Although Four Peaks Women’s Club does not have meetings in the summer, there are still projects needing attention.

Members met at Target last week to help support a family with a child suffering from cancer.

Children’s Cancer Network vets and supports all the children in a family where one of the children is undergoing cancer treatment. One of the ways to support these families is by providing the children with all the clothes they need to start the school year.

Four Peaks Women’s Club adopted a family of two children and thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Target to purchase new clothing, shoes, backpacks and all the additional school supplies these two children will need to start the school year. This is the first time the club has done this project for the Children’s Cancer Network.

The club’s big project with the network comes at Christmastime when members decorate Christmas trees for 20 families and buy clothes/gifts for several others.

Joyce Stehlik, chairperson, was so happy with the success of the shopping.

She said, “Two children will start school with everything they need -- we feel blessed to be able to help.”

Stehlik, a former teacher, knows the importance of children wanting to fit in when they go to school. Upon thanking the volunteers, Stehlik said, “I never thought about the burden Children's Cancer Network takes off the shoulders of these struggling parents coping with a child with cancer until we shopped the other day.”