Dear CPWC members, Well, the brisk days of fall seem to have melted into the warm days of December which gives you all perfect weather to 'connect' at one of our holiday events this month! First, Missy and I want to thank Jean Ann McCarthy for opening her gorgeous new home to the membership for our November program 'Making Connections with Friends, Food and Wine'. The program committee did an outstanding job yet again. We enjoyed an introduction and toast by Jeremy Vester then members were free to choose pairings of wine and food at a variety tasting stations. We are also happy to announce the Art for the Park event raised

$7,000 for McFarlane this year! Kudos again to Lynn Thompson and her amazing committee for another successful fundraiser. Speaking of fund raising the Valentine Gala is just around the corner, on February 7. Danna will be posting volunteer opportunities in the near future. You can find down loadable donation forms on the website and Facebook pages. Also, we have included a copy of the letter and donation form here in the newsletter for use when soliciting donations for the auction. Just print the last two pages and go! If you frequent a business, have family or friends that have an item, service or skill they are willing to donate please ask if they will contribute to this great cause. Every little bit helps to make this an outstanding and fun event for the membership but an equally great opportunity for us to have a real impact on families at risk in our own backyard. Our next program will be our Holiday Gift & Cookie Exchange. This will be held at Julie Grasso's home on December 12 so if you wish to participate bring a wrapped gift to exchange and cookies to

swap!! Clothing for the women of the Drake House will be collected as well! The CPCA and CPWC will be hosting a Yule Log party at McFarlane Park on Sunday, December 14 at 4:30 p.m. Santa will be there and you can enjoy games, goodies and hot chocolate while singing a few holiday tunes! Evening group will be held at Shea Amin’s on Tuesday, December 9. J anie has two activities planned for the members that night, expert advice on cookie decorating from Veronica of Sugarbenders and a glazing project directed by Heather Rees. Please make sure to RSVP to all of our events as soon as possible. Our hostesses work very hard to provide amazing events for all of us to enjoy and need to plan accordingly. Missy and I wish you all a happy and healthy holiday and look forward to a wonderful New Year! Sarajane Fletcher & Missy Malmberg Co-Presidents

A letter from the Co-Presidents

I N S I D E T H I S

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YULE LOG 2

VALENTINES

GALA

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PROGRAMS 3

FIRST FRIDAY 4

EVENING

GROUP

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REMIND 101 5

DINNER CLUB 5

BOOK CLUBS 6

MEMORIAM 7

GALA

DONATION

FORMS

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EVENING GROUP, DEC 9

PROGRAMS, DEC 12

YULE LOG, DEC 14

EVENING BOOK CLUB, DEC 16

FIRST FRIDAY, JAN 2

DAYTIME BOOK CLUB, JAN 12

PROGRAM, JAN 16

VALENTINE’S GALA, FEB 7

DINNER CLUB, MARCH

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Please consider donating new or gently used women’s clothing to The Drake House. We will be col-lecting clothing on December 12 as a part of our December pro-gram event.

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By Janie Kissling The CPCA and CPWC are co-sponsoring a family

holiday event--the Yule Log bonfire on Sunday ,

December 14 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. at McFar lane

Park. There will be hot cocoa and cookies plus caroling

and a visit from Santa. Don't make your kids wait in line

at the mall for a visit with Santa. You can get a photo of

your child with Santa at the Yule Log. There will be

games for the kids like Pin the Nose on Rudolph with

prizes. And of course, the large bonfire is always fun!!!

Don't Forget to make this activity a fun priority for

your whole family. Questions? Call Janie Kissling at

404-483-2838.

Yule log

By Danna Vach

The Charity Committee is busy, busy, busy preparing for the Valentine’s Gala on February 7, 2015. This is such a fun event and will truly be a time to con-nect with our community, our friends, and our Valentines! Be on the lookout for your invitation to arrive by mail near the end of the month.

We need your help with the silent and live auctions! Please contact Amy McConnell amymc-connell@bellsouth.net for forms to drop by your favorite local businesses. Or if you would like to donate a week at your vacation home, we would appreciate it so much! All proceeds from the Valentine’s Gala benefit The Drake House in Roswell. The Drake House pro-vides short-term crisis housing, education and empowerment programs for homeless mothers and their children designed to assist the family in working toward self-sufficiency. Since opening the doors, The Drake house over 300 families have been served, with over 560 children. Each family is provided a private, fully furnished one or two bedroom apartment, which allows the family to remain intact in a safe, secure setting. Residential housing and in-depth assessments are provided to 40 -50 families per year. Each family resides between 90 and 180 days. Mothers may be unemployed or underemployed, lacking sufficient income to meet all of their expenses, and are referred to The Drake House through a third-party verification system in order to prove homelessness. In addition to our many silent auction items, we will also hold a 50/50 raffle drawing the night of the Gala. Tickets will be available before Christ-mas — just in time for the holidays! Tickets would make great gifts for all of your hard-to-buy-for family and friends at just $25 each. For more infor-mation or tickets, please contact Lisa Krueger: petrokrueger@mindspring.com or Danna Vach mdannavach@gmail.com.

Valentine’s gala We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one! — Steven Pinker

Next Girls Night Out

Look for information on the next Girls Night Out in January! And please connect with Cyn-thia Dolezal with any sugges-

tions or questions at Cynthia.dolezal

@HarryNorman.com!

Programs 2014-15 Our Programs team has organized a year full of events centered around….

Making Connections… …with holiday blessings. Dec. 12 Holiday Gift & Cookie Exchange Julie Grasso’s …with those in need. Jan. 16 A visit from the Drake House Cindy Formica’s Feb. 7 Valentine's Gala Atlanta Country Club …with our bodies and minds. Feb. 20 Feeling Good — Inside and Out Judi West’s …with our practical needs. March 20 “Savvy Women’s Guide to Life” Cathy Snyder’s …with those around us. April 17 Guest Author Missy Malmberg’s May 15 Closing luncheon Peggy Cannon’s

A special thank you to all our presenters and hostess homes

October Program Meeting

By Julie Lischer Heartfelt thank you to Jean Ann McCarthy for hosting the November CPWC Pro-gram Meeting in her beautiful home. The wine pairings we shared are posted on the CPWC website. We are looking forward to the Annual Holiday Gift Exchange and Cookie Swap on Dec. 12 at 10:30 a.m. at Julie Grasso's, 4483 Blackland Drive. If you would like to participate in the Secret Santa gift exchange, bring a $20 wrapped gift. If you want to bring home 3 dozen cookies, bring 3 dozen cookies and a separate take-home tin. rsvp by Dec. 10 via email, jlischer@att.net. But wait! There’s more! Please bring new or gently used women’s clothing for the women of the Drake House. Thanks!

Be sure to mark your calendar for Friday, Janu-ary 16 at 10:30 a.m. We will meet at Cindy For-mica's to learn more about Drake House, the beneficiary of our February Valentine's Gala. I'd like to thank our Programs Team for putting together delicious meals at our monthly meet-ings! And thank you to the membership for rsvp-ing early and often! Love and happy holidays from Programs!

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By Janet Thomas Thanks to Sarajane Flethcher for hosting last month’s First Friday gathering. And most recently, the Kiblers opened their home to a plain

-wearing holiday crowd. Always a warm, fun and casual neighborhood gather-ing! January’s First Friday is scheduled for Janu-ary 2 at 7pm.

However ... Desperate is a strong word, but … we are in strong need of host homes for both our Janu-ary and February gatherings! Please consider

opening your home! Please contact Liz Hall at sewilson1@gmail.com or Nicole Barry at Ni-cole.scheer.barry@gmail.com who are kind enough to coordinate these events for us! As always, please rsvp for the First Friday and bring an appetizer and drink to share! Join in!

By Janie Kissling Thanks to Pat Smith for opening her home for the last Evening Group event! And additional thanks to Karin Guzy for demonstrating how to make a sea-sonal live flower arrangement and for answering so many of our random gardening questions! She put brussel sprouts in the arrangement! Can you believe it? We learned that the produce department is a great place for arrangement materials — to include persimmons, artichokes, and lady apples! We had great fun together and learned a lot! Please join us

for the next event! This month’s Evening Group will meet this Tuesday, December 9 at Shea Amin's house,

4508 Chattahoochee Planta-tion Drive , at 7:00 p.m.! Veronica from Sug-arbenders Bakery will be there to demonstrate icing sugar cookies and Heather Rees will help us transform plain glass into a thing of beauty using mercury paint. Bring a plain small glass or plate or picture frame (to turn into a tray). You can buy an inexpensive picture frame at Rescued Too up at Paper Mill Village. RSVP to Janie at

Fla la la la first friday

Evening group

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Our 2013-14 EXECUTIVE Board

Co-Presidents Sarajane Fletcher &

Missy Malmberg Treasurer Carolyn Cadiou Parliamentarian

Julie Lischer Recording Secretary

Janie Kissling Correspondence Sec./Sunshine Dawn Mullican Membership, Distribution &

Directory Jana Pantesco

Charity Danna Vach, Amy McConnell

Programs Julie Lischer

Jean Ann McCarthy Cathy Snyder

Dinner Club/ First Friday Elizabeth Hall

Nicole Barry Family Activities

Brooke Davis Ragan Weeks Interest Groups

Caryn Sonderman Newsletter

Janet Thomas Webmaster Julie Lischer

Interest Groups Chairwomen Bible Studies Lettie Nixon Blooming Investors Susan Weinstein Bridge Club Melissa Nicol Daytime Book Club Elizabeth Cooper Evening Book Club Veronica Bridges Garden Club Janet Francesconi Sue Butler Girl’s Night Out

Cynthia Dolezal Globe Trekkers Shea Amin Pinterest Fun Heather Rees

Play Group Nicole Barry Run Walk Group Elizabeth Cooper

Standing Committee Chairwomen

Friends of McFarland Park

Tina Engberg Community Outreach Janie Kissling Communications Heather Rees

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Dinner club

By Janet Thomas The Sound of Music themed Dinner Club last month was von trapping awesome! The next of the four yearly gatherings will take place in March. Thanks to Shea Amin for opening her home!

We've all learned how important it is to stay in close communication. CPWC is offering another way of reaching our membership. Remind 101 is a one-way text messaging system. To sign up to receive updates and meeting information from CPWC via text… On your cell phone -- do the following...

(You may opt out of messages at any time by replying 'unsubscribe@cpwc.')

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. ~Julie Lischer

One more way to be in the know...

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Evening book club

By Janet Thomas

October’s Evening Book Club went on a field trip! After reading Ro-swell: History, Haunts, and Legends by Dianna Avena, they journeyed to Roswell to attend the Roswell Ghost Tour!

In November the club read The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer.

And on December 16, Suzanne Deery will be hosting the club as they discuss Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Veronica Bridges coordinates this club. Please connect with Veronica if you would like to participate at vcmb@bellsouth.net!

By Elizabeth Cooper

The Daytime Book Club enjoyed a lovely breakfast at Judy Winchell’s home in October.

In November we read Orphan Train by Christina Kline followed by a discussion at Nancy Mitchell’s!

And ON December 8, our club gathered for a Holiday Luncheon. We also gathered our book donations for gifts for the children at Brumby

Elementary School!

Our next meeting is on Mon-day, January 12 at 10a.m., and we'll be discussing The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Please contact Eliza-beth Cooper at ewsjws@msn.com to visit or join our club!

DAYTIME book club

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.

Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

~ Groucho Marx

Groups!

Bible Study (Lettie Nixon)

Be sure to reserve Thursdays on your calendar for the Fall Sessions for our Bible Study Group Please contact Lettie Nixon, lettienixon@cfaith.com, 770-953-2066

Book Club — Daytime (Elizabeth Cooper) The Daytime Book Club meets the second Monday of each month at 10 a.m. For information, or to be included on the mailing list, please contact Elizabeth Cooper at ewsjws@msn.com or 602-323-7258.

Book Club — Evening (Veronica Bridges) We welcome all CPWC members to join book club. For information, contact Veronica Bridges at vcmb@bellsouth.net.

Bridge Club (Melissa Nicol) We will meet the 4th Wednesday of each month. To inquire about joining Bridge Club call Melissa Nicol at 770-541-6168 or mahanmelissa@aol.com.

Blooming Investors (Susan Weinstein) Blooming Investors is a group of friends always happy to have new friends who are interested in learning about investing. We meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. for supper and discussion on the latest economic trends. If you think you might be interested, please email Susan Weinstein at susanann.weinstein@gmail.com. You are welcome to visit and see what you think.

Run Walk Group (Elizabeth Cooper) For information, or to be included on the mailing list, please contact Elizabeth Cooper at ewsjws@msn.com or 602-323-7258.

Dinner Club & First Friday (Elizabeth Hall

and Nicole Barry) We have an exciting year planned for Dinner Club which is an opportunity for host couples to plan themed parties with special, fun menus. There is a financial obligation and once signed up, you have a commitment to your group. We will continue the popular "First Friday" events each month in a host home. Each guest or couple brings an appetizer and beverage to share. For more information please contact Liz at sewilson1@gmail.com or Nicole at nicole.scheer.barry@gmail.com.

Garden Club (Janet Francesconi and Sue

Butler) Come join us as we explore gardens, techniques, share plants and good times. Contact Janet Francesconi at 770-644-9214 or buff1994@bellsouth.net.

Girls Night Out (Cynthia Dolezal)

Look for Evites periodically for these fun evenings out! Contact Cynthia dolezal@HarryNorman.com.

Pinterest Fun (Heather Rees) This crafty new group has lots of fun in store! Contact Heather Rees at hprees@aol.com for more information!

Play Group (Nicole Barry) The Play Group meets each month at member’s homes and at parks and even McDonald’s! For more information please contact Nicole at nicole.scheer.barry@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

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Check out the Chattahoochee Plantation Womens Club Group on Facebook and click LIKE! You’ll receive updates on events throughout the year!

Sincere condolences to Suzanne Deery

for the loss of her father-in-law.

Please be aware that the Chattahoochee Living

magazine often highlights one of our CPWC groups!

The Bridge Club and Blooming Investors were

recently highlighted. It’s a fun way to learn more

about our clubs!