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 proceeds raised through our fundraising efforts go towards our community grants program. |
Grants Program Kickoff is November 1st For 85 years, the Pioneer Jubilee Women’s Club has been raising money to donate to area non-profits through our annual Grants Program. This year’s grant season kicks off Saturday, November 1st & applications due Monday, December 1st. Funds are distributed in early January. Grants are considered for not-for-profit organizations based in Hinsdale County, CO and must be for a specific project(s), not for operating expenses. New this year: grant applications can be submitted online. Go to our “Grants” page and click on the link. The online form helps streamline and organize the application process and gives the Club’s Grant Committee instant access to all submissions. Please direct any questions to PJWC Grants Committee Chair Sue Beddingfield at 972/679-3933. Just a walk down PJWC Grants Memory Lane…. In the early years of the Club during World War II, members gathered goods for care packages to send to local soldiers serving throughout the world. In the mid 1940s, the school needed a roof repair and turned to the PJWC for financial assistance. The Club funded the repair for a whopping $2. In the early 1950s, dances were held to raise money for the first playground in Town Park. At one time in LC history, classes at the local school were dismissed due to a lack of firewood. PJWC women recruited their husbands to cut firewood and restock the school. Over the ensuing decades, the Grants Program has supported myriad projects for local non-profit organizations including the Town of Lake City, Lake City Medical Center, Lake City Community School, the Hinsdale County Historical Society, DIRT, the Lake City Public Library, Lake City Skies, the Alpine Outdoor Association, the Lake City Area Fire Protection District, Wee Care, The Trail Hiker Center, Lake Fork Valley Conservancy, Lake City Arts, the Girl Scouts, Lake City Friends of the Bears, the Chamber of Commerce, and many, many more. Throughout the summer, current fundraising events include the July 4th Hot Dog booth, a multi-family collective space at the Town-wide Yard Sale and the signature Toast to the Mountains event, with its silent auction and whiskey and wine pull. Join this awesome and industrious group of women to help raise money for grants. For information on how to join, please contact Joan Huey at joanhuey@ymail.com | October Lunch Meeting - Special thank you to the 17 members who attended our October final meeting of our "Cheers To 85 Years 2025 season"! Donna Waller and hostesses Carrie Pitt, Joyce Stapleton and Ricki Jackson provided a delicious Mexican themed lunch. Discussion on the book, Theo of Golden was thought provoking as kindness and generosity were main themes of the book. Members who attended shared the following book recommendations for your winter reading enjoyment - The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan The Correspondent by Virginia Evans The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Go As A River by Shelley Read Culpability by Bruce Holsinger Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt To close the meeting, Ricki Jackson offered a challenge for all of us that she shared from Theo of Golden author Allen Levi - Do a kindness or act of generosity sometime in the next month or two and tell not a soul! Then ponder your heart's response. Happy reading everyone!
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Upcoming events
Early in 2026 we will share our meeting and event dates as we look forward to PJWC happenings. Our annual dues will be coming due March 1st next year. You will get a dues renewal reminder via email in February. Your PJWC Officers for 2025:
Check out our PJWC Facebook page for more info on PJWC happenings: | Featured member | Cathy McCann first came to Lake City in 1987 when her kids were 2 and 6 years old. The McCanns started looking for a summer home to buy in 1988 and bought a cabin in 1991 that they still own now. The small-town atmosphere and freedom their kids enjoyed is what drew them to LC, along with the incredible scenery and escape from the Texas heat. The McCanns live in Arlington, Texas when not in LC. The LC connection continues as Cathy’s daughter, Jackie and son-in-law, Rob Noelke live in LC full time now and own Alpine Pedal and Paddle renting e-bikes, kayaks, canoes and SUP boards. Other grown kids and grands live in Texas. In addition to working in various volunteer capacities for PJWC, Cathy is on the board of Wee Care, the early childhood education center in Lake City and works on fund raising projects and volunteers at the center. Cathy attends Community Presbyterian Church and volunteers at the hiker center. For fun, Cathy loves outings in LC with their dog and being outdoors kayaking, biking, and doing yardwork. Also, Cathy really enjoys attending live performances both at Lake City Arts and at Creede Repertory Theater. Cathy is quite the cook and enjoys hosting dinners for family and friends. Cathy feels very grateful to be able to spend five months of the year in Lake City. Cathy has loved meeting so many kind, caring, and interesting women through PJWC. Cathy says, “The opportunity to work on a variety of events while raising money for many worthwhile non-profit organizations that bring such value to the place that I love gives me great joy.” |