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The GFWC Marlborough Junior Woman's Club is dedicated to providing volunteer services to enhance the lives in Marlborough, Massachusetts and surrounding communities.

Friday, September 19, 2008

A portion of the proceeds to benefit the Food Pantry

The GFWC Marlborough Junior Woman's Club presented a check for $3,500 on October 24, 2007 to Marlborough Hospital for the Healing Garden Project. MJWC members Kathleen Goneau, Katherine Hennessy, Teresa Loftin Scarpato, Marilyn Perry and Jodi Schoolcraft presented the check to John Polanowicz, CEO and Terri Reed of Marlborough Hospital.

The donation represents a portion of the proceeds from "Dancing with Celebrities-Marlborough Style" held at the Best Western by the MJWC in September. Local community leaders teamed up with dance instructors to compete to be named the best dance team of the evening, while raising money for a great cause.

Thank you to all who attended and supported us for the 2nd Annual Dancing with Celebrities: Marlborough Style. Please visit www.dancingwithcelebs.com for more information about the event! If you had your photo taken by Stephanie Potter, the photos are now available on her web site: http://www.stephaniepotter.com/dancing2007/ Please make all inquries about photos on her site directly to her.

The 2006-2008 adminstration of GFWC of Massachusetts is asking GFWC of Massachusetts clubs to especially focus their projects on veterans and active soldiers. MJWC has stepped up to the challenge by becoming involved in several new projects. These projects include:

Cool Ties

Members of club make special polymer filled ties for soldiers that help reduce body temperature in extreme heat. The ties are soaked in water and the polymer expands and retains coolness. Cool ties are praised by the Department of Defense. MJWC members have been working hard to make "desert" colored ties for soldiers. See our photo gallery for pictures.

Operation Quiet Comfort

A volunteer organization based in Michigan supporting wounded soldiers. Operation Quiet Comfort honors and comforts members of the U.S. armed forces who were injured in the line of duty. One of their many projects is making quilts out of denim squares. MJWC has collected jeans and cut them into squares and have had members of the community sign the squares. Soon we will be shipping off all our squares to the amazing people at Quiet Comfort who will make them into quilts. See our photo gallery for pictures.