Spring Fever

Spring Fever!

Pinwheel Assembly

March 19 General Meeting – Volunteer Opportunity
Location: Children’s Center 1713 Penn Lane, Oregon City

As some of you may recall, Children’s Center participated in a county-wide child abuse awareness campaign last April. This year, as part of the campaign, Children’s Center plans to assemble and distribute 20,000 pinwheels throughout Clackamas County. These pinwheels are special because they are the symbol for National Child Abuse Prevention Month. In addition, each pinwheel will have a card attached with the Clackamas County Child Abuse Hotline with a call to action to report child abuse when it is suspected.

Children’s Center volunteers will be at Clackamas Town Center distributing pinwheels beginning March 13th and continuing through the month of April to support their awareness efforts. BUT, they can’t distribute the pinwheels until they are assembled! This is a wonderful opportunity to lend a helping hand to one of our favorite organizations. We joined LOWC to help local nonprofits, so let’s get to it!

Pinwheel assembly just takes hands and hearts, no brain power. On March 19th at 6:30 pm, we will have a very brief meeting at Children’s Center (located at 1713 Penn Lane Oregon City, OR 97045), the remainder of the evening will be spent chatting, assembling pinwheels, nibbling on tasty snacks, and sipping wine or another beverage of your choice. Feel free to bring a friend or teen to this meeting. It’s a great way to introduce them to LOWC and the Children’s Center!

If you are unable to attend the meeting, but you would like to assemble pinwheels, please contact Lori Malone. I will deliver pinwheel kits to your home (and return them to the center when you’re finished) or we can make arrangements for you to assemble pinwheels at Children’s Center on an alternate date.

If you’re interested in distributing pinwheels at Clackamas Town Center in March or April, please contact Children’s Center Volunteer Coordinator, Andrew Watanatraibhob.

Hope to see you on March 19th!

Lori Malone
Children’s Center Liaison

Tick Tock - Get Ready for Lake Run

The clock is ticking…………we are getting closer to the 39^th annual Lake Run!   62 days to pull it all together.  At this time, we have 58 registered runners on Chronotrack!  Pretty good, huh?

The Lake Run team, along with help from some of the members of our club, are working hard on details and plans for the “big day”.

Pauline is making sure the runners will have water and food at the finish line and getting the update for the banner as well as course prep.

Kris is ironing out the details for Volunteers.

Glen is rocking it with getting Sponsors and preparing the Course for a smooth run. And lots more…..

Amanda is practicing to sing the National Anthem prior to starting the race. 

Virginia and Ali are prepping for a smooth flowing Registration process. 

Cassandra and Natalie have vendors committed to serve food at the Festival.

Pam has started to figure out details for the Kids Run.

Joan is having flyers printed to distribute to the masses.

Karen N. is keeping our Lake Run facebook page current.

Jane did a fabulous job with the Web.

Karen S is handling all the sponsorship moneys.

Lisa is doing a great job pointing us in the right direction. 

If I missed you, it is because my mind is very busy.  Lots more to say, but lots more to do.

Me………laying on the couch eating BON BON’s...ya right!

I am so grateful to have such a talented team!  Thanks everyone!

VolunteerSpot will be open to give us all a chance to help.  Please make sure you sign-up….we need everyone for this event to be a success.   Please know that you are appreciated!

Fran Herbert
Lake Run Chair 2014-2015

Lake Run Publicity

Calling all members to invite friends, family and runners to join us May 9th for the Lake Run.

Please make a point of talking to potential participants from now until the run date to ensure everyone knows about this fun and important event. 

How you can help:

• word of mouth
• facebook posts
• emails to people you know well who would enjoy the run -everyone appreciates a personal invitation
• posters and cards for your workplace, coffee shop, gym, school, church, etc. - any place people look for community or sporting events

Posters can be printed from the LOWC website directly or click here, or if you would like to have posters (8.5 x 11) or cards delivered to you please contact Joan Hutchinson at 503-505-0124.

Thank you for supporting the Lake Run by encouraging people in your community to come out and participate!

Joan Hutchinson
Public Relations Chair 2014-2015

Gold Sponsor for Lake Run 2015

A huge thank you to US Bank for being our Gold Sponsor for the 39th Annual Lake Run!  We really appreciate your support!!!


Glen Brivic
Lake Run Sponsorship 2014-2015

Murder Mystery

We had 26 people all dressed up in formal attire attend our Murder Mystery on Valentine's Day.  Thank you to Amanda and Bryan Quinn for facilitating this event and to Toniya Villalobos and Larry Kitchen for the venue.  DeLoris as usual had some hearts filled with potpourri as party favors. We also gave the women a long stemmed red rose, after all, it was Valentine's Day!

Everyone did a great job staying in character.  Garlinn's husband was the victim and Sheri's husband was the killer (I have heard that Sheri now sleeps with one eye open….haha!).  We enjoyed a potluck style dinner with lots to drink.  It was a great event - thank you to all for making this event a success! Here are just a few pictures from the event.

Minita Feldsien
Social Chair 2014-2015

Fabulous Fashion Show

C’est si bon..la joie de vivre!!

Bonjour mes amis! Thanks to our fabulous Fashion Committee, the  LOWC’s 15th Annual Fall Luncheon and Fashion Show on Sept. 24th will be the event to attend as the details are in full bloom!  

One new addition will be our vin de table (wine table)  Nous vous invitons à faire un don d'une bouteille de vin à notre table de vin- merci beaucoup! (translation: You are invited to donate a bottle of wine for our wine table) Please bring the bottle to any Happy Hour, General Meeting or drop it off at Sheri Rathbun’s house. The value should be at least $10.00.

As promised in the last blog, here is your second tip about how to be a true Parisian woman.

How To Be A True Parisian Woman Tip #2

The Parisienne is very careful to follow her set of codes and the following faux pas are to be avoided unless you want to be considered “a plouc” (charmless)

Faux pas

1. Never match your purse to your outfit (I match all the time..oops!)
2. Don’t over-pluck your eyebrows - (no problem there I have very few eyebrows)
3. Don’t do lip augmentation unless you want to be a duck.
4. No more than two different colors in your hair. (I am très plouc with ten colors)

The fun continues with your French lesson of the the month. Just think how fluent you will be by September 24th! Come to the Happy Hours to practice. I thought you might like to know how to greet people at our event.

French Lesson #2

Bonjour (good morning/good afternoon)

Je m’appelle... (my name is...)

C’est un plaisir de vous rencontrer (nice to meet you)

Comment vas-tu? (How are you)

Je vais bien, merci (I am fine thank you)

Et toi?  (and you?)

Comme-ci, comme-ça. (good)

Le déjeuner est très magnifique (the luncheon is magnifcent)

A plus tard  (see you later)

Sheri Rathbun 
Fashion Show Chair 2014-2015

Happy Hour at Aji Tram

It was a small but fun crowd at our last happy hour.  A few of the members were planning to attend but had an emergency or were not feeling well so they didn't make it. The next happy hour is April 17th at Five Spice. Hope you can make it!

Minita Feldsien
Social Chair 2014-2015