Altrusa International

of Cowlitz County
January 2010
Library Duty:
Jan: ...........................Adele
Feb: . ................... Virginia
Mar: ........................... Gail
From the President:
We’re starting off the year running!!! After a successful fall and winter Birthdays:
season of fund raisers, we should all feel like the energizer bunny continu- Gail............................ Jan.2
ing into spring with our pet fund raiser: Spell-ebration! Lavern.................... Jan. 18
Colleen.................... Jan. 26
I’m very excited about the way our club continues to come together for Darlene..................... Feb. 5
fund raisers as well as implementing our service projects, getting our name Maggie.................... Feb. 20
out to the community, and having fun in the process. There are many Susanne.................. Feb. 21
behind the scenes efforts and tasks that make us a well oiled machine! We Adele...................... Mar. 23
can all be very proud of our team and easily recommend membership to
friends and family interested in joining us.

Way to go team!!!
Sock report:
Sincerely, by Robbie Oldemar
Lisa
We had enough for 5 schools.
• Castle Rock Elementary
• Barnes Elementary
• Catlin Elementary
• Kessler Elementary and
• Olympic Elementary

We added some underwear

this year too! Robbie, Joyce
and our Al-trouser - Doug
(Joyce’s husband) - sorted and
counted.

Important Dates
February 3,......................Business meeting All meetings are at 7:00
Feb 12 & 13th.................... Flower delivery at The Monticello Hotel.
February 10,................. Committee meeting If the local schools are
February 16, .......................... Bunko 6 p.m. closed or have a late start on
February 17...................... Program meeting Wednesdays
February 24.......................... Board meeting due to weather, our meetings
March 3............................Business meeting will be cancelled.
March 10...................... Committee meeting
From the Governor:
Hi Lisa -

This is extremely late in coming - but I wanted to THANK YOU and the Cowlitz Country
Altrusans for a very enjoyable visitation in November.

The day after our visitation, I ended up in the hospital and have been ‘out of commission’
almost totally since then! But
I’m on the mend and trying to catch up -

I was so impressed with all of your projects! They are unique and fantastic! Your members’ involvement in the
community through your projects is an absolute show stopper! Hopefully, other clubs in our district will take
a look at Cowlitz Altrusans and see what is possible - if they just dream and work together towards a common
goal!

You are an example of an excellent Altrusa Club which the world

could look at and be thankful you are one of us!

Again, thank you for a great meeting - and yes for the flowers
and the stationary also!

Julie Hysmith
Governor of District Twelve, Altrusa International Inc.
425-483-0853
hysmith11@verizon.net
And a Merry Christmas Was Had By All!
Winona...Always thinking outside the giftbox, was at it again. On December
16th, members arrived in their most festive outfits, bearing wrapped gifts of
silly socks for the sock exchange. Joyce won the most festive outfit. (See top
left photo on next page)

As you can see, it was tasty breakfast, hearty laughs, and fun prizes - an over-
all positive holiday experience.
Head Start Speakers for
January Program Meeting
Sandy Junkers and Paul Youmans gave a
presentation on the Head Start program.
The Breakfast Bunch currently supports
the Head Start program by reading Bertie
Bear books to students.

FUNDRAISERS:
Spell-ebration 2010 plans
are under way
Joyce is leading the way to this years big fundraiser
- Spellebration 2010. Spellebration 2009 was a huge
success last year and this year’s event promises to be
even better. The event will be on St. Patricks day every
year and this year it’s
Wednesday, March 17th.
Members will be signing up for committees such as
publicity, prizes, décor/sound, and word list (Debbie &
Darlene may already have the word list covered).
Sandy has sent out the “Save-the-date” email to last
years team captains. Robbie agreed to contact KLTV
again this year to film the event. Betty added she’d like
to operate the ticket booth again this year. The group
is looking at possibilities for an emcee and the judging
panel, word callers, a sound system, prizes, and ways to
identify teams.
Bunco
Party
February 16th
6:00 p.m.
at Darlene’s house
Theme is
“Foods You Love”
? ?
Mystery Bruncher
Who is it?
What you may not know:
She likes to garden, garden, decorate
and garden.
?
She lived in Longview almost her entire life - big
move was to Kelso for six months but
she hated writing the word Kelso on
her address (still scarred by the big
Longview vs Kelso football games
back in the ‘70’s. )
She’s been married to the same guy for over 35
years.
What you’d find hard to believe:
She’s so hard up for thinking of something that’s
unique about herself that she describes herself as
“plain old vanilla flavored with no sprinkles or
cherry on top.”
Need more hints?
Here’s what you probably know:
She raised two sons who she describes as funny,
responsible, and in possession of actual work ethics.
(She’s not proud is she?)
She was a realtor at one time, and she likes bees.
For the last two years she has worked for Bank of
America as a Mortgage Coordinator. She takes the
clients from application to the funding of their new
home or refinance of their present home.
OK Give up?
She’s the member most likely to be seen wearing a
bee costume in public.
Now, if you still don’t know who it is, you really
need to come to more meetings.
OTHER FUNDRAISERS:

Valentines Flower Delivery

There’s nothing better that being the one to deliver love.
Except, maybe making money doing it. Lisa is giving us the
opportunity to earn money for the club by delivering flowers
the week of Feb 8th. Most of the deliveries
will be Friday the 12th and Saturday
the 13th. Sign ups will be at the
February Business meeting.

Another Successful Raffle

Members worked hard during the busy
time of year manning a booth for selling
raffle tickets. The drawing was held on
Saturday, Dec. 19th. We’re not publish-
ing in this newsletter what we made sell-
ing tickets, but Eleanor can tell you how
much the club made.