HAPPY HOLIDAYS

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM GASTON COUNTY ECA

We wish everyone a very happy, healthy and safe holiday season.

The Lucile Tatum Center will be closed for holidays Friday, December 24th and Monday December 27th. We will also close on Friday, December 31st.


GASTON ECA SCHOLARSHIP
Gaston County ECA will be offering a $1,000 scholarship in January to current high school seniors, adults, and currently enrolled college students. There may be another scholarship if funds permit. Scholarship applications will be available at the Home Center in January. The submission deadline is Friday, April 9, 2011.


DISTRICT ECA SCHOLARSHIP
District scholarship applications can be found in the 2010 ECA yearbook and copies are also available at the Home Center office. The scholarship is for $600 and the application is due to Pam Bryson no later than February 1, 2011. The scholarship is for youth and adults.


ECA CHRISTMAS PARTY
Please come join us for the annual ECA Christmas Party on Wednesday, December 15th. This is a potluck luncheon at 11:30am. The 2011 officers will be installed after lunch. We will make a craft with the help of Margo Englehart and have craft demos.


HAPPY POTTERS’ NATIVITY SCENE RAFFLE
Happy Potters’ members are selling tickets for a raffle drawing for a ceramic nativity scene - 1 ticket for $1.00 or 6 tickets for $5.00. Tickets can be purchased from Pam or Happy Potter members. The drawing will be held at the ECA Christmas party. Part of the nativity can be viewed in the show case in the lobby and the other pieces are in the show case in the Ceramic Room.


STATE MEETING WINNERS
The following members items won ribbons at the State Meeting in October.
¨ 1st Place Sewing: home furnishings - Judy Potts
¨ 3rd Place Hand needlework: embroidery, etc. - Jackie Greene
¨ 1st Place Quilts: appliquéd machine - Kathy Andrews
¨ 1st Place Quilts: embroidery - Jackie Greene
¨ 1st Place Quilts: other techniques - Jackie Greene
¨ Honorable Mention Photography - Betty Willis
¨ Honorable Mention Poems - Margo Englehart