Dear members,
It appears we’ve made it through another holiday season’s hustle and bustle in one piece. I hope 2012 will be a good year for you and your family.
I want to give a big thank you to the Christmas Luncheon Committee members and all who supported the December 7th Luncheon with their attendance, donations, and support selling raffle tickets. It was a wonderful day with good food, beautiful table decorations, some live Christmas music, silent and live auctions, and raffle drawings. Sheryl Howard was the chair of this event, along with Debbie Freed, Mary Sue Douville, Dolores Vinas, and Dee Elliott. Thank you to everyone involved. The women in our Community who benefit from our scholarships will reap the benefits of your kindness and generosity for the rest of their lives. One of our best investments we can make, don’t you agree? The treasurer will have a final profit report ready for us at the February General Meeting.
As we look ahead to the remainder of our fiscal year that ends April 30, 2012 we’ll be planning our 40th anniversary celebration in March. Dolores Vinas will be chairing this event. If you are interested in working with Dolores on the Anniversary Committee, please let her know. In February we will elect a nominating Committee to determine a slate of officers for 2012-13 terms, with the election taking place March, April and installations in May. Please consider serving in a leadership role if you are asked. And if you are interested in a particular position, feel free to share it with me or other Board members. We need your involvement and support to carry us to new heights.
Thanks again for all you do to help the Women’s Chamber’s efforts to enhance our community through charitable, civic, and environmental projects and programs.
Blessings 
Beverly Bond
We will be having lunch at 11:30am at the Y.O. Ranch Hotel Resort with the meeting starting at noon. The buffet cost is $13.00. Please remember to get your reservation in before 5pm on the Friday before the General Meeting each month.
Call Sandy Lewis at 830-285-5600 or email her at SandyLewisBiz@gmail.com for your reservations or reply to her reservation email request.
Please remember that when you make a reservation you are expected to pay for the lunch even if you don’t attend. This includes your guest. You must cancel 24 hours before the luncheon date. Please pay by check for your Lunch.
Dawn
Wollney, Chair
HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY AND COMING YEAR!
January 3 – Angela Bailey
January 3 – Sandy Lewis
January 4 – Betty Braswell
January 4 – Suzanne Speckline
January 6 – Linda Pillow
January 26 – Louise Kirby
January 28 - Judy Anderson
January 31 – Meredith Jakovich
Bairbre Bible for the care of her husband Jerry (JD) as he recovers from Brain surgery to remove a tumor.
This year the Beautification committee chose “The American Red Cross Hill Country Chapter “for the Bastrop Fires” to be this year’s recipient. $442 was collected. Thanks to all who gave to this collection.
KCWC January 2012 Newsletter page 2
Ellen Parsons, Chair
The KCWC Membership is now at 95
Kathy Coleman, Chair
Don’t forget to bring your deli donations of non-
perishables or dollars for C.A.M and get an extra
door prize ticket for your donations! Special items needed:
Cereals boxed dinners
100% fruit Juices dietetic foods
Canned vegetables soups*
Canned Tuna canned fruit
Macaroni & Cheese peanut butter
Jelly Pop Corn
Tomato sauce* Vienna Sausages
Canned beans Canned Tomatoes*
Baby food* Small bag of sugar*
Small bag of flour* New Born Diapers*
Shampoo & Conditioners Bar Soap
Razors* Men’s Shaving cream
Toothpaste* Dish detergent
Toilet paper Laundry detergent
Cooking oil 24FLoz(1PT 8oz) size only*
*Needed the most at this time.
Please bring manufacturers coupons to the General Meeting. This will help Kathy stretch the dollar power for the items that need purchasing.
Jannell Bullock, Chair
Please don’t forget to bring your empty ink /laser/ Fax cartridges. Please keep turning them in each month. The money raised from the recycled cartridges will be given to a local Non Profit.
Please remember to bring your plastic shopping bags to the each General meeting. Also bring any empty fully cleaned pill bottles the size to handle coins.
Ruth Bauer presented the rose on 12/20 to Bonzai Restaurant located at 222 Sidney Baker So.
Debbie Freed, Chair
Mary Sue Douville Thanks for: all the committee’s hard work, the members’ participation in this project, and the donors for of the raffle prizes.
Mary Sue Douville Thanks to all the work the committee put into this project, and all the donors for the Auction items.
Dee Elliott and Dolores Vinas Thanks for all the donations made to the silent auction and the work the committee put into it.
The Final reports from these committees will be in our February Newsletter.
Debbie Barron, chair of the event reports:
The Belk Charity Days Sale event brought in $2,006.25. Thank you all for you participation, which made this fundraiser such a great success.
A nominating committee of at least three members shall be elected at the February meeting. Nominations shall via voce. Members of the Nominating committee must be in good standing and shall not serve more than one year in succession. No one serving on the committee may be nominated as an elective officer. The president shall designate one member of the committee to act as Chairman. This committee shall remain intact after the election in the event a resignation from officer-elect is presented before installation. The committee shall be responsible for selecting a replacement to fill the vacancy.
The chairman of the nominating committee shall submit a slate of officers, in triplicate, at the March Meeting. Please ask the member if she will serve before nominating her. Last years nominating committee members may not serve this year and those members are: Ruth Bauer, Jennie Motheral, Kathy Coleman, Charlotte Taylor, and Felicia Davis
Newsletter Editor: Melissa Fields