Club Notes

Chapter BL, P.E.O.

Members met Tuesday at the home of Marilyn Sweeney with 23 members present. Millie Jones and Carolyn Jones were co-hosts. Sue Myers, president of Chapter HF in Redmond, Wash., was a guest.

President Helen Gleason announced a meeting of representatives from chapters BL, AR, AB, CC, BV and AW, which will be hosts for the state convention May 29-31, 2009, at the Best Western-University Inn in Moscow. The meeting will follow the officers workshop Saturday in Moscow.

Lois Chesnut reminded everyone of the rummage and cookie sale to be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 28 at the Church of the Nativity (Episcopal) in Lewiston. Mary McNish asked members to bring cookies for the sale.

Chesnut read from the state officers newsletter and Gleason read the proposed amendments to the state constitution that will be voted on at this year's convention May 4-5 in Nampa.

Barbara Swanson presented a program on the history and characteristics of 11 different kinds of nuts, and provided samples for all to taste.

The next meeting, on April 17, will be the birthday party for the chapter. It will begin at 11:30 a.m. with a no-host lunch at Boomers' followed by a tour of the Nez Perce County Historical Society Museum, led by Dick Riggs. Birthday cake will be served by hosts Ann Young and Camille Lame.