FARMINGTON – Farmington Emblem Club 460 May meeting was preceded by a potluck supper. President Claudette Merchant led the meeting where Charlotte Woodcock was initiated into the club, bringing the membership to 146. There were 41 present, plus one new member. Two more women were voted on and will be joining the club at the June meeting.

Officers read their reports and all were approved. Americanism chairwoman, Lois Barker, read a poem about the American flag and reminded everyone of VE Day and Memorial Day being observed in May. She got volunteers to help her put markers and flags on the graves of departed Emblem members later this month. Members will be getting together to practice the songs that will be sung at the Elks Flag Day ceremony in June.

Drug Awareness Chairwoman Sylvia Richards spoke on the bottle drive she had for the May meeting and will do it again in October.

Shannon Smith reported on the upcoming little league cheerleader tryouts and got volunteers from the club to be judges for the girls at Mallett School on May 14 and the Academy Hill School on May 15. She said that the date of Oct. 25 is all set for the dance sponsored by the Farmington Emblem Club with music by the Travelers. She also reported on the successful Longerberger Basket Beano held last month with Nancy Chase as her co-chairwoman.

She said arrangements are all set for President Merchant and her husband to go to Alaska to the Supreme (National) Emblem Convention at the end of August. Smith thanked the 20 or so Emblem women who met at her home recently to put hundreds of wooden yo-yos together for the Wilton Bicentennial/Blueberry Festival to be held the first weekend in August.

Bethany Storer got volunteers to cook for the club’s Father’s Day breakfast in June. Becky Hinkley volunteered to head this summer’s Emblem Club sale.

Scholarship chairwoman Jean Corcoran reported that there are forms available for future scholarship requests. For literacy, 35 hardcover and 28 paperback books were donated. The Emblem women were reminded of the Girls Night Out to be held Tuesday, May 13, at the Boiler Room in Wilton.

It was voted to donate $200 to a family who recently lost their home and all belongings to a fire, $200 to a girl participating in a bike-a-thon for the Jimmy Fund for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, $100 to the Youth Fest at Augusta on Aug. 23, $100 to a young woman to go to a conference in Washington, D.C., where she’ll learn to be a tutor and $50 to a student from Mount Blue High School to go to Australia to compete in volleyball.

Winners for this month’s drawings were Peggy Alexander who won the mystery gift and Lois Barker who won the 50-50 raffle.

The supper preceding the June meeting will honor this year’s Sister-of-the-Year.