ESTERO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
by Mary Ann Weenen, Pres.
We have so many things happening with our Society in the next two months, I thought
I would bring
you up to date.
On October 29th we will be going on a special group tour of the Koreshan
State Park to update our
Society on all the restoration of the historic buildings that are currently being worked
on. This is a
timely topic for us because we will be using the same historic architect that the park has been
using
namely Stevenson Architects. We have signed a contract for the services of Linda Stevenson and
are
hoping work will begin very soon.
As we go into November, the first thing we will be doing is sponsoring a continental
breakfast for our
members and the people who drive antique rvs known as "tin cans". That will be
on November 3rd
in the Campgrounds at the Koreshan State Park. The time will be 8:00am. At 10:00am
we will
have a table set up in the area of the Art Hall to sell our things. Please join us there and
help if
you can.
On November 8th we will be having our General Meeting at Estero Community Park.
Bob Baker
the Superintendent of the Koreshan State Park will be our guest speaker. He will speak on
the
acquisition of the Boomer acreage and other properties that the Park is in charge of. It
should prove
very interesting. The time is 2:00pm in the meeting room at Estero Community
park. One bit of information:
The park has 11,000 acres to be tended to and 11 rangers.
On November 11 through the 17th, we will be at the
First Anniversary Celebration of Dillard's at
Coconut Point Mall in Estero. We will have our setup right
outside the front door that is by
Fashion Drive. We already have permission to sell our Chutney, books, t-shirts
and several
other things that we may bring with us. We can use some volunteers for this occasion. As
you
know, the money is all going into our building fund which will help pay for architect services,
rehab
and restoration of our own two historic buildings.
We get a little rest after that so we can all enjoy our Thanksgiving.
As we go into the Christmas
Holidays, we start to speed up again. We will be at Border's Book Store at
Gulf Coast mall on
two weekends, December 7th and 8th and again on December 14th and 15th. We urgently need
volunteers
to wrap gifts for us so we can get donations. There will be 2 hour shifts, starting at
10:00am and finishing
at 9:00pm. If you can help out in any way, we would appreciate it.
One of our members, Carolyn Fischer is
sponsoring a Sunset Cruise on December 17, 2007.
The cost is $35.00 per person. This includes the cruise and
an on board smorgasbord. The
drinks are not included but you can bring your own libation on board with you.
We will board
the boat at 4:30pm at the end of Coconut Road at the West Bay boat ramp.
As of this writing,
we are planning our Holiday Luncheon. It will be finalized on Friday,
October 19th.
Another
event in the planning stage, is our Annual High Tea. We will hold it at the Embassy
Suites on March 3rd,2008.
It will be at 2:00pm. Again, we would like to invite our Hostesses back
again to have a table and we look
forward to having new Hostesses sign up. The tables can be
for eight or ten. I'm making another
plea for volunteers to help sell tickets, sell raffles and many
other jobs such as collecting gifts from vendors
etc.
If you can help on any of the above volunteer jobs, please contact me as soon as possible.
Please
call me at 495-9761, Betty Shandor at 947-2346 or Sunny Molle at 910-3501.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, enjoy
being together with family and/or friends and hopefully, I'll
see you at one of the exciting events mentioned
above.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann.
