There were some pretty happy youngsters a few weeks ago. On Friday, May 5, after a hiatus due to COVID-19, the Marlton Woman's Club again gave tree saplings to 3rd graders at Van Zant School.
This project teaches about recycling and is usually done around Earth Day. The students LOVED getting their trees!
Eight MWC members helped the students wrap 150 trees to give to the third graders and kindergarten students. We heard lots of "This is fun!" and "Thank you!!" Many hands made the job easy too.
Thanks to MWC club members who were part of the tree-mendous day: Roberta Calabria, Sue Price, Donna Gatti, Linda Magee, Paula Wormald, Sue Gaskill, Sandy Meltz and committee chair June Adair.
Our team Sweet Charities is officially signed up for Relay for Life, an event of the American Cancer Society.
If you are interested in signing up for the team or wish to donate towards our efforts raising funds for the American Cancer Society, please visit www.relayforlife.org/marltonnj, click on team Sweet Charities and hit join team - it is a simple sign up. We’ll be in the Bead Tent this year, a plum position!
Anyone who is a cancer survivor is invited to sign up for a Survivor Luncheon at 12 noon that day in the Blue Barn (we may help serve). Please contact Meryl Schindler to sign up (mschin48@gmail.com). You are invited for yourself and a caregiver. Meryl Schindler also has restaurant raffle tickets available.
Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.
The Education and Libraries Committee did not have an easy time of it. Applicants for the 2023 Joanne Lotierzo Memorial Scholarship were an outstanding group of talented, accomplished, thoughtful, civic-minded young women. Six individuals have been selected and will be awarded scholarships from the Marlton Woman's Club as presented by their high school.
Applicants must be a Cherokee or BCIT senior woman graduating in June 2023, a student in good academic standing (minimum C average); and accepted to and planning to attend a post-secondary institution in Fall 2023.
Joanne "Cookie" Lotierzo was a past president of the Marlton Woman's Club and one of its founding members. Her leadership was instrumental in the club's growth and impact in the Evesham community.
For information or questions, email ContactUs@marltonwomansclub.com.
Well done! Thank you to all the club members and bingo patrons who brought non-perishable food and toiletry items to our Spring Bingo on April 16.
Bingo patrons donated an estimated total value of $2,700 of in-kind donations, and items were distributed to Cherokee and Wiley Food Pantries.
Thank you Donna Gatti for coordinating and club members for delivering the goods to the VERY happy recipients.
It's another successful Spring Bingo event in the books. This was a lot of work by a lot of people and we had a terrific day. Here it is by the numbers:
Þ 222 tickets sold
Þ $8,560 raised for ticket sales @ $40 each
Þ $3,445 raised for gift baskets
Þ $1,840 raised for Dining Around Town
Þ $1,005.00 raised for 50/50 Raffle
Þ $1,118 raised for Special Games
Þ $93 raised for dabbers @ $2 ea.
Þ Total $16,051.00
Þ Total expenses $5,677.07
Þ Total profit $10,383.93
Thanks to everyone who attended. Save the Date for our Fall Bingo on Sunday, October 15, 2023.
On Saturday, March 25, more than 20 members gathered to make no-sew blankets as gifts for the residents of Covenant House. Thank you to Jan Martin for hosting the event.
The at-risk teens from Covenant House will take these comforting blankets with them as "theirs" when they leave Covenant House. The group made 18 blankets that day and we have a total of 22 to donate.
Covenant House supports youth who are homeless who often find themselves disconnected from the necessary supports and systems that we may take for granted. Parental or adult support is often missing or abusive. Many of these youth have been part of systems such as foster care that can perpetuate their trauma. Covenant House is the largest privately funded agency in the Americas providing shelter, food, immediate crisis care, and an array of other services to homeless and runaway youth. Covenant House serves over 46,000 homeless and trafficked youth per year across 30 cities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. To learn more visit www.covenanthousenj.org.