She was once known as Wyn Franklin, but one day her husband informed her that they were growing apart and that he needed some time to himself. Having been a L.A. career wife who managed her busy ad executive husband's successful social life, Wyn is lost. To top it all off, her mother has found happiness with another man after being a widow for 15 years. Wyn still desperately misses her father and can't quite become accustomed to the idea that her mother is going to remarry. Breadmaking is her solace, and it leads quickly to a job in a bakery and a chance at a new life in Seattle. I really enjoyed the vibrant glimpses of Seattle life and copious breadmaking details. I found the characters believable and complex, and the writing style is assured and well-crafted. A warning: you will crave freshly baked bread the whole time you're reading this book.

Birthdates and Anniversaries:

October

15. Jean Easum-Birthday
18. Tracy Mauser-Birthday
27. FM Doss-Birthday

28. Shawn Dredla-Birthday

16. Irena Norton-Anniversary

17. Alice Contreras-Anniversary

18. Lou Sanderson-Anniversary

19. Frances Armenta-Anniversary

20. Julie Frederiksen-Anniversay

November

6. Julie Fredericksen-Birthday

15. Rachel Rola-Birthday

20. Jennifer Livingson-Birthday

13. Shelly Davis-Anniversary

15. Teresa Costa-Anniversay

24. Leeza Villagomez-Anniversary

Other Important Dates:

October 3
Founders DAy - Celebrate the 86th Anniversary of Soroptimist

October 12, 13

Fall Conference for GWR-District 1- Apple Valley

October 27

SI Corona - Chocolate, Wine & Jazz Festival

Full Calendar

Old Witches Magic Nut Cake

Submitted by,

Seema Lechner

3 eggs

1 large can of pumpkin

¾ cup vegetable oil

½ cup water

2 ½ cups flour

2 ¼ cups sugar

1 ½ teaspoon baking soda

1 ¼ teaspoon salt

¾ teaspoon nutmeg

1 cup raisins

½ cup chopped walnuts

1. Beat together firt four ingredients.

2. Mix in remaining ingredients.

3. Pour batter into 3 buttered 1 pound coffee cans (or 2 round 8" pans).

4. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a straw from a witch's broom inserted in the cake comes out clean.

5. Cool cakes slightly, remove from pans.

FROSTING

4 oz cream cheese

3 tablespoon butter

1 teaspoon lemon juice or vanilla

1 1b powdered sugar

Mix all ingredients, spread over cakes and sprinkle with chopped nuts.

President's Message

"Not everything that counts can't be counted and not everything that can be counted counts"Albert Einstein.

Amazing beginning of Soroptimist year! August 23^rd, a week prior to our first meeting, the Board of SI Corona got together at Deb Murphy's beautiful home and have the most incredible Board Retreat to get ready for this new year. Great things came up from it, such us our Strategic Plan for 2007-2008. A quick overview of our goals include: increasing the attendance to our meetings, better information for our guests and new members of what Soroptimist is all about, closer communication between project chairs and our board, partnering with other organizations in the community to expand our horizons (always keeping our mission of improving the lives of women and girls), increasing participation in projects and committees, last but not least to race more public awareness. We placed specific strategies to accomplish this goals and guess what, just a few weeks in the year and we are starting to see positive results: four new members got inducted last Wednesday, the participation and the attendance has been incredible, members look motivated and ready to go!

One of our goals, is to have another successful year with our now, well known, "Chocolate, Wine & Jazz Festival". I hope you are screaming it to the top of your loans to the entire community, make sure you always carry tickets and do not waist any opportunity to sell them to associates, co-workers, family and friends and of course, sponsors are more than welcome, so keep your eyes and ears open; do not be afraid to ask, the worst they can do to you is say "no".

So you are all wondering; why did she start this message with that quote from Einstein? Well, because our time is so precious and we all have our priorities: our families, our selves, our jobs (in what ever order you want to place them). Women multi-task easier than men, and we find fulfillment in helping others more than helping our own selves. Many things we do in life seem so insignificant to us at the moment, but years later we realize that we have touched someone's life or that we have raced a beautiful family. So, I wanted to remind you of how special you all are and that everything you do, when you do it with your hart, it has so much value that it can not be counted, but in the long run, many people appreciate it.

Marcy Decato, SI Corona President 2007 - 2008

The Latest

Our first meeting of the year was full of fresh faces and exciting news. It was fun hearing from everyone on what they had done over the summer break. Many of us were on the move - from trips abroad to Europe, and Africa, and closer to home visiting family and friends. Some have trips planned in the next few months also!

Keep in mind that Tracy Mauser has implemented a "new and improved" fine schedule that should help us with our ways and means. Any time you have a "brag" you pay the appropriate fine!

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A couple of noteworthy congratulations go out to Past President Shawn on her promotion to Lieutenant, and a belated congrats to life member Dee Lingenfelter for getting her AA and AS degree this past June. As she says, "Who said you were ever too old to learn something new?"

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By now most of you heard the good news, this is cool. Dawn Walsh, Program Coordinator from SIA, emailed us a message on September 12th telling us that SI Corona has been awarded FIRST PLACE for our web site at the SIA level. A certificate was given to our GWR Governor Judy Harris during the Soroptimist Professional Development Seminar in Philadelphia.

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Four weeks in the year and we already inducted four (4) new members, YEAH!!!! way to go SI Corona. We would like to welcome Amy Brown, General Manager of The Promenade Shops at Dos Lagos, Denise Seinturier, Director of Operations of SE Corporation, Margaret Little, Teacher and Tutor and Kristi Kenney, Employee Benefits Consultant of HealthTrends.

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Congratulations to Karen Spiegel who was honored on September 20^th by the YWCA as a

Woman of Achievement.

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Congratulations to Beth Groves who was honored on September 25^th by the Boy Scouts of America as one of the 2007 Distinguished Citizens of the year.

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Irena's baby is almost here... Little Bianca Annaliese is scheduled to arrive on October 18 or 19. Best wishes and good luck to you Irena. Seema organized a great baby shower for Irena October 3^rd at our club meeting.

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Annie Bradberry from The Foundation For Community and Family Health came to visit our club on September 26^th. Annie gave us a detailed presentation on their programs: They increase awareness of breast cancer issues and the importance of early detection. They provide outreach, prevention and health education services designed to improve the overall health and quality of life of the children and families in the Corona/Norco area. The Foundation "Crown Plus" program provides community health outreach programs and health related lectures and classes to the seniors in the Corona and Norco area. Through these programs they strive to provide medical screenings, lectures/lunches and flu shots. They also have a diabetes program which provides the following free services to the community: diabetes screenings, diabetes group seminars, diabetes group education classes, group meter training classes. The Foundation's most recent project is the Women's Health Symposium. In her presentation, Annie explained to us that there are various opportunities for Soroptimist to partner with The Foundation to help women in this community, so our board will be having some brainstorming to bring to club ideas about this partnership.

For more information visit The Foundation's web site at www.communityandfamily.org

Some of our SI Corona members attended "The Walk for Health" this Saturday, September 29^th. Leeza and her team raised over $17,000 for the Foundation, YEAH!!!!! You go girl!!!!!

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SAVE THE DATE***

Even though Chocolate, Wine and Jazz is right around the corner, it is hard to believe that our biggest service project, Dreams and Decisions is only 5 months away. Please save the date of March 1^st, 2008 to be available to work this project. This coincides with Soroptimist International's "Saturday of Service" program. We need all members to volunteer for this worthwhile project!!

Chocolate, Wine and Jazz Festival

Committee Update

The Chocolate, Wine and Jazz Festival takes place at the private, gated Crossroads River View Park, located where River Road meets Archibald in Corona. The wooded setting is decorated to evoke the rustic charm of a small European village, complete with shop fronts, wine barrels, and grape vines. Attendance is limited to 400 guests with an appreciation for fine food and wine, who wish to enjoy the casual sophistication of an open-air, gourmet picnic, enhanced by mellow jazz.

The committee has been meeting throughout the summer, and as we always do, we have almost met all the goals for the next best Chocolate, Wine and Jazz Festival yet!

Shelly Davis and Shawn Dredla have secured almost all the needed wine establishments although they are still looking for a couple of our favorite wines for our guests to taste. If you have any thoughts or leads, please feel free to contact them.

Rachel Rola and her committee are working diligently to secure the restaurants; many of our favorites will again be joining us this year in addition to some of the new arrivals in our community.

Debra Murphy is coming upon her deadline for sponsorships; we are hoping that each of you will assist us to make this year's sponsorship goal of a net income of $30,000.00 a reality. We are very close so another 10 Chardonnay sponsors would do it. I am sure that some of our newest members may have leads for us to contact, please contact Debra for the materials available to provide any potential sponsor.

Valerie has secured the entertainment, ordered the new plates and glasses which have been underwritten by "As You Like It Catering".

Thank you Rachel & Phyllis for all you do for our event!! It definitely would not be the same without your assistance and professional knowledge.

Teresa Costa has been busy collecting donations for the 3 raffle prizes for our event. The "Grand Prize" is a 2 night getaway to the Temecula Creek Inn and Spa along with dinners, spa treatments, wine tasting and more. Our other 2 baskets: "A night on the Town" and the "Chocolate, Wine and Jazz" signature baskets are also coming along nicely. Please, sign up to either donate or secure something on the list to help make the baskets truly amazing. Remember- the nicer the baskets, the easier it is to sell those raffle tickets! If you have any questions, please call Teresa at 951-736-0033.

To the full membership, this is our crucial month! We need all the help to finish up with all the details but most of all we need you to sell those tickets. Chocolate, Wine and Jazz is by far the best event in town... let's share with the community.

My thanks to all you do, Debbie Dematteis-Miller

CWJ Flyer and Application

WOA and VRA

Have we started to recruit WOA and VRA applications from our community? Fall is an important time to make sure we get the word out early and have some great nominees before our club judging. Remember to put together and send in a press release to our local newspaper or Radio stations to maximize our applications reaching worthy nominees. For any questions here are the contacts for District 1:

WOA : Maxine Reese (SI Apple Valley) mhreese@msn.com 760-240-3676.

VRA: Barbara Grode grodeconsulting@verizon.net 760-954-8030

WOA Flyer

WOA Application

VRA Flyer

VRA Application (please contact Debra Murphy debra.murphy@uboc.com)

WOA/VRA Application Order Form 2007-2008

Making a Difference for Women Award

It's also time to start identifying a Making a Difference for Women (MADFW) nominee for our club. The MADFW nominees are women that either by their volunteerism or profession (job) betters the lives of women and or girls in their local community. Our District 1 contact for MADFW is Andrea Hilton (SI Lake Arrowhead) ahilton@heartsandlives.org or 909-337-7253.

MADFW Application

Woman of Distinction Application

SIA Corner

Defining Trafficking

Natalya lives in a small village in Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. A single mother of two young girls, she must also take care of her sick brother, and struggles to find work in her economically depressed town. Natalya's neighbor Katerina tells her of an employment opportunity in Odessa, Ukraine, with a local bar owner. Katerina says she can get Natalya work as a waitress in a bar and offers, for a fee, to help arrange Natalya's travel to the northern port city.

Within a few weeks, Natalya is on a plane to Odessa, eager to make money and support her brother and daughters. However, once she arrives, Natalya realizes that she has been horribly deceived-that there never was a bar, or waitress job, and that Katerina-her neighbor and friend, has helped to sell her into sexual slavery. The bar owner turns out to be a small-time criminal and pimp, and the bar is his brothel. Before she has time to process what's happened, her passport is confiscated and she is driven from the airport to a cramped apartment where she-along with a dozen other young women-- will stay for the duration of her servitude. First, she is raped by the pimp who claims he must "try out the goods" and Natalya has her first taste of the violence and degradation that is to follow. Before long, she is forced to service more than a dozen clients a day-business men, locals, and tourists-interested in quick sex for cash. After several months of sexual abuse and physical violence, Natalya is mentally and emotionally destroyed and is resigned to her position. Eventually a friendly client "buys" Natalya from her pimp, and sends her home. But once back in Moldova, it is apparent that there is no work in her small village. The only answer, thinks Natalya, is to prostitute herself in the Moldovan capital of Chisnau. "I am already broken, after all
.." Sexual trafficking is the movement of women and children, within national or across international borders, for the purposes of prostitution or other forms of commercial sexual exploitation.1 It includes the recruitment, transportation, harboring, transfer or sale of women and children for these purposes.

How Soroptimist Works to End Trafficking of Women and Girls. (read this story)

Joke

Submitted by Shawn Dredla

The Best Living Will I've Seen

Maxine I, MAXINE , being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of pinhead politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it, or lawyers / doctors interested in simply running up the bills. If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to ask for at least one of the following:

Glass of wine
chocolate
Margarita
chocolate
Martini
Cold Beer
chocolate
Chicken fried steak
cream gravy
chocolate
Mexican food
chocolate
French fries
chocolate
Pizza
chocolate
ice cream
cup of tea
chocolate
Chocolate
Sex
Chocolate

It should be presumed that I won't ever get better. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my appointed person and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes, let the "fat lady sing.," and call it a day

Learn About Our Members

Every issue will feature a Life Member and a Regular Member. Please make sure to submit your bio and photo for our library.

Life Member:

Cynthia Dee

Her slogan, "Never a borrower or a lender be," was a source of puzzlement to many Soroptimists, considering that Cynthia was by profession a librarian. However, it is a perfectly example of her dry wit, which she has liberally shared with our club throughout her membership. Sometimes, "racy" would be more apt than "dry" because her other slogans were "Librarians make novel lovers" and "Librarians do it periodically."

Cynthia recalls that many conference trips were made in the RV belonging to Jeannie Nugent and her Soroptimister Joe. Once, a group included Dee Lingenfelter, Connie Carpenter, Margater James, Cynthia and Jeannie drove all the way to Tucson, only to arrive at 3:00 a.m. Since it was too late to check in, they sacked out all over the RV, even on the floor, only to be awakened by someone pounding on the door! Twice, at regional conferences Cynthia was a TAP award presenter, in front of 700 people. That's when the dry wit came in handy!

Like many others, Cynthia experienced the support that club members can offer in times of need. At the time of her husband Jerry's final illness, a neighbor drove them to the hospital. Suddenly Soroptimists began coming out of the woodwork to be with Cynthia and offer support, until there were at least half a dozen there all at once.

A favorite work project that Cynthia remembers was cooking dinner for people who would be alone at Thanksgiving. This took place at the Senior Center, and she and Jerry ran over to the Mad Greek for a favorite sandwich first. He came in to help for a little while, and left the sandwiches in the car. Their two dogs proceeded to have a feast. He went back, replaced the sandwiches, returned home, set the table and was ready to eat when the phone rang (probably a Soroptimist call). When he came back to the table a few minutes later, the naughty dogs had enjoyed a second course and again eaten his sandwich. The sacrifices our Soroptimisters make for the good of club activities!

Regular Member:

Julie Fredericksen

Julie Fredericksen Corona Library Director

While earning her Masters Degree, Julie job shadowed Cynthia Dee, to observe a Library Director at a growing library in action.

Julie was born in Glendale, California and grew up in Santa Ana. She received her B.A. in English from University of California, Irvine, and her Master's Degree in Library Science from San Jose State University. Julie was always at a library and while in high school, applied for a job as a Page. Her career path eventually took her to Librarian and then Branch Manager at various libraries in Orange County. In the meantime, Julie and her husband Doug had bought a house in Corona in 1988, and when a management position opened up at the Corona Public Library, she jumped at the chance to be part of her community. In 2001 she worked as the Library's Public Services Manager, and was promoted to Library Director in 2006. In her current position, Julie is able to do what she loves: work towards presenting the public with high quality library services. She has a dynamic staff and together they plan new programs and outreach, and research new technology to keep the library contemporary and sought after by current residents. She is also a voracious reader and avid movie-watcher. Julie and her husband enjoy traveling, and try to take an overseas trip every year, as well as continue to explore California. Julie has been a club member in SI Corona since 2003, and has served on several professional library committees and organizations. She is currently a member of the Southern California Book Writers and Illustrators society, and is always working on fiction writing.