{"id":116,"date":"2026-09-01T21:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/?p=116"},"modified":"2026-09-27T03:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:08:20","slug":"mlwc-focuses-on-helping-our-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/mlwc-focuses-on-helping-our-community\/","title":{"rendered":"MLWC Focuses on Helping Our Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>MLW Focuses on Helping Our Community\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>by Christina Grossman, MLWC President<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MLWC focuses on helping our community.\u00a0 Our <em>Done in the Day<\/em> focus was Youth on Their Own (YOTO).\u00a0 Donations support their Back-to-School focus of school supplies and food for high school students who are unhoused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donna Schotter and Sally Crum are spearheading the Dress a Girl sewing days at the MLCC.\u00a0 The last session is September 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.\u00a0 To learn more about the community service project, attend our meeting, or reach out to Donna and Sally.\u00a0 Dress a Girl aligns with our mission to protect and support those of domestic and sexual abuse, as well as, supporting projects that prevent sex trafficking of females.\u00a0 It is a global effort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For our mountain community, we are finding ways to support volunteers, Al and Paul, and Pima County Parks and Rec employee, Lisa, at the MLCC Visitor\u2019s Center.\u00a0 They have done a great deal of welcoming and informing visitors every weekend and keeping the community center clean.\u00a0 We are sprucing the visitor\u2019s center with new tablecloths and finding donors for a new computer for the volunteers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our August speaker, Dr. Leigh Combrink, from UofA\u2019s School of Natural Resources and the Environment, shared her research from her time in South Africa and beautifully connected her current research of Mount Lemmon.\u00a0 She will also continue the Cordilleran Flycatcher research of the late Dr. Charles van Riper III.\u00a0 MLWC will send out information to the community this month on how we can do our part to help Dr. Combrink with the research.\u00a0 It is our way of protecting wildlife and the environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One last note, the Holiday Brunch is fast approaching.\u00a0 Members, look for an invite early November and rsvp, so that we can celebrate together with good food, great company, and fun! We love our members!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLW Focuses on Helping Our Community\u00a0 by Christina Grossman, MLWC President &nbsp; &nbsp; MLWC focuses on helping our community.\u00a0 Our Done in the Day focus was Youth on Their Own (YOTO).\u00a0 Donations support their Back-to-School focus of school supplies and food for high school students who are unhoused. Donna Schotter and Sally Crum are spearheading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":{"layout":"default"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtlemmonwomansclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}