Doing Business: Planning Fundraising and Service Projects for 2018

Peconic Bay Zonta members (from left) Kathy Walker, Annika Shapiro, Liala Strotman, Betsy Kaplan and Linda Rundlett (along with Diane Loffredo and Diane Greenberg, not shown) held their monthly meeting at Annika's house on December 13, which is Saint Lucia’s feast day in Sweden. The popular event in Sweden is also known as the Christian festival of light.

Annika, a native of Sweden, greeted guests with a delicious hot mug of glogg, a Swedish spiced wine drink, as they came in from a freezing cold night. Club members discussed fundraising and service projects planned for 2018 as they enjoyed a potluck dinner.

After dinner and dessert, Kathy and others stayed on to wrap 50 journals for donation to girls in the Butterfly Effect Project. This nonprofit community group based in Riverhead, New York, works to empower young girls by giving them tools to help them achieve academic success and an emotionally stable and self-confident future.