Amy Warenyk, Chair
Public Affairs is all about community, home and vehicle safety issues as well as promoting active citizenship, veteran’s affairs and historic preservation. We encourage members to become active in all these areas.
Fire Safety Day
This event was a great success in October with lots of great booths with free giveaways and information on safety for kids and families.
All through the year the club collects items and sends them to military personnel stationed overseas. This is an on-going project.
This project provides a tangible, huggable reminder to comfort the children and, in turn, the families of our nation’s military and public service “Heroes” by putting a Hug-A-Hero doll into the arms of those most in need. Our donation of $300 to this program will help about 12 children receive a doll. Our club’s goal is to see the donation reach the families in need at our local base MacDill Air Force Base. For more information on this program go to http://www.operationhugahero.org.
Our project this year will focus on “The Spring.” Specifically, “The Spring of Tampa Bay” is a domestic violence shelter that has provided sanctuary and services to more than 50,000 abused adults and their children in Hillsborough County since 1977. “The Spring” is the largest of Florida’s 42 certified domestic violence shelters and the first in the United States to have an accredited school on site for resident children. “The Spring” is Hillsborough County’s only certified domestic violence prevention and emergency shelter agency. We will be donating 60 baskets to the shelter.
We donated $100 to the tournament to help support the Fisher house, located at the VA hospital and is for our wounded soldiers’ families while they are at the hospital.
Three time winner of the Mary Clark Award for the most outstanding club in the State of Florida.
