organization yes i can the women to st benedict is a group of catholic christian women were all members of st benedict's church obviously need to be eighteen years of age or order to belong and any woman that belongs to our church is automatically considered a member of our organization there are no dues or fees you just need to come to our meetings and come to some of our activities and we provide a lot of support and fellowship for each other we have a lot of fun along the way we have fundraisers throughout the year and these fundraisers raisers help to support our various ministries in our outreach programs and this is a very special year for the women the st benedict because this is the fortieth anniversary of this organization so are planning a special activity in may we're having an anniversary mass may nineteenth at st benedict's church at the twelve fifteen mass followed by a luncheon at the valley country club and we are inviting all the former presidents to be we are honored guests that day that would be quite an honor for them yes that well and for all of us really so anything else can you think of anything else that you want to inject right now you know myself personally  flood victims in west virginia we also made over one hundred teaching dolls for children's hospital this is our third year of doing this project this was started by our former president mary and campbell growth of our membership in the way of the younger women getting more involved in the in the organization and i think you know like marion said it's our fortieth anniversary this year and in the women of st benedict have been providing services to the parish in the community now for forty years and in order to keep this going we need to we need to grow and change along with our growing and changing community and in order to do that i think the most honest way to do that would be to have the younger women come in and offer their insight and tell us what's important to them and for the young women obviously what's important to their families that we touch a lot of children i think in a lot of the ministries and a lot of the fundraisers and things that we do we do a lot of the parish in the community that way so i think a lot i would just like to see some younger women get involved so that we can continue to offer the service and also for the social aspect of it i mean really obviously there are going to st benedict is a social organization i mean  all women i mean that in itself the mean the universality of that is enough but you know for a social group to be founded on the same fate in from the youngest member which i think is me i'm not sure about that to the oldest member and i won't say who that is but you know we  because they do they make it so easy i mean just being i mean as an officer i mean i have three children and one on the way and to be an officer i mean i have extra meetings aside from the individual ones but marianne and joan and see all the other ladies that are on the board the rest of the continuing fundraiser that we do we have every year on our donut sales that you mentioned we have them the first weekend of every month and not only is it a fundraiser but it's also something that all the pressure to look forward to because we have tables set up where people can sit and a nice activity that doesn't bring everybody together that we have to make a little bit of money on this year we have a our first garage sale in the fall one day only and we were able to do put well with the amount of lot of the parish together because we set up for about a week before hand and people that would come to the morning mass would stay and everybody was looking at the different things and to help put things off the near correct although it was put on by the women the sa many articles of clothing that were provided from our own parishioners and it has been a lot of fun getting all these clothes together and women are stopping me all the time do you still need any more clothes i have a little jacket or i have my nine hundred sixty prom dress and can you use this can you use that so it's really has been a lot of fun we have eight grade girls who are acting as hostesses the day of the fashion show and we made them special that they will wear and we are going by a parishioner cecilia chapman and it's a peters like park oh and it's a beautiful painting it'll be framed that's going to be raffled off we haven't overnight at the renaissance hotel with dinner for two at recruits steakhouse that's another ok where do we go from there now we want to talk a little more about the fashion show or some other things as well do we want them to be surprised or should we talk a little bit more in detail about the hostesses and yes our young people get the hamburgers and french that's why i think it's important that we as an organization work with the youth of our church to let them know that we as a group think that they're very important and then we want to work with them we want to do things for them this year we did have the spaghetti dinner for the know as a mother's i mean where the first role models i mean it's a way of taking your faith and making it active and it's not just a sunday thing and everything we do know obviously it's brought from the church sprouts from the group and it you know it i think it's a really important involvement from our women skills so that's why we chose to do the spaghetti dinner that's another reason why we chose to get the younger teens involved in the fashion show these girls will be getting confirmed in the fall and the fifth and we are going to put a notice on the board to ask any girl that has been confirmed if she would like to be eligible to be the young lady to crown the bliss of mother with the crown of flowers and they like to help out in the court and one of them doing the crafter in this year but they help out with i think actually going to be involved in the in the easter egg hunt and the role they help with the role and do that stuff so too is really nice to get younger people involved it is a very difficult when you have school age children because you're going to be involved in p t a and then there's your sports activities going on it is hard for a young mother to be involved in an organization at the level that say i am john is ok but kristen obviously is able to show us that you can be involved in the women's game at some level you don't have to he at our level necessary right but we are there for women and we just want to let them know that so i think it's time now that we maybe see another one of our this place that we're going to have is a model ready to do the poster she is a very talented member of our parish and she did this poster for our raffles that we're having and the other poster to signify all the different layers of clothing that we're going to have just had it to church on sunday and walk through a book fair we had it for four days i believe they had the book for open every day they had c c d and the kids would come from their classes with their teachers and walk through we gave them a wish list and they would write down the books that they liked and then give that list to their parents saying hopefully you'll buy me one of these four and then the parents of come in another time in which is a book sometimes they bring their children we've had a storyteller one day and you know try to cover all bases here can argue it really was was a very nice very nice idea you know that they had everything set up that was very assessable you know knew where the children's books were as opposed to the te it worked out really well i think everybody was very pleased with it you know it's first time i've seen something like that done very well considering having it again next year i don't think it's kind of thing you can have your after year after year think you might need to kristen can you think of anything i don't think so i think we've covered just about everything a good book fair a fashion show the flea market do we have anything to do with the library we have in church advertised in local papers and in the pittsburgh catholic and we had proximate hundred fifty people attend we had question and answer period we also had our teams come that was part of their religious education program that night