Early Summer Happenings
The Breakfast Bunch has been busy these past couple of weeks! Our new club year starts in June so there's lots of planning going on, and we also added two new members.But first let's talk about our District Conference in May.

Conference this year was held at the Oregon Garden in Silverton, OR. There are 24 clubs in our district and each is eligible to enter a project in literacy or service categories. The really big news is that our club won 2nd place in the Letha H. Brown Award for Literacy with our Bertie Bear Reading Project! We were sooooo excited! Bertie Bear goes to the Head Start classrooms with us to read to the kids, and she is pictured above with her 2nd place ribbon.

Sue Yarbrough and Susan Brookfield were recently initiated into membership with an inspirational ceremony depicting Altrusa as an orchard with each member offering something unique. Attributes of membership were likened to different varieties of fruit and each new member received a basket full of fruit at the end.

At the start of each new fiscal year The Breakfast Bunch holds a planning retreat to discuss goals and make recomendations for service projects as well as ways to raise the money to complete those projects. This year attendees could purchase raffle tickets and hope to win one of the prizes members contributed. It turned out to be a lot of fun, with raffle items ranging from gift baskets to plants to dust buster supplies! The chocolate cake pictured above was one of the yummier items.

Featured Artwork ..... by our own Krista Mead
We have so many talented members in our club and luckily for us, they have a variety of talents! During the month of June the Backstage Cafe (next to the Kelso Theater ) is featuring Krista Mead's artwork!

The Membership Committee has invited everyone to a small gathering on Tuesday, June 26 at the Backstage Cafe at 5:30 p.m. Friends, spouses, members and guests are all invited. Wine and other yummies will be available for purchase.

Congratulations, Krista!