Category: President's Letter

Happy Fall BPWEV’s Sisters,

I am so excited to announce our membership is growing, and we are planning a new fundraiser to be held at Englewood Chamber of Commerce on September 27th from 2-4 PM. The title is “Paint It Forward.” We will be selling tickets for $35 to include a wine glass to paint and keep, refreshments of crackers, cheese, fruit, veggie tray, cookies, and of course there will be some wine as well. There will be 50-50 and prizes to raffle off. We are trying to keep our cost down, therefore, we are asking our members to donate an appetizer, or light finger food, paper products, or if this is not possible a monetary donation works as well. We are still planning our 15th annual Passport Wine Tasting, but probably not until January.

We have (2) new members that signed up at our August meeting. Linda Bone and Linda Henry. They are on the Board Members of Restoring Oaks, a faith based non-profit community alliance to prevent and end human sex trafficking. We are happy to have you in our local organization.

One of our new members, Dianne Ryan, a title agent from Lyons Title & Trust in North Port, will be our speaker for September. Lyons Title & Trust LLC is a family owned, local independent title company, whose primary purpose is to provide the highest level of service possible for their customers. They are family- owned and managed by real estate attorneys with over 65 years of experience.

Our meeting is on Tuesday, September 16th at 5:30 at Artur’s Restaurant in Englewood. Hope to see you all there.

Best Regards,
Sue Hogrefe, BPWEV President