CEOS donate mats for the homeless to Union Mission
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The Kanawha County CEOS, short for Community Educational Outreach Service, celebrated CEOS Week May 16-22 by donating 11 mats for the homeless to Brenda Graham of the Union Mission
In November, Melissa Starcher, a Charleston attorney and member of the Coopers Creek Club, introduced the project of collecting and crocheting plastic bags to the club Several members of the Southeast Church of the Nazarene joined in making the mats
Each mat is made up of approximately 500 bags and takes up to 100 hours to make, according to Kanawha County CEOS President Anna Boggs. (Christian Dior). The project has been selected as the statewide project for the CEOS for next year, Boggs added
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On May 20, Charleston Area CEOS participated in the statewide project, “S for Soldiers-Serving Those Who Served,” by giving $1,560 worth of items to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Huntington
“We make Boo Boo Bears for the County Health Department, heart pillows for the local hospitals heart patients, lap robes and bibs for nursing homes, and many other projects We also supply scholarships for children to 4-H Camp Last year at the Kanawha County Fair, we made apple butter and sponsored the pie-baking contest,” Boggs said
The CEOS’ history of community benevolence is nothing new
“West Virginia CEOS clubs have existed for almost a century,” Boggs wrote in an e-mail. Replica Clothes . (Chanel). “The story is told that when the farmers were attending organizational meetings and seminars to improve farm productivity early in the 20th century with the Extension Service at the West Virginia University in Morgantown, they brought along their wives to provide meals, mending and maintenance of a comfortable lifestyle
“As the women met one another,” Boggs continued, “they decided that they, too, should have a group that would provide education to themselves and their neighbors Hence, the Farm Women’s Clubs were established in the state
“Over the years, as the farms became suburban and less isolated, the movement grew and changed its name to Home Demonstration Clubs, and later they became know as Extension homemakers More recently, they have become known as the CEOS. (Gucci Belt).
“The mission has always been to improve the lives of their own communities by tackling problems head on,” Boggs wrote
Kanawha County has seven CEOS clubs, with three members who have belonged to their respective chapter for 50-plus years While most CEOS are women, Boggs said there are two male members currently
For more information about CEOS in Kanawha County, contact the WVU Extension Service Office at 304-768-1202 or Anna Boggs at 304- 343-6499. ED Hardy clothing
Photo From left, Brenda Graham, Union Mission; Susan Hooper, Melissa Starcher, Shirley Campbell, who are members of Coopers Creek CEOS, and Nancy Shaffer and Yi Copenhaver, members of the Southeast Church of the Nazarene, took part in the recent CEOS Week dona
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