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berfest event in October. I don’t think such an event has been held in town for a long time. In past Octobers we held a Casino Night which seemed to be very popular, but this year we decided to try something different. With a few exceptions, our members are senior citizens (all women are welcome), but you’d never know it by the way they pitch in and get things done. At the end of our fiscal year in March, we donate all but a couple hundred dollars to start the next year, to the various charitable organizations in our community. That always amounts to several thousands of dollars. We are a registered non-profit organization and take pride in the fact that we can be of help to those
organizations who help others. We don’t make private donations, but work through others. In addition, we also get to enjoy each others’ company and friendship at our monthly luncheons and once a year picnic. If you want to see us at work, come to our breakfast in July or one of our other fund raisers. And ladies, we’d like to invite you to come to one of our meetings at noon on the first Thursday of the month, our treat. We look forward to seeing you there. The Anza Thimble Club meets at the Anza Community Hall in Anza on Hwy 371 across from the Circle K. You do not need to sew to join. You just need helpful hands and a willing heart.
The Anza Valley Thimble Club has been around for over 100 years. It started out as farm wives getting together around kitchen tables to help neighbors in need and also make bandages for the troops. Today we don’t sit around kitchen tables; instead we do as much as we can to help the community and those in need. Over the years this organization has evolved into one of the mainstay organizations in the Anza-Aguanga area. Still, there are many people here who are unfamiliar with our goals
and what our organization stands for. Some have even asked if we are thimble collectors. We’re not; at least not to the extent where we have curio shelves full of thimbles. The thimbles our members do have are put to good use. Every year we put effort into making lap quilts which are delivered to our veterans at Loma Linda Veteran’s Hospital around Veterans’ Day. If you could see the look of pleasure on the faces of some of these men who put their lives on the line for our country, and then have been forgotten (so they thought), you’d
know why we put so much loving care into making them. Some have even cried when they found out the quilts were theirs to keep. We prepare breakfast for Anza Days at 7 a.m. to get everyone off to a good start for the day. Our gals are there at 5 a.m. on Saturday to get the food ready. We prepare the food for the annual Co-op breakfast and meeting. The ladies are there again Friday and Saturday to get things ready. One of our upcoming fundraisers will be a rib barbecue on June 12. We will also be holding an Okto-
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