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The Valley Women’s Club is dedicated to community action, awareness and leadership in environmental, educational, 
social, and political concerns that affect the health and welfare of the San Lorenzo Valley and our community.

What’s Happening in the San Lorenzo Valley!

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VWC Provides Funding to Six Local Organizations

The Valley Women’s Club’s is pleased to present six grants to local organizations through their pilot Community Grants program. The goal of the Grant program
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Rummage Sale Benefits VWC Scholarship Recipients

Put Saturday, June 15 on Your Calendar and contact Hilary Stanley now to donate your rummage items! Hilary  338-2247 Imagine being a high school student
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Another Successful General Membership Meeting

More than 80 Valley residents came to the General Meeting on March 24 to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Valley Women’s Club. The annual
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Next Board Meeting: June 11, 2013

Come join us! Second Tuesday of the month, 6:30 PM, at The Satellite in Felton. Meetings are open to the public. Contact President Lynn McKibbin  (338-7074) with agenda
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Faire Steering Committee Members, from left to right: Marra Uva, Eric Hammer, Violet Smith, Pam Spehar, Nancy Macy, Dan Henning, Linda Moore, and Julie Hendriks (front). Not shown: Alicia Kennedy, Steven Shabry, Paul Owens, Tai Stills.

Over $30,000 Awarded to Local Community Organizations

The Valley Women’s Club with the Redwood Mountain Faire Steering Committee are delighted to announce that $30,200 is being shared among the nonprofits whose volunteer
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Another Successful General Membership Meeting

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More than 80 Valley residents came to the General Meeting on March 24 to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Valley Women’s Club. The annual gathering at the Highland Park Senior Center featured a gourmet spread of dishes brought by attendees, news updates from representatives of the various Club committees, and a wonderful report by
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Efforts to Improve Air Quality Result in Possible Revisions to Regulations

Ben Lomond resident, Donna Smith, and I represented the VWC on an advisory committee convened by the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District (“Air District”) to address the smoke issue in the Valley. In its ongoing (it ain’t over) effort to reduce winter smoke emissions, the Air District is proposing revisions to its “Rule 438″ which addresses open outdoor fires.

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Environment: AB 904 – Oppose Unless Amended

The VWC Environmental Committee is concerned that, in the name of “streamlining” the process, legislation in Sacramento (AB 904) would allow enormous tracts of land to be harvested in perpetuity with virtually no oversight over time. At present the Non-Industrial Timber Management Plan process is limited to 1500 acres, and the Assembly is considering legislation
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Our Remarkable Redwood Parks – Time to Revisit and Make New Memories

by Lyse McGilvery Thirty-story-high redwoods in your backyard. The San Lorenzo Valley features some of the finest parks in Central California, home to the tallest living things on earth: Sequoia Sempervirens, which means “ever-living producers of cones”. Two of the the most famous parks for wandering to see these impressive redwoods are Henry Cowell Redwoods
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Posted on May 28, 2013|0 Comment

Town Plan Advocacy Groups – Your Participation Needed

You are encouraged to participate in the advocacy groups being formed to implement Town Plan ideas that Supervisor Bruce McPherson has initiated as a result of meetings earlier in the year about updating the Town Plans originally completed in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. (The plans are available online at the bottom of this
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Posted on May 28, 2013|0 Comment

VWC Provides Funding to Six Local Organizations

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The Valley Women’s Club’s is pleased to present six grants to local organizations through their pilot Community Grants program. The goal of the Grant program is to support and strengthen local organizations working to create community programs and projects that affect the health and welfare of the San Lorenzo Valley and its community.  Funds awarded
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Posted on May 16, 2013|2 Comments

Santa Cruz County Take-it-Back Partnership Takes On Fluorescents

The Take-it-Back partnership in Santa Cruz now provides County residents with a no-cost opportunity to properly recycling of fluorescent lamps, including tubes and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). All fluorescent lamps contain a minute amount of mercury which can harm the environment if the bulbs are not recycled properly. Under the program, over a dozen local
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Board Meetings

Second Tuesday of the month
6:30 PM at The Satellite in Felton.

Meetings are open to the public.

Contact President, Lynn McKibbin (338-7074) with agenda items.

For information about membership, contact Jim Coffis (336-8812).

“In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.” –Marianne Williamson
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” —John Muir
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
 —John Muir