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The Santa Rosa Woman's Club The Education Department of the Santa Rosa Woman's Club is collecting food for the Interfaith Ministries on March 15 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. They are asking the public to please donate food for this worthy cause. PJC Senior Club March Meeting The Pensacola Junior College (PJC) Seniors Club March Meeting will be March 18 at the PJC Main Campus, in Hagler Auditorium, Room 250 at 2 p.m. There will be a social hour with light refreshments starting a 1 p.m. Membership is open to anyone who is 60 years of age or older and a Florida resident. During the year, various card games, board games, bowling, tennis, casino trips, picnics, ice cream socials, a Christmas party and discount tickets to the PJC Lyceum programs are available to the members. For more information, call 850-477-1311.
The Santa Rosa Shores Women's Club held the March meeting at the lovely home of Shelia Little. Hostesses Louise Rosinski and Maxine Lesesne provided a delicious array of refreshments on a table with an Easter theme. The program given by Anne Brodie was on local history. She told interesting and intriguing stories about the families that settled this area. Brodie said, "Life was a mixture of fun, hard work, but it as a beautiful way of life." After the program, President Fran Fletcher held the business meeting. Discussion centered on the club's up-coming Easter event that will be held at Swenson Park. The meeting was adjourned and refreshments were served. The April meeting will be held at Connie Repp's home and the program will be gardening by a representative from the Garden Gate. Santa Rosa Shores is a social club that is open to any lady in the Santa Rosa Shores community. For more information, call Fran Fletcher at 850- 934-3837. Pensacola Women's Club
On Feb. 13, Directors, Michelle Kerrigan and Kayla Goliwas and other members of the BETA Children's Theatre awarded the zoo's Executive Director Danyelle Lantz $330. The money was raised at a recent BETA benefit concert performed. BETA organizers plan to raise money for a local homeless shelter in their upcoming "Hannah Montana/ Jonas Bros." concert and all proceeds from concession sales during their Spring "Cinderella" production will benefit the American Cancer Society Research Foundation. To attend either production, email betachildrenstheatre@hotmail.c om, be5298838ta@aol.com or call 850-529-8838. For more information, contact 850-529- 8838. The Adventure Club The Adventure Club is sponsored by the Center for Lifelong Learning on the University of West Florida (UWF) campus in Fort Walton Beach. The club is geared toward persons 50 and older who like to do active things but they have a few members who are in their 40's. The members bike, hike, kayak, canoe, travel and more. They have three activities per week and one or two overseas trips per year.
Clarice Hebinck, the head of the Adventure Club says, "There is a sort of minimal conditioning requirement for the club. Members have to be able to hike 3 miles in an hour and a half - which is slow. They also have to be able to bike 12 miles in an hour and a half - which is also slow." There is no formal structure, so they don't have any officers and don't have any dues. They do have a monthly planning meeting on the UWF campus in Fort Walton Beach. Hebinck sends out a group e-mail to everyone with the monthly schedule on it. Members hail from Destin to Pensacola and even a few live in Alabama. The club also has a number of snow bird members. They have a number of members who live in Gulf Breeze and bike in the Gulf Breeze area at least once per month. The club's planning meetings are the last Wednesday of each month to work out the schedule for the following month. Each activity has an assigned leader called the Honcho and involves biking, hiking and kayaking in a well-known area with lunch or dinner following. Even the Monthly planning meeting in the Auditorium Building on the UWF campus in Fort Walton Beach is followed by supper at a local restaurant. The Adventure Club is for people who want to do active things. The club meets the last Wednesday of each month in the auditorium on the UWF campus at 3 p.m. For more information, call Clarice Hebinck 850-581-4591. Wild Wacky Wonderful Red Hats of Navarre Feb. 21 was the second outing of the Wild Wacky Wonderful Red Hats of Navarre. This get together was held at Joyce Horgan's home in Navarre. A champagne brunch was the setting for the 2008 planning session. Each member chose a month to coordinate a little wackiness for the group. Everyone looks forward to a fun year. Membership in the Wild Wacky Wonderful Red Hats of Navarre will be limited to 15. If you are interested in joining them for fun and sisterly companionship, contact Margie Henson at 850-936- 5753. Gulf Breeze Rotary Club The Rotarians have had a busy time lately and things do not appear to be letting up soon. They completed their Gumbo cook-off, are continually promoting "Help Them Call Home," seeking volunteers for the Group study Exchange, having interesting programs and announcing events to come. The third annual Gumbo Cook-Off was a huge success. The event raised at least $9,000 with more trickling in daily. The Silent Auction coordinated by Robert Randle raised over $2,000. "Help Them Call Home" has become a national phenomenon. This is a program where old, non-working cell phones are donated and converted to long distance calling cards and sent to the troops that are deployed overseas. Each phone equals a 250-minute calling Card, and $40 will purchase a 1,200-minute calling card. Over $25,000 worth of phone cards were recently delivered to a joint Army-Marine Base in Iraq. Anyone may donate old cell phones by bringing them to a Gulf Breeze Rotary meeting or Gulf Breeze City Hall. Volunteers are still needed for the Group Study Exchange that the Pensacola Area Rotary Clubs are hosting from April 26 through May 3. The group is from southern France. There is a software engineer, a nurse and a couple people from the hospitality industry in Cannes in the group. Host families and drivers with vans or large cars are needed. Please see Sam Foreman or call him at 850- 470-0866 or 850-470-8022. The program on Feb. 26 featured speakers Gordon and Helen Town of the American Cancer Society. They said cancer is a word not a sentence. There have been significant advances in the fight on cancer. Survival rates have dramatically increased and treatments and outcomes are significantly better. Obviously, prevention and early detection is the best weapon. For men the most prevalent cancers are prostate, colon and lung. The threat of cancer in women is breast, colon and lung. Early detection can significantly increase the survival rate of cancer in both men and women. The advice for men is to have PSA, colonoscopy and refrain from smoking. The advice to women is to get breast exams as well as a colonoscopy and to also refrain from smoking. Relay for Life has been an increasingly visible sign of more involvement within the community and more cancer survivors taking the survivors' lap. The Towns are committed and devoted to the American Cancer Society, which is becoming more vocal to stop smoking and make use of funds that have become available from the tobacco settlement. Rotary Club members look forward to the following events. The Ethics in Business luncheon is scheduled for Monday, May 5. The Spring Social is scheduled for March 25 at McGuire's in Pensacola and starts at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. Career Shadow Day is March 18. If you wish to volunteer to host a student at your workplace please speak with Summer King or e-mail her at summersking@mchsi.com. |
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