Hollis Woman's Club | Newsletter

By now, you should have received your invitation to our May
Annual Spring Luncheon and your Membership Renewal.
Please remember that the deadline for both is May 15th. Thank
you to Ellen Baker, who continues to organize our luncheon, and
to Shawntel Fugate for organizing the membership renewals. I
hope to see everyone at the luncheon!

Once again, I want to thank those members who volunteered to
fill our Budget, Constitution and Bylaws, and Nominating
Committees. During our April meeting, we successfully voted in
our proposed slate of officers, our 2008-09 budget, and our
proposed changes to our Constitution and Bylaws.
After our business meeting, Hollis Woman’s Club members and
guests listened to member Jane Taylor’s presentation on organ
and tissue donation. Our April Charity was the Southern New
Hampshire Rescue Mission, a non-profit located on Chestnut
Street in Nashua that helps the poor and homeless. We collected
Market Basket gift cards, snack items and men’s socks and
underwear. Thank you for helping those in need.

Our Next Meeting…
will be our May Annual Spring Luncheon and Installation of
Officers at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21st, at The Mile
Away in Milford. Babysitting is available for $5 per family at
Faith Baptist Church on a reservation-basis by RSVP-ing on your
luncheon invitation. The luncheon fee is $25. Please mail your
registration today! If you have not received your mailed
invitation, please contact Luncheon Chair Ellen Baker at 465-
7981. We are delighted to announce that our afternoon
entertainment will again feature fellow member and singer Ann
Siglin, who will be accompanied by member Terry McKillop!
Our May Charity is Marguerite’s Place, a non-profit that helps
women in crisis. Marguerite’s Place requests gasoline and grocery
store gift cards to give to their clients. Please bring your donations
to our May Luncheon. Thank you for giving to women in turmoil.

Strawberry Festival News
Spring is in the air! And that means the Strawberry Festival
plans are in full swing. Our veterans know how important this
project is to the club as well as how much fun it is for the
community. For our newer members, let us enlighten you. The
Hollis Town Band and the Hollis Woman’s Club work together
each June and put on an early summer tradition in historic
Monument Square. Woman’s Club members and their friends and
family all pitch in to prepare strawberries for shortcakes, ice
cream sundaes, and our new addition – strawberry frappes for the
public. In addition our members bake the shortcakes. On
Sunday, June 22nd, all of this preliminary work is combined to
prep and serve hundreds and hundreds of shortcakes, sundaes and
frappes to the guests who converge upon Monument Square. The
Hollis Town Band entertains all with their repertoire of favorites.
Here is where you come into play. None of this happens
without the help from each and every member of the club.
There is a place for everyone! The only area not in need of more volunteers is the cashiers.

Hulling will take place on Friday, 20th, from 12 noon ‘til 6 or until all berries have been prepped. We are still in need of a chair and co-chair for this committee.

Bakers are given all ingredients necessary to make the pans of shortcakes. These ingredients come pre-measured so we only need compiling and baking.

On Sunday the inside workers gather to cut shortcakes, combine the freshly prepared berries with sugar and keep the kitchen of the Congregational Church tidy. This committee also prepares the desserts for the Town Band when they take their break. Ginny Brooks is chair of this committee and is in need of several more volunteers.

Ella De Bakker is chairing the cream whipping brigade. She is in need of 4 more volunteers. If you have a KitchenAid mix master with the whipping attachment to lend, please contact Ella at 4594-2335 or by email at pe.debakker@charter.net.

Ellen Baker is chair of the outside workers. These enthusiastic volunteers take the orders for desserts and call them out to the servers of shortcakes, berries and whipped cream and ice cream scoopers and frappe makers.

We will have an area for kids to gather and have some fun. If you have some simple outdoor activities to share, please let Jane know. If you or your middle- or high
school-age child would like to help in this area, also let Jane know. This area was very popular during the Apple Festival.

None of these volunteer areas are exclusive Hollis Woman’s Club members. We invite and encourage family members, friends and neighbors to join in the fun. The more, the merrier! Contact Festival Chair Diane Raitt at jackanddiane22@comcast.com or 882-9350 or Co-Chair Jane Taylor at taylorclan3@charter.net or 465-2849 to sign up. There will be sign-up sheets at the May luncheon. We appreciate your willingness to serve.

Hostesses & Volunteers for 2008-09 Meetings
We are asking members to sign up to serve as hostesses and to bring food items to our meetings in 2008-09. Please help Hostess Chair Jan Welch and incoming Chair Becky Casey by signing up for a month to hostess or donate. Small sandwiches, fruit/cheese plates and soups are always welcome. Our ‘food spread’ is available only through member contributions. Thank you for your continued help and assistance!

NYC Bus Trip
   THIS JUST IN: The previously SOLD OUT NYC luxury bus day trip just got an opening for 3! $58 each buys you a seat on our great bus trip down on Saturday, June 14th, for the day in NYC!
We leave the Exit 6 Welcome Center at 6 a.m. and return prior to midnight. We leave NY at 7 p.m. Plenty of time to see a matinee on Broadway, visit museums, or shop! Call Susan Benz at 465-3607 or email at Susan.Benz@hp.com if you want to grab these seats before they are gone.

Penny For Your Thoughts
Please join us for another Hollis Woman’s Club fundraising brainstorming session at Julie Forgaard’s home, 51 Pepperell Road, at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16th. Please bring your ideas and enthusiasm as we strategize to boost our reserves to donate more to our community. Please RSVP to Julie at 465-6463. Hope to see you!

Hollis Children Win Big at DI
In September of every year, children all over the U.S. and in 22 other countries come together in Destination Imagination (DI) teams of three- to seven-members. They choose a challenge and work throughout the school year, learning and using a range of skills to present their solutions in the spring DI tournaments. This year in Hollis alone, 90 children participated in solving their DI challenges. That's basically an entire grade of students who participated!
As a result of the NH DI State Tournament, four teams from Hollis (22 children) have been selected to display their skills at the May DI Global Tournament in Knoxville, Tennessee. This is the largest contingent from any New Hampshire town!
To win through to the Global Tournament is a financial challenge, as each team's registration fee is $4,000! Hollis Elementary and Middle School teams are faced with raising $16,000. On Saturday, April 12th, DI teams will sell donuts from 7AM to 1PM in front of Dunkin Donuts at Hollis Four Corners. Team members will also be at the Hollis Town Dump in the morning with a cake sale. Raffle tickets are also being sold at these locations for a summer fishing trip for two from Woods Hole. Please feel free to come by and congratulate the kids! Donations to help send these 4 teams to the DI Global Tournament in Knoxville are tax deductible. Checks should be made payable to Hollis Elementary PTA and should note “DI” in the memo section. Please mail your contribution to:
                Hollis PTA - DI
c/o Anat Eshed
217 Hayden Road
Hollis, NH 03049-6288
Thank you for supporting our future engineers and leaders!

Mom’s Night Out
The Moms' Activity Group is planning a Mom’s Night Out without kids on Friday, April 18, to The Stocked Fridge on 101A in Merrimack. They will have a private time of 7-9 p.m. if they get at least 8 moms to commit. The Stocked Fridge supports fund-raising efforts and will give the Hollis Woman’s Club $5 for every April appointment that mentions our club by name! Please RSVP to andreaseddon@yahoo.com, and register yourself at thestockedfridge.com (select 'Pick Your Session' and choose Friday, April 18, 7-9 p.m.). See you there!

Two Women in Cloth and Paint
Club members Paula Furlong and Audrey Augun will exhibit their artistry in a two woman show at the Hollis Social Library’s meeting room from May 6th to June 6th. Paula, who works in both oil and acrylic, and Audrey, who works in cloth and textile paint, have put together their personal visions of New England and Britain in both realistic and abstract forms.
Works are available for viewing any time during regular library hours as long as the room is not booked for a pre-scheduled meeting. The artists will hold a reception for the public from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 17th. Paula and Audrey would love to see Hollis Woman’s Club members at this reception!

UPCOMING EVENTS - PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION!

MOM’S NIGHT OUT: Friday, April 18, at The Stocked Fridge on 101A, Merrimack. RSVP to Andrea at andreaseddon@yahoo.com.
HWC FUNDRAISING MEETING: 9:30 a.m., Wed., April 16, at 51 Pepperell Road. RSVP to Julie at 465-6463.
GFWC-NH FEDERATION DAY: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Thurs., April 24, at Girls Inc. in Nashua. Meal and registration fee is $10. For more info, contact Diana.
MAY BOARD MEETING: 9:00 a.m., Wed., May 7, at the Lawrence Barn. Members are welcome to attend.
GFWC-NH ANNUAL MEETING: Thurs.-Fri., May 8-9, in Nashua.
TWO WOMEN IN CLOTH AND PAINT ART RECEPTION: 2-4 p.m., Sat., May 17, at the Hollis Social Library.
ANNUAL SPRING LUNCHEON & INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS: 11:30am, Wed., May 21, at The Mile Away Restaurant in Milford. Invitations were mailed along with membership dues renewals. May Charity is Marguerite’s Place. Please bring gasoline and grocery store gift cards to our May Luncheon.
JUNE BOARD MEETING: 9:00 a.m., Wed., June 4, at the Lawrence Barn. Members are welcome to attend.
NYC BUS TRIP: Sat., June 14. Leave at 6 a.m. from the Exit 6 Welcome Center. Questions? Contact Susan at 465-3607.
STRAWBERRY HULLING: 12-6 p.m., Fri., June 20, in the basement of the Congregational Church. Contact Diane at 882-9350 to sign up.
59th ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL: 2-4pm, Sun., June 22. Contact Diane at 882-9350 or Jane at 465-2849 to help!
JULY BOARD MEETING: 9:00 a.m., Wed., July 30, at the Lawrence Barn. Members are welcome to attend.
SEPTEMBER GENERAL MEETING: Wed., Sept. 10, at Faith Baptist Church, Hollis. Enjoy your summer!
OLD HOME DAY: Fri. & Sat., Sept. 12 & 13, at Nichol’s Field.

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