Our Next Meeting – Thursday May 11
Board Meeting: 10:15 AM
Regular Meeting: Noon – First Baptist Church of Tellico Village
Speaker: Col. Don Edmands, Jr. – USAF (Ret)
Program: BAND OF BROTHERS – Follow the famous HBO Series Easy Company Soldiers from Basic training in Georgia, D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, and the Eagle’s Nest.

Please confirm your Thursday attendance/lunch with John or Sue by Monday if you’ve not already signed up for this week’s meeting.

Diane Decker Memorial Service – Friday May 12
A memorial service for Diane Decker will be held at the Community Church at Tellico Village at 10:00 AM on Friday.

Our Last Meeting

Speakers: Leslie Phillips Arliss Barber
Program: Quilts of Valor
The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover service members and veterans touched by war, with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. A Quilt of Valor is a lifetime award.  The national organization, founded in 2003, now donates about 1500 quilts per month. The Village Quilters, with 450 members, has donated more than 320 quilts locally, including 60 to Gatlinburg Firestorm victims who were veterans.

Attendance: 15 Members, 2 Visitors – Francesca Barbaro, Carol Milhiser
Member Tidbits:
● Claudine became a grandma yesterday – the baby was 8 lbs +

2017 District Conference Awards
Congratulations to everyone as our club received numerous awards and recognitions at the District Awards luncheon.

The Mobile Dental Unit Hits the Road
The Hiwassee Mobile Dental Unit (MDU) made its first official “services” visit to Tellico Plains Elementary School on Thursday, May 4. Although the MDU had visited the school before for an “open-house” visit, this was the first day that hygiene services were performed in the MDU while under its own power.  RCTL donated $6500 earlier in the year to complete a generator upgrade installation to allow for these types of independent mobile services operations.

New Club Display Board Debuts
A club display board has been prepared as an information and membership recruitment tool. Its primary use will be at the monthly “New Villagers” meetings, where it will be displayed along with Activity Guides to be handed out to new area residents.

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things
left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln