June 21,
2014
The first
day of summer is here and despite the water shortage our gardens are blooming:
roses and lavenders, sunflowers and poppies intermingle and sway with the
wind. The natural world seems very resilient
and reminds us of the bravery of the ill children that our group so ardently supports.
Activities
are continuing in PAA. The Restaurants with Heart project had a
good turnout for Iron Gate in May and
are offering lunch and dinner at Sultana
in Menlo Park on this next Monday, June
23rd. See our website for menus and details. Remember that RwH restaurants
give us 50% of the meal price as a donation to LPCH. What a fun way to enjoy a
meal with a friend and raise money, too!
In addition,
the California Pizza Kitchen in Palo
Alto invited us to hold a second fundraiser from July 21st to July
24th. With a flyer in hand, we will receive 20% from dine-in or
take-out on pizzas, salads, pasta and desserts.
The Restaurants
with Heart group is also looking for a kind soul to help with design
and electronic distribution of their flyers. Please contact Sarah or Nancy if
you can help. Training is available.
We enjoyed the
June general meeting last week at Cibo,
the local restaurant in Palo Alto where we met for lunch and were joined by
several more for a short meeting. It was great to see some faces that we hadn’t
seen since January. New directories were handed out to those who came and some
to be hand delivered.
One of the announcements
at the June meeting was about Beargrams. Gerry Nelson has
graciously volunteered to take over Shirley Stites’ job of organizing the Bears
and Books project for children who are spending December holidays as
inpatients. She has invented a new way to pay for the bears which we make at the
Build-a-Bear store. This year, you can buy a Beargram for only $15.
You receive a blue card to send to your friend notifying them of the bear given
in their honor and we will recruit young people to go to the store and make the
bears which are then donated to LPCH.
We can also
go in groups or with friends and several former restaurant day groups will be
scheduling trips in the fall. As long as
the store knows they are for PAA, we receive a special price and an extra bear
for every $100 spent. Beargrams are a perfect way to honor
someone who is celebrating an event like a birthday or anniversary and doesn’t
need yet another scarf or tie. Beargrams are currently available
from Gerry or Luisa.
On a somber
note, we received notices that member Martha Deacon and former members Phyllis
Austin, Jean Groswith, Patricia Phillips and Elizabeth Allen have passed away recently. Call Sarah
for details.
Coming in
July: Our web page will be updated with details on the American Girl Fashion Show
as soon as the graphics are received. The dates will be Saturday and Sunday,
November 15 and 16th, 2014.
Coming in
August: We have been invited to join Allied
Arts Guild at their celebration of ten years since the reopening after the
1989 earthquake on August 23rd. We’ll have a couple of tables to promote our
activities including Restaurants with Heart, Beargrams, Thora’s Thimbles and
the American Girl Fashion Show.
Please call or email Sarah if you are able to help out that day. Please come and see what our sister auxiliaries are presenting.
Please call or email Sarah if you are able to help out that day. Please come and see what our sister auxiliaries are presenting.
Fun in
September: Our general meeting at Lucie Stern Center will feature a workshop to
help make decorations for AGFS, items for the Holiday Boutique or possibly Thimbles.
We’ll have something everyone can do even if it’s munching cookies, so do come,
we’d love to see you.
Wishing you
a great summer,
Sarah and
Nancy
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