February 2025
Please join us for our meeting of this year. The meeting will be held on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 80 Main. Doors will open at 5:30 and dinner will be served at 6 pm. The menu is sliced turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetable, rolls and butter. The cost will be $26.00. Coffee, tea and soft drinks will be available. A cash bar will be available as well. Please make your reservations with the Telephone Committee by Thursday, February 27, 2025 before 7 pm. You may also call Gail Marshall with your reservation. (716-434-4306). Hostesses will be Stacy Giansante and Mary Beth Caswell.
Our program will be timely and interesting as we are hosting two staff members from the Save the Michaels of the World Branch located in Lockport. Emily Buteyn is the Recovery Center Program Director and Amy Webster is a Substance Abuse Counselor and Recovery Peer Advocate. Save the Michaels of the World began as a grassroots effort to bring attention and awareness of the opioid crisis of addiction in this country, including the over-prescribing of addictive medications by the medical profession. The local chapter is located on Main Street here in Lockport and provides resources for families during their loved one’s journey through addiction and into remission. The Community Resources would be grateful for donations at their drop-in center and suggests packaged snacks, Solo cups, paper plates, plastic silverware or any new or used clothing for men and women.
At our February meeting, the recommendation of the Scholarship Committee was received and passed for 2025. It reads as follows: “At this time, the Scholarship Committee recommends for the year 2025 that we support awards up to $8,000.00 as applications from young women at Lockport High School planning on attending a two and/or four year college are received and reviewed by the Scholarship Committee.” Just a reminder that this total is paid out at the rate of $1,000.00 per year, per winner. Thank you to the Committee for all of its hard work – Daniele Priest, Ann O’Byrne, Ann Van Dusen, Nancy Fischer and Patricia Kennedy. We look forward to meeting the winners at the May Banquet.
We want to wish best of luck to our two winners who are graduating this spring - Sara McIntyre will be graduating from SUNY Potsdam and Katherine Miner will be graduating from MIT. We are proud of their hard work and dedication.
Remember that every meeting is a guest meeting, so bring a friend. We have two new members join this year – Barbara Feidner and Jennifer Yotter. Please welcome them.
Our annual Scholarship Fundraiser - “Sunday for Scholarship” will be held on Sunday, March 30, 2025, at the Lockport Town and Country Club. Tickets and information will be arriving by mail soon. We are in need of two or three volunteers willing to sell raffle tickets for about an hour prior to start of the event. Please call one of our chairpersons if interested – Lucille Cannata, Shirley Frombgen or Daniele Priest. The Basket Raffle is an important source of revenue at the event. Please create a basket or purchase a gift card (please place it in a simple frame) to help out. Completed baskets and gift cards can be brought to the March meeting.
The next Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for March 13, 2025 at the home of Patty Russell, 102 Continental Drive, Lockport, NY. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM. Please let Patty know if you are unable to attend.
Remember that we will be continuing the Bring a Book, Take a Book at the upcoming meeting! So please bring a book with you to 80 Main Street and browse and share either before or after the meeting.
I would like to encourage all of you to visit the wonderful exhibit at the Kenan Center – “Secret Weapons of World War II – Women, Books & Music”. The exhibit runs until March 31, 2025. It is sponsored by the Lockport Public Arts Council. It is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and this Exhibit provides an opportunity to remember members of the Lockport community who served and honors the significant impact of women during World War II. What a great way to celebrate Women’s History Month!!