PRESIDENT ’S MESSAGE

Founded in 1918 under the name Lamoille Home-maker’s Club, the Lamoille Women’s Club is a member of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and Nevada Federation of Wom-en’s Clubs. Our mission is to promote the social, educational, and economic interests of wom-en in Elko County, Nevada.

www.lamoillewomansclub.org

AN INSPIRATION

MARCH 2017

MEETINGS 1ST WEDNESDAY MONTHLY 2ND WED. JAN. & SEPT.

NOON—2PM NO MEETING JUL. & AUG. LAMOILLE WOMEN’S CLUB

795 CLUBHOUSE LANE LAMOILLE, NV 89828

EXECUTIVE BOARD

President

Joyce Kay

Vice Presidents

Donna Potter 775-738-8353

Nikki Fellows 615-939-2446

Secretary

Ida McBride, 775-738-4295

Treasurer

Charlene Mitchel

Co-Treasurer

Jane Stevens 775-738-4488

G F W C L A M O I L L E W O M E N ’ S C L U B

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March already! I just have to shake my head, as time is flying by. With February’s fast snow melt I have started to see the Christmas yards decorations disappear. No one wanted to wade out in 20” of snow to retrieve them. Then all the water rushing though town and everywhere else, I hope no one had any flooding at their homes. Some of the golf course had some good size pooling of water. March 12th is the start of Daylight Savings. Some like it some don't. I have a little bit of confusion when it first starts or when we go off of it. It started back in the early 1900's as a way for the farmers to have more light toward the end of the day to work longer in the fields. So don't for-get to set your clocks ahead on Saturday night unless you want to get up a 2 am when the actual time changes. If you forget you will be an hour late to everything on Sun-day. It is “Spring forward and Fall back” Well that is all that I can think of as I sit in front of the computer and my mind goes “BLANK”

Joyce

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Yvonne’s Quilt Earlier in the Month of February the LWC sewing ladies who meet on Thursday combined efforts to create a quilt for one of our own group who has had some reversal s with her Health. Yvonne has made single handedly many items for the Fall Craft Fair for the past 3 years, and been our greatest enjoyment on Thursdays. Her British humor and great sto-ries about life in England, as well as her memories of nursing in many facilities throughout Elko has kept each of us in stitches. To show our appreciation of all she has done for LWC and our love for this marvelous woman we all created squares called the disappear-ing 9 patch and gave them to our fearless leader Joyce. Joyce Kay combined them into a great quilt. The ladies form the Sewing group tied the quilt and we left sewing and pre-sented the quilt to Yvonne. Pictured are the members doing the handwork and the fin-ished quilt, with some of Yvonne’s favorite items. The quilt was well received and is cher-ished.

Pam Osmonson

Room To Learn Many LWC members have heard a few of us talk about our Retreats to Twin Falls Idaho for the Retreats at the Monastery. Julia Ziegler is the Workshop Instructor for those re-treats has made a proposal for the LWC members to bring a workshop to us in Lamoille at the club house. The details follow in bullet form for easy reading.

July 14, 2017 Lecture / Trunk Show in the evening

July 15, 2017 All Day Workshop on “Piecing with Curves” Using the Quick Curve Ruler and Patterns from Curve It Up Sampler.

Price per participant $100

16 MAX: Club Members First. We will fill class with others on a first come first serve basis

Trunk Show /Lecture available to the community by Ticket. (Price to be announced later). The Lecture will be “Trouble with the

Curve” Handouts will be provided.

For the Lucky 16 Workshops Attendees the $100 will include:

Saturday Workshop 9:30 – 4:30

Ticket to the Trunk Show

Two Meals

Supply Lists in advance

Kits for the Workshop with rulers to use for the workshop. Purchase of tools used will be optional, but there will be enough for everyone to purchase if they wish.

Mini Store with rulers and Patterns for Purchase

Mini Store with Miscellaneous Supplies

Instructor and instruction with great talent and Fun for the day.

The clubhouse can only accommodate 16 machines and two irons. Julia Zeigler is a pop-ular instructor and all her retreats fill up quickly. We are lucky to have this opportunity. If you are interested please contact Charlene Mitchel 775-374-0315 or Pam Osmonson 775-397-2214 to be placed on a list. Once response is received from all the interested club members we will fill the remaining vacancies with other quilters who are interested. That list will be started also at this time. May 1, 2017 you will be contacted for conformation and a $50 reservation Fee. The remaining $50 will be due before Thursday the 13

th of Ju-

ly. Be prepared to leave your name, phone number and email.

Pam Osmonson

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Annual Quilt Show The annual Nevada Pins and Needles Show was held In Pahrump, Feb 17

th through

19th. This is the annual quilt show that the Shadow Mountain Quilters sponsor every

year. This year the show was bigger than ever. The quilts were magnificent! I was over whelmed by the size of some of the larger quilts. They had quilts that were 112” X 120”. They looked huge to me.

They have many categories, like Home Machine Quilted, Hand Quilted, Beginners Quilts, tied rag quilts, Small quilts, theme quilts, etc. This year they also had many en-tries of knitting/crocheting, needlework, wall hangings, needlepoint and other categories.

I didn’t see anything as nice as the work that Linell makes. (I forget what it is called but there wasn’t anything there that looked like what she does.)

They also had around 10 vendors where quilters (or knitters or crafters) could buy just about anything they needed. There were all kinds of demonstrations, appraisers that were appraising quilts, and the public got to vote on their favorite quilt and favorite stitchery.

Their main fund raiser (other than the entry fee) was around fifty raffle baskets that were put on silent auction. Last year the baskets were mostly for crafters but this year they had a variety of some very nice baskets. I put my bid on a couple but no one called me so I guess I was out bid.

I apologize that I did not take my camera and take pictures of the quilts. Maybe next year I will remember. (smile)

I write these notes as I think the “Sewing Ladies” could do something similar to this show if they so choose. The show would be a smaller version but I think the public would love to see something like this in the Elko/Spring Creek/Lamoille area. After all we already have a club house to hold the event. I just mention it to give everyone some-thing to think about. (smile)

Quilter’s Diet: 0 carbs, 100% fiber.

Martha Wallace

Super Bowls “Super Bowls” is the name of the quilt our President Joyce Kay made and donated to Horizon Hospice recently. “Hospice Super Bowl,” scheduled this year for April 1st, is Horizon Hospice’s annual major fundraising event. Horizon Hospice is a community hospice funded by community business and citizens. They provide case management and volunteer services free of charge to the terminal-ly ill and their loved ones. Each person attending the event will receive a beautiful, hand-crafted soup bowl to take home. Mnay local businesses and individuals provide delicious soups for the event, with attendees sampling as many as they wish. There is also entertainment, silent auctions and raffle tickets to purchase. Joyce has donated a quilt for a number of years now, and they are always a popular silent auc-tion to bid on. This year a special display is being planned to highlight Joyce’s beauti-ful quilt!! Tickets sell out quickly, so call Horizon Hospice to order your tickets now. Reserved tables are available for large groups. It is a fun evening and a great way to support this very important community service! If interested in donating to or help this worthy cause, please call their office at (775)778-0612. Contributions are greatly appreciated!

Jan Barngrover

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Building and Grounds Update

We are still waiting on NV Energy to do our energy audit. Hopefully that will happen in the beginning of March. We are hopeful that we will qualify for NV Energy's program for non-profit program which could help us with windows or insulation. Pam has taken the lead on this project. Once we have a complete energy audit and know what they can do we will proceed with our plans to repair the broken duct under the house, repair or replace the gutters, and to paint the clubhouse interior. Ida is helping us with beauti-fying the front of the clubhouse, Charlene's husband will help us out with trimming the overgrown bushes on the grounds. We hope to be making some visible progress soon.

Nikki Fellows

Helpful Hints Easily remove tarnish from silver

Line a baking pan with aluminum foil, then fill with hot water and add 2 Tbs. baking so-da. Let the silver soak for 5 minutes before removing, rinsing, and buffing dry. The bakig soda and aluminum will comically react with the silver sulfide in the tarnish to fade dis-coloration.

Freshen a dog’s breath naturally

While you love Rover’s kisses, you could do without his doggy breath. The remedy: sprinkle Ceylon cinnamon ( a sweet variety of the spice that is non-toxic to pets and available at well-stocked supermarkets and health food stores) on his food daily. Use 1/8 tsp. for small dogs and 1/2 tsp. for large dogs. The antibacterial spice works to elimi-nate the germs that cause the stink.

Use clear soda like 7UP and Sprite to

Make dingy jewelry sparkle! Just fill a bowl with clear soda and let you gold or soda soak for one hour, the rinse off and buff with a cloth.

Make flowers last longer! Cut flowers will last longer if you top off your vase with 7UP or Sprite.

Make treats tastier! Swap in clear soda for the oil or another liquid — it boosts the flavor and makes baked goods fluffier!

Milly

Short History of the Lamoille Woman’s Club

March is Women’s History Month. That seems like an appropriate time to review the history of our club. The Lamoille Homemakers Club was founded in 1918 with 15 members under the Farm Bureau and Extension Service to improve homemaking skills. Then, as now, the ob-ject was to promote social, education, and economic interests of the women of the Lamoille Valley. The only thing different now is that we have expanded to include all woman in Elko County. Initially members met at each others houses, learned new homemaking skills and developed a few community projects. Their community involvement continued to grow. In 1948 the club changed it’s name to the Lamoille Woman’s Club. In the early years travel between Lamoille and Elko over a narrow dirt road was diffi-cult, especially in winter. Many just stayed overnight in Elko when they traveled there. In 1939 the woman of the club met with the County Commissioners about the road. Eight years later, in the spring of 1947, the new road opened. The Free Press Editor wrote, “One of the finest inter-community celebrations ever held in Elko County marked the completion of the Elko-Lamoille Highway… The Women’s club members of Lamoille were among the hardest workers.” In 1947 members decided they should have a clubhouse and set aside $102 in a spe-cial fund for this project. They held numerous fundraising events. When they had over $1900, the men realized how hard they had worked and added over $812 to bring the total to $2,765. In June 1949, they heard of the disassembling of the Tonopah Army Hospital and voted to move one of the buildings here. The total cost for relocation of the building was $2,801 and it was placed on the foundation in August 1949 debt free. The land had been giv-en to Elko County by Charles Noble around 1910 for recreational purposes with the stipula-tion that it coud never be sold, and so it was leased to LWC for their clubhouse. The renova-tion took a year of hard work on the part of members and their husbands. During WWII members rolled bandages, knitted for service men, gave to the Red Cross, made items for the Wendover Air Base Hospital and collected “Pennies for China.” In 1948 the club started working with the Lamoille Valley Indians and Natives in nearby areas to improve their conditions and education. In 1965 the club campaigned to get the road through Lamoille Canyon paved. It was completed in 1973. In 1969 members took on a library project and collected more than 1200 books. The Lamoille Woman’s club has been involved in many projects over the years includ-ing: work on a child abuse program donating to the women’s shelter and helping finish a new fire house, restoration projects for Lamoille Cemetery, Ranchers Center, and the Grove. We continue to contribute to the community each year. As a member of LWC, you have chosen to align yourselves with a group of dedicated women who have a long and proud history. They constantly strive to make a difference wher-ever they find a need with enthusiasm and determination to do the best they can for their community.

Milly

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Poems

A Spring Walk

Geese wings pulse the sky

Clouds dance in the wind and rain

Mountains peek, walks splash, scarf flies.

-Ida McBride

Stopping by Snowy Woods

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

-Robert Frost

Submitted by Nikki Fellows

Poems

It Must Be Spring Hush, Can you hear it?

The rustling in the grass, Bringing you the welcome news

Winter's day is past. Soft, Can you feel it?

The warm caressing breeze, Telling you the sticky buds Are bursting on the trees. Look, Can you see them? The primrose in the lane, Now you must believe it -

Spring is here again. -Submitted by Nikki Fellows

Five Green Shamrocks One green shamrock, in the morning dew,

Another one sprouted, and then there were two.

Two green shamrocks, growing beneath a tree; Another one sprouted,

and then there were three. Three green shamrocks, by the cottage door;

Another one sprouted, and then there were four.

Four green shamrocks, near a beehive Another one sprouted,

and then there were five. Five little shamrocks, bright and emerald green,

Think of all the luck these shamrocks will bring.

-Submitted by Gordon Fellows (My dad made me put this in since I couldn’t fit The Cremation of Sam McGee)

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Next Meeting/Luncheon—

The march luncheon is on Wednesday, March 1st. Great Basin Community College theatre group will be coming to perform “On The Raz-zle.” Lunch will be baked potato bar with lots of fixings.

P.O. Box 281426 Lamoille, NV 89828

Telephone: (775) 748-5235

N e w s l e t t e r Ed i t o r Ab iga i l Fe l lo ws ( 615 ) -636 -64 79

abmf e l lo ws@g ma i l . co m

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http://www.lamoillewomansclub.org

Important Information If you have a small “white elephant” item that you would like to donate to one of the

2 baskets we are required to take to the NV State Convention, you could bring it to the meeting or to Thursday’s sewing before March 16th.

Please have your articles submitted by the 22nd of March. Finals are coming up, as is my permit test and ACT’s and SAT’s I need as much time as possible to get the newsletter done.

Please include Spring Gardening Tips with your articles to go into April’s newsletter.