Lake Arrowhead Communities
Republican Women Federated

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LAKE ARROWHEAD COMMUNITIES REPUBLICAN WOMEN FEDERATED

MEMBERSHIP……….Yes, it is that Time again!

Membership promotion is the heart of any organization. Maintaining the status quo is not enough. We must GROW – not only to further the influence and programs of our organization, but also, by promoting the philosophy and principles of the Republican Party.

Lake Arrowhead Communities Republican Women Federated is looking for New Members! If you are a republican woman, a spouse, or for that matter a republican man you can join us. We ended our year with 138 Women, 9 Associate Women (a member of another federation club), and 52 Men – we would love to add you to our list of members. Membership dues are from January to December - $25.00 Regular Members, $10.00 Associate Women, $5.00 Associate Men, $10.00 (if you are not a spouse of a regular member).

NOT JUST A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, BUT MUCH MORE

Our General Meetings are the 3rd Friday of the month, March - October, usually at 9:30 a.m. at the Royal Oak in Blue Jay. We have a short meeting, a speaker or two and delicious lunch. All members receive a newsletter February - November with legislative issues and information about our upcoming events.

We send letters to our legislators expressing our opinions on various Bills before the House and Senate. We participate in signing and circulating petitions on various issues local to national.

We register voters, especially during election years, at our headquarters, markets, churches, and various community events. We also make precinct calls in an effort to encourage all Republicans to vote. We supply yard signs and bumper stickers promoting Republican candidates. On election day we check the polls and make reminder phone calls as well as offer assistance to anyone needing transportation to the polls.

We donate 2 new books (an adult and a child’s) to each of the 3 mountain libraries each year.

We donate used books to the libraries and to the Boys and Girls Club. A book is given to each newborn at Mountains Community Hospital. Some members are involved in the library tutoring program. In 2005, we gave a dictionary to each of the 432 third graders on the mountain.

Each year we send students and chaperones to Sacramento for several days to participate with students from across the state in political discussions and activism efforts with their Representatives in the Capitol. This is an invaluable educational experience.

We donate flags to the schools as needed. We donated one to Mountain Skies Astronomical Society and to Lon LeBlanc, a member who provided us a Headquarters in his office. We sponsor an essay contest (started in 1960 by Joanne Hoffman) for all mountain schools who wish to participate. A $50.00 savings bond is awarded at each grade level. Each participant receives a framed certificate.

We provide money, clothes, food, toys, etc. to a needy family each Christmas.

$25.00 a year to Marion Martin Building Fund that helps to maintain our National Headquarters in Alexandria, VA. $25.00 to Dorothy Andrews Kabis Internship which offers four young women the opportunity to spend six weeks in our Nation’s capitol working in the headquarters of the country’s largest women’s political organization.

Upon the death of a member, we put $25.00 into our Rim High School Scholarship fund in memory of the deceased. We give $25.00 to each of the following college scholarship funds: National Pathfinder (in honor of Nancy Reagan), Betty Rendel, and Ronald Reagan. We also give $25.00 to the Charlotte Mousel scholarship fund which may be applied for by a male or female high school senior. We encourage all seniors on the mountain to apply. We offered a $500.00 scholarship to a High School senior in 2004. In 2005, we offered a $1,000.00 first place and $500.00 second place scholarship.

Boys and Girls Club, money, books, office supplies, clothing, and we made centerpieces for their banquet in 2003.

Mountain Girls Softball Assoc..to help them get to the competition in St. Louis in 2003. Rim Girl’s Volleyball in 2005 to help them go to the finals. Rim Youth Football, Boy Scouts Legal Defense Fund, Rebuilding Hearts and Lives and Salvation Army, for Hurricane Katrina victims. Students have requested support for an activity that would be educational and help develop their values, i.e. the People to People program in Washington D.C. We have made many such donations, and usually have the students give a brief report of their experience at our General Meeting.

The Minutemen, California Chapter received a $1000 donation from us as well as $1035 in personal donations from members, and more probably continue to come in.

Mountain Skies Astronomical Society, Young America’s Foundation(a group that purchased the Reagan Ranch and is maintaining it), and Mountain Fifes and Drums.

Mountains Community Hospital....we have donated money, and many of our members volunteer their time through the Hospital Auxiliary. Arrowhead Arts Assoc. Auxiliary.... many of our members belong to the Auxiliary and volunteer their time to help bring music to the mountains. Doves....we donate toiletries, clothing and money, as well as cell phones for 911 calls. One year they were our Christmas charity. Literature on health and welfare issues has been obtained in Spanish and placed in various locations within the community to assist our Hispanic population.

Friends of the Library Bookstore was started by two of our members, Brenda Facon and Adele Grossman, who collect new and used books and sell them at reasonable prices in the Blue Jay Library. Chamber of Commerce....we are a supporting member. As a member we are able to place an article each month in the Chamber Business Journal, a supplement to the Mountain News.

Supporting our Troops ...our club has sent hundreds of gallon size bags of an assortment of needed items to our troops in Iraq.

We have asked the grammar schools to join us by making drawings and writing notes and poems which we put in some of the donation bags. Ronald McDonald House receives the flip tops from soda and other cans from us for recycling to defray costs to a family when their child is being treated at Loma Linda. Lions Club receives old eyeglasses from us for distribution in Mexico and South America. Elementary schools receive Campbell soup labels from us which in turn give them various cafeteria supplies.