Friday, September 10, 2021

First live Fundraiser

On August 22 we held our first live event since all of these Covid issues started.

We held our first PURSES & PASTRIES EVENT

It was held at the Lake County Historical Society barn. Such a beautiful place

Every guest brings a purse. We provide pastries and beverages for snacks.

When your number is called you get to choose a purse from the ones brought. A lot of fun.

We had Chinese auction items and a live auction item

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

School Suplies

We were glad to help United Way out in July. They collected school supplies to ensure children from low-income families have everything needed to start the school year off right and ready to learn.

We were busy this June. Not only did we hand out scholarships but we were busy digging dirt. We made a donation to Broadmoor School - Lake County Board of DD-Deepwood. They are building an adaptive playground for the children of the school.

We are so proud to have helped in this project. Pictured above on the far right is our member Kay Hatala helping break ground and representing our club.

Scholarships

L-R Scholarship Chair: Deb Lilly, Emily O'Neil, Club President: Karen Praznovsky

On June 7th we held a small Scholarship presentation.

Due to Covid our fundraising was put to a halt and in-kind donations were just not there. We made the tough decision to reduce our normal number of scholarships from 5 to 3. All 3 we gave to returning students.

We wish the students the best in 2021 and hope next year we will be able to support more students.

Together Again

Our group was finally able to meet in person again.

We met at Ridgewood Grill and our first order of business was to install our new officers.

President: Karen Praznovsky

Vice President/Secretary: Cathy Zeller

Treasurer: Kathleen Thompson

It was so nice to see everyone again and not have to wear our masks.

Monday, July 20, 2020

Quota International changes

Something happened this year to our International "parent" organization.

Like most non for profits today, we have a had a tough time staying afloat.

As of September 2020, Quota International will dissolve.

This has been a very hard decision for our members to decide to upon and accept. It did not come easy. We have worked so hard for 100 years in helping women & children in need and the deaf in our local communities and throughout the world.

This DOES NOT mean that the Lake County Club is going anywhere. We will remain a club and continue on helping our local community!

We will change our club name from QUOTA INTERNATIONAL OF LAKE COUNTY to QUOTA OF LAKE COUNTY. We will drop International from our name. Our club has held a strong presence at the international level. We have had members in the offices of Governors, secretaries, treasures and more. Our current Region 2 Director, Karen Gridley, is from our club. Our first Region 2 director, Kay Hatala was also from our club.

This is a sad and hard time for all of our international clubs and members. As Quota members we will find ways to accept the change and move on. We are QUOTA STRONG!