Pioneer Jubilee Women's Club

About Pioneer Jubilee Women's Club

PJWC 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.

Shout Out to These Awesome Worker Bees:

PJWC women are the cream of the crop and always rise to the needs in our organization - and beyond!

For the LCA Bake Sale during the Arts & Crafts Festival -

thank you to these ladies that helped with baked goods or frozen meal: Sue Beddingfield, Peggy Berg, Pamela Evans, Deb Field, Connie Frieze, Joan Huey, Linda Lovegreen, Leo Jo Lowry, Cathy McCann, Mary Needham, Cindy Rae, Mary Reinhardt and special thanks to Connie Frieze, Mary Reinhardt and Dorothy Schmidt for volunteering at the Bake Sale booth.

For the LCA String Academy Reception:

thank you to these ladies that helped with sweet or savory items - we had the most amazing spread and everyone enjoyed: Pamela Evans, Marjorie Harrigan, Mary Needham, Kay Scull, Karen Shaw, Betty Touchon

September Victorian Tea

Members and guests will be treated to a Victorian Tea at our September 3rd meeting.

Please let us know you're joining us: RSVP here

Feel free to dress up in your finest period attire. There will be hats available to borrow if you like.

We need a few more hostesses, to help out, please: Sign up here

October Meeting and Book Review

Join us Oct 1st at Donna Waller's house (and bring a friend!) as we celebrate National Book Month with a lively discussion of our 2025 book selection Theo of Golden by Allen Levi.

We could use 1 more hostess for the October Meeting: Sign up here

Goodreads describes the book as a beautifully crafted story about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life and the far reaching possibilities of anonymous kindness.

Your library may have it or you could order: Buy Book Here

We hope you will read the book but come for the fellowship even if you haven't read it. The book review and discussion will be encouraging to all who attend.

Upcoming events

September Victorian Tea Meeting

09/03/2025 11:30 AM • Lake City Arts

Your PJWC Officers for 2025:

Pamela Evans - President
Joan Huey - 1st Vice President
Ricki Jackson - 2nd Vice President
Sue Beddingfield - Secretary
Allison Wetzel - Treasurer
Shannon Santos - Asst Treasurer
Trustees: Peggy Berg, Julia Johns, Mary Reinhardt

Check out our PJWC Facebook page for more info on PJWC happenings:

Featured member

One of our most positive and helpful members is Connie Frieze! Connie and her husband, Delbert spend most of the warmer months in Lake City but they enjoy playing in the snow and snowmobiling as well. When not in the San Juan mountains, Connie & Delbert call Broken Arrow, OK home.

The Frieze’s were first drawn to CO in the mid-1970s and first camped near LC in 1978 – and they were hooked. Delbert’s family bought a cabin in 1986 and Connie feels blessed to have two hometowns, two church families and two sets of friends.

Connie has enjoyed LC Jeep and Snowmobile clubs, exploring back roads and light hikes. In addition to helping PJWC with literally everything, Connie is active in her LC HOA, CPC, the Hiker Center and reading time at the LC library. She enjoys her bridge group as well.

Connie and Delbert’s grown children, 2 sons and 3 daughters, live across the southwest part of the US and 1 daughter and her hubs are soon to be parents.

Connie’s mother-in-law, Violet Frieze enjoyed PJWC activities during summers and Connie is proud to continue that pledge, loves working with women interested in a variety of things and continues to learn from them.

Thank you, Connie for all that you do and being a bright light in Lake City!

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.

Meet Jennifer Greening - one of our newest members. Jennifer and her husband, Kent are both originally from MN and have lived several places in TX as well as Chicago and the Twin Cities (all moves with Kent's job). They initially were drawn to LC for the mountains and fly fishing but fell in love with the charm of this "small slice of Americana", especially the cute shops, retro movie theater, live music around town, 4th of July, wine festival - "really, all of it!!" The Greenings are enjoying retirement and spend June-September in LC. Before retiring and traveling, Jennifer had a decorated sugar cookie business. She and Kent are busy renovating their cabin on Hotchkiss. Jennifer hopes to volunteer at PJWC fundraisers & events and has been impressed with how welcoming everyone has been.

PJWC (Pioneer Jubilee Women's Club) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Lake City, CO 81235

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