Alice's Corner 1-7
Happy New Year and welcome back after our hiatus.
Maeve Johnson opened the meeting with a preview of her Strategic Meeting to be held on Thursday, at 6:00 pm at the Continental Ranch Community Center, 8881 N Coachline. Everyone is urged to attend as this is what your club will be doing in the coming months. We need your input please. If you plan to attend please RSVP to Maeve ASAP.
Maeve thanked all of her chairs and the club for the efforts put forth so far in her tenure.
One of our guests was Tori Johnson who will be our outgoing youth exchange student. As of this date she does not know her destination. Never the less she is looking forward to an exciting adventure.
Sue Gibbs from Boxes for Troops gave us a recap of this year’s program. 210 boxes were sent to Afghanistan. 161 boxes were sent to one sector with the remaining 49 going to an outlying area. She has received numerous thank yous through e-mails and Facebook. She raised $9,146. That is a little short of her goal of $10,000. She over spent and is $400 in the red. She was happy to report that on the first day she had 35 volunteers. She had to pack and ship on two different days as she ran out of products to put in the boxes. We look forward to helping her next year.
Our speaker was Julee Baxley, co-owner of Integrity Automotive. She was chosen as our Women of the Year for Marana at our Heritage dinner.
Anyone who heard her was able to say WOW what a dynamic person. She formed an organization comprised primarily of local small women business owners. They help the “working poor”.
One of their programs helped our Man of the Year, Dr. Tomkins. He needed turkeys at Thanksgiving. Her group raised $800 in a matter of hours. This helped him pay for about three fourths of the turkeys.
She serves on at least 18 to 20 committees and boards throughout Marana and Tucson.
You can say she has her finger in many pies. She is trying to balance her life by saying “NO” once in a while.
We should be proud to support such a giving person.