Colleen Walton was hostess to 12 members of the Progressive CEOS club when they met at the Extension Office for their February meeting. Our new President, Kitty Loudermilk, opened the meeting by welcoming everyone. She read a poem for our meditations. This was our first meeting in 2016 as we don’t meet in January. There were no committee reports or Health Motivator report. There will be a Health Motivator Training, Office Update and Healthy Lunch n’ Learn meeting on Feb. 19 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Blue Ribbon Center at the WV State Fairgrounds.
The 2016 Multi-County Lesson Leader Training will be held at Clifton Presbyterian Church in Maxwelton on Mar. 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Greenbrier County WVU Extension Service will partner with the Greenbrier County Committee on Aging to present Dining with Diabetes Cooking School on Mar. 1, 8, 15 and 22 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Greenbrier Committee on Aging in Rupert. This program is for people with diabetes and their caregivers and anyone else who wants to learn about diabetes. The class is free but registration is required. Please call the Extension Office at 304-647-7408 to register.
New books, motivator calendars and garden calendars, committee goals and report sheets were handed out. A sheet was passed around for members to sign up for and be responsible for motivator tips and meditations.
Barbara Shiley brought the traveling basket and Dot Feamster took it. Dot will bring it back next month filled with goodies.
Colleen gave a Book Report for the program “Best Friends” by Sara James and Ginger Mauney. From sharing secrets as children to accomplishing their dreams as adults, we follow Sara James as a NBC network correspondent and Ginger Mauney as a wildlife filmmaker in Nambia, Africa. Ginger went from Virginia to Southern Africa and earned the acceptance of a troop of baboons. She worked with an elephant herd and raised her young son in the wilds of Nambia. Through all of this, she still felt the pull of the country she called home. Sara paid her own way to cover the war in Nicaragua, a gamble that later led her to NBC. At NBC, she exposed slavery in Sudan, diving to the gravesite of the Titanic and at the same time struggling to balance her career with marriage and motherhood.
Mauney and James share alternate chapters narrating the story of how they, separated by thousands of miles, find themselves bound together through temperament, circumstance and serendipity.
The next meeting will be with Barbara Shiley and the program will be Colorful Reflections – How Glass Molded West Virginia.
Refreshments were served to Faye Honaker, Patty Gray, Chris Gowings, Betty Jo McNeil, Barbara Shiley, Thelma Berkley, Kitty Loudermilk, Linda Schmidt, Dot Feamster, Mary Liz Richmond, Jean Foley and Colleen Walton.
