April 2017 Newsletter
Diane Faile
President’s Message
Happy Spring (it is here, isn’t it?)! Perusing the Dean’s Nursery order form will help me think so, even if the
temperatures drop again. Speaking of that fundraiser, I have to give one more shout-out to all of you for the
success of the Wine Tasting. We made a record amount, over $10,000! With the amount we have raised
this year, it will be so very sweet to be able to support the various groups, causes and scholars that request
our help. We have already been able to help in many ways this year.
Most recently, we have supported both the musical “Cinderella” at Fairview High School and the Derby
Dash at Gilles Sweet. Something new that we haven’t done in many years is to sponsor a Girls’ Softball
team through our Recreation Department this summer. It will be good publicity for us, too!
It was an interesting program at this past month’s meeting. Jeanne O’Malley reminded us to mind our
posture, as spinal alignment can affect so many areas of our body.
Hope you are able to attend some of the Impromptu events that are being planned. It’s always great to see
each other socially. We will be asking for your thoughts on this past year and your interest in helping in
any way next year. Watch for our “Interest Sheets” for this. There will be a chance to ask questions about
the various committees at next month’s meeting. We will also be ordering Club shirts next month. The
price will be very reasonable, but watch for more details on that on well.
Enjoy this wonderful Season!
Nancy Shucofsky
Treasurer
Please turn in Reimbursement Requests ASAP! We need to know what funds we will have available for
disbursement. A Dues Notice for the 2017-2018 Club year is attached. They will also be available at the
April meeting.
Jane Ball
Corresponding Secretary
If you are in need of any stamps or stationery for your particular committee, please do not hesitate to let me
know.
Please let me know if I need to send a card to any member of our Club (sympathy, get well and thinking of
you). I don’t always hear what is happening to one of our members and I want to make sure that a card is
sent to them from the Club.
April 2017 Newsletter
Beth Lampe
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Publicity
No report.
Kathy Rosol
Publications
If you see any corrections, additions or deletions, please let me know.
Carol McAlonis
Historian/Website
No report.
Paula Deal
Facebook Page
Please help publicize the Dean’s plant sale on Facebook. You may send email messages to friends and
family the same way.
Paula Deal & Theresa Zarnoski
Co-Chairs
Barb Kadleck
Sally Lisowski
WAYS AND MEANS
Amazon Smile
Cook Books
Anyone interested in purchasing a FPWC cookbook, please give me a call. I am more than happy to drop
it off at your home. They are great shower gifts, as well as, welcome to the neighborhood and just thinking
about you gifts. The cost of a cookbook is $6.00 and addendums are $5.00 – but a deal for both at $10.00.
Great recipes at a wonderful price.
Lynn Coletto & Sally Lisowski
Co-chairs
No report
Lunch with Santa
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Nancy Cause & Sally Lisowski
Co-chairs
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Wine Tasting
Our final profit for this year’s wine tasting and silent auction is $10,734.63. Thank you to everyone who
made this one of our most profitable fundraisers to date.
Save the date: Saturday, February 17, 2018 is the next Wine Tasting and Silent Auction. We already
have three wineries booked. Vermilion Valley Vineyard, Troutman Vineyard & Winery and the Winery at
Wolf Creek. This year we combined both Troutman and Wolf Creek. They are two separate wineries but
re owned by the Troutman family and have different wines for each winery. We did not book them until
later, so they asked to have both and we said OK as long as they shared a table due to lack of space.
They have asked to have two spaces next year and we are going to honor that request. Vermilion Valley
came to us in December, which never happens. It will be nice to have them back.
We only have one more winery to book. If you have any requests, and/or if you have an “in” with any
wineries, please let us know. It would be wonderful to have our four wineries booked early in the year.
Now that we have already started on next year’s wine tasting, it is not too early to get the chairs in place.
We need one or two people to chair the event and chairs for the silent auction, food and decorations. If
you would like to chair one of these, give us a call or email and we will get reports to you.
This year’s chairs, make sure you write detailed reports and turn them in with preferably three copies – one
for the chair, and two for the committee chairs (to share or to write notes on).
We want to hear your comments – good or bad. Constructive criticism is a good thing. We have chaired
this event for many years. It is nice to see things through other’s eyes and there is always room for
improvement.
Thank you, again, everyone!
C. Battiato; S. Bowles & C. George
Co-Chairs
Food Committee
No report
Helen Davis & Carol McAlonis
Co-Chairs
Silent Auction
No report.
Cathy Collings
Chair
No report
Decorations
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Rosanne Kelley & Nancy Shucofsky
Co-chairs
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Plant Sale
The date for plant sale pickup is Saturday, May 13th at the Bain Park Cabin Gazebo. Make sure to get
your online order in by the deadline of April 21, 2017. Not sure what to order? Don’t forget that Gift
Certificates are also available in increments of $10, $20 and $50.
Nancy Cause
ACTIVITIES
All work and no play makes it a dull Club. We all need to get out and enjoy ourselves once in a while. Find
what you are interested and try to participate. You deserve it. Interest Sheets are coming out. If you have
any ideas of Activities, please add them to the Interest Sheets.
Barb Kadleck
Impromptu Activities
The Impromptu outing to the Olive Scene at 19132 Old Detroit Road in Rocky River will be on Monday,
April 10th. We will have the opportunity to try over 50 varieties of the world’s finest extra virgin olive oils
and balsamic vinegars. The cost is $15 per person for the small bites menu which are several appetizers
and desserts. It will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. We need a minimum of 10 to have this
event. If you want to attend this event, I will need your money by Monday, April 3rd. You can drop it off to
my house at 4305 W. 229th Street or call me to make other arrangements. I also work at Options Salon in
the Fairview Shopping Centre. We may also bring beer or wine. This sounds like a fun evening. Hope
you can make it.
There is also the Fairview Park Garden Club’s Fashion Show by Dillard’s and Luncheon on April 29 th. The
cost is $30. Helen has purchased a table for eight for our Club. You may get your tickets from Helen. This
is a sell-out event. See the attached flyer.
Ellen Papadimoulis
Book Beat
We enjoyed the book review of A Man Called Ove. The next book selection and discussion date will soon
be determined. We will keep you posted!
Nancy Cause, Nora Dulay & Linda Hamaoui
Bowling
Plans are underway for our annual banquet held in May. If anyone is free on Wednesday mornings at 9:00
a.m., consider joining us in the Fall. We are not a sanctioned league and bowl for fun and friendship.
Cannot commit to every week? Then, consider becoming a sub and bowl whenever needed.
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Nancy Shucofsky & Diane Faile
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Programs
Thank you to Jeanne O’Malley from CHC Physical Therapy in Fairview Park. What a great example of the
saying “You’re only as old as you feel!” For our April meeting, we will have our annual Baby Shower for
Mothers and Infants of Metro Health. To add a little extra fun, bring a baby picture of YOU and we will
put them all out to enjoy!
Christy George
Black Book
No report.
Jane Ball & Kathy Rosol
Social
We would like to thank Theresa, Carrie, Laurie and Ellen for bringing the refreshments to Monday night’s
meeting. As always, everything was delicious and refreshing. For next month’s meeting, it will be our
annual Mothers and Infants Baby Shower. Carol and Helen have signed up for bakery and/or snacks and
Sally for drinks. If you are not able to bring these items, please let us know and we will take care of it.
Reminder emails will be sent out the week before our April meeting. The Social Committee will be
providing dessert that evening.
Our Installation/Appreciation Dinner will be on Monday, May 15 at 6:30 p.m. Happy Hour will start at
5:45 p.m. A signup sheet was passed around at March’s meeting and will also be available at April’s
meeting. The price for the dinner will be between $23.00-$23.50. The cost per member is TBD. We will
know this cost by April’s meeting. The Club will be paying for the rest. If you are going, please bring either
a check made out to FPWC or cash to the April meeting and give it to either one of us. We hope to see
everyone there. It is a fun and relaxing evening.
Carrie Battiato
Board Member at Large
The deadline for applications for disbursement of funds is April 15. The time and location of the meeting in
May to make disbursement decisions will be announced at the April General Meeting.
Rosanne Kelley
No report.
Telephone Committee
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Helen Davis
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Parliamentarian
The nominees for next year’s board are:
President – Nancy Cause
Co Vice Presidents – Paula Deal and Theresa Zarnoski
Treasurer – Nancy Shucofsky
Recording Secretary – Carol McAlonis
Corresponding Secretary – Jane Ball
We will take nominations from the floor at the April General Meeting and will vote at the April General
Meeting. We will also elect a Board Member-at-Large at the April General Meeting. The board of directors
will be installed at the May Installation/Appreciation Dinner.
Mary Jo Campbell
Community Service
Carrie Battiato
Adopt a Family
No report
Helen Davis
Community Council
The next Fairview Park Community Council meeting is April 19th. Please let me know if you have anything
you want me to take and present to the Council. The Fairview Park Citizen of the Year dinner will be held
on May 3rd at the Fairview Park Senior Center. Please contact me if you have any questions or want to
attend the dinner. This is the only fundraiser for Community Council.
Barb Kadleck
Fairview Assistance
No report
Carol McAlonis & Sharon Bowles
Co-chairs
Favors on Trays
The March favors were delivered prior to St. Patrick’s Day and we received a nice thank you card from
Jean Snook of Meals on Wheels. In a previous phone call, Jean had suggested that we deliver our April
favors on Monday, April 10th, so they can deliver them with a “ballpark meal” on Tuesday, April 11th, the
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Indians’ Home Opener. The favors are an Indians’ flag, an Indians’ pencil, a box of Cracker Jacks and five
baseball chocolate candies, all in a baseball-themed grab bag.
Kathy Kazaroff & Theresa Zarnoski
Co-chairs
Helping Hands
We would like to thank Carrie for taking the food to Meals on Wheels. It was greatly appreciated.
Our collection for April will be the annual Metro Health Friends of Mothers and Infants baby shower. If you
could please bring unwrapped items. They are asking for: diapers, sleepers, onesies, diaper wipes,
blankets, outfits, etc. Sizes are for newborn to 18 months. Of course, any baby item or monetary gift is
greatly appreciated.
Paula Deal
HS Scholarships
If you are interested in helping select the high school scholarship winners, please email me. Tentative
selection will be the end of April, probably the 27th or 28th. I will send out a list of request to pick a meeting
date. You do not have to be at the meeting to help read and rank the applications; however, all
applications are online this year, so you will need internet access.
Ellen Papadimoulis
Marion Cook Education Grant
This grant is for a Fairview Park woman at least 21 years of age who is pursuing training or higher
education. Preference is given to women with stated financial need. The application is on the FPWC’s
website and the deadline to apply is April 15, 2017.
Cathy Collings & Lynn Coletto
We Do Care Letters
No report.
Rosanne Kelley
Youth Program Assistance
No report.
Ellen Papadimoulis
Membership
We are pleased to welcome Patty Beard to the Fairview Park Women’s Club. Patty came to our March
meeting and already knows several members. Be sure to introduce yourself to her at future meetings!
April 2017 Newsletter
Rosanne Kelley
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Hospitality
No report.
OLD BUSINESS
The Fairview Park Youth Association gives us a huge Thank You!! To all who supplied bakery and
attended their Night at the Races in March. They are always grateful for our donation. As one of the
gentlemen who does the cooking said, “I can cook, but I sure cannot bake, so Thank You ladies!” They
gave us some advertising in their booklet as well. Maybe some of their wives will be interested in joining
our Club!
Pam Beamer – April 2
Angela Hixon – April13
Kathy Yarian – April 20
Jane Ball – April 29
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APRIL
April 5, 12, 19 & 26 – Bowling
9:00 Fairview Lanes
April 16 – HAPPY EASTER!
April 20 – Executive Board Meeting – 6:30
President’s Dinner for Board Members
Hostess – Diane Faile
April 21 – Deadline for Online Plant Sale Orders
April 24 – General Meeting – 7:30
Elections & M&I Baby Shower
April 27 – Fun Bridge – 7:30
Hostess – Debbie Olbrys