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Luncheon Meeting, Wednesday, April 25Th THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANC E - THOMAS JEFFERSON APRIL 2018 Marin Republican Women, Federated Awards: NFRW Diamond Award Club - 2017; 2017 CFRW No. Division & State Membership Circle of Excellence; 2016 Newsletter 1st No. Div, 2nd State 2018 Events Calendar Apr 25: MRWF Annual Luncheon Meeting, Wednesday, April 25th Fundraiser Silent Auction 11:00am - 2:00pm, Club Club Restaurant at McInnis Park, 350 Smith Ranch Road, San Rafael, CA at McInnis, San Rafael 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Apr 28: 4:00pm - 7:00 pm Satellite Club in conjunc- tion with Mark Meuser for Secretary of State “New Beginnings” fundraiser event, Novato MRWF presents our Annual Fundraiser May 4 - 6: CRP Conven- tion, San Diego To Benefit Sonoma Fire Victims and MRWF Community Projects May 4: CFRW Advocacy Day, San Diego May 5 & 12: Voter regis- tration at the Village mall, Corte Madera May 19: Armed Forces Day May 23: MRWF Lunch- For our Honored Guest eon, 11:30am - 1:00pm Betsy and Rusty Dillon Club at McInnis, San Ra- of Glen Ellen fael, Board Meeting at 10 May 25: Satellite Club, Masters of Ceremonies Melanie Morgan and Joanie Greggains 6:00pm LUNCHEON*FLOOR SHOW*SILENT AUCTION*DRAWINGS Entertainment by the Dana & Doug Duo 2018 MRWF Officers If unable to attend: please consider making a cash donation by mail President: Kathryn Thompson 898-0090 Make checks payable to: MRWF. Mail to Pauline Ancell [email protected] 1st VP/Programs: Jane Maushardt 515-9384 [email protected] Luncheon Reservations: $45 Deadline: Friday, April 20th 2nd VP/Membership: Judy Groesbeck 789-5022 I will attend April 25th: [email protected] Name: Phone: 3rd VP/Events: Pauline Ancell 457-6934 Address: Make check payable: MRWF Lynn von Wiedenfield [email protected] Lunch Choice: Salad, Entrée, Kapalua Crunch Mail reservations to: Pauline Ancell, 76 Secretary: dessert Dominican Drive, San Rafael, CA 94901 Bonnie Stevens 492-2514 ____ Grilled Salmon Entrée, Reservations: Phone: 415-457-6934 [email protected] Email: [email protected] ____ Chicken Marsala Entrée Treasurer: Notice: Advance reservations required. Lunch Elinor Lacy 892-2685 reservations, unless cancelled the Friday before [email protected] Please mail in your payment so that check-in Newsletter: at the event is expedited. the event, will be billed to you. Faye Bourret 702-524-7793 [email protected] Visit us on the web at www.mrwf.org THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANC E - THOMAS JEFFERSON Page 2 THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANC E - THOMAS JEFFERSON Marin Republican Women, Federated President’s Report Membership Matters MRWF is most excited about our April 25th community We would like to welcome new member Shirley Joyce project/fundraiser luncheon. Your diligent acquisition of silent Brown and new associate member Paul Von Wiedenfield. We auction and drawing items is going to make this event a rousing look forward to seeing you at our meetings, and we thank you success! Our project recipient is usually anonymous; we give a for supporting MRWF. nice check to an organization, with no knowledge of where it Our Membership drive continues into spring, and we actually ends up or whom it personally benefits. This year we encourage all those who have not mailed in the regular/ decided to do something different. associate membership dues to please do so as quickly as Fire is a danger we in California live with. Marin County possible. We will be starting our Membership directory soon dodged a bullet this past October. Unfortunately, our neighbors and would like to have as many members as possible listed. in Sonoma and Napa were not so fortunate, and MRWF As of March 1, our dues for regular members has gone up to decided to assist a specific family. Rusty and Betsy Dillon (a $32. Our dues for associate members (Republican women who member of Sonoma Valley RWF) and their adult son, Ross, already belong to another club, men, and non-citizens) have were the perfect choice. In 2001, Ross, while riding his stayed the same at $25. At present we have 104 regular bicycle, was hit by a car and permanently disabled. Since the members and 55 associate members. If you have any questions accident, the Dillons have given Ross the love, home-life, full- about membership, please contact me at [email protected]. time caregiver, and physical therapy that one would need in Remember that a membership to our club always makes a great order to return, as much as possible, to a normal life. holiday or birthday gift to friends and family. Imagine going to bed one night, surrounded by family We are continuing our New Member Contest. If you heirlooms, photos, and memories. You awaken, smell smoke, introduce a new person to our club and they join as a regular go to the window, and see flames, not in the distance, but member, you may be eligible to win a prize at year end. racing up the hill towards your home. This is what the Dillon Membership forms are always included in our newsletter, or family faced last October. Loading Ross into the van, they you can find a form on our website, MRWF.org, under the barely escaped with their lives, losing their home, everything in Home Tab. it, and autos (including the caregiver’s). All of Ross’s Judy Groesbeck, 2nd VP, Membership extensive medical and physical therapy equipment was gone. Join us, bid on auction items, send a cash contribution if you MEMBER BIRTHDAYS cannot attend April 25th, and help this commendable and April birthday greetings to regular members Barbara worthy family recover from yet another tragedy. In spite of Adams, Sandy Campo, Janet Farris, Isabelle Finney, Kitty their heartache, Rusty told me, “We may have lost our home, Forde, Mary Ann Haeuser, Joan Maginnis, Gloria but we have the most important thing of all – each other.” That McGoran, Marty Murphy, Carolyn Tucker, Anna Walton, is what is truly important in life, loved ones and friends. See and Jennifer Winward. you on the 25th! April birthday greetings to associate members Carole Stein, Kathryn Thompson, President Regina Sun, and Peter Thompson. Why We Need the Second Amendment More than Ever more recent examples: Hitler, Stalin and Mao – the latter who Roger L. Simon (link below) cites government screw ups famously wrote, “Power comes from the barrel of a gun. leading to and during the tragic Florida school shooting and The essay brings us to the here and now with a description of asks, “Would anybody in his right mind trust these people with the FBI threatening our democratic republic on a political level his own security, let alone those of his chil- with its shenanigans in and since the 2016 election. dren?” Simon continues, “The ultimate reason that “This is the stuff of incipient totalitarianism” ... and the [second] amendment came to be was some- the reason we need the second amendment. thing just as crucial as personal or family protec- tion. It was for the citizenry to protect themselves Source: Roger L. Simon at https://pjmedia.com/ against a tyrannical government.” To counter ar- rogerlsimon/need-second-amendment-ever/ guments that our founding was in a far different Americanism era when people used muskets, Simon provides Anna Mae Maly, Americanism Chair Visit us on the web at www.mrwf.org THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANC E - THOMAS JEFFERSON Page 3 THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANC E - THOMAS JEFFERSON Marin Republican Women, Federated Community Projects Reports day - too bad the politicians don't care to listen very often! But we are very proud that two of our members were published in the Your helping hands and talents are needed for all the Marin IJ Reader’s Forum on March 8, 2018. Here is the link MRWF activities. Get on the lists; call the project chair listed. http://www.marinij.com/opinion/20180307/marin-ij-readers- forum-for-march-8. Kudos to Anna Mae Maly and Don Erbel for VETERANS getting published. The San Francisco VA Hospital is happily accepting books, Our next Satellite Club gathering will be a little different. It DVDs, and new lap blankets, socks, will NOT be Friday, April 27, but rather SATURDAY, April 28, shoes, and other clothing, especially from 4 to 7 pm. We are supporting a fundraiser for Mark warm stuff. Please, no used clothing due Meuser, who is running for Secretary of State here in California. to a problem with bedbugs! It is being sponsored by the Marin Conservative Forum at a pri- The Veterans Home in Yountville vate home in Novato. Arrangements are still being made, so the seeks playing cards, puzzles, puzzle address is not yet final. BeVeterans sure to read our Satellite Club email Administration books, handkerchiefs, ball caps, and non- when it arrives in the middle of April for the address. perishable snack foods like chips, soup cups, Vienna sausages, And again, if anyone would be willing to open their home to candy, and popcorn. one of our Satellite Club events, please let Laureen Schneeberger Both facilities can always use stamps, stationery, and toilet- or Bev Erbel know. We appreciate any willing hosts. Contact us ry items, especially hotel freebies. at [email protected] . Donations can be brought to any of our meetings and are tax deductible if you include your name and address with the Bev Erbel & Laureen Schneeberger, Satellite Club Co-Chairs items. Pick-ups outside of meetings can also be ar- MRWF SILENT AUCTION/DRAWING ITEMS ranged. Questions? Please call Anne at 415-302-0330. To benefit Sonoma Fire Victims and MRWF Community Pro- Anne Brenneis, Veterans Project jects.
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