Members Corner
Updated 09/09/20
2020-2022 Project List:
ARTS AND CULTURE Jo Thompson
Birthday cards Valencia Gardens
Breast Cancer Xmas family
Cards 4 Kids Loma Linda - Christine B.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Penny Ramirez
DANA
Trujillo Adobe w/tamale festival
Chamber of Commerce
Mission Inn Foundation
Old Spanish Trails
Native Daughters
Veterans clothing drive - Diane Y.
Valencia Gardens birthday cards/Xmas gifts
Quilt of Valor
Women in History Memorial
Veterans Ceremony Memorial Bullet Bags
Black History month (author speaker, renowned black women Tinka
Multinational speakers (Chinese, Native Indian)
Sherman Indian High School
Foster Kids Graduation
ENVIRONMENT Peggy Fryc
Victoria Avenue Forever
Water Project - Lois
Recycle
Penny Pines
UCR Garden tour
Neighborhood trash pick up - Cindy Traynor
HEALTH AND WELLNESS Cindy Traynor
Doctors corner
Operation Smile
Heifer International
Shot at life January elephant game
Red dress campaign February
Domestic violence shower
Breast awareness month Free the Girls bra collection Sept?Oct
March of Dimes game/ meal?
EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES Lois Bailey
Little Free Library
Classroom/teacher supply
Riverside new library book donation Nancy L
Reading across America Dr. Seuss
Scholarships nursing, MD, music and high school
ARTS AND CULTURE Jo Thompson
Birthday cards Valencia Gardens
Breast Cancer Xmas family
Cards 4 Kids Loma Linda - Christine B.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Penny Ramirez
DANA
Trujillo Adobe w/tamale festival
Chamber of Commerce
Mission Inn Foundation
Old Spanish Trails
Native Daughters
Veterans clothing drive - Diane Y.
Valencia Gardens birthday cards/Xmas gifts
Quilt of Valor
Women in History Memorial
Veterans Ceremony Memorial Bullet Bags
Black History month (author speaker, renowned black women Tinka
Multinational speakers (Chinese, Native Indian)
Sherman Indian High School
Foster Kids Graduation
ENVIRONMENT Peggy Fryc
Victoria Avenue Forever
Water Project - Lois
Recycle
Penny Pines
UCR Garden tour
Neighborhood trash pick up - Cindy Traynor
HEALTH AND WELLNESS Cindy Traynor
Doctors corner
Operation Smile
Heifer International
Shot at life January elephant game
Red dress campaign February
Domestic violence shower
Breast awareness month Free the Girls bra collection Sept?Oct
March of Dimes game/ meal?
EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES Lois Bailey
Little Free Library
Classroom/teacher supply
Riverside new library book donation Nancy L
Reading across America Dr. Seuss
Scholarships nursing, MD, music and high school
President's Message
We RWC presidents are so proud of how our club has grown to meet the challenges of the times. We've grown our communication strategies, our technical skills, and our member connections, and the year hasn't even officially started yet. Watch for the September Riverside Woman’s Club meeting announcement (Zoom, probably), and if you'd like to join the planning committee, let us know. If interested in planning for the 19th Amendment commemoration at RWC, let us know that also, or contact RWC Historian Tinka F.
Take care and stay safe, Marti and Erin
Take care and stay safe, Marti and Erin
2020 Volunteer Opportunities
Cards for Kids: See Arts & Culture below for instructions
Another opportunity for our club members to assist with is “Cards for Kids”. This is a program at Loma Linda Hospital. Christine B. is willing to pick up the finished cards and take them to the hospital. Teri has volunteered art supplies to make cards.
Lead Bees:
Do you know what Hive you are in? Be sure to read through the email that was sent regarding hives. This is an exciting new addition to the format of our club. We have received a wonderful response to requests for Lead Bee volunteers. We are still looking for a Lead Bee in the 92501 neighborhood (Hive 01). Please contact Judith G. if you are interested.
Blanket Drive:
Christine B.'s women's group at her church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) is doing a blanket drive this summer. They are collecting new blankets, either store-bought or handmade, quilts, fleece blankets, flannel, crocheted, or basically anything to be donated to local
Riverside organizations that need them. Some hospitals and groups are not accepting donations due to COVID but a few have been found that would be happy to have them including Beds and Blessings, who works to keep
kids out of the foster system, the Riverside Police Department and a woman who is over the local chapter of Binky Patrol who gives hundreds of
blankets per year to local Riverside facilities (such as nursing homes, law enforcement and fire, foster families and more). The Sheepfold battered women's shelter would also be happy to take gently used blankets (her phone number is (949) 400-6766, call her to arrange a drop off).If anyone would like to donate blankets for the drive please email Christine B. for further information
Another opportunity for our club members to assist with is “Cards for Kids”. This is a program at Loma Linda Hospital. Christine B. is willing to pick up the finished cards and take them to the hospital. Teri has volunteered art supplies to make cards.
Lead Bees:
Do you know what Hive you are in? Be sure to read through the email that was sent regarding hives. This is an exciting new addition to the format of our club. We have received a wonderful response to requests for Lead Bee volunteers. We are still looking for a Lead Bee in the 92501 neighborhood (Hive 01). Please contact Judith G. if you are interested.
Blanket Drive:
Christine B.'s women's group at her church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) is doing a blanket drive this summer. They are collecting new blankets, either store-bought or handmade, quilts, fleece blankets, flannel, crocheted, or basically anything to be donated to local
Riverside organizations that need them. Some hospitals and groups are not accepting donations due to COVID but a few have been found that would be happy to have them including Beds and Blessings, who works to keep
kids out of the foster system, the Riverside Police Department and a woman who is over the local chapter of Binky Patrol who gives hundreds of
blankets per year to local Riverside facilities (such as nursing homes, law enforcement and fire, foster families and more). The Sheepfold battered women's shelter would also be happy to take gently used blankets (her phone number is (949) 400-6766, call her to arrange a drop off).If anyone would like to donate blankets for the drive please email Christine B. for further information
The next Book Club meeting will be held on Friday September 25th at 6:00 pm. It will be an "in-person" socially-distanced meeting at the clubhouse. All participants must wear a mask except when taking a sip of your drink/water. If more than 10 are planning to participate, it will be changed to a video chat.
The book selection is Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing by Allison Winn Scotch. She is a New York Times Bestselling author. Below is a summary of the book as well as the questions we will be discussing. Our book discussion leader is Karen Hensley.
If you have any questions, please email or call Lois C. at: 951-233-7906 / loislc@sbcglobal.net. If you plan to join us let Lois know asap!
Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing: A Novel
Politics is a test of wills in a sharp, funny, and emotional novel about truth and consequences. Cleo McDougal is a born politician. From congresswoman to senator, the magnetic, ambitious single mother now has her eye on the White House—always looking forward, never back. Until an estranged childhood friend shreds her in an op-ed hit piece gone viral. With seven words—“Cleo McDougal is not a good person”—the presidential hopeful has gone from in control to damage control, and not just in Washington but in life.
Enter Cleo’s “regrets list” of 233 and counting. Her chief of staff has a brilliant idea: pick the top ten, make amends during a media blitz, and repair her reputation. But there are regrets, and there are regrets: like her broken relationship with her sister, her affair with a law school professor…and the regret too big to even say out loud. But with risk comes reward, and as Cleo makes both peace and amends with her past, she becomes more empowered than ever to tackle her career, confront the hypocrites out to destroy her, and open her heart to what matters most—one regret at a time.
Discussion Questions (from LitLovers website)
1. Describe Cleo McDougal. Prickly, yes, but does that make her unlikable in your eyes? Does your opinion of Cleo change over the course of the novel? If so, how and why? Same for "no"—if your opinion of Cleo doesn't change, why not?
2. (Follow-up to Question 1) Consider Cleo's rise, at the age of 37, to the position of a U.S. Senator and possible presidential contender. What does it take to reach those heights, not just as a male but, more to the point, as a female?
3. (Follow-up to Question 2) While this book isn't explicitly political, it takes place in the political arena. What are the double-standards in the political world that author Allison Winn Scotch explores? Is the sexism in politics different from, say, the corporate, professional, academic, or scientific worlds?
4. Cleo refuses to accept offers of help from others. Why? Is it because of her idea of self-reliance… or perhaps it has to do with the power dynamics involved in allowing others to help, at least according to Cleo? Do you know people like that? Are you yourself prone to decline someone's offer of help?
5. Talk about Cleo's familial relationships. How would you describe her as a mother? What about Lucas—do you find his teenage snark funny? What about the fact that Cleo has not dealt with the matter of Lucas's father? Then there is Georgie, Cleo's younger sister. What's the history behind their relationship which makes it so difficult?
6. What do you make of Cleo's list of 233 regrets? Why has she compiled such a list and kept it up over all these years? What is the purpose of the list?
7. Talk about your own regrets: do you have your own list? Maybe your regrets tend to be simply vague, uneasy memories that occasionally (or frequently?) crop up to remind you of your missteps. Or perhaps they're more pronounced. Have you ever made attempts to repair the missteps in your life which you regret?
8. Gaby decides that Cleo should address the top 10 regrets at the top of her list in order to repair her reputation. Does that mean that Cleo's regrets—and her desire for reparations—are inauthentic? Discuss Cleo's journey as she goes about attempting to atone for her missteps.
9. By the end of her journey, what does Cleo learn about what it takes to become a truly good person? In fact, how would you define the qualities of a "truly good person"—what is required to be one? Does Cleo become that good person?
The book selection is Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing by Allison Winn Scotch. She is a New York Times Bestselling author. Below is a summary of the book as well as the questions we will be discussing. Our book discussion leader is Karen Hensley.
If you have any questions, please email or call Lois C. at: 951-233-7906 / loislc@sbcglobal.net. If you plan to join us let Lois know asap!
Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing: A Novel
Politics is a test of wills in a sharp, funny, and emotional novel about truth and consequences. Cleo McDougal is a born politician. From congresswoman to senator, the magnetic, ambitious single mother now has her eye on the White House—always looking forward, never back. Until an estranged childhood friend shreds her in an op-ed hit piece gone viral. With seven words—“Cleo McDougal is not a good person”—the presidential hopeful has gone from in control to damage control, and not just in Washington but in life.
Enter Cleo’s “regrets list” of 233 and counting. Her chief of staff has a brilliant idea: pick the top ten, make amends during a media blitz, and repair her reputation. But there are regrets, and there are regrets: like her broken relationship with her sister, her affair with a law school professor…and the regret too big to even say out loud. But with risk comes reward, and as Cleo makes both peace and amends with her past, she becomes more empowered than ever to tackle her career, confront the hypocrites out to destroy her, and open her heart to what matters most—one regret at a time.
Discussion Questions (from LitLovers website)
1. Describe Cleo McDougal. Prickly, yes, but does that make her unlikable in your eyes? Does your opinion of Cleo change over the course of the novel? If so, how and why? Same for "no"—if your opinion of Cleo doesn't change, why not?
2. (Follow-up to Question 1) Consider Cleo's rise, at the age of 37, to the position of a U.S. Senator and possible presidential contender. What does it take to reach those heights, not just as a male but, more to the point, as a female?
3. (Follow-up to Question 2) While this book isn't explicitly political, it takes place in the political arena. What are the double-standards in the political world that author Allison Winn Scotch explores? Is the sexism in politics different from, say, the corporate, professional, academic, or scientific worlds?
4. Cleo refuses to accept offers of help from others. Why? Is it because of her idea of self-reliance… or perhaps it has to do with the power dynamics involved in allowing others to help, at least according to Cleo? Do you know people like that? Are you yourself prone to decline someone's offer of help?
5. Talk about Cleo's familial relationships. How would you describe her as a mother? What about Lucas—do you find his teenage snark funny? What about the fact that Cleo has not dealt with the matter of Lucas's father? Then there is Georgie, Cleo's younger sister. What's the history behind their relationship which makes it so difficult?
6. What do you make of Cleo's list of 233 regrets? Why has she compiled such a list and kept it up over all these years? What is the purpose of the list?
7. Talk about your own regrets: do you have your own list? Maybe your regrets tend to be simply vague, uneasy memories that occasionally (or frequently?) crop up to remind you of your missteps. Or perhaps they're more pronounced. Have you ever made attempts to repair the missteps in your life which you regret?
8. Gaby decides that Cleo should address the top 10 regrets at the top of her list in order to repair her reputation. Does that mean that Cleo's regrets—and her desire for reparations—are inauthentic? Discuss Cleo's journey as she goes about attempting to atone for her missteps.
9. By the end of her journey, what does Cleo learn about what it takes to become a truly good person? In fact, how would you define the qualities of a "truly good person"—what is required to be one? Does Cleo become that good person?
Arts & Culture
Cards4KidZ
Greetings: Please use a greeting other than Get Well Soon, or Hope you Feel Better. Use such greetings as: Thinking of You, Bringing A Smile To You, and Have a Nice
Day
Size: Total Size of 4-1/4 by 5 is the most useful size. This allows our volunteers to distribute the cards in person and on meal trays. Envelopes are not needed.
Materials: Do not use sparkles, glitters or glues on items, as they are not safe for our younger patients.
Other ideas: Cards are needed in foreign languages for Birthdays and Holidays.
Cards4KidZ is a great opportunity to volunteer by providing your family and students the gratitude that you have just cheered a patient. The cards are distributed with their morning breakfast.
If you are interested in taking part in this project, you can talk with Christine Beaulieu at 951/675-4900 or email her: Christineanjeff@aol.com.
Teri Lippert has color card stocks to make these cards. Please contact her to make arrangements to pick them up. Call her 951/265-2007 or email: tlippertann@gmail.com
Greetings: Please use a greeting other than Get Well Soon, or Hope you Feel Better. Use such greetings as: Thinking of You, Bringing A Smile To You, and Have a Nice
Day
Size: Total Size of 4-1/4 by 5 is the most useful size. This allows our volunteers to distribute the cards in person and on meal trays. Envelopes are not needed.
Materials: Do not use sparkles, glitters or glues on items, as they are not safe for our younger patients.
Other ideas: Cards are needed in foreign languages for Birthdays and Holidays.
Cards4KidZ is a great opportunity to volunteer by providing your family and students the gratitude that you have just cheered a patient. The cards are distributed with their morning breakfast.
If you are interested in taking part in this project, you can talk with Christine Beaulieu at 951/675-4900 or email her: Christineanjeff@aol.com.
Teri Lippert has color card stocks to make these cards. Please contact her to make arrangements to pick them up. Call her 951/265-2007 or email: tlippertann@gmail.com
Camp Anza Project
On Going Project
Dear Members,
One of our projects that helped win us a first place award at District Convention is Camp Anza, which provides veteran and low-income housing. They need men's pants, shirts and or suits in good condition for going on job interviews. They do not need women's clothes at this time. They could also use toiletries and canned food to help the families make it through the month.
They are asking for drop-off on the last Wednesday and Thursday of each month at the main building. Ask for Jessica. The address is 5797 Picker Street in the Arlanza area off Van Buren Blvd.
Ladies, please call first before you go to Camp Anza, or call when you arrive there. They keep the doors to the big main building locked, and the Mercy House Services office is upstairs. They won't hear you knock!
Ask for Sarah or Jessica.
Phone: 951-689-0797
Dear Members,
One of our projects that helped win us a first place award at District Convention is Camp Anza, which provides veteran and low-income housing. They need men's pants, shirts and or suits in good condition for going on job interviews. They do not need women's clothes at this time. They could also use toiletries and canned food to help the families make it through the month.
They are asking for drop-off on the last Wednesday and Thursday of each month at the main building. Ask for Jessica. The address is 5797 Picker Street in the Arlanza area off Van Buren Blvd.
Ladies, please call first before you go to Camp Anza, or call when you arrive there. They keep the doors to the big main building locked, and the Mercy House Services office is upstairs. They won't hear you knock!
Ask for Sarah or Jessica.
Phone: 951-689-0797
Garden Club
The RWC Garden Branch events are cancelled till further notice. Any questions, please contact Darleen DeMason. Thank You