Events

Join us as we look at new projects to be submitted to the Board and get help for any projects you may be interested in.  All members are welcome!  Please call me if you have any questions.

We are looking for Altrusans to come and cut material and sew for this important project. You are welcome to bring a guest. If you are planning on sewing,  please bring a portable sewing machine.  We will supply all materials needed, but sometimes we run out of scissors, so you are welcome to bring your own. We will have appetizers and drinks available. This event is loads of fun and laughter! Best of all, you make new friends!! Hope to see your smiling face!

We will be dressing up like Dalmations for the Friday Night Fun Night at conference (storybook theme). On Tuesday March 19th, at 5:30pm, at The Vine Churrch, 4902 S. 31st St, Temple, we'll paint our white long-sleeved t-shirts with spots and make our "dog collars". Flyer is attached.

If you need a t-shirt, I'll be ordering them on March 8th, so if you need one, please call, email, or text me: SarahPDavison@gmail.com, 254-715-9987. 

Dalmation ears/tails will be ordered for all that sign up. Ears/tails set will be ordered April 5th.

Bring a snack to share and we will have fun getting ready!

If paying by check, please make payable to Sarah Davison.

• Ears/Tail set: $9
• T-shirt (S-XL): $5
• T-shirt (2XL-larger): $7

Order status so far:

1. Beverly Ludedke-paid
2. Kelly Nix
3. Debra Hicks
4. Patsy Sulak
5. Dana Eckhart
6. Dorothy Granfor-paid
7. Jo Weaver-paid
8. Kathy Folley-paid
9. Carol Fleck (ears/tail only)
10. Regina Phinney-paid
11. Julie Ruiz-paid
12. Lori Luppino-paid
13. Brenda Hill-paid
14. Traci Squarcette
15. Sharon Tomlinson
16. Donna Wright
17. Diana Zaremba
18. Debbie Gorden-paid
19. Sherry Woodard-paid
20. Celeste Kaylor-paid
21. Barb Pearcy-paid
22. Susan Cory
23. Sarah Davison-paid
24. Debbie Mabry-paid
25. Robbie Richey
26. Sandy Hugo
27. Michelle DiGaetano
28. Carol White
29. Sylvia Winkler
30. Sharon Schmidt (ears/tail only)
31. Lynda Schumann(ears/tail only)
32. Debbie Fendrick

Come join us and plan to cook together at the house. This time we will cook at Ronald McDonald House Kitchen. Groceries will be bought ahead of time and ready for us. Need 6 people to prepare dishes to be ready at 6:30. We cook, put food out then leave.

The house is located behind hobby lobby. Please park on the side of building behind gate. You can enter in the side door and come to the kitchen.

Our dear Debbie Fendrick will share about our beloved project Camp Dreamcatcher.  Join us for stories and learn about all the ways our efforts help this camp for children with cancer and blood disorders.

We will be bagging and tagging completed items to ready them for donation.

Wright Builders 

5640 Kegley Place Lane

Temple, TX 

Good Morning Altrusans,

We have purchased lots of material that needs to be cut out. We could use about 8 women to help us on Tuesday, April 2 from 6:00-7:30pm. We will meet at Wright Builders. If you have a cutting board or scissors, please bring. Snacks and Drinks provided. Come and have fun with us! Hope to see you there!

Join us for a Winter Fiesta mixer

Saturday, April 13th 3pm

Taryn Cox's Home 1259 Frederick Lane

Please RSVP for The Taste of the Holidays Kickoff dinner. 

The hospitality committee needs a head count for the dinner.  The Menu is a Baked Potato Dinner with all the trimmings - provided free of charge.    No need to bring anything other then yourself!

April 16th - 5:30 pm at The Ralph Wilson Youth Club

We will be celebrating past Tastes and sharing this year's theme and service project.  This will be your first opportunity to sign up for committees .  Don't miss out - this is going to be a fun filled event!

#doorprizes #serveothers #altusa #wine  #spuds

Altrusans will be preparing and serving lunch prior to Bingo at the Belton Senior Center on Thursday, April 18.  We will have a prep day on Wednesday, April 17 beginning at 10:00 am at the Center.  On Thursday, we will be serving chicken noodle casserole with salad, crescent rolls, and dessert.  On Wednesday, we will be preparing the casserole and the dessert.

There are lots of opportunities for volunteers:

• If you like to cook, please come on Wednesday at 10:00 am to help prepare the meal.
• If you would like to help serve the meal, please come on Thursday at 11:00 am.
• If you love Bingo (and who doesn't love Bingo ), come at 12:30 pm on Thursday.

Hope you can join us for any or all of the fun!!

District Nine Conference in Grapevine

This is a project that we will work on during our 5th Tuesday social.  We will be filling purses with goodies for the Families in Crisis Center for the Mother's Day gift from their child/children.

Please bring snacks and drinks to share.  You may bring wine to share as well.

Come all to help support Families in Crisis as we prepare Mother's Day gifts for families staying with FIC.  Please bring a side dish to share and your favorite beverage.

Kids Against Hunger Community Food Packaging Event Feeding Friendzy!

Ok Ladies and Gents - this has been a tough project to get scheduled - location changes, date changes, etc.  BUT - I think all is as it should be!  Our many bumps in the road for this event have created a wonderful opportunity for us to participate in this project with our community partners to help package 100,000+ meals in one event.

If you are new to Altrusa or have never participated in this project, please follow this link to see why this is one of our most BELOVED events!

http://www.kahcentx.org/ 

Please make sure to RSVP for this AMAZING project.  Please wear your Altrusa T-Shirt. The media will be present. There may be an opportunity to assist with set-up earlier in the day.

This will be KAG's first community wide event and they would like us to be listed as one of their major sponsors.  Each participant will recieve a Feeding Friendzy T-Shirt.  This is a great event to bring a potential Altrusan or your kiddos that are age 8 or older.

Hope to see you all there!

Julie Ruiz

Boots & Bandanas 2019, benefitting McLane Children's Medical Center, will be held at Schoepf's BBQ in Belton featuring dinner, dancing, silent and live auctions and entertainment from Jarrod Birmingham and John Michael Montgomery on Saturday, May 11, 2019

Eight Altrusans are needed to assist with the silent auction, help guests find their tables, etc.  Volunteers are invited to stay for the concert and enjoy a BBQ dinner.  

Join us as we install our new board of directors and celebrate all our accomplishments this year!  Regina Phinney will be collecting $15 per person (cash or check payable to Altrusa) starting at next Tuesday's Altrusa meeting for installation meal at Oscar Store; hamburger with fries or chicken salad, tea & dessert.  LET REGINA KNOW YOUR MEAL CHOICE.  Cash bar will be available, social starts at 6 pm & dinner served 6:30 pm May 14, 2019

This will be our last New Member Orientation for the year.

Please plan to attend the 2019 President's Retreat on Thursday, May 23rd at 5:30 pm

This will be our first opportunity to join in Carol's vision for Our 2019 Altrusan Year and learn ways to serve our club and our community.

Food will be provided, please bring a beverage of your choice and your ideas.  Please RSVP for catering count.

Location:

Tirzah Event Center

115 N East Street,  Belton 

Tirzah is catty corner from the Bell County Court House - general location intersection of E Central and N East Street

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Are you ready to support your Friends In Service Helping in 2019-2020? Well then hop on board the memberSHIP committee. From amazing accents to caring cards and popping parties, this committee works hard to make the year smooth sailing for over 100 Altrusans. As your membership committee chair, I want to invite you to come learn about the variety of duties and subcommittees and find your place in this group. We are looking for people to chair and co chair these various endeavors. All Aboard!!

When: May 29th at 6pm

Where: Debbie Gorden's home. 5304 Briarcrest Circ

What to bring: Your willingness to take on a leadership role in this club. (Food and drink will be provided)

Join us as we look at new projects to be submitted to the Board and get help for any projects you may be interested in.  All members are welcome!  Please call me if you have any questions.

Hear Ye... Hear Ye!!!   

Calling all Lords and Ladies!!  

Please join us for a fun-filled workday to prepare all things Dreamcatcher!  We have many tasks that need to be  completed to ensure that our campers have a magical time in our Kingdom of Dreams 2019!   Special thanks to Jester Regina Phinney for providing lunch!!!  This is a great service project and we are so grateful for your continued support!!!

Please join the Menu Committee for our first taste meeting on Monday, June 3rd at 5:30pm. We will begin the process of selecting our menu for the Taste of The Holidays - Give Thanks. 

If you have any favorite recipes that will pair well with ham please let us know as we would love to try them! We will need a few volunteers to prepare some recipes for us to try. If you are able to assist please contact me at celeste.kaylor@swecu.org or 254-913-3715. 

 Thank you, 

Celeste Kaylor - Menu Chair
Debbie Gorden - Menu Co-Chair 

Working on project for the NICU

Wright Builders 

5640 Kegley Place Lane

Temple, TX 

Meet at Meg's for fellowship and making plans for the new year.

Meeting location change - Sunflower Room - Wildflower County Club

Please join the Menu Committee for our second taste meeting on Monday, June 17th at 5:30pm. We will begin the process of selecting our menu for the Taste of The Holidays - Give Thanks. 

​Please reach our to Debbie Gorden or Myself if you are intereted in assiting the menu committee for Taste of the Holidays - Give Thanks! 

Celeste Kaylor - Menu Chair

Debbie Gorden - Menu Co-Chair 

The service committee will be meeting the 4th Tuesday of every month for members to come and submit all project ideas to be reviewed and presented to the board.

Please join us if you are interested in learning more about submitting a Service Project. This committee can help any member navigate thru the project form and information gathering process. 

TASTE UNDERWRITNIG THANK YOU GIFT WORK DAYS Taste of the Holidays Underwriting Chairs are looking for a few people to help with the thank you gifts we send to last years underwriters. We have several tasks to accomplish listed below. 1st Meeting - Bake 12 Bundt cakes and 20 loaf pans of pumpkin cake and pumpkin bread. 2nd Meeting - Make 32 jars of Honey Pumpkin Spice Butter as well as box, bag, and decorate the items for delivery to underwriters. Volunteers to take items with them for delivery to UW’s he following day. 3rd Meeting - Meeting to help sign the underwriting letters. It helps if you know an underwriter to add a personal message to the letters before they are sent out. Here is where we need the help for the first meeting. We need to borrow about 10 Bundt cake pans If you are able to help with this please let me know by calling or testing me at 254-760-0051 or you can email me at Sharon@DupuyOxyen.com. Secondly, we need about 6 bakers to bake Monday night 7/22/19 starting at 6:00pm. We will meet and cook at Michelle DiGaetano’ s house 2715 Forrester Rd Temple. If the bakers couldbring hand mixers,measuring spoons and cups that would be a help as well. We will wrap and freeze until we schedule the 2nd meeting in this process s if you have freezer room that would be great.

The service committee will be meeting the 4th Tuesday of every month for members to come and submit all project ideas to be reviewed and presented to the board.

Please join us if you are interested in learning more about submitting a Service Project. This committee can help any member navigate thru the project form and information gathering process. 

Come join us for one of our favorite projects where we assemble hygiene kits for the Project Appltree students.  Be sure to sign up to bring a yummy dish to share.  We will be downstairs in the two rooms we used last year.  Use the South entrance.  We will have cups and all the paper goods for the meal.

The components are made and it time to assembly the Days for Girls kits that will ge to Lebanon to be used by Syrian refugees.

We will meet at the Belton FUMC from 2 - 5 pm.  The church is located at  in Belton. You may park and enter on the south side of the building.

Please join us, as we try our hand
                             at
              Painting Pottery !
You will have two items to paint as
your projects for this social.   We
will show pictures with a sign up sheet,
Where we will ask you to choose a
Project so that we can get the right
Number of items ordered.  The sign
up sheet will list what the charge will
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See You

 

TASTE UNDERWRITNIG THANK YOU GIFT WORK DAYS Taste of the Holidays Underwriting Chairs are looking for a few people to help with the thank you gifts we send to last years underwriters. We have several tasks to accomplish listed below. 1st Meeting - Bake 12 Bundt cakes and 20 loaf pans of pumpkin cake and pumpkin bread. 2nd Meeting - Make 32 jars of Honey Pumpkin Spice Butter as well as box, bag, and decorate the items for delivery to underwriters. Volunteers to take items with them for delivery to UW’s the following day. 3rd Meeting - Meeting to help sign the underwriting letters. It helps if you know an underwriter to adda personal message to the letters before they are sent out. Here is where we need the help for this second meeting. First, we need to make 32 jars of pumpkin butter (This is a real easy task) We will need to box and decorate 12 Large Bundt cakes for the Large Underwriters We will need to box and decorate 20 Loaf pans for the smaller level Underwriters We will need to bag and decorate 32 jars of pumpkin butter for all underwriters MOST IMPORTANTLY- We will need help delivering these 32 items to our underwriters. So if you cannot come to help prepare them for delivery but can show up later to take with you for delivery the next day that would be so helpful. I have attached a list of the people we need to deliver to if you can help please send me an email of who you would like to deliver to and I will put you down. Sharon & Michelle