was accused of high misdemeanor for planning to attack the dominions of the King of Spain and of treason for trying to seize New Orleans and convert American territory into an empire of his own. If he was found guilty of treason, the penalty would be death. The prosecution lawyers were overshadowed from the start by the galaxy of legal talent Burr had found to defend him, headed by Edmund Randolph, a former governor of Virginia, federal Attorney General and Secretary of State to George Washington. Burr s team spent three days arguing that to be guilty of treason for levying war under the Constitution, the accused must have committed an overt act in a war, testified to by two witnesses and committed in the district of the trial. Chief Justice Marshall upheld this argument and in the end, despite the evident misgivings of the jury, Burr had to be acquitted. Burr was generally believed guilty all the same and in Baltimore a mob hanged him in effigy. He took refuge in Europe, where he tried to interest the British and French governments in creating a new nation in the American Southwest. He returned to the United States in 1812 and spent the rest of a long life in law practice in New York, a disappointed man. He was eighty when he died at Port Richmond on Staten Island in By Richard Cavendish Published in History Today Volume 57 Issue 2 February See more at: The Grant is Still Available: Trap and Spay/Neuter Outside Cats $2 Many Americans considered Burr no better than a murderer. He was now turning his mind to starting a colony in the newly acquired Louisiana Territory, personally invading Mexico, which was still a Spanish colony, and according to rival interpretations of his intentions either expanding the United States or founding a whole new nation of his own. As rumors about Burr s intentions spread, the administration became increasingly suspicious and President Jefferson was informed by a treacherous associate of Burr s, a certain General Wilkinson, that there was a deep, dark, wicked and widespread conspiracy afoot. Wilkinson turned out to be in the pay of the Spanish government. Late in 1806 Burr led a force of sixty followers in boats down the Mississippi, apparently heading for New Orleans. Near Natchez he was held and then released, but when he reached what is now Alabama, he was arrested and sent under guard to Richmond, Virginia. There he came up in the United States Circuit Court before Chief Justice John Marshall, who happened not to be an ardent admirer of President Jefferson. In (Stray Aid s Cheryl Knudsen at our Paws for a Cause) Stray Aid & Rescue here with some EXCITING news! We have received a $25,000 grant from Florida Animal Friend, the spay/neuter license plate. Deerfield

4 zip code is one of 3 zip codes that are eligible to participate in this program for only $2/cat. This program is for the feral/stray/outside cat population. Cats must reside in this zip code. Please visit the Stray Aid & Rescue website for details! The additional money paid for the spay/neuter license plate goes into this annual grant program. Help win the battle against pet overpopulation by purchasing the Florida Animal Friend license plate Kevin Wood Owner/Operator Express Air, Inc Air Conditioning/Refrigeration Residential/Commercial Sales/Service/Installation Kevin0963 #CAC Submitted by Marti McGeary, 2 nd Vice President District 13 Art Competition MARCH Birthdays GFWC Hollywood Woman s Club Saturday, March noon 2 P.M. View art entries and winners. Refreshments served. Hostesses March Meeting Theme is SPRING HAS SPRUNG Light refreshments and beverages. Margaret Hilton 3/1 Mary Mc Kenna 3/4 Geri Szurma 3/18 Patricia Lewis 3/21 Joan Williams 3/22 Membership Phyllis Mavrikis - Membership Chair RSVP When you get a phone message about the next meeting PLEASE return the call and let the caller know you will/will not be attending. Scholarship Fay Swalley If you know of anyone who may be eligible for our scholarships please contact me. We are looking for high school seniors and women going back to school

5 Tree Tops Park Plants for US! Our clubhouse landscape is being redesigned with new plants and trees. The Broward Water Matters Day is giving away 2 trees/bushes to residents. Let s all go have fun at the event and pick up some plants for our club. Our landscape designer (and member) Linda Marshall will have a list of what we should get. Meet at the clubhouse on March 12 at 9:00 am if you want to convoy with us to the event Southwest 100th Avenue, Davie (See complete flyer at the end of the Newsletter) Children's Activities, Giveaways, Interactive Educational Displays/Booths, Water Conservation Tips, Landscaping for Water Savings, Eco-Friendly Ideas, Food Truck Invasion $1.50, FREE for Children 5 & under For More Information: or visit Broward.org/WaterMatters Chaplain Thomasina O Shea Nature Is What We See Nature is what we see The Hill the Afternoon Squirrel Eclipse the Bumble bee Nay Nature is Heaven Nature is what we hear The Bobolink the Sea Thunder the Cricket Nay Nature is Harmony Nature is what we know Yet have no art to say So impotent Our Wisdom is To her Simplicity. Emily Dickinson 2016 PROGRAMS April 12, 6:30 p.m. Installation Day and Evening Joint Meeting Wine and Cheese 6:30p.m. May 10, 1:00 p.m. Katharine J. Hendrickson Broward County Park Naturalist - Deerfield Island Park history

6 Les Petits Collecteurs Kitty Cole, Relay for Life Luminary Chair Sign up to help at Relay for Life Saturday, April 16 at the Luminary Booth. Choose a time, 4 p.m. - Dusk. Dollhouse Miniature Show and Sale Saturday March 12 9:00 a.m. Boca Raton Community Center 150 NW Crawford Boulevard - Boca Raton At the International Fishing Pier The Only LEED Certified Restaurant in Broward County The Deerfield Beach Cafe 202 NE 21st Ave, Deerfield Beach, FL Phone: (954) Hours: Mon-Sun 6:30am 7pm PERMANENT NAME BADGES $8.00 If you would like a permanent name tag to wear at our meetings, and when we participate in events you can now buy one at a super low price of $8.00. We will have a sign up list at the next meeting, or you can me and let me know you want one.

7 Help Us Rent Our Clubhouse Contact Marti McGeary at Help Support Our Club; tell all your friends what a great place it is to have an event for up to 100 people at our club house. We Have New Chairs! We have new, more comfortable and good looking chairs. The building committee, as part of the plan for making our clubhouse more attractive researched and found these really beautiful chairs and got them on sale by acting quickly. They were delivered to the parking lot during a board meeting and the board had to bring them in a few at a time. It was worth it, they really perk the place up. Should I call a plumber or an electrician?

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