About Pioneer Jubilee Women's ClubPJWC is celebrating our 85th Anniversary year! We are very proud of our history and our continued impact on Hinsdale County and Lake City. We are a service organization with several fundraisers each year and membership meetings during the summer season. The Pioneer Jubilee Women's Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and all profits raised through our fundraising efforts go towards our community grants program. |
Welcome Back Party - Cheers to 85 Years! With the same excitement of the 22 new members of the Pioneer Jubilee Club at THEIR Welcome meeting in April 1940 - we are having our Welcome Back Party to celebrate 85 years as PJWC. Who: PJWC Members & guests: spouses & friends you want to join Let us know you're coming: RSVP here When: Mon, June 23rd 5:30 pm Where: Lake City Arts Wear: Black /white/silver - party casual Bring: Significant Appetizers ("it's what's for dinner"!) or Dessert We need GUYS & Clean Up Help please sign up - click here | July Lunch Meeting - Christmas in July! Wed, July 9th - 11:30 am -1:00 pm at LCA RSVP here Come hear how decades of PJWC leaders have shaped Prosperity, Joy, Welcome and Community in Hinsdale County. Learn how our club has changed and how it's remained the same. We will be celebrating Christmas In July - so members and guests wear a Christmas sweater or Christmas colors! As members we know the joys of giving. Together let's celebrate 85 years of giving from our hearts to Lake City! Join us in welcoming back Mette Flynt, an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University. She studies the environmental history of the American West. In the summers, she guides tours for the Hinsdale County Historical Society. Her grandmother, a Lake City native, was an early member of PJWC, and she’s delighted to speak with the PJWC this year.
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📣Please HELP! 📣 PJWC is a SERVICE organization. While we enjoy the fellowship and camaraderie with our fellow members, we need to all roll up our sleeves and help with the various fundraisers we hold each year - please read on for details on our 2025 fundraisers. Also, we need volunteers to help host our monthly lunch meetings. What does a hostess do? Work with a team to plan, prepare, serve lunch and cleanup after (including table set up and simple table decorations). Grab a couple of friends to sign up together or see where we still need help and please help us fill in those gaps: July lunch meeting - we need 2 more hostesses: Sign up here August lunch meeting - we need 1 more hostess: Sign up here September Victorian Tea - we need many volunteers: Sign up here October lunch meeting - we need 4 hostesses: Sign up here |
🧨4th of July Hot Dog Booth 🧨
Our first fundraiser of the summer season - come decked out in patriotic attire and work a shift at the PJWC hot dog booth. The more the merrier ("many hands make light work"). Volunteer for your favorite shift: click here |  |
Checklist for All Things PJWC in 2025:
| Please Pull Together Donations: Pull items & bring with you to donate to PJWC Yard Sale in July:
(Please NO Clothes, Shoes, Electronics, Appliances, Holiday Items) Please collect all items you'd like to donate and we will have a drop off at our location on Fri, 7/11 in the afternoon. Sign up for your favorite shift: click here |
PJWC Dues are assessed on Jan 1st of each year. The goal is for most members to renew their dues online with our convenient and easy new invoicing system. If you prefer, you can mail a check to: PJWC Box 41 Lake City, CO 81235 Dues paid covers our operating expenses so that funds raised through our summer events goes directly to non-profits in the Lake City Area. Since 1940 the members of the Pioneer Jubilee Women’s Club have been contributing to the betterment of our community! Upcoming events
| Featured member | Emma Liska was a founding member of PJWC with an intriguing family history with an integral part of Lake City dating back to the late 1800's. Emma's father was a young German immigrant who came to Lake City before Colorado was a state & served on the jury for the Alferd Packer trial in Hinsdale County. Emma's mother came from Missouri and arrived by stage coach in Lake City. Emma was raised in LC and attended school there. Her husband, Will, was recruited as a baseball pitcher for the LC competitive baseball team and promised jobs working the mines. Emma & Will lived in mining camps all over and Emma cooked for the mining camps. They had 1 daughter, Leta. Will died young from Miner's Consumption. Emma remarried in 1928 to John Liska and together they established the first tourist cabins in LC. Liska Cabins surrounded the family home and a few are still standing. Emma continued running Liska cabins almost 20 years beyond John's death. Emma also served as the local agent for fire and house insurance agencies, Clerk of the District Court, served on City Council, Matron of the Eastern Stars, and was part of the Ladies Aid Society, an elder of First Presbyterian Church in LC. She also measured rain and snowfall for the US government and kept records of the daily temperatures. Emma died at 90 in Denver and is buried in the Hinsdale-IOOF Cemetery. |
Your PJWC Officers for 2025:
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