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CHARTERED CLUBS<br />
CLUB SPOTLIGHT<br />
KRAFTY KRITTERS<br />
Club Crafts a Valuable Service<br />
In 1992, Kathy Walls began the Krafty Kritters Club in a small<br />
room at Mountain Shadows. In 1994, Kathy helped<br />
design the club’s current facility at the then new Desert<br />
Vista Community Center. The members worked on all<br />
different sorts of crafts, which were sold at the store<br />
located inside Desert Vista (currently occupied by the<br />
Fitness Department). Along with Eleanor Wenzel, one of<br />
the founders of the Club, Sally Edwards, Sue Lawrence<br />
and Dee Moshy are longtime members who supply residents<br />
with invaluable experience.<br />
Krafty Kritters’ studio is open <strong>for</strong> members to work on<br />
their projects on Mondays, from 9 a.m. to noon and<br />
Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m. The Club began with about 50<br />
members and has pretty much stayed consistent at that<br />
number.<br />
One of Krafty Kritters’ categories of creativity includes<br />
the tole painters, members who paint on canvas, wood and<br />
various other objets d’art. Tole painters meet in the studio<br />
on Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.<br />
Along with crafts, the Club does crocheting, knitting,<br />
scrapbooking and painting. The members sell some items<br />
in the window of their room, as well as at the annual arts &<br />
crafts show at Desert Vista. They make the very popular<br />
water bottle holders out of plastic grocery bags that the<br />
Red Rock Canyon Gift Store sells <strong>for</strong> the club.<br />
Jeanene O’Shay is one of the club’s members who<br />
collects many of the items that are donated to benefit<br />
homeless teens, newborn babies and nursing home<br />
clients.<br />
Krafty Kritters’ general meeting takes place on the first<br />
Saturday of the month, 9 a.m., at Desert Vista. Members<br />
learn what’s going on and everyone is invited to check out<br />
what’s going on. According to Club President Marilyn<br />
Pittman, many ladies join because they are new to Sun City<br />
and want to meet people and share ideas. Marilyn says the<br />
club takes donations of materials, and if they can’t use<br />
something they find another club that can.<br />
For in<strong>for</strong>mation, Marilyn Pittman, 240-0517, or<br />
Secretary Mary Graves, 228-0218.<br />
~ Stu Gershon/<strong>Link</strong><br />
Krafty Kritters members, top, Carol Przbybycien; center Linda<br />
Southwell; bottom, from left, Eleanor Wenzel, Linda Bauer,<br />
Kathryn Feller, Marilyn Pittman, Dee Moshy, Sue Lawrence and<br />
Sally Edwards.<br />
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