Southern Exposure. President s Letter: Redstone Arsenal Community Women s Club. September 2017 Issue

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1 Redstone Arsenal Community Women s Club Southern Exposure September 2017 Issue Inside Newsletter President s Letter September Luncheon Information: PZ1 Activities and Birthday Wishes Outreach and Community Assistance Grants Membership Information and Flyer Gala 2017 Flyer, Cook Book Order Form Membership Application and Vendor Application President s Letter: Welcome to our returning members and a special aloha welcome to our newest members! Thank you to the Board for putting on a fantastic Super Sign-up!! We had a record number of brand new members signing up for our club. Way to go ladies!! You won t want to miss our very first luncheon True Colors, a communication seminar that will teach us how to understand all the different personalities and how to relate to one another. Debbie McGee, CEO with PZI International Consulting, Inc. will be our guest presenter. Please sign up today! The Fall calendar is filling up fast with many great activities and volunteer opportunities in and around Redstone. Thank you for being a part of our wonderful Redstone Arsenal Community! Kristina

2 September 12th Luncheon Presents: PZI Enjoy a delicious OKTOBERFEST MENU: Cucumber Salad Pork Schnitzel/ Chicken Schnitzel Broetchen with Butter German Potato Salad and Red Cabbage Apple Dumpling Dessert Sweet and Unsweetened Tea Coffee Red/White Wine Tickets $5.00 at the luncheon (sold separately) REDSTONE ARESENAL COMMUNITY WOMEN S CLUB PRESENTS, for their SEPTEMBER LUNCHEON: Color Energies Great Teams Are Made Of Debbie McGee, President/CEO of PZI International Consulting, Inc., will discuss how to recognize, utilize and leverage individuals color energy preferences, as well as their skills, to create highly effective teams. You will take away innovative applications for all your interpersonal relationships. PAYPAL OPTION IS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE: For your convenience, RSACWC now has PayPal! Please use the link below if you prefer to use PayPal instead of writing a check for things like registration, lunch reservations, etc. Thanks, Melody

3 Let s Celebrate with ALL who have a September Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES TO YOU! OUTREACH: Happy September and Happy Back to School to all you moms out there! My name is Cari Tedesco and I am the new outreach coordinator for the women s club for the year. We will be collecting items at every luncheon to distribute to an organization every month. This month, we ve decided to collect school supplies for the Downtown Rescue Mission. The downtown rescue mission is an organization here in town that has a 4 ways to help the homeless and needy here in town. They provide emergency services, for those who are homeless and can t find a place to sleep for the night; children included with their moms. There is a Recovery Program for both men and women, which is a year-long program. Community Outreach is for those who have a roof over their heads, but nothing else. Graduates of the recovery program are assisted with the transitional program at the mission. Needless to say, they are very busy and need the community s help. This month, since there are children at the mission that attend school, we are going to be collecting school supplies for the children staying there. Ages of the children range from pre-kindergarten to 9 th grade and they historically have about children staying there when school resumes session. Below is a list of supplies that are needed: Backpacks (little kids and big kids) Notebooks Pens/pencils Markers/crayons Glue Loose- leaf paper And really anything your children need, the children at the mission need. Thank you for your generosity

4 The RSACWC Membership drive is now open. Please bring a friend to our September Luncheon. Copies of the Membership and Directory Advertising Applications are included in the newsletter and on the website at rsacwc.org. Completed application(s) along with payment may be mailed to the address on the form. Redstone Arsenal Community Women s Club Season Aloha with a Twist of Cotton Aug 15- Super Sign Up Sept 12- True Colors Communicating Effectively Sept 19- Newcomers Welcome Tea Oct 10- Hallowed Huntsville- Ghostly Gathering Nov 14- Evening Event Veterans Program Dec 12- Christmas Traditions on the battlefield Jan 9- Make It Bake It or Fake It! Feb 13- Beauty in Botanicals Feb 16- Galaxy Gala A Night Under the Stars Mar 13- Mad about Irish Plaid ( wearing o the green) Apr 10- Handbag Bingo May 8- Talk Derby to Me!

5 Super Sophisticated Southern Welcome Sign Up! What a wonderful turn out for our Annual Membership Welcome! We thank everyone who came out and signed up and our generous vendors and exhibitors representing our Redstone and Huntsville and Madison Communities. At the end of the day we had over 100 members with 59 new memberships and 29 being NEW spouses to the community, and we are still counting! Let's just call this a SUPER SUCCESSFUL SIGN UP! We look forward to a year of southern Aloha with a twist of fun and friendships and service. Thank you! Michelle

6 Super Sophisticated Southern Welcome Sign Up! More pictures for you. Hope that you enjoy them!

7 Reservations Our monthly luncheons are held on the second Tuesday of each month at the Summit at Redstone Arsenal, Building 130, Golf Course Road, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898, unless otherwise stated. The cost of each luncheon is $ Luncheons are typically a buffet, sit down meal, or boxed lunch. Each luncheon will have a theme, great vendors and giveaways. Any women or men who have access to Redstone Arsenal are welcome to attend the luncheons, so please don t forget to RSVP. Bring a friend or invite a newcomer for wonderful fellowship! To ensure your reservation is placed for each monthly luncheon please contact the reservations chair by one of these three options below: 1. Go to and click on the Reservations link. The site is easy to use. However, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact one of the reservation chairs listed below. 2. To make a reservation by phone please call Leanne Ogden, Reservations Chair at the reservation chair at rsacwcreservations@gmail.com The deadline for placing your reservation is 12:00 p.m. (noon) on the Friday before the scheduled luncheon. If a reservation is not canceled by the luncheon reservation deadline, you will be responsible for the cost of the luncheon. Refunds will only be granted for cancellations received prior to Friday at noon before the luncheon. WAYS AND MEANS - RSACWC Fundraisers Dear Members, We are now part of Wreaths Across America! This is a wonderful way to honor service men and women. You can get involved! Visit: onatelocation.html?page=43000 and donate directly on the website or visit the Ways and Means table at our luncheons and events to make your donation soon. We will be accepting donations until November 14 th. When you donate a wreath, $5 will be given back to our club. Also, in December, we have an opportunity to help lay the wreaths at Middle Tennessee Veterans Cemetery (TNMTVN) 7931 McCrory Lane, Nashville, TN Additional information will be available in December. Please sign up for this activity. Another fundraiser we offer is the beautiful White House Christmas Ornament. These will be available at luncheons and RSACWC events for purchase quantity is limited and the cost is $25 each. Fern Brazda

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9 From Activities Chairs, Paula Lindon and DeDe Beckner Hello! Welcome to RSACWC Activities! We are looking forward to getting to know you all this year while providing you with a nice variety of fun things to do! If you ever have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at rsacwcactivitieschair@gmail.com, or our personal s listed below. You will be receiving more specific information (such as dates and times) shortly about the activities that you have signed up for. Those s will come directly from the RSACWC gmail account. If you missed Super Sign up, no problem! You can still sign up for our groups! Just contact either chairperson and we will add you on the list! Meanwhile, there are a few groups who have information to share with you in this newsletter, so please read on, past the list of facilitators. For your convenience, below is a small breakdown of who the "Lead Facilitators" are for the following activities should you have specific questions that you would like addressed. DeDe Beckner Book Club Bunco Hike/Walk dlbeckner1@gmail.com or rsacwcactivitieschair@gmail.com Paula Lindon paulalindoncmfun@aol.com, or rsacwcactivitieschair@gmail.com Cooking Club Paint Night Lunch Bunch Paula Lindon/Danielle Trafton dltrafton@gmail.com Daytime Diva's Paula-see above for Danielle, (cont d)

10 JoAnn Grosnick Crafts Hiltraut (Hillie)Knox International Women's Group *Please consider taking this quick 6 question survey to see if there are any other activities that we need to consider organizing and offering to our group! From Jo Ann, Craft Club Facilitator Craft Club! This Photo by Hello! I wanted to let everyone know about a few ideas I have this year for our Craft Club! Some sessions we will be having: 1) Christmas card class 2) Glass Fusion 3) Natural Stone Bracelets 4) Painted Bottles 5) Burlap class. These are just a few of the ideas I have. Most classes will be during the day. Some will have fees. More info coming soon!

11 From DeDe Beckner! First Bunco Our first Bunco date will be at Donna Bollander s home on Wednesday, Sept. 27 th! We meet the last Wednesday of each month. Her address is 200 Brooklet Ct. Huntsville, Please arrive at 10:30. You will be sent an reminder about a week prior that you will need to RSVP to so that we know how many tables to set up. Please bring $10 to play Bunco, and then three $1 bills if you want to play Left, Right, Center after Bunco ! Book Club 1 st Meeting Oct. 17 th! For those interested in Book Club, we will be meeting on the 3 rd Tuesday of the month, starting in October. We will have our first meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 17 th at 10am. We will meet this time at the Villas at Nature Walk (neighborhood Club house) The address is 100 Nature Walk Blvd. SW, Huntsville, Please watch your for the book choices, so we can start our reading before our first meeting. Thanks! Hiking/Walking Club Monday Sept 18th, will be the first Hiking/Walking Club! Trail TBA, watch your for location.

12 From Paula Lindon, Cooking Club Facilitator COOKING CLUB!! This!Photo!by! Hello Friends! I am SUPER EXCITED to be cooking with you this year! We are going to have fun, lots of good food, and try some new recipes out with each other! This year, we will be meeting on THURSDAY S. We will aim for the FIRST Thursday of each month, with the exception of OCTOBER, because it will be Fall Break on that Thursday. For October, we will meet the SECOND Thursday of the month. Please see the schedule below! We can always tweak it w/in our group if we need to Cooking club will meet at 11am, and it usually ends around 1pm. This year, I will be hosting the group part of the time at my home, and I am needing others to host it in their homes as well, some of the times. Please see the first draft of our schedule below. Our first meeting is coming up soon! For our first meeting, everyone just bring something you are comfortable cooking and serving. It can be anything dessert, appetizer, entrée, salad Just bring enough for about 10 people and bring containers in case there is extra for us all to take home! We will go over the format and details of the group at our first meeting! CAN T WAIT!! Sept 7 th, 11 am, at Paula Lindon s 2710 Kentshire Circle SE, Hampton Cove Oct. 12 th, 11am (need hostess) Nov. 7 th, 11am (need hostess) Dec. 7 th, 11am COOKIE EXCHANGE and LUNCHEON Paula Lindon s Jan. 4 th (need hostess) Feb. 1 st Paula Lindon s March 1 st (need hostess) April 5th st (need hostess) May 3 rd END OF YEAR PARTY Paula Lindon s From Paula Lindon, Lunch Bunch Facilitator

13 FIRST LUNCH BUNCH!! Hi ladies! Lunch bunch is ALMOST HERE! Lunch bunch gets together on the 3 rd Wednesday of each month to sample locally owned dining facilities in our area! It s a LOT of fun! This year, our FIRST LUNCH BUNCH will be on September 20 th! We will meet at 11am at Po Boy Factory! It is located at 815 Andrew Jackson Way NE, Huntsville, AL At our first get together, we will all plan out the rest of the places as a group! Come join us!! DAYTRIP DIVA S! We are working hard to secure a fun trip for our very first Daytrip Diva adventure! Days and times will vary, as will cost. We hope to be able to provide a fun trip every month! We will be sending out a detailed trip schedule VERY soon! Please continue to watch your for additional information! We know you all will have a so much fun in this group and we are excited to be putting it together! - - Paula and Danielle

14 PAINT NITE!!!! I am sooo looking forward to this! I will be sending out an VERY SOON with the painting choices for September! Please be on the lookout so that you can respond in a timely manner. We need to secure our seats and pay promptly to enjoy the event together as a group! It is going to be AMAZING!!!! International Women s Group The Int l Women s group meets the 4 th Monday of each month. Hilltraut Knox is the leader of this group again this year and we are so happy to have her doing this! She will be sending out s soon so please be on the lookout if you signed up for that. International Women s Group The International Group will meet for their Kick-off this year on 25th September, 11am, at the home of Hiltraut Knox in Madison. Directions and information to each member forthcoming by separate . Hiltraut Knox, Chairperson

15 NEW 2017 SOUTHERN DELIGHTS RSACWC COOKBOOKS! In an ongoing project from last year s membership, we are still wanting to publish a VERY special cookbook that has a piece of all of us in it! Who wouldn t want to be a published author and have YOUR special recipe in a cookbook? This is a WONDERFUL opportunity for all of us! If you interested in purchasing a cookbook that has AMAZING recipes from all over the world, submitted by our club members and community members then please read on! If so, you will want to PREORDER your stash of cookbooks asap! We need 300 orders before we can send them to the printer, so don t delay! They make AMAZING Christmas, family and teacher gifts, as well as a nice memento of our time spent in the Redstone Arsenal area! We have over 200 recipes in the book now, and will GLADLY ACCEPT YOUR SPECIAL RECIPE! If you have a recipe(s) you want to submit, please send an to me at paulalindoncmfun@aol.com I will be taking recipes UNTIL OCT. 1 ST. The categories are: Appetizers and Beverages, Soups and Salads, Breads and Rolls, Cookies and Candies, Vegetable and Sides, Main Dishes, Desserts, and This and That! Cost of cookbooks will be $ The profit we make goes into our scholarship fund! If you order (and pay!) before September 23 rd, you will receive a $2 discount per book. After September 23 rd, you will have just 2 weeks to order before they hit the publisher so that we can have them in time for our Christmas luncheon! Please turn in the order form below along with your payment at the first luncheon. If you can t make the first luncheon, please me and I will give you the club s address to send the payment and order form to *Please note that if you should choose not to preorder, we are not able to guarantee a book for you to purchase later. So please do not delay! **If for some crazy reason we do not receive a minimum order of 300 books, we will return your check.

16 SOUTHERN DELIGHTS COOKBOOK 2017 Preorder form Name: Phone: Address: Number of Cookbooks: x $15 (if ordered before Sept 23 rd ) 23 rd ) x $17 (if ordered after Sept Amount attached Check # Cash Questions? Paula Lindon, cookbook coordinator paulalindoncmfun@aol.com

17 Member: R / N Redstone Arsenal Community Women s Club Membership Application Annual Membership $25.00 Check# Credit Card (Last 4 Numbers) Membership requirements: Active Membership is available to all Active Duty and Retired Military and their spouses, all current Redstone Arsenal Government Civilians and their spouses who have their own access to Redstone Arsenal and who wish to support the Redstone Community or any applicant at the discretion of the Executive Board. Discrimination based on race, religion, color, sex or national origin will not be tolerated. Name (Last, First)*PLEASE PRINT Preferred for nametag (if different): Street Address* City* State* Zip Code* Home Phone* ( ) - Cell Phone* ( ) - Address* PLEASE Spouses Name (Optional) Directory (please circle one): I give permission to RSACWC to place my name and other information in the Directory. Yes No I am interested in serving as one or more of the following: RSACWC Board Member, Committee Chairperson or Committee Member In an effort to minimize effects on the environment, the RSACWC uses to deliver our full Newsletter and other event information. We thank you in advance for your support. You can also stay connected through our website: RSACWC.org. Disclaimer & Signature: If I have a reservation for any event and do not cancel in accordance with reservation policy, I understand that I will be responsible for payment regardless of attendance. I agree to abide by the Constitution and By-Laws of the Redstone Arsenal Community Women s Club. Signature* Date *Required Information Please make checks payable and mail to: RSACWC Attn: Membership PO Box 8113 Huntsville AL Redstone Arsenal Community Women s Club is a 501(c) 4 Private non-profit Organization not affiliated with RSA or the US Army

18 Redstone Arsenal Community Women s Club Directory Advertising Application Official Use: Payment: $ Cash or Check # Business Name: Business Type: Individual Placing Ad and Phone Number: Name: Phone Number: RSA CWC Member: Yes No Please select from the following Ad sizes: Full Page - $65 Half Page - $50 Business Card - $35 Please make checks payable to RSA CWC and mail application plus payment to: RSA CWC Attn: Membership PO BOX 8113 Huntsville AL Deadline for Submission is: September 20,2017 Attach Business Card here or application with graphics to rsacwcmembership@gmail.com Redstone Arsenal Community Women s Club is a 501(c) 4 Private non-profit Organization not affiliated with RSA or the US Army

19 REDSTONE ARSENAL COMMUNITY WOMEN S CLUB VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Our new board year promises a myriad of fabulous volunteer opportunities. Volunteering is at the heart of our organization and is the perfect opportunity to make a difference in our community and show our commitment to our values all while enjoying new friendships and camaraderie. This year we are forming a pool of volunteers. When you sign up for the pool, you will receive an invite to participate in various activities. The choice is yours, whether to sign-up or not. We hope you do Below are some of our upcoming events: MOAA GOLF TOURNAMENT September 21, 2017 Several Slots. Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament. Assist with silent auction, registration, golf hole monitoring and more. There are also opportunities to assist putting together goodie bags and gift baskets. Please see the sign up sheet at our September luncheon to volunteer for a specific job at this wonderful event. HEROES WEEK 2 nd & 3 rd week in November Volunteers will be needed for several activities. Each year, in November, The Semper Fi Community Task Force of North Alabama (SFCTF) is honored to be the host for Heroes Week. More information to follow. WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA December 16, 2017 Join us in honoring and remember our veterans. Each December on National Wreaths across America Day, wreaths are placed across the country on wreath laying ceremonies. Details to follow. For questions or additional information please contact: Ivonne Campbell Volunteer Coordinator