LIVERMORE – It’s the end of an era for a club with a mission to provide help to those in emergencies need, but the members will remain friends forever.

The Livermore Center Neighborhood Club, formed in 1913, disbanded Aug. 15, but members say they’ll continue their friendships in a neighborly way without all the fuss.

Millicent Thyng, 91, belonged to the club for 35 years and kept the minutes for years.

She doesn’t remember exactly when she became secretary/treasurer; she just knows it was some time ago.

She held a black binder in her lap as she talked to another member, Frances Berry, 80, of Livermore, who plans to move to Turner soon. Berry is a past president and vice president and joined in 1971.

Thyng’s neat, printed script outlined decisions members made over the years in well-kept minutes.

The group, which had 25 or so members at its peak and most recently about a dozen left, with half of them active, voted July 15 to disband.

They also voted to donate their remaining money to the ongoing restoration at Livermore’s community building.

Members discussed before voting what they hoped would be done with the $2,796.86 donation, Berry said, and that is to make the building handicap accessible.

The money needs to be used within a year of the vote.

Members had also donated $500 to help with the doors for handicap accessibility at the center last year.

Wheelchairs cannot turn around in the bathroom, Berry said.

They’ve held yard sales to help fund their projects and made many quilts in their time and either donated them to fire victims or raffled them to give a person or family in need the money, and even contributed to the food bank.

The club became a nonprofit organization in 1923 with the purpose to aid community projects, Thyng said, and though they voted to disband mid-July, it wasn’t made official until a month later.

“This means the end of that kind of an era but at the same token it’s the beginning of looking out for each other in a neighborly way,” Berry said.

Rather than worrying about setting up meetings, making refreshments and planning an agenda, they’ll “just be plumb straight neighbors,” she said.

The club’s books will go to the Livermore-Livermore Falls Historical Society, Thyng said.

She has other things to do and won’t miss filing the reports all the time, she said.

“I’m 91. I’ve got a garden. I’m cleaning out a refrigerator,” she said. “We don’t have to plan a meeting, make refreshments or clean up the house before members arrive.”

But, “We’re friends forever,” Berry added.