Club Chat

Fishing Pulley Ridge
The Englewood Fishing Club will meet at 6:30pm on Thursday, May 9 at the Rotonda Community Center, 646 Rotonda Circle. The evening’s speaker will be Captain Tyler DeGraff of Finn Seekers Charters. His topic will be “Fishing Pulley Ridge – a Unique Experience”. Visitors are welcome. Attendees are asked to bring an item of nonperishable food that will be shared with local food pantries. For additional information about the club, visit Englewoodwoodfishingclub.net or visit Englewood Fishing Club on Facebook.

Adult Learner Scholarships
Are you a woman who is currently enrolled or re-entering college or a technical training program to advance your education? If so, you might be interested to know that the Business & Professional Women of Englewood and Venice are offering Adult Learner Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 to women in Charlotte and Sarasota Counties. To learn more and apply, go to bpwev.org. Application deadline is Wednesday, May 15, 2024.

Walk to Remember Veterans
The GFWC Rotonda West Woman’s Club invites you “to walk and remember” during the month of May. This is not an organized walk but a personal, quiet tribute by you done in your own time, any time during May to honor and remember all those veterans who have gone before so that Americans may live in peace and freedom. Sign-up sheets will be provided in the activity building library at Broadmoor Park, 646 Rotonda Circle. List the name of the veteran for whom you are walking (your name is optional). On Sunday, May 26, the veterans’ names will be counted, and a memorial garden of American flags will be planted along the driveway to Broadmoor Park for the morning of Memorial Day, Monday, May 27th. There will be a brief gathering at 9am on Memorial Day for the reading of the veteran names, a flag salute and prayers will be offered for peace on earth. Questions may be emailed via the club’s website at gfwcrotondawest.org.

CH Rotary Club Donation
Charlotte County Imagination Library, an affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and a program of the Gilstad Literacy Foundation, Inc., received a $5,000 donation from the Charlotte Harbor Rotary Club to support the program which mails a free book to enrolled children every month from birth to age five. This is the eighth year that the club has provided a donation, bringing their total donations to date to $37,500. To learn more about the Imagination Library program or to enroll a preschool age child, visit charlottecountyimaginationlibrary.org.