President’s Pen

INSIDE THIS

ISSUE:

March Event

Flyer

3

Roaring 20s

Gala Recap

5

Sub Club

Events

7

Reservations

Policy

8

The Pelican Pipeline M A R C H 2 0 2 0

Dear Members,

Thank you all for coming out to the Roaring 20s New Orleans annual

fundraiser! The outpour of community support is truly humbling, and

I cannot thank you enough for supporting our organization. I would

like to give a special shout out to our wonderful Philanthropy Chair,

Laura Black and her committee, for putting together an outstanding

event. Once again, Charles and his team at the Warrior Center outdid themselves! The

food, the dancing, the mingling, the photos, all your wonderful 20s inspired clothing, and

lest we not forget, the awesome auction items, made it an unforgettable evening. I hope

you all had as much fun as I did!

Please come and check out our wonderful sub-clubs. We have Bunco, Craft,

International Cooking, Let’s Take a Day Trip, Lunch Bunch, and Outdoor Activities clubs.

Each club has a group under our main Fort Polk Spouse’s Club Facebook page. Please join

them to get plugged in. If you have any questions regarding the sub-clubs, please reach out

to our 1st VP Samantha at fpsc1stvicepresident@gmail.com.

I can’t wait to see you all at the Warrior Center for our next evening social on

Monday, March 23rd. Please note the date change! We will be having some fun with a

Make It, Bake It, Fake It theme. As we wind down the 2019-2020 year, please keep in

mind that we are looking for the next group of individuals to be on the 2020-2021 FPSC

Board. We will be accepting applications for President, 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice

President, Treasurer, and Secretary. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 20th. If

you have any questions regarding positions, please get in touch with Kelle, our

Parliamentarian at fpscparliamentarian@gmail.com.

As always, if you have any questions, comments or concerns about the club,

please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at fpscpresident@gmail.com.

#bloomwithus

#bloomwithFPSC

#choosewhatmakesyourheartbloom

Sarah

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P A G E 2

FPSC Board Spotlight

On...

T H E P E L I C A N P I P E L I N E

We are still currently accepting nominations for our Executive Board officers (President, 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer) who will be presented to our membership at our March social on March 23rd. At that time, we will allow for any other nominations to be presented from the floor. Biographies of each nominee will be posted to our website and then we will vote for our new Exec board in April. All applications, along with a short bio and photograph are due to the Parliamentarian no later than Friday, March 20th. Please email Kelle at fpscparliamentarian@gmail.com for more information. More details about open General Board member positions will be available at a later date if you may be considering one of those positions.

Picture left:

Current year

Board members

enjoying a

wonderful night

at the Roaring

20s New Orleans

Gala.

P A G E 3

The Fort Polk Spouses Club held our annual gala on Friday, February 28th. This is the FPSC’s largest fundraiser of the year and with roughly 145 attendees and some amazingly generous donations from the Fort Polk and local communities, it was a huge success! Through live and silent auction over $8,000 was raised this year that will be put towards our community grants and scholarship funds. The highest value auction item went for $1,000 and was a handmade, hand painted solid wood patriotic bar donated by the JRTC Operations Group. The theme this year was “Roaring 20s New Orleans” and everyone looked incredible in their 1920s inspired outfits. Laura Black, our Philanthropy Chair, and her team of volunteers did a fabulous job executing the planning and details of this event down to the extra special touch of the ‘Second Line’ handkerchiefs that were given out as take away favors. We hope that everyone had a great time and look forward to seeing you again at next years event!

Roaring 20s Gala

March Sub Club Events

There will be no International Cooking Club in the month

of March. Bunco date for March is still TBD.

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Facebook Page:

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Instagram:

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March Community Partner: Vernon Parish 4-H Club

Vernon Parish Backpack Project: It is estimated that 18.3% of Vernon Parish

residents were below the poverty level in 2018. Sometimes the only warm

nutritious meals that children of these families receive are meals they eat at school. During times of long school breaks and holidays these children risk suffering from

hunger. The Backpack Project provides these students with backpacks full of nutritious, non-perishable foods and snacks to take home with them to ensure

their dietary needs are met while school is out. All of these items should be non-

perishable and ideally something the student can open easily and eat directly from the container. The 4-H Club is hoping to be able to provide backpacks to children

in need at each of the schools in Vernon Parish. Items most requested: Peanut Butter-16-18oz. jars, Vienna Sausages, snack crackers, snack sized bags of cookies, fruit cups, oatmeal packets, Ramen soup packets, raisin boxes, pudding cups, juice boxes, dried fruit, granola bars, single serve boxes of cereal, sleeves of saltine crackers, fruit snacks, Small Ziploc bags, plastic spoons & monetary donations.

Reservations Policy

1. FPSC uses our website for all evening social event invitations. Announcement and

reminder messages will be sent out via email from

FortPolkSpousesClub@wildapricot.org. Please add this email to your contact list to make

sure you receive all future invitations and reminders.

2. Reservations will be accepted until 11:59PM on the Friday prior to the event.

3. Late registrations are accepted only if space is available and at the discretion of the

Reservations Chair. Please email fpscreservations@gmail.com to pursue a late

registration.

4. Reservation cancellations and refunds are available only until 11:59PM on the Friday

prior to the event. To cancel your reservation, please cancel through your wild apricot

account or send an email to fpscreservations@gmail.com. FPSC is obligated to pay for all

reserved meals, regardless of attendance at the event. Therefore, if you do not cancel

your reservation prior to the deadline and do not attend the event, you will be held

responsible for payment.

5. Walk-ins will be allowed at events if seats become available due to cancellations or no

-shows starting at 6:45PM.

6. Payment for each event may be collected at the door or prepaid on the FPSC

website. If a member or nonmember has been sent an invoice for a late cancellation or

no show, that member will not be permitted to attend another FPSC event until the

invoice has been settled.

7. Members may invite a guest to attend an event. If the guest is a no-show or cancels

after the deadline, that member is responsible for the payment of the guest’s meal.

8. Non-members may attend a FPSC event only one time within a board year. After

attending a single event, non-members will be required to join the FPSC before attending

a second event.

9. Children under 6 months are welcome to attend events, but we ask that you make

childcare arrangements for children over six months. Contact CYS at 337-531-1955

regarding hourly care for Evening Socials. Note: Children must be registered with CYS

and reservations must be made at least one week prior to the event.