MAYVILLE - Betty Przepiora will present information about the Embroiderer's Guild to the Mayville Tuesday Club when it meets at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Mayville Library.
Hostess for the afternoon will be Marguerite Brightman, with refreshments served by Julina Harris and Elaine Smathers. Members are reminded that it's time to pay dues. The 2009-10 booklets also will be available.
The October speaker was Paul Benson, library board president and Jamestown Public School director of a special program to help improve teachers, who told of his trip to Nicaragua for an "Out of the Dump" mission project with a group from Hurlbut Methodist Church including his daughter, Cassidy.
The Chacocente program, he said, was to literally "move" families from a Managuan dump to the clean air and fertile soil of rural Masaya. Benson described the living conditions as not conducive to healthy living in Nicaragua, "the second poorest county in the universe. Forty-eight percent live below the poverty line."
Benson described the living in Managua as a "carcinogenic, smoke-filled community on top of a four-story dump" where people live with a plethora of vultures.
The project was founded by Ted Anderson, long-time former pastor of Hurlbut in Chautauqua Institution, and Sheryl Avery.
Tuesday Club member Lois Crandall, hostess for the afternoon, earlier read a few poems from her childhood. Refreshments were provided by Pat Scott and Marilyn Elliott.
Discussion also centered on the state Department of Health's threat to close the Emergency Department at Westfield Memorial Hospital. Support for keeping it was unanimous.
