Meeting Minutes
February 7, 2025
The meeting was called to order at 1:00 pm by President Sharon Diaz. Mason County Commissioner Pat Tarzwell gave the invocation.
President Sharon Diaz welcomed everyone and thanked Linda Martinez, Evelyn Huff and Pat and Sandy Tarzwell for donating the game prizes. Diaz then introduced the guest speaker, Mason County Sheriff Ryan Spurling.
Spurling reported that the Sheriff’s Office has been able to be proactive in addressing concerns in the community. They recently cleaned up a homeless encampment across from the Oakland Bay Marina and intend to continue working with property owners to curb squatters. His team is reestablishing the DARE program in the schools, focusing on teaching kids to make good decisions. Volunteers help the Office in many capacities, and they need more participants, information can be found on the website: masoncountywa.gov.
The movie “Government Gangsters” was shown.
No action was taken, and the meeting adjourned at 2:45pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Deborah Soper, Secretary
Republican Women’s Club
Of Mason County
Meeting Minutes
January 3, 2025
The meeting was called to order at 1:00 pm by President Sharon Diaz. Lorilyn Rogers
led the salute to the flag, Dave Windom gave the invocation.
President Sharon Diaz introduced the guest speaker, Dave Windom, Director of Mason
County Public Health and Human Services. Windom reported on the challenges of
providing health services in rural areas. He is also president of Washington Rural
Health Association, a group that works to retain health services in rural areas like
Mason County and noted that the Association is very one-sided. He urged us to go the
the website & join if we want to help add conservative voices in the group.
(https://www.wspha.org/individual-membership).
Diaz announced that the next meeting will be a Special Event at Spencer Lake Bar &
Grill for a showing of the movie “Government Gangsters”, Friday, February 7 th at 12:30
pm.
The night meetings, Fireside Chats, will resume on Wednesday, January 15 th , and will
occur the third Wednesday of every month at 5:30 pm at Railroad Tap Station.
Suggestions for speakers at future meetings were solicited, and if anyone has
recommendations, they should inform Vice President Becky Cronquist, or any Board
member.
The Club would like to do more community outreach and membership building activities,
and for this reason we have decided to focus this year’s fundraising to support
Innovations, HTC, a group that is working to eliminate human trafficking.
Diaz thanked the Christmas Party Committee for their hard work in providing a terrific
Christmas Party.
The meeting adjourned at 2:00 pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Deborah Soper, Secretary