Co-Presidents' Message

JoAnn Howe and Kathy Korelin, Co-Presidents

 JoAnn Howe      Kathy Korelin

Hi Ladies,

This month celebrates the 20^th anniversary of the Semiahmoo Ladies Club.  It all began with the question “Are you tired of the winter blahs?” (Check out the original invitation at the end of

this page.)  Enough ladies were, and the club has been going and growing ever since.  SLC has a remarkable history of socializing, having fun and working hard to raise money for various community organizations along with the Blaine High School Scholarship fund.

Our hats are off to all of you who have participated throughout the years to make the club what it is today.  And for the “newer members” we appreciate your involvement to keep SLC moving forward.  We have seen changes in how we communicate – from snail-mail newsletters to email newsletter and now the web site; from snail-mail invitations to email invites then to evites.  Our fundraising endeavors started as small events with a “Fashion Show Luncheon”, growing to extravagant events - “Casino Night”; “Trash or Treasure”; “Oktoberfest” and “Summer Aire” and then shifted to the appeal letters.  Last year we had our first fundraising event since 2004. “Big Night Out at the Jack Niemann’s Black Forest” and it was highly successful.  Perhaps more fundraising events are in our future.

Now we turn to 2011.  We developed a very informal annual report with the intent to let club members and, hopefully, community members viewing our web-site, know how SLC did financially.  In addition to enjoying our monthly gatherings and additional activities we were able to make substantial donations to various community organizations.  You can find the 2011 Annual Report posted in the “About Us” section of the web site.  Please contact either of us with any questions you may have.

We are pleased to announce, that with the new non-profit status of SLC, a significant donation has been made by one of our members.   This has been designated to the scholarship fund for 2012.

Thank you all for being such fabulous women who happen to live in Semiahmoo, Birch Bay and Blaine.

JoAnn & Kathy

The Original Invitation to start the Semiahmoo Ladies Club: