Club News: A holly jolly celebration

The Palm Aire Women's Club will host Director Melodie Dickerson and her State College of Florida Chamber Choir Dec. 8 at the regular club luncheon.

The choir will ring in the season with holiday selections. Tickets are $25 and can be sent in care of Barbara Link, P.O. Box 21051, Bradenton, FL., 34204. For more information, contact Barbara at [email protected].

The luncheon will be followed by the fourth annual Holly Jolly celebration 3 to 5 p.m., Dec. 10.

John and Julie Jakway, 5516 Inverness Drive, Sarasota, will host the event at their home, which has been beautifully decorated to provide guests with a winter wonderland. Tickets are $20 per person and include wine, beer, soda, appetizers and desserts. Members are encouraged to bring family and friends.

The event acts as a fundraiser with all proceeds being put back into the community. Pay at the door or mail a check to PAWC HOLLY JOLLY, Box 21051, Bradenton, FL. 34204.

For further information contact Barbara Link at [email protected] or go to the PAWC website at palm-airewomensclub.org.

The November luncheon featured Elizabeth Player from Energetic Organizing showed how to declutter and arrange a home efficiently. She demonstrated how to fold and arrange clothes “standing up” in drawers to ensure that every piece is visible. 

Club membership is open year-round and is not limited to Palm Aire Country Club members. For information, contact membership chair, Cecelia Massey at [email protected] or check the PAWC website at www.palm-airewomensclub.org.

Turkey tidings

A few years ago, Judy Berlow bought a turkey hat to compete with the handiwork of her husband, Michael Berlow, who dresses the front yard of their Country Club East home with a giant inflatable turkey for Thanksgiving each year.

The hat also has become a holiday tradition. The couple took turns wearing it to their Nov. 16 Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch meeting at the Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club.

"Michael likes to decorate the house, so I decided to decorate Michael," Judy Berlow says of why she bought the hat. "He'll wear it on Thanksgiving."

Garden Club gets into the spirit

Lakewood Ranch Country Club resident Cheryl Scheid held up a red coffee mug filled with a wooden toy soldier, holly and other Christmas-inspired leaves and decorations and exclaimed "Isn't it cute?" after assembling the piece.

The cup will go the elderly receiving food from Meals on Wheels this holiday season.

Scheid, vice president of the Lakewood Ranch Garden Club, and about 40 other members and 10 guests on Nov. 13 stayed after their regular meeting at Lakewood Ranch Town Hall to create more than 100 of the decorative mugs.

"This is always fun every year," Schied said. "It's a way to give back. People with Meals on Wheels are often alone on Christmas and it's a nice way to show them they aren't forgotten."

Club members also filled bags of toiletries for women at Stillpoint House of Prayer, in Bradenton.