Upcoming Events 

Mon. Feb 21 Island Luau Basket Making at 9:00 at Beth Nelson’s home at 3343 Manatee Dr., St James City.  Bring scissors, tape, and your creative juices to create some awesome auction items.

Mon. Feb 21 - Island Luau (Wine) Event 2022 Planning Meeting at 6pm at SJCC. This will be the last committee meeting before the event. Be sure to bring your tickets and money to the meeting or drop off to Joanne by Monday or Tuesday at the latest.  Thank you

Sat. Feb 26 - Inside Set-Up for Island Luau from 3-6 pm at SJCCC.  We will decorate indoors and set up tables and stage the areas. Some food preparations will also happen.

Sun. Feb 27 - Outside Set-Up for Island Luau starting at 9 am. We will set up tents, tables with table cloths and décor. Set-up welcome area tent with balloon entry way. Display outside décor.  

Sun, Feb 27 - Matlacha Hookers 10th Annual Beacon of Hope’s Fundraiser benefiting Beacon of Hope's Senior Programs 1 - 5 pm.

Sun, Feb 27 - Island Luau Tear Down from 4:30 - 6 pm.

Sat., Mar. 19 -  BAG N TAG and Pancake Breakfast event at the Moose Lodge.

Fri., Apr. 8 - “Hooked on Education” 2022 Scholarship Application deadline.

Members are encouraged to visit the website for up to date news, meeting minutes, financials, merchandise and committee event forms.  

Luau Volunteer Reminders

Event Cupcakes – please bring 2 dozen

• Drop off is Saturday between 4pm and 6pm or Sunday 10:30am-12:30pm to the St James Civic Center
• Cupcakes can be any flavor and either homemade, made from a box mix or a purchased store brand.  All are GREAT!
• If baking, please use cupcake papers
• Any luau themed decorations (umbrellas, flowers, pineapples) or flavors are much appreciated

Food serving and support

We still need a couple more people for Food support on Sunday 11:30am - 5ish, Duties include food prep, set-up, serving and clean up.  Report to the SJCC kitchen and see Lorie or Theresa Sunday morning.

Set Up/Tear Down Help Is Needed

We need help setting up Sunday Morning 9am to 11am, with Tear down 4:30 pm to 6pm.  Contact Joanne if you can help, 603-494-0780, Joannecorreia179@gmail.com

Thanks in advance for your participation.

Next Island Luau Committee Meeting

Tomorrow, Monday, Feb 21 at St James City Civic Center

Doors open 5:15-5:30, meeting starts @ 6:00 

BYO (There is no food or beverage service)

Please bring wine for Mystery Wine area        

Buy or Bring your Event Tickets so we can get a good count

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Madam's Corner

What a great week!  For those of you that did not attend the February Meeting, you missed a lot!

We are once again sponsoring a Little League Team; we changed up the 50/50 to award the first ticket drawn 50% of the pot, the second 50% will be awarded to the Volunteer of the Month and the total amount will be matched and awarded to the selected Community Support organization or upcoming event.

AND, we awarded Pine Island Elementary $10,700 from the 2021 Pine Island Elementary Tournament & Derby.  We are responsible for kicking off a STEM/STEAM Lab at PIE that every student will participate in each and every week!!  This is amazing to be able to bring this type of experience to Elementary Students starting at the Kindergarten level.

• STEM – Science, Technology, Electronics and Math – 2nd through 5th Graders
• STEAM – Science, Technology, Electronics, Art and Math – Kindergarten and 1st Graders

That’s in addition to continuing our support of the Teachers to offset their out of pocket costs, replenishing their Library and replacing all of the Chair/Bookbags for the K and 1st Grade Classes.

This weekend was a busy one with the Merchandise Team at the Garden Gala, another team painting and decorating props for the Luau and a team sorting for Bag ‘n Tag.  Whew!!

Next Saturday the 26th will be busy, too.  Set up for the Luau is from 3:00pm until 6:00pm and we’ll have another sort for the Bag ‘n Tag from 9:00am until about noon.  Then final set up for the Luau will start Sunday morning on the 27th at 9:00am.

This is the time of year when YOUR help is needed behind the scenes to make our events successful!!  All of us should be helping each other!

Frankly, I’m looking forward to enjoying the Luau next weekend; aren’t you?  Get your tickets now as this promises to once again be a sold out.

And why do we do all of this?  So that we can continue to Make A Positive Difference In Our Community and Take Care Of What’s In Our Own Backyard!!!

Proud to be a Matlacha Hooker!  Madam DJ

THE MARCH GENERAL MEETING

Monday, March 14

House of Omelets

 900 SW Pine Island Rd, Cape Coral, FL 33991

Doors open at 5 pm. Food will be available to purchase.  The meeting starts at 6:30 pm.  Please bring Food Pantry and Bag n Tag donations.  

“Hooked on Education” 2022 Scholarship Application

The Matlacha Hookers is looking to grant scholarships to qualified applicants again this year. Scholarships may be used for tuition, books or other acceptable costs of education for either a certification, licensing or technical program or toward a college degree. Notification of Scholarship winners will be made prior to the Hookers’ general meeting in May.  Application Deadline is April 8th, 2022.   For questions, please call Chairperson:  Natalie Gazda 239-322-9701

Pine Island Food Pantry

The Food Pantry everyday pantry needs include boxed dry cereal, small bags or boxes of white rice, saltines, canned spaghetti Os and ravioli, kids size snack packages, canned soup, ramen noodles, hamburger helper, canned peaches, and personal care products, such as, toothpaste and toothbrushes, laundry detergent, shampoo, deodorant, razors, dish soap, feminine hygiene products and size 6 diapers or pull ups.  Dog and cat food are also welcome. 

Nonperishable donations can also be dropped off at the following locations: Winn-Dixie, V.F.W., American Legion, Moose, Elks, Centennial Bank, the Matlacha Post Office or at the pantry when it is open on Monday and Thursdays, 8:30 am - 10:30 am. Visit pineislandfoodpantry.org to learn more. Thank you!

**IMPORTANT WEBSITE ACCESS INFORMATION**

The website Members ONLY pages have been updated and are accessible on the HOME page in two sections. Drop down menu...More also located in middle of home page. This area now holds ALL of the pages previously protected by a password. You will now only be required to enter the 2022 Password: 20HMP22 one time on the Members only page. Each button on this page will open in a new window for you to easily navigate between pages without having to enter the password multiple times. Please do not give the password out.  Members need to email the Secretary at 

matlachahookers@matlachahookers.org to have their membership verified before receiving the new password.  Thank you, Vice Madam Julia

Don’t forget that 0.5% of all of your purchases will be automatically donated to the Matlacha Hookers if  you,

1. Select Matlacha Hookers as your charity and then,
2. Enter Amazon through the Amazon Smile each time you shop.

Thank you for supporting us all year long!

Herald and website content submissions, along with questions or concerns should be sent to Karen Durand at MHwebmistress@gmail.com.  Please do not email to Karen by forwarding a Herald publication.  Since we use the free version of WIX for both our website and emails, the Herald emails actually go out under a different email address which she does not have access to.