Starting with this newsletter, we are excited to be able to include photos with our New Member Profile stories!
Membership is all about connecting with other members and putting a name with a face. It is just one way we provide opportunities to engage with each other.
Did you know that you have the ability to add your photo to your on-line member profile? It’s easy to do - just log into your profile and select “edit profile.” As an added bonus, when you use the Wild Apricot app on your phone to look up a member, you also get to see their smiling face along with their contact information.
Membership’s goal this year is to get all of our members to add their picture to their profile. Whether you are participating in winter sports or attending a happy hour it’s always nice to be able to put names with faces.
There are so many ways to get involved in the Women’s Club and make new friends. One of those ways is to volunteer for an event or to lead an activity that interests you.
See the event calendar below for our upcoming social gatherings. We encourage you to connect in a way that works for you. If you need help with putting your picture in Wild Apricot or have ideas for new ways to connect, please contact Membership Director Kathy Garofalo at membership@sunriverwomensclub.org. We love hearing from you! |
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Membership and Volunteering Go Hand-in-Hand |
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The New Year brings new beginnings. It’s a perfect time to add a fun and rewarding volunteer role to your life.
Volunteering brings connection and purpose, along with a shared sense of community. If
there’s a new friend you really click with, why not volunteer together and catch up while you’re at it? Or if you’re new, it’s the time-tested way to make friends that last.
Our featured volunteer opportunity this month is to volunteer for the Board Assistant positions. Every Board Director has valued assistants who have a specific role to play.
A Board Assistant may attend Board meetings and fill in for the Director when necessary. There are Board Assistant roles that support Club Programs, Membership, Communications, Technology, Fundraising, Donor Stewardship, Philanthropy and Volunteer Development.
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Join us in welcoming our newest members Andrea Dole Church, Lisa Kyle, Karyl Gothe and Amy Brase who all joined in December! Look for their profiles in future newsletters. |
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Shelley Mondragon
A 9-ft icicle clinging from the deck of a house and a mega snowstorm didn't deter Shelley and her husband, Ben, from realizing they had found their Sunriver home.
Four years later, they decided to make it their full-time residence.
After growing up in the hot Sacramento valley and vacationing in Oregon with her family as a child, her childhood dream came true when they moved here full-time in August.
Between them, Ben and Shelley have four children and three grandchildren, who live in Eugene (where she met Ben four years ago), Portland and Seattle.
Although Shelley is busy with planning for a remodeling project, she volunteered with the Art Fair this year and will bring her experience from a career in broadcasting and public relations to next year’s Art Fair. She enjoyed golfing during her first summer here as a resident and looks forward to hiking and biking as well next summer.
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Debra Weiss
Sunriver’s pine forest and changing seasons have drawn Debra for vacations here since 1998.
Now retired after more than 25 years as an IT manager for Kaiser Permanente in Portland, she is thrilled to be able to spend more time here walking with her boxer Pippin, feeding birds, taking hikes and watching nature.
She and her husband Bill divide their time between Hillsboro and Sunriver. One of their two sons works at the Sunriver Resort.
An avid reader of many genres, her reading list includes science fiction, fantasy, biographies, and both history and historical fiction. Debra enjoys knitting animals to pair with books for her church’s bazaar and looks forward to joining the Sunriver Knitters. She is also an enthusiastic weaver having just ordered her third loom.
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Adina Gillett
One of Adina’s favorite activities is trying new things, even “"wild hair ideas."
So of course, she and her husband Don would consider buying a house and moving to a community in which they last vacationed 20 years ago.
She arrived in Sunriver in late September 2022 and is already enjoying learning to play pickleball and meeting new people through SRWC activities.
Though originally from Southern California, she had a 30-year career in theater arts and public speaking in the Redmond, Wash., area, where eventually she taught business executives to use comedy and improvisation to improve communication with their employees.
Those skills now inform her work as a personal development coach. With experience as an improvisational comedy performer and as a producer and director of 90-minute improvisational plays, Adina is already exploring the theater arts scene in Bend.
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Lisa Boote
Lisa Boote and her husband Tony Muñoz were so taken with Sunriver during a vacation at the Sunriver Resort in 2015 that they bought a Meadow House here the same year.
While growing up in Minnesota, her parents had a vacation home in Big Sky, Montana, in a planned community that was founded in the same year as Sunriver.
She moved to Southern California to get her degree in economics at Claremont, then discovered a talent for chemistry, and eventually returned to school to become a chiropractor and applied kinesiologist. After a 26-year career in applied kinesiology in Reno, Nevada, she retired to Sunriver.
She loves Sunriver’s walking trails and participates in the Tuesday and Friday walking groups. As an ardent fly fisher, she was thrilled to find a location with both excellent fishing and a cohesive community. She looks forward to meeting other members through Dinner Club and hiking groups in 2023.
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January Events
Coffee Hour
10 am Tuesday, Jan. 24 at Brewed Awakenings. All current members,
new members and prospective members are welcome. Bring a friend.
February Events
Let’s Do Lunch
Noon Thursday, Feb. 2 at the Wallow. Capacity is 18 members and registration required by clicking here.
Happy Hour
4 to 6 pm Monday, Feb. 6 at Village Bar & Grill. All new members and prospective members are welcome. Bring a friend.
Monthly Luncheon & Program
11:30 am Tuesday, Feb. 21 at Crosswater.
Coffee Hour
10 am Thursday, Feb. 23 at Café Sintra Sunriver. All new members and prospective
members are welcome. Bring a friend.
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