You are invited and welcome to our monthly general meetings!
Come and see who we are and what we do.
Come as a guest and leave as a friend!
Our next meeting is:
November 14, 2024
Hosted by the Civic Engagement and Outreach Committee.
Guest Speaker will be Timothy Collins, Retired Clay County Judge
Topic: Empowered to Achieve, Inc.
Highlights from our October 17th Meeting
Hosted by the Education and Libraries Committee our featured speakers were Tiffani Pearson and Anika Savage from the GCS Library. We also had a chili cook-off and a silent cake auction to raise money for our Women’s History Month scholarships.
Highlights from our September 12th Meeting
Our Annual Open House
This “get-to-know-you” night featured the Special Program and Community Service Program Chairmen’s displays.
Highlights from our May 9th Meeting:
We had fun visiting, playing games, and celebrating the successes of our VIA Community Service Programs (CSP).
The VIA had a great meeting which included awarding our $1000 scholarship to Clay High School senior Addison H. Addison plans to attend St. John’s River State College to pursue a career in Criminal Justice. Congrats Addison!
Highlights from our April 11th Meeting
We featured speaker Christina Wermouth from Cystic Fibrosis, which is the GFWC Florida Director of the Junior Club’s Project. Please consider donating to our Great Strides Walk at the Jacksonville Zoo on May 18th.
Highlights from our March 14th Meeting
Hosted by the Environment Committee
Joe McCarthy from Reparation Earth, located in Northeast Florida, talked about skipping the dirt!
Using a self-contained aquaponics process, they grow vegetable crops and fish together in a re-circulating system. All of their all-natural vegetables are free from GMO’s, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. His sidekick Jenny also answered our questions.
Highlights from our February 8th Meeting
Hosted by the Health and Wellness Committee
Our Healthy YOU program focuses on your physical and mental health with guest speakers Barbe Kelly, a trained yoga specialist, and a mental health presentation by Jessica Hames MA, AP, PhD.
We wore RED to celebrate February as Heart Health Month and we collected female underwear ~ all sizes (children small up to large adults) which were donated to social workers for the Clay County School Department for distribution.
Highlights from our January 11th meeting
Hosted by the Arts and Culture Committee
The guest speaker was Florence Turcotte, the Library Manuscript Archivist and Curator of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Zora Neal Hurston Papers at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. Flo shared information about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and other interesting tidbits about her life as an archivist. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote her Nobel Prize-winning book, The Yearling, sixty miles from Green Cove Springs in Cross Creek. She’s also known for writing about her adopted home in Cross Creek where she bought an orange grove in the late 1920s and lived for many decades.
Highlights from our December 14th Holiday Celebration Meeting