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Shop at New Leaf for Valley Women’s Club Thursday, Feb. 25! Support the Valley Women’s Club by shopping at New Leaf Community Markets on Thursday, February 25th. On that day, the VWC will receive 5 percent of the net proceeds from the Boulder Creek and Felton stores. There will be VWC information tables at both markets. New Leaf's monthly Community Day promotes local organizations by contributing to the organization selected that month. For more information on Community Day, visit www.newleaf.com. Community Connections “Club Waikiki” to help Redwood Mountain Faire
In order to help cover the start-up costs for the Faire, there will be a super fun event on February 11th! Escape from winter! Take your Valentine on a time trip to tropical Club Waikiki, where it’s 1949 and things are swinging! Club Waikiki (Scopazzi’s in Boulder Creek) is hosting this fantasy flight on Thursday, February 11th, from 6:30 to 9 PM. Your trip includes Hawaiian buffet, raffle and silent auction, Hula and Swing dancing to the music of “Island Breeze.” No-host bar. Be sure to pack your favorite vintage 40’s outfit. Raffel and Silent Auction items are fantastic, including beautiful Annie Glass and a magnificent Kala Ukulele. “Airfare” is $42 per person prior to departure, $50 at the door. Tickets are available at Coldwell-Banker Realtors in Boulder Creek and your travel agent there is Ms.Spehar. To RSVP or for more information, phone 338-4300 to leave a message. Proceeds from this Fundraiser will be used toward the revival of the Redwood
Mountain Faire. Come and enjoy the Aloha spirit and leave winter behind for
a while… Boulder Creek Community Center Planned-Grant Sought The Boulder Creek Recreation and Park District Board of Directors are proud to announce their participation in Proposition 84, the Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Program of 2008, grant application process. More>>
The Ultimate SLV Event is on June 5, 2010, at Roaring Camp With the hope of bringing back the wonderful feeling that the Redwood Mountains Fine Arts & Crafts Faire and Music Festival brought to several generations of SLV folks, year after year for 18 years, a determined group of people led by Julie Hendriks, have put together a great plan, and the VWC Board is excited to announce that a Redwood Mountain Faire Revival will be held next June 5th at Roaring Camp!! Julie explained that Roaring Camp’s CEO, Georgiana Clark*, offered Roaring Camp as a venue in order to reach out and support the community. Having the Faire there will alleviate the necessity of busing thousands of people to & from parking, among other difficulties the original Faire faced at Highlands Park. The RMF Revival is envisioned as the ideal family event, with booths of exclusively local artists and crafters and food vendors, and featuring primarily local musicians on two stages. An integral piece of the event will be enlisting the help of local nonprofit organizations that will then share in the proceeds.
(*Georgiana’s husband F. Norman Clark, who tragically died of pneumonia in 1985, had the dream of preserving a piece of the SLV’s 1880’s railroad history, when they began building and operating the railroad in Felton in 1963, to the delight of thousands of visitors a year from around the world. Check out the history at www.roaringcamp.com) For more Community Connection News, click here BOARD NEWS Inspiration at the Fall Meet & Greet Harp Music and Ideas Flow A beautiful September afternoon at Highlands Park brought together 25 VWC members and interested persons for the third annual Fall Meet & Greet. The purpose of this gathering is to bring members of the VWC, including the VWC Board, together with people who are interested in learning about the VWC, in a relaxed, informal situation. Then, with music and refreshments and casual conversation providing a comfortable backdrop, there is a short program of some kind that provides newer people the chance to ask questions, to help provide potential focus ideas for the VWC, and to underline the importance of each individual’s willingness to serve the community. Cathleen O’Connell (rowantre@cruzio.com; 338-1578) is an extraordinarily talented harper; she has often provided music for VWC events, as well as performing for Santa Cruz’s First Night, and for weddings and other special occasions. We were delighted when she not only agreed to play at the Meet & Greet, but brought along two of her students to perform as well. It was wonderful. What a skill to learn to play the nylon and wire strung Celtic harps, and Kathleen Carter and Audrey Nickel have obviously put in many hours of practice to play such a lovely array of music. Their performances with Cathleen were the perfect music for the event. Everyone was then asked, “What is the ONE thing you would most like to see come to pass in the SLV?” And, not surprisingly, it was very hard to limit the dreams to just one! The ideas went from reducing roadside litter and watershed pollution, to environmental education in the schools, to keeping Cabrillo College in Scotts Valley, to getting that bicycle trail down the Valley, to providing a safer way to walk along Hwy 9 from the High School to Felton, to getting the libraries back open daily, to overall street safety (share the road), to getting people involved in their community (especially commuters who leave the Valley for much of the week), to removing invasive plant species, to expanding awareness of the SLV Water District’s Management Plan, to improving the Performing Arts Center at the High School, to improving the money flow into the SLV to address the many needs of its residents, to expanding the arts and music in all the schools, to encouraging people to grow their own food, to getting solar power at the Ben Lomond Transfer Station, to maintaining the rural character of the Valley and addressing the needs of women and girls. Wow! It’s obvious that there are many needs to be met and many goals to achieve. With the help of new and continuing members alike, the VWC can work to bring together the coalitions needed to address more of these concerns, and to keep them from being forgotten. We thank all those who attended and shared their hopes and dreams, and hope all you reading this Newsletter will let us know where you would like to help and how you can be involved. It’ll take us all. For more Board News, click here In every community there is work to be done. |
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