The POC Service Club is pleased to invite you to our annual Christmas Luncheon Friday, December 4th at 10:30 a.m. Seniors and community honorees will be treated to this year’s special treat. Music from the POC Elementary Students, great food, entertainment and special door prizes are all on the schedule. Plan to arrive early and come hungry, you won’t be disappointed.
On Saturday, December 5th, we will joyfully welcome another arrival of Toy Run boaters and their crew to the area near Clark’s Marina and Hotel. They will come, costumes at the ready with mountains of toys and gifts for deserving area children. The Chamber and Service Club will make sure they have a good hot meal before they decorate and congregate their boats for the annual POC Lighted Christmas Boat Parade that evening. This much anticipated event is very special to our community and to hundreds of children in our region. Lots of disadvantaged kids, not just in POC but region wide, will have a merry Christmas because of the Toy Run. Come out and support the “Toy Runners” as they give back in a fun and unusual way. If you want to adopt one of the Angels on the community Christmas list, stop by POC Hardware after December begins and volunteer to shop for one or more children in need of personal things like coats and pajamas, etc. Giving new socks to a child in need might just bless your socks off.
The POC Service Club has collected many good recipes from great cooks in our community, but there is still room for your favorite dish in our new edition cookbook. Please share your best recipes with one of our club members so we can include it as we assemble and print our new cookbook soon. We will also have sponsor spots for sale in the cookbook. Maybe your business would like to advertise your best. Stay tuned. One of our members will be getting in touch soon to tell you how you can participate.
The Service Club has lots to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, but we are especially grateful to have several new members willing to work and ready to share their talents with us in our community. Seven new club members in just the last few weeks is quite an accomplishment. We welcome them, and know they will be a great addition. Furthermore, we have several special events coming up in our community. Maybe your skills are the ones we will need next. Come visit one of our regular meetings. Join us in the back room of the POC Community Center on any 1st or 3rd Thursday morning at 10am. You might find a perfect place to share what you have.
So, until next time, be safe, live simply, love openly, forgive generously and remember what the great English poet William Wordsworth said. “That best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” Come on by and we will help you name and remember some little random acts of kindness as we reach out to be a blessing to others.
