The Patchwork Friends OHCE Group met for their regular meeting on July 13 at the home of Dottie Gatz. JoAnne Prewett called the meeting to order at 7 p.m. Barbara Cue led the group in the flag salute. Devotions were given by Gatz from a Guidepost book on prayer. Maureen Thomas was welcomed as a guest. Roll call was answered to “Do you recycle?” Those answering were Liz Kinzie, Aleta Nolan, Maureen Thomas, Dee Ann Mason, JoAnne Prewett, Janice Litton, Barbara Cue and Dottie Gatz. Minutes of the May meeting were read and approved. The treasurer's report was given. Pennies and nickels were collected.

Discussion was held on the Northwest Ministry for pregnant women that has been proposed for Alva and the group voted to help with this project. Prewett gave each member a list of the fair items they had agreed to make for the Woods County Fair. Each member will make a pie for the fair kitchen and Gatz volunteered to make the extra pie. Other organizations will be asked to help out on Thursday night in the fair kitchen.

Prewett and Gatz attended the recent OHCE State Meeting In Oklahoma City along with Paula McMurphy of Lone Star OHCE, Carol Erikson of Grow and Share OHCE, Carol Anderson and Carolyn Gasaway of Household Executives and Susan Holiday, OHCE educator. Prewett and Gasaway were our voting delegates. Gatz provided the scrapbook basket for the Ambassador Silent Auction. Some of the workshops attended were the underground quilts workshop, which involved quilts being made to help slaves get to Canada during the Civil War; social media; chalk painting; and chicken scratch embroidery.

Tickets were sold during OHCE Week, at the arts festival in June and at the First Friday Art Walk in July for a quilt made and donated by Lisa Higgins of Lone Star OHCE. The quilt was won by Liz Smith of Household Executives OHCE group. This fundraiser for OHCE will help with the scholarships given each year.

The lesson was given on “The Travels of your Textile Trash” by Gatz with help from Prewett and Cue. Avoid impulse buying, plan wardrobe every season, remember what you have when you're shopping, and consider renting clothing for one-time use.

There being no other business, the meeting adjourned. The hostess served a strawberry dessert. The hostess gift was won by Cue. The next meeting will be held at the home of Prewett on Aug. 10.