Beautiful Woman Month!

Happy New Year everyone!  Did you know that January is Beautiful Woman Month and it is a chance to celebrate us?  The Junior Women’s Club of Bellerose welcomes you back after a beautiful holiday season.  Our next meeting is on Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 7:30PM at Village Hall.  We will be having our “Lemon Auction”.  The “Lemon Auction” is a mid-winter night of fun – all you have to do is bring down gifts you may have received that were real “lemons” and donate them to our auction - we have a special auctioneer, a bidding “war” and the highest bidders walk away with new treasures for themselves, their homes and families.  Best of all, we raise money for charity!  So please bring some $ so you can get in on the bidding!

While we truly enjoyed a White Christmas, I believe it was even more memorable due to the hard work of club members like Jean Moore, Paige de Armas, Linda Tanalski, Kathy Brandt and Mary O’Donoghue who hosted our Village and Club holiday events.  Mary, along with club members and our teens made our Village Food Drive a success by remembering those truly in need as we entered the holiday season. Linda, her committee and her elves did a wonderful job decorating Village Hall and hosting our Tree Lighting and Breakfast with Santa events.  Who can forget the festive evening at our Holiday Party? Jean and Paige hosted a warm and fun evening with great food and entertainment – it was so nice to see the members, spouses, neighbors and friends join in the fun!  “Name That Tune” stole the show for the evening.  Kathy Brandt single-handedly ran a Winter Coat Drive for those in need of warmth in the frigid weather!  Special thanks to Mayor and Robbie Van Buskirk, Rosemary, Tria and George at Village Hall for all of their help with Club events these past few months – we couldn’t do any of this without their support!  Thanks to all of the members who volunteered their time last month!

It is with deep sadness to inform you that two of our club members, Marie Cappiello and Mary Kelly, lost their fathers over the holiday season.  Our prayers and thoughts are with them.

There will be no monthly meeting in February, however there are meetings of Officers, Department and Committee Chairs and the Ad-hoc Fundraising Committee scheduled.  We will be finalizing the spring calendar of events and we need to decide on a Spring Fundraiser.  All members are welcome to get involved or just learn more about what we do – if you have any ideas or would like to become more involved, I invite you to attend a special Ad-hoc Fundraising Committee meeting scheduled at Village Hall on Wednesday, February 13^th at 8PM.  If there are any charities you believe may be worthy of the Club’s consideration, please email or send me information on the charity for the committee’s review.  We are your Club; we want to reflect your values and would love to hear from you!  Although we are not having a monthly meeting in February, Paige and Jean have planned a Wine Tasting Social on Thursday, February 27^th and they have also planned a Bowling Night on Saturday, March 29^th (see attached flyers) so we can get together.  Hope you can join us!

Finally, I’d like to thank Loretta Barnes and Valerie Schillero for a wonderful Craft Night in November.  Loretta, thank you for your decorations that make all of our holiday and club events so beautiful.  I am also happy to report that our own Junior Spirit editor, Mary Vaccaro, gave birth to her second son, Matthew Anthony, on January 5^th.  Congratulations to Mary, Vincent and big brother, Vincent on their new addition and for giving our Club such good luck in starting off the New Year!

Have a beautiful month,

Rosaleen Shea,  JWCB  President  

Spring Fundraiser

Volunteers needed for our Mother's Day Dinner Raffle. Please come to the Feb 13 Fundraising meeting or call Rosaleen at 358-0445 or Noreen at 354-7427.

Happy Birthday!

January – Andrea D’Apolito-Saccente, Maria Heskin, Kathy Phannemiller, Dorothy Bennett, Cathy Corry, Cathy Mohan

February – Nancy Millus, Robbie Van Buskirk, Barbara Schmidt, Barbara Salmon, Jane Piccirillo, Eileen Scott, Cathy Seelig