Community Service on MLK Day

 St. Andrews Woman’s Club was pleased to be a recipient of an NPO grant at the Irmo Town Council Meeting on Tuesday, March15.  NPO grants are given to non-profit organizations to help strengthen their causes.  SAWC will use the money for scholarships to be presented this spring. Accepting the grant from Mayor Barry Walker was Daryl Hendrix, president of the club.  Other club members attending the presentation were (l to r) Frances Hill, Kaye Hunke, Shelly Langston, Daryl Hendrix, and Nancy Schmidt. 

   St. Andrews Woman’s Club club presented a check to PAALS (Palmetto Animal Assisted Life Services).  Present in the picture are Debbie Bell, SAWC member, Edith Bailey and Melissa Payne, PAALS Operations Manager and Executive Director, and Kaye Hunke SAWC member. We also had the opportunity to see the new litter of nine puppies. PAALS will keep one male and one female from the litter. Our club has the naming rights to one of the puppies and the male puppy will be named Floyd in honor of our member Linda Floyd, who passed away from cancer last year. 

  The corporate mission of Palmetto Animal Assisted Life Services is to enrich and empower children and adults with physical, intellectual and emotional disabilities by training service animals and providing animal assisted educational, therapeutic, and recreational activities.

PAALS trains ervice dogs to be placed with qualifying individuals in South Carolina and surrounding states within 230 miles. During their two-year training period, each canine student also participates in dozens of outreach activities and presentations designed to educate the public about disabilities, service animals and the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In this way, each dog in our training program touches the lives of about 1,000 people annually.

 In April members of the St. Andrew’s Woman’s Club met at Leeza’s Care Connection to clean out the flower bed under their sign and plant fresh flowers. The 8 flats of Vinca were generously donated by Seven Oaks Plant Shop. The members participating were Mary North, Ann Martin, Barbara Williams, Susan Smith, Terri Boltin, Shelly Langston, Kaye Hunke, and Carol Ann Williams

  Members of the St. Andrews Woman’s Club joined Jane Hiller, curator of the Irmo Library Garden, to help clean up the garden by spreading mulch and pulling weeds. L-T: Jane Hiller, Shelly Langston, Ann Martin, and Barbara Williams. 

 The St. Andrews Woman’s Club awarded a scholarship to Milan Townsend, an 8th grade student at Dutch Fork Middle School, to attend the Tri-DaAC Consortium this summer, where she will study dance. The Tri-Dac Consortium is a 3-week summer program for middle school students gifted and talented in creative writing, dance, music, theatre, or the visual arts.

Pictured left to right are Steven Puckett, Coordinator of Athletics, Visual & Performing Arts, and Physical Education for School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties, student Milan Townsend, and SAWC members Sarah Ostergaard and Susan Smith.

 Kaye Jones and Gail Elfert recently presented a check to our Executive Director, Jill McHugh on behalf of the St. Andrews Woman's Club.

The $1200 scholarship will be used for an Unaccompanied Youth to help provide tuition assistance, books and materials, and/or assist in transportation to and from school!

We are so grateful for these ladies and their longstanding support of Palmetto Place! Thank you, thank you, thank you!