We hope you enjoy the diverse and interesting monthly general meetings for our members. Guests are always welcome to attend
Enjoy the dulcet tones of the Batavia High School Chorus. Bring your holiday spirits with you for an enjoyable gathering with friends.
While this doctor’s current clinical focus is obesity medicine, at her core, she is a preventive medicine, metabolic disease physician. Come and hear Dr. Ratuja Patel tell us about the new science coming out on longevity and the important things we can do for preventive care.
Let’s hear what our community is doing to help those who need a bit of help feeding themselves and their families. Maybe we can help.
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Let’s gather to celebrate 50 years for this valuable resource to victims of domestic violence on our community. Come and hear what they do and what they are planning to help even more.
Let’s gather to celebrate us! Take a look back at our year and let’s plan for all there is to come!
The holiday season can be challenging for many who are grieving the loss of individuals as well the disappointing loss of hopes and dreams. Reality often falls short of the picture perfect Thanksgiving or Christmas portrayed in many movies and commercials. There can also be a heightened sense of anxiety wanting to make everything memorable and perfect for everyone at the expense of your peace. For some, seeing family can mean conflict, and for others there is no family to celebrate with or the tensions runs high.
Annie will share ways to temper our expectations, tools to take care of our heart and our mind, and ideas for how to have true peace on earth this coming holiday season.
Annie Barsch, MA, LMFT has been working with individuals, families, and couples over the past 20 years; both in a large private practice and more recently, on her own. Her specialties are trauma and complicated grief.
Annie will share ways to temper our expectations, tools to take care of our heart and our mind, and ideas for how to have true peace on earth this coming holiday season.
The club now continues into it's 55th year of enjoying our flower fundraiser. This wonderful tradition has allowed us to once again, send some wonderful Batavia middle school children to some summer camps.
Please come to this meeting to meet them and hear about their experiences as we invite their parents to join in this wonderful celebration of the youth of our community.
Dr. R. Tracy Williams will once again tell us about Spectrios Institute for Low Vision. Hear about the wonderful eye and sight savings services this nonprofit provides to children and adults in our area. And along the way hear about Dr. Williams service to our major league sports teams in the area. You will chuckle as you hear about his life's journey while you appreciate his giving heart and the wonderful institution he's created.
Come and hear Russ Higgins, University of Illinois extension educator, give us “the dirt” about our agricultural state. If you think digging in the dirt can be fun, wait till you hear Russ talk about our state and all of its lovely dirt! Learn some very interesting information about our state while you laugh along with your Club members at his interesting stories and anecdotes.
Agriculture is full of ups and downs and 2024 is demonstrating extremes. Midway through the growing season Illinois farmers and their crops have experienced almost record spring rainfall, delayed planting, replanting, replanting again, above average temperatures and heat stress. Did we mention insects, disease and dropping commodity prices?
Join Russ Higgins, University of Illinois Extension agronomist sharing his perspective as he takes you to the fields and through the current growing season.
End of Year Celebration
Come and celebrate all that our club has accomplished in the past year.
Meet the new Board and share a meal!
Come and join us as we celebrate all of our accomplishments this year. Help us bring in the new board and set our sights on even greater things in the year ahead.
Come and hear all about Lazarus House. Their mission is to offer guests connected to our communities, who are homeless or in need, hope for the future by providing hospitality, food, safe shelter, and education — tools for life. They strive to make certain that all who enter feel the love of Jesus.
Their desire is to offer everyone who comes to their doors the opportunity for hope and a future. They give people a hand up, not a hand out.
Learn all about this giving Fox Valley neighbor. Hear what they do and how we can help. The BWC will organize a visit to see in person the importance of this home for the homeless in our community.
Enjoy an evening out in springtime with your Club as we hear about the delivery of mental health services to our local children. Sarah Russe of TriCity Family Services will be our guest. In addition, we are pleased to have Judge Sandra Parga talk to us about the challenges she faces as a Juvenile Court judge.
Come and hear TriCity Family Services talk about the mental health services they provide to our community. Mental wellness has been evasive for so mnay since COVID,. Learn about the unique challenges facing our children. Then hear from one of our Kane County judges who presides over our juvenile court.
It’s time to get together for a delicious dinner at Enticing Cuisine. Join us to learn about how we support “local” through our farmers’ markets. BWC is pleased to present one of our very own, Janie Maxwell, the Executive Director of the Illinois Farmers Market Association!
Canine Companions for Independence-Suzanne Treudt
suzanne@treudtteam.com
www.canine.org
Students from Batavia Academy of Dance
Anne Gugliuzza, Artistic Director and Owner
www.BataviaAcademyofDance.com
TBD
b.zegiel@foxvalleyhabitat.org
www.foxvalleyhabitat.org
Your Flower Pot Orders Provide…
“Inspiration Through Art and Music”
Scholarship Performances
Scholarship Chair, Heather Hayes presents our…
It’s time to get together for dinner at Enticing Cuisine for Your Flower Pot Orders Provide… “Inspiration Through Art and Music”. Heather Hayes presents the Rotolo Middle School Summer Camp Scholarship Awardee Presentations.
It’s time to get together for dinner at Enticing Cuisine and learn about the Fox Valley Special Recreation Association. Customer Service Rep/Development Coordinator, Marcie Lucas, will join us to present on “SootheSpace-Creating Safe Sensory Spaces Everywhere.
Let’s give a warm welcome to Gianne Bisogni, the events and marketing manager for this little jewel in our community. There is so much this studio does. The BWC is looking forward to hearing about it!
It’s time to get together again and hear about this special place in Batavia that gives artists a place to land, work and showcase their art!
5:15 Check in and social/cocktail time
5:45: General Meeting
6:15 Dinner: with program to follow
Spinach salad with strawberries, pecans, ornages tossed with a poppyseed dressing
Orzo sald with pesto, olive, tomato green onion and mushrooms
Marinated and grilled chicken kabobs
Vesuvio potatoes
Roasted veggies
Apple Pie
Stephanie Dewinski, LSW, Associate Director
www.spsamerica.org
info@spsamerica.org 1-800-273-8255 (24-hour Hotline)
TBD
Edward Tousana, Artist
www.loganstreetchurch.com
11:00 AM Social Time
11:30 AM General Meeting
Noon Luncheon
Program to Follow
Rolls and butter
Mixed greens w/strawberries, oranges, pecans w/red wine vinaigrette
Grilled chicken w/artichoke and sundried tomatoes
Roasted red potatoes
Grilled asparagus
Lemon meringue pie
Maria J. Stamos, Expansion Program Planner
www.lbfechicago.org
We are collecting donations for CASA ( Court Appointed Special Advocates)
Here is their wishlist:
We are asking our members to bring these items to our Feb meeting:
* baby shampoo and soap
* baby lotion
* baby diaper rash cream
* small toy, book or teether BUT NO STUFFED ANIMALS
* onesies in size 3 mos to 24 mos (girl, boy or gender neutral)
Students from Batavia Academy of Dance
Anne Gugliuzza, Artistic Director and Owner
www.BataviaAcademyofDance.com
Rolls and butter
Salad of Romaine, feta, cranberries, pecans w/champagne vinaigrette
Baked ham
Roasted sweet potatoes
Scalloped potatoes
Brussel sprouts w/bacon and maple
Apple pie
Coffee and soft drinks
September 12, 2022 (Evening)
“CHIP IN Batavia Makes a Difference”
History of the Organization and Services
Joanne Spitz, CHIP IN Co-Chair (& BWC Member)
chipinbatavia@gmail.com
www.chipinbatavia.org
Agenda
EVENING DINNER:
5:15 PM Social/Cocktail, 5:45 General Meeting, Dinner 6:15 PM. Program to follow
Menu
Mixed green salad, strawberries, oranges, and pecans tossed with red wine vinaigrette.
Grilled chicken with artichoke and sundried tomatoes in white wine lemon broth
Red roasted potatoes
Pasta Primavera
Strawberry shortcake
The proceeds from annual sale help support our club’s operations.
Think summer blooms to draw bees and birds to your yard!
Come by at 5 pm and peruse all the gorgeous plants our “green thumbed” member gardeners have “dug” up just for you! Enjoy a soda or cocktail as you try to decide how many new little green friends you will take home to plant roots in your yard!
Then enjoy our June meeting where we vote in some new Board members and thank those who have come before. See us present our Garage Sale check to the Interfaith Food Pantry. Then enjoy a great spread of hors d’oeuvres as we mix and mingle the night away.
No speakers, just time to “get clubby”!
Enjoy another delicious buffet dinner from Jason created just for us.
Caesar salad
Roasted Pork Loin
Mashed Potatoes & Gravy
Sauteed Zucchini & Yellow Squash
Apple Pie
5:30: Check in
6:00: Club Meeting. We have a lot to share.
6:30: WINNER! WINNER! Chicken (and cheesecake) dinner!
7:00: Meet Lynn Queen, Resident Service Coordinator Assistant and Taylor Mucho-Otterman, Resident Service Manager of Mercy Housing. We are so excited to have these enthusiastic and “devoted to their jobs” ladies meet all of us. Together we can start to see what our Club can do to help this diverse and multigenerational community in our town.
Spinach salad w/tomato, onion, mushroom, croutons, balsamic vinaigrette
Grilled chicken w/rosemary, artichoke and mushroom cream sauce
Roasted new potatoes
Bow tie pasta w/spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, asparagus in lemon wine sauce
Green beans amandine
Cheesecake
Since we are after all….well…a Club, we will be having Club sandwiches for lunch! Here’s our menu:
Turkey Club, mushroom soup, pasta salad, chocolate mousse with berries.
Tea and coffee.
Batavia Depot Museum
Presented by: Kate Garrett Director
www.bataviahistoricalsociety.org
Here is our link to zoom in!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82008877360?pwd=OEkwODFRbUJFUzhlZkRtb3czbGE3dz09
Young students from Batavia Academy of Dance
Presented by: Anne Gugliuzza - Artistic Director and Owner of Batavia Academy of Dance
www.bataviaacademyofdance.com
Evening Dinner Meeting Schedule:
Time change. Please note: Check-in at 5 pm. Come early to get some homemade goodies!
Enjoy some extra time with your club as the holiday season approaches us. Our lovely dancers will entertain us at 6:00 pm with dinner at 6:30 followed by our general meeting.
Enticing Cuisine Banquets
$20 check or cash at the door or may charge online
Enjoy Jason’s speciality…Chicken Parmesan!
REMEMBER: a reservation made is a reservation paid. In other words, if you RSVP you are attending, we give an attendance number to Enticing Cuisine to plan. When you say you are coming, your meal is planned for and needs to be paid. We understand life might get in the way of your plans, but we need you to pay for your reservation made. Thank you for understanding.
