Calhoun County Homemakers & Community Leaders

NBC 13 Making a Difference Award

Recently the Calhoun County Homemakers and Community Leaders (CCHCL), a non-profit organization, was nominated for the NBC13 Make a Difference Award. The award was presented by Andrea Lindenberg to the ladies who volunteer each month. Six women work tirelessly to encourage women as homemakers in conjunction with the Marchale Burton, Extension Agent of the Calhoun County Cooperative Extension Office. These 6 ladies are Peggy Crosby President 2010 – 2012, Lillian Prather, 2006-2010 President, Elizabeth Williams, Vice President, and Jannette Lackey, Nancy Whitley and Marilyn Lawson, who cut out hat and pillow patterns and keeps the material ready for sewing.

The CCHCL has projects like the Holiday Cooking School demonstrating delicious dishes with sample tasting, Christmas in July to show women’s crafts they have made throughout the year with a speaker that resonates Christmas decorations or Christmas tree plantings, Achievement Day to show crafts the women do in their homes like: sewing, crocheting or handicrafts they have made throughout the year, then a Volunteer Luncheon that shows the appreciation of the chapter for the women who volunteer to sew for cancer patients each month.

The CCHCL, a chapter of Alabama Homemakers and Leaders, has volunteers who sew on the first Thursday of each month, to benefit cancer patients by sewing pillows, tote bags and hats and lap throws for dialysis patients. Last year the women donated 285 pillows, 265 hats, and 109 tote bags.