Members of the Port O’Connor Service Club modeled their purchases from their Spring Garage Sale. Pictured left to right: Marie Hawes; Autumn Anderson (most complete Garage Sale outfit); Evelyn Kitchens; Susan Braudaway (most stylish); Susie Onishi; Linda Orrick; Donna Vuichard; Madeline Bourg and Becky Carville.

POC Community Service Club is ready for summer. Our Spring Garage Sale was a huge success and our members rocked the food and drink ticket booth at the Crawfish Festival. We awarded two scholarships to local grads to help them further their life plans and helped to complete some great community projects this past year.
As we do every year, we will be cutting our monthly meetings to one only for May, June, July and August. The first Thursday of each month at 10:00 a.m. we will meet in the back room of the POC Community Center and continue to work on current service projects and manage our outreach. We will be actively involved in the community and the many summer activities during this time, but taking a well-deserved break from two per month meetings.

Big congratulations to Miranda Stringo and Robyn Stringo on their recent graduation and receipt of our 2016 Service Club Scholarships. We love to see our local graduates do so well, and we look forward to seeing the exciting next chapter of their story. A story with deep POC roots, so we are proud to have a part.
These hot summer months are the perfect time for you to clean out some closets or drawers and donate good used items for our October Garage Sale. The County building behind the library is available for storage of those donations. Feel free to drop them off M-Th and we will put them to good use.

It is also a perfect time to organize your recipes and pick the best for our upcoming cookbook. There is still time for you to include your favorite dessert or best recipe, most successful cooking tip or family meal in the next issue of the POC Service Club Cookbook series. Generations of cooks swear by them already, and you can add your expertise to the next edition. Get your contribution to any service club member to be included. Very limited copies of the previous cookbooks are still available. Get yours before they are gone.

Have questions? Need Information? Want to be a part? Come join us for our June 2 meeting and see what we are all about. We welcome women of all ages and talents to join us as we make a positive difference in our little place in Port O’Connor. You might find the perfect place to plug in and be a part of something good!

So, until next time, be safe, live simply, love openly, forgive generously and remember this from an anonymous quote I love: “Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.” Come cast your vote for a positive POC.