The Town Crier
Yorktown Woman's Club
Tidewater District
VFWC
GFWC
Yorktown, VA
President – Mary Moore
Editor
– Linda Avery
Circulation –Connie Jones
September 2013
Website: www.ywcnews.com
President’s Top Ten
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THIS ISSUE
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President's Top Ten 1
Mark your Calendar 1
The Birthday Girls 2
Best Wishes to: 2
Court Docents 2
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Colonial Dresses Available
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Treasurer's Report 2
Membership 2
Yorktown Day Update
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Yorktown Day Pies 3
Enclosed are your Yorktown Day Assignments 3
Projects Report 4
General Meeting September 16
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A New Member's Guide to Yorktown Day 4
Celebrate York town
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Mark Your Calendar...
Sept. 16, 2013 Covered dish Dinner 6:30 PM at
Grace Episcopal Church. Bring your favorite dish.
Husbands and guests invited!
Oct. 2, 2013 Board Meeting 9:00 AM
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Mary Moore, President
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The performance by the Virginia Symphony on Sat. Aug. 31 at Yorktown.
Riverwalk Landing was superb! Hope you were able to attend. It was really
good to see in the program the recognition given to the YWC, and many
others, for the support to this event. Our club does great things!
The Fifes and Drums of York Town were featured in the Pre-concert
program. The Yorktown Woman’s Club is very proud to support this
talented group of young people! The YWC supports many activities in our
community and truly represents the GFWC’s “Living the Volunteer Spirit.”
The Pre-concert program also included the judging of several picnic groups
based on their theme, decorations, and presentation. “The Little Table by
Jones” was selected for Honorable Mention. I was glad to be a member of
this group headed up by our own Connie Jones. We do have talent in YWC!
All members, and especially our new members, are encouraged to attend
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the Covered Dish Dinner 6:30pm at Grace Episcopal Church on Sept.16
and bring your favorite dish by 6:00pm. Husbands and guests are invited!
Tidewater District Fall Meeting/Workshops will be held at Great Bridge
United Methodist Church in Chesapeake on Sept. 21, 2013 at 8:30am. Any
member can attend but all officers, dept. chairs, and committee chairs are
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encouraged to attend. Please contact Mary or Lynda by Sept.9 .
VA State Fair Sept.27- Oct.6, 2013 will be at The Meadows Event Park in
Doswell, VA. The Tidewater District Day at the VA State Fair TBD.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. GFWC is a national
leader in the fight to end domestic violence through its Success for Survivors
Scholarship. Visit www.GFWC.org for more information on the scholarship
and the GFWC Signature Project.
GFWC Partner Alliance for Community Trees (ACTrees) launched the first
National NeighborWoods Month campaign in 2005 to celebrate the value of
urban trees. In Oct 2012 over 23,000 volunteers planted 45,000 trees
nationwide. To find out how you can get more involved visit
www.ACTrees.org or www.NeighborWoodsMonth.org.
Promoting Advocates for Children week is October 20-26, 2013. Please give
your ideas to our member-at-large (Mariann Edwards) on how our club can
contribute to this worthy cause.
GFWC Pipe Project – Invest in the future of GFWC Headquarters in
Washington, D.C by making a contribution to the GFWC Pipe Project. The
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Tidewater District Contribution Project deadline is January 20 . Let The
Tidewater District Shine!!
Yorkminster Presbyterian Church, 6218 George
Washington Highway.
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October 17, 18, and 19 Yorktown Day Stew making,
Biscuit Making and Pie Cutting as well as Food Service
on the 19th. Please check the enclosed schedule for your
assignments! Go Team YWC in support of our
Community Efforts!
Welcome Back!! Looking forward to a Fantastic Year!!
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Mary
Best Wishes to:
The Birthday Girls
Our support goes out to all members recovering from illness,
These include Joan Stewart, Sherrie Haskett, and Robin
Milewski. If you know someone is ill or has experienced loss,
let Marty Gardner or Linda Avery know so we can send our
well wishes.
Membership
Happy Birthday to our members who have birthdays
during September. We hope you have a wonderful
year. Special Wishes to Kit Taylor who celebrated her
90th Birthday in August !!!
Gloria Gori
Please invite your friends to consider joining YWC!
Birthday Girls
First Name Last Name
We have gained several new members this year, but we
are always looking to increase our membership in order
to better serve our community. Thanks for your support
in this effort. Don't forget to get your Yearbook! Vera
Heitkemper's address is 1206 Dandy Loop Road.
Please correct in your book.
Treasurer's Report
Carol Scott
August 1-31, 2013
OPERATIONS ACCOUNT
Beginning Balance
$ 4,702.18
Deposits
200.00
Credit-Interest
311.20
Ending Balance - Operations
$ 4,591.08
PROJECTS ACCOUNT
Beginning Balance
$11,468.23
Deposits
.00
Credit-Interest
.08
Expenses
09/03
Sheila
Noll
09/10
Rosemary Sensor
Sally
Snyder
Twyla
09/22
09/25
Oppenhuizen 09/27
Court Docents
Libby Smith and Gladys Wagner
All Court Docents, new and experienced, are invited to an
Orientation in the meeting room at the Yorktown Library at
1:30 pm on Thursday, Sept.19. Basic information and
schedules for the fall will be discussed at this time.
Colonial Dresses Available
$11,143.31
TOTAL ASSETS
YWC Night Division
LaRoche
Libby Smith [email protected] Tel 757-898-7143
325.00
Ending Balance – Projects
Jean
Gladys and I are very excited to have so many members
volunteer as Docents this year - 23! We just received the
preliminary schedule from the School Board and want to
assign Docents to the days in the list provided as soon as
possible since the program starts Sept. 17. The program
runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is best for us to know
ahead of time what days you cannot serve, so please send
me an email or phone reply telling me what Tuesdays and
Thursdays you cannot serve. You can say something like
“no 2nd Tuesdays or no Thursdays at all, etc.”
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Expenses
DOB
$15,734.39
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Twyla Oppenhuizen and Jane May
We are starting off the new year with a September
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meeting on the 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the home of Jane
May,104 Brantley Ct., Yorktown.
We will be planting bulbs for Christmas blooms! Hope to
see you there! RSVP: Jane, 867-6717 Twyla, 988-1006
We are now in the season of anticipation for Yorktown
Day. I want to remind everyone, but particularly new
members, that we do have a collection of dresses. Kind
members who are no longer participating in Yorktown
Day have generously donated their colonial dress. We
currently have 8 dresses. They range from plain to fancy
with waist sizes 36 to 40 ½. Some have a design that
could be let out in the waist. If you are in need of a dress
and would like to adopt a one of our dresses, please call
me. We do have several dressmakers who can also
make you a dress. I can help you with getting this done.
Dove Barton 898-1396
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Yorktown Day Updates:
YORKTOWN DAY PIES
Martha Copes
Each member is expected to provide either 2 deep dish
pies or 24 cookies or $16.00.
1..2..3..4….Do you hear it? It’s the beat of a march! Who’s
marching? We are – step by step drawing closer to October
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19 and Yorktown Day. And Hallelujah – there will be a
parade!
As some of you may have heard the National Park Service is
not co-sponsoring Yorktown Day this year. While they have
issued a permit to the Woman’s Club for use of the grounds
where we hold our stew event, they will not be providing the
usual support for Yorktown Day; such as digging the fire pit,
providing trash receptacles and picking them up at the end of
the day and mowing the grass prior to the event, unless it
happens to be in their regular schedule. And of course there
was to be no parade.
NO PARADE ON YORKTOWN DAY? WHAT? Many folks
were aghast at the prospect of not having a parade. But…I
am extremely happy to tell you that the VFW 824 has come
forth to sponsor this year’s Yorktown Day Parade, a uniquely
patriotic American event. The theme for this event is “The
Birth of American Independence”.
So now it is September and Brunswick stew is little more than
a month away; but we are good to go! All required tasks to
date are completed and all of the issues caused by the
change in the participation of the National Park Service
resolved. Many thanks go to Mary Moore, Lynda Burton and
Carol Scott for their help in bringing this about.
So, onward we march! In this issue you will find your
committee assignments for Yorktown Day and Preparation
Day. Look at them carefully. Committee chairmen will be
contacting you soon to let you know the details of your
participation. Each member will have 2 assignments, one for
Yorktown Day and one for Preparation Day.
This year we will be using only bought iced tea, sweet and
unsweetened. This is so that we are in compliance with the
Health Department. It is most likely that each member will be
asked to donate 2 gallon jugs of tea. There will be an update
regarding this in the October newsletter. The unsweetened
tea is sometimes difficult to find but I did locate it in the cold
beverage section near the orange juice in several stores.
We will be using the bamboo serving trays as they worked
well last year. So those of you who have trays please bring
them to the Parish Hall on Prep Day. Don’t forget to put your
name on them.
I do hope you are looking forward to this Yorktown Day as
much as I am. Since it falls on a Saturday it may have a
slightly different flavor. So let’s step together and make this a
fantastic Yorktown Day!
If you have questions about Yorktown Day you can contact
your Committee Chairman or me – your
PIES may be chopped pecan, fruit (apple, cherry,
blueberry, peach), or Japanese fruit pies. You may bake 2
Mrs. Smiths or Marie Callender pies if you prefer. Note:
Please spray pan before putting in crust in order to make
cutting and serving easier. Pies should not be warm when
delivered to Grace Church. AND PLEASE NO LATTICE
TOPS, CUSTARD, CREAM OR PUMPKIN PIES AS
THESE ARE NOT APPROVED BY THE HEALTH
DEPARTMENT.
Please deliver your cooked pies to Grace Church between
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9 and 10 am on October 18 .
Please do not bring commercial prebaked pies. They do not
hold up well.
COOKIES – If baking cookies you will find recipes on the
club’s website or you may buy sugar or molasses type
cookies at Kmart or Costco. Each cookie should be a least
3 inches in diameter. They should be packaged in Ziploc
bags -- 2 to the bag -- and delivered to Grace Church
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between 9 and 10 am on October 18 .
Don’t forget, if you send $16.00 it must be received by the
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Treasurer at least 2-days before October 18 (pie cutting
day.) Another member will have to make pies for you.
Maybe a friend who is not a member could bake and deliver
for you.
The public looks forward to our Home Bakes Pies.
Happy Pie Baking Day!!
Enclosed are your
Yorktown Day
Assignments!
Please be sure to read the list carefully. In most cases,
you will be assigned two committees. One will be prior to
the 19th and one will be on the day of the event. If at all
possible, please be there in a timely manner! Yorktown
Day is on Saturday this year and we expect a large crowd.
Please contact Merle Burgess at 757-898-5022 or
[email protected] if there is a problem with your
assignment or if your name does not appear. We need
many hands to support our biggest Fundraiser. All
proceeds used to support charities.
Yorktown Day Chairman 2013……………Merle Burgess
(757)-898-5022 or [email protected]
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Welcome Back, Our year's first General
Meeting
A New Member’s Guide to Yorktown Day
Libby Smith
William "Bill" Cole
Welcome back for an exciting new year with the Yorktown
Woman's Club!!
 When: September 16, 2013 at 6:30 pm is our first
meeting of the 2013-2014 Club Year!
 Where: Grace Episcopal Church
 What: Covered dish dinner. Bring your favorite dish to
share. Please, have it there by 6 pm. Husbands and
guests are welcomed and encouraged!
 Hostess group: Connie Jones and her committee
members.
 Decorations by: Mariann Edwards and Gidget Miller,
Hospitality Committee Co-Chairs. Expect very creative
and beautiful decorations as always!!!! Their talent speaks
for itself.
 Speaker: presented by Twyla Oppenhuizen, our
Celebrate Yorktown Committee Representative. Our
speaker will be Mr. Bill Cole, Innkeeper of York River Inn
Bed and Breakfast, current Chair of the Celebrate
Yorktown Committee, and avid supporter of Yorktown with
an extensive history of volunteer leadership and support of
our community.
 Expect: an amazing evening of great food, a terrific
speaker, and superb door prizes and raffles managed by
Grace Wetzel.
 Yearbook Available: Don't forget to pick up your YWC
Yearbook at this event!
Come out and support our Club and be proud of what
we are about!!!! See you there!!!
Celebrate Yorktown
Twyla Oppenhuizen
A few upcoming events In the Yorktown area are shown
below:
Rhythms on the Waterfront Fridays 6:30-8:30, Sept.6, 13,
20, 27 and October 4 .
Yorktown Wine Festival 2013 October 5, 12-6 PM proceeds
benefit the Sister Cities program.
Yorktown Art Stroll September 29, 11 am to 6 pm -Art
Galleries, Bed and Breakfasts and the Freight Shed will be
filled with Art and handcrafts. Contact Kathleen Wahl at
[email protected]
Carrot Tree Shrimp Boil Sept 13, 20, 27 from 5 pm-8 pm.
Eat shrimp and sides on the banks of the beautiful York River!
Enjoy all the shrimp and sides you can eat, produced by the
Carrot Tree Restaurant for $24.99 per person. Bring some
friends and have a feast and fun. Call the Carrot Tree
Restaurant for information and reservations: 757-988-1999
Check http://www.visityorktown.org/ for more info.
Yorktown Day, Oct. 19, commemorates the victory of George
Washington and Allied troops over British General Lord
Cornwallis. After Cornwallis’ surrender on Oct. 19, 1781, Victory
in the Revolutionary War was assured by this last major land
battle. Each year on Oct. 19, the National Park Service and York
County sponsor festivities to mark the victory celebration.
The Brunswick Stew Luncheon at Yorktown Day is the main
fundraiser for our club. Each member is asked to participate by
working and baking 2 pies or 2 dozen cookies.. The luncheon,
consisting of Brunswick stew, 2 ham or butter biscuits, pie and a
beverage, takes place on the lawn of Grace Episcopal Church on
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Main Street. The stew is made on 2 days before the 19 in the
kitchen of a York County school and transported to the church.
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On the 18 , pies are delivered to the church where they are
sliced, and ham and butter biscuits are put together.
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On the 19 , rented tables and chairs are set up on the grounds.
Members dressed in Colonial dresses help decorate the tables,
give out programs and menus, serve the luncheon, help guests
take their food to the tables, total bills, take payment, clear tables,
clean the kitchen, and do various other tasks. The lawn is a
beehive of activity from early morning until around 1 when all the
food is gone. Members return home bone-tired, but content that
they have made a lot of people happy!
Projects Report
Gracie Wetzel
I Hope you all had a great summer, with family and friends. I
received an e-mail letting me know that I have new members on
the Project Committee. Yeah! They are co-chair, Camille
McDonald, Susan Batson, Ginny Napier, Kris Butz, Margie
Dumas, and Robin Milewski. Welcome, to all of you.
I would like to plan a get together at my home, so we can brain
storm, and think of some ideas for a club project after the
holidays. Now I am collecting the small bottles of shampoo,
lotions, soaps, etc. that you do not use when you stay at hotels. I
would like to give these out to our homeless vets and DAV. I
would and also help the VFW during the year, especially during
upcoming holidays. Yes, we can do this.
ICE CHESTS
ICE CHESTS
ICE CHESTS
Soon, we will be celebrating Yorktown Day, and I ask anyone
who has an ice chest, if we can borrow it to hold ice bags during
Yorktown Day. I plan to buy extra ice, because this year our
Yorktown Day falls on a Saturday. Hopefully we will have more
people and sell more cold drinks, I will need more ice chests to
keep drinks cold. If you can help me out, let me know at 757-3698112.
In addition, if any of you have some unused yarn, that you would
like to donate, please let me know. In the meantime, I will start
collecting" COOKBOOKS. I would like to sell cookbooks. If you
have books to donate, let me know.
Ladies, any of the things we sell or raffle help raise extra
money, for our club.
Gracie Wetzel, Projects Chair 757-369-8112
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