CLUB NEWS IN BRIEF

SPRING CITY >> AFSME Retirees Union Subchapter 8806 will meet at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8, at Zion’s Church, Route 724. There will be a report on the convention. Bring donation for bingo table. Coffee and refreshments will follow.

BOYERTOWN >> The Boyertown Lions Club will hold its dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Friendship Hook and Ladder Co., South Reading Avene. This is the monthly board meeting. All members welcome.

POTTSTOWN >> The Pottstown Area Garden Club toured the Manatawny Creek Winery in Douglassville in September. The host for the tastings and history of the family estate was coowner, Darvin Levengood. The club’s monthly meeting was held at St. James Lutheran Church, 1101 E. High St., Pottstown. The chaplain was Linda Przybysz, the greeters were Jane Berry and Janis Lunn and the hospitality committee members were Peggy Whittaker, Sharon Kistler, Mary Ann O’Brien and Sandy Plotts. The winner of the Best-In-Show horticulture competition was Jane Hamilton for her Cranesbill entry; the judges were Cheryl Avery, Diane Pavlick and Jo Ann Waddell. Cheryl Avery presented Laurel Awards to Ingeborg Frecon and Nancy Toothaker.

The October program, “Bee Aware,” will be presented by Dan Boylan, president of Montgomery County Beekeepers Association.

POTTSTOWN >> The Past President Dinner and Membership Meeting of the Doe Club was held on Sept. 13 in the Regency Room of the Elks Lodge, 61 E. High St. President Shelley Cormican opened the meeting and Penny Searfoss led us in prayer and the Salute to the Flag. Shelley then gave a lovely Champagne Toast to the Doe Club in honor of its 80th birthday. We shared a delicious dinner prepared by the Elk’s own Chef Bruce while listening to tunes from the 1930s played on the piano by Karl Hausman. Doe member Jackie Hertzog made a beautiful and delicious 80th three-tier birthday cake which was cut by the current president, Shelley Cormican, and the 1969 president, Louise Boyer. During dessert we were entertained by Doe Club stories read by Sharon Johnson and Cheryl Baro. When the meeting resumed prizes were won by Carol Rhoads, Penny Searfoss and Jane Hamilton. Birthdays were Deb Arnosky and Sandy Artim. New member Heather Moyer was welcomed.

The Doe Club Board Meeting will be held at 7 p.m. tonight in the Regency Room of the Elks Lodge.