CHAIRMAN SPOTLIGHT...DONNA BURKE

On today's blog post I would like to introduce you to one of our Chairwomen Donna Burke. She is the chairwoman of the Talent Auction. Take a few minutes and get to know one of our members, be sure to send her a like on Facebook if you haven't already. 

Donna and her husband  Larry moved to Bullitt County in 1989, and in 1998 they built the home they now live in which is located right on highway 44 within Shepherdsville city limits. Larry and Donna are the owners of Burke Heating and Cooling which has been in operation here in Bullitt County since 1990. Some days you can find Donna up in attics or down in a crawlspace getting bruised and dirty, she has been working right along side of her husband Larry for the last eight months. 

Outside of her involvement with Bullitt County Woman's Club, She is currently serving as president and treasurer of the Bullitt County Arts Council. She also assists Judy Nevitt with the Music Department. Together they host the Vocalist of the year contest each year.  She is also co-founder of Buy Bullitt Along with Sherry Parker. They both are working hard to make that entity flourish and bring other small businesses on board. 

Donna also has over 30 years of mortgage experience and is in the process of re-entering that field and is reinstating previously held life and health, securities and annuities licensing. She is also pursuing a degree in Business Management at Brown Mackie.

Larry and Donna will be celebrating 26 years of marriage in December. They have five children between them. Which they call his ( Jeff & Justin), mine (Christy & Joey) and last, Josh, their youngest, who was actually born here in Bullitt County in 1990.

Donna was introduce to the Bullitt County Woman's Club by Lou Ann Moore. The main reason she joined the Woman's Club was to meet more people, and she already knew several ladies who were already members. She has only been a member going on two years and has already jumped right in becoming Parliamentarian and chairing the Talent Auction as well as the By-laws Committee.

Donna is a singer/songwriter and currently leads the worship at her church, Family Day Ministries. She regularly visits Colonial House & Elmcroft Assisted Living Facility to provide musical entertainment. She enjoys writing, reading and bowling, horseback riding, skiing( water & snow) crocheting and knitting. 

You can find Donna on Facebook, Google Plus, Linkedin, and Reverbnation where she currently is ranked # 9 as a Christian Gospel artist, she promotes mostly her own songs. She has recorded 5 CD"s one as soloist and 4 with her former group, Face to Face. 

She considers her self to be very blessed and happy to be a part of such a wonderful organization that applauds the strengths and accomplishments of the local women in our community. 

TALENT AUCTION...

Today I would like to share with you a little information  about one of our Special Committee's our Annual Talent Auction. This is a auction we hold every year to help with our fundraising needs for our club and to also help with several community programs.

Each year our club holds a Talent Auction that is open to the public. All the items are made by the women in our club or by someone they know. There will be needlework items, wood work items, ceramics, and sometimes quilts. Many of the women are wonderful cooks and will make special baked items for the auction.

We have a auctioneer that donates his or her time to auction off the items. The bidding sometimes gets lively when an item is sought after my many people, adding to the fun of the event.

This is just a short little piece of information about our auction. Over the month of October I will share a little history from our past auctions and a little bit about how it all began. Be sure to check back often to find out a little more about the history of our talent auction.

Remember to share with your friends and invite them to come to our Talent Auction  The auction is on Monday October 13 and it starts at 7 pm. Be sure to check our Facebook page for more details on where the auction is being held this year.

NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT...Icy Parker

I would like to take a few minutes and introduce you to one of our new members, she has been around us for a while  now and you might recognize her. Her name is Icy Parker.

 She has been coming and helping at many of our meetings over the last few years, and  helped at the fall conference last year as well as at the Dare chili supper over the past few years.

Icy  has an amazing personality, she is so much fun to be around she definitely keeps me young. Icy was introduced to the woman's club by me (Sherry Parker) I asked her to come to the meetings with me she knows almost all of you ladies in one way or another. She actively volunteers in our community when she can.  She is an avid rock climber and hiker she loves being outdoors, and just hanging out with her dog, Bug. She loves writing music and short stories in her spare time. She is an avid photographer and she has an amazing Instagram profile.



Icy is planning on joining the International Outreach Committee and the Community Improvement Project. She works as an IT professional and will be working with our Media team behind the scenes to help with our blog.

 



Icy is on Facebook as Icey Parker , and she is on google+  as Icy Parker and on Instagram as captain frostie Try to send her a friend request and take a look at her instagram her pictures are amazing.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT... LINDA RAYHILL

I would like to introduce you to Linda Rayhill.

She was introduced to the Woman's Club by her cousin and she already knew several  other women in the club already. Linda lives in Shepherdsville she retired in 2010 from OVEC Head Start as a Family Advocate.

 She is very active in her community she currently serves as the CASA Board of Directors Secretary. She has served on the Bullitt County Chamber of Commerce KidsFest Planning Committee for the past 10 years. Linda is very active in her Church Little Flock Baptist, She is Co-Director of the Prayer Ministry, she is in the Choir, is part of the Personal Team and Growth Groups and Sunday School.

Linda is a very active member in The Woman's Club. She has helped with the DARE Chili Supper for the last 10 years. She also helps with Shop and Share, collecting items at Kroger,  for the Center for Women and Children for the last 5 years. She has helped on many fundraisers for CASA over the years.

Linda is married to Danny Rayhill, they have been married for 46  years. They have 2 children Clint and Shaun they are blessed with 3 grandchildren and a little girl  due in November.

Linda joined the Woman's Club 22 years ago to get acquainted with women of the community and to be a part of  the wonderful things our club was doing in the community. She has been the Education Chair for 2 years, she was also Membership Chair for 2 years and she will be returning to Membership Chair in 2015. Linda is also serving on the Style Show Committee.

Linda's favorite things to do are to have her children and grandchildren over for a meal and playing with her grandchildren. She enjoys reading and gardening and she loves it when it snows.

Linda is on Facebook as Linda Rayhill and she is also on google + make sure to take a few minutes and  add Linda as a friend.

FALL CONFERENCE TIME LADIES...

The 4th District Fall Conference is just right around the corner, it will be here before you know it.

This fall our conference is on October 11, 2014 and it is hosted by The Leitchfield Woman's Club in Clarkson, KY. It's still not to late to get your registration in the deadline is Monday, October 6, 2014. So hurry ladies it will be lots of fun. Come and go with us and meet other women from around our state that share our same interests.

This is the time you can meet the State President of our Federation, Susan Alexander.  She will be the guest speaker at the fall conference this year. You will also get to meet the District Governor Joyce Bell and Linda Peterson our Vice Governor too.  There will be a lot of amazing ladies in attendance we can learn so much from. So you know you want to go! So just get your check in the mail quickly so it has time to get to Leitchfield.

There will also be an arts and crafts contest so if you make something we want to show it off for you! Make sure to contact Gaye and she will make sure your craft item gets where it needs to be and gets back safely to you after the contest. If I have time I plan on making something for the contest. So if I can find time to make something I know you can too.

The Market Place will be open too. That means shopping and what woman doesn't love to shop? So come ready with money in hand, I know I hope they bring some of those Vest that I personally want.

So see ladies it will be lots of fun, we will meet other ladies and make new friends, we will be able to compete in a craft contest, well be able to eat lots of delicious food, and we will be able to shop, all while we are learning how other women have grown their club and what they have done of the last few months.

Now to me that sounds like a fun Saturday.

Attendees of the 4th District Fall Conference 2013

Table Decorations provided by the Bullitt County Arts Council.

Members of the Radcliff Woman's Club 2013

Members of Campbellsville Woman's Club, along with State President Peggy Barnes (center left) and Governor Diane Willis (center right) and Vice-Governor Pam Harville (right of center).

Members of the Woman's Club of Elizabethtown

Entertainment at the Fall Conference by "SoulShine Music"

History of BCWC Page 3

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MORE HISTORY?   WELL HERE IT IS.

Our Club has faithfully contributed a small but on inconsequential sum annually toward the purchase of new books and part-time librarian.  Today , we have of 2,000 volumes on our shelves and can accept no more books for the present, due to lack of space.
Had our group contributed nothing more than the Library to our town it would have more than justified its existence, for
            "When, some precious parchment you unroll, You have All Paradise in your own soul"
                 Faust, by Wagner
Our Club from the very beginning has been faced with lack of funds, and even today, we operate on a very small treasury.
But we were never deterred from responding generously ( all though not spectacularly) to the many varied demands made upon us, both locally and thru the Federation.
How did we accomplish this?  Through sheer hard work by putting on or sponsoring innumerable functions, such as:  Ice Cream Festivals, Strawberry Festivals, Chicken Suppers, Jitney Suppers, Food Sales, Teas, Serving Lunches at Sales, Minstrel Shows, Musicales, Plays,Stunts, Benefit Card parties, Selling of magazines, waste paper, Rummage Sales, Management of Department Stores for a day, with certain percentage on all sales obtained.  In this effort we also brought home a silver trophy.  Many free-will offerings, a few, out and out, door to door soliciting campaigns for exceptional projects.
All these activities not only provided a lot of fun, but together with our dollar a year dues, furnished us our only source of revenue.   From this revenue we have been able to meet the request of our very active Committees, and to lay aside each year a fairly substantial, the wholly inadequate sum toward a Building Fund, with which we hope to erect our own Club House very soon, and to house our Library within.
You may appreciate a brief insight into how our small revenue is spent.  Like all good housekeepers, we have a systematic, itemized annual Budget, fore our regular, necessary expense including such items as:   Annual Federation Dues. Annual Convention Expenses for President and Secretary, Regular Supplies for Officers and certain Committee activites, such as -Librarian salary, fuel, purchase of new books, Subscriptions to Club Magazine and Book Lovers Club: preparation of Year Books and Programs, Press notices, Annual Clean-up Days, Regular Charitable Donations,to Poor Farm, Veteran Hospital etc.
Besides our regular expense, we have donated to so many worthy miscellaneous affairs. that it would be impossible to name them all.  However, I have listed at random, a few of the items, just to give you an inkling of how diversified are our philanthropic endeavors.  and here I would like to again stress the fact, that although our contributions could not obviously be spectacularly magnanimous, they have been given with wholehearted, enthusiastic, sympathetic understanding of the beneficiaries' needs.
Here are a few of our miscellaneous donations: Student Loan Fund (GFWC), International Scholarship Fund , Penny Art Fund, Provided a Rest Room at the old County Fair, for Public, Essential Sanitary Equipment to Poor Farm and Jail; furnished Lunches at School Clinics, (Trachoma), Donation to Shepherdsville School Rallies, May Day Festival for Blue-Ribbon Children, Trophy for Basket Ball Tournament, See-saws for colored Playground, Soft Ball Field, Community Recreation Program; Community Christmas Tree Baskets and Decorations, Prizes for Outdoor Christmas decorations, Hazelwood TB Sanatorium (Jefferson Co), Clothing and money to Bullitt Co T B patients, Bed,pillows and chair to TB Hut, School Dental Clinic, Crippled Children's Hospital Drive, Cancer Drive, Infantile Paralysis Drive, Morehead Flood Suffers, Redecoration of Library, Sending of flowers to Sick and the Dead, School Supplies to children of Europe, Yard goods to Greek Children, Speakers and Films for Special Educational Programs.
All though we are not exactly proud of the amounts of our monetary contributions- we certainly owe no apologies for them, since we give practically all that we have as fast as we make it. We only wish we had more to bestow on the many worthy projects we are called upon to support.
However, we are rightfully proud of other contributions we have made to our local Community, State and Nation.  Contributions of such value that no monetary considerations can be placed upon the, Contributions that were coined from on the best characteristics of our Club's fine womanhood combining their keen intellects, their political acumen, their ready tongues, sharp wit, gentle
hearts, but above all, their quiet but steel like determination.
these outstanding contributions have been made mainly thru the work of well-organized, very active, capable committees,and their gifted leaders.

Installation Dinner Details for November

Hi there,
Have you made your reservations for the officer installation dinner on November 10,2014?   Please get the check in the mail and email Barbara Crume or Lou Ann Moore.    If you have forgotten what you need to do please read the post put on the blog on 9/29/14.   Just keep reading and you will see.

Installation Last Year

Hi Ladies,
Did you know that we install our new officers in November?   In fact the date is November 10 ,2014.
We vote in our October meeting on the officers and then they are installed in November the last meeting of the year.

Last week our President Gaye Gardner sent an email out to tell us the details so I just thought I would put it on our blog so you wouldn't have to look for the email again.

Here it is:
Date: Monday November 10,2014
Place: Bethel United Methodist Church
Time: 6:30pm
Cost:$15.00 per person.

Your Reservation request must be emailed to Barbara Crume (BJC7391@aol.com)
or to Lou Ann Moore( LouAnn13@aol.com) no later than  Monday November 3rd

  **This is important so that they have an accurate head count and can prepare accordingly
  ** If you have a guest attending please include them in your reservation

PAYMENT:
All Checks must be mailed by Monday November 3rd
Made payable to Bethel United Methodist Church
Mailed direct to church:  7357 Highway 44 East,   Mt. Washington, Ky 40047
or
Brought to the Talent Auction /October Meeting and hand delivered to Barbara or Lou Ann
Remember if you have a guest please include their $15 in your check

If you have any questions about the dinner or reservations, please contact Jennifer Barbagallo, Barbara Crume or Lou Ann Moore.

Remember  ....................................Monday November 3rd