DuBona named BWC Volunteer of the Year

BONSALL – The Bonsall Woman's Club held its monthly general meeting via Zoom on March 4. During this meeting, the club announced its annual Volunteer of the Year award.

A committee, consisting of the BWS First Vice President and Dean of Chairman Marlene Rantanen; Second Vice President Sydne Gilbert; and past Volunteer of the Year Robin Scheuer, met and unanimously agreed to award this year's prestigious award to member Marleen DuBona.

DuBona joined the Bonsall Woman's Club in 2017 to make new friends. She soon realized where her talents were needed and then began to pursue them.

She has been continually active and equally creative in several varied functions in the club. Most notably, she is the BWC's website administrator. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, the website has been an extremely critical vehicle in keeping the members informed of the club's events as well as general information on club activities.

DuBona took it upon herself to completely revamp and redesign the website's architecture to make the site more user friendly while safeguarding the privacy issues on membership, club meeting minutes, finances, etc.

This redesign was a major undertaking. She drew on her knowledge of the industry's available tools, menu driven software, etc., and met the challenge head on. The remarkable results are a testimony to her creativity, resourcefulness, and tenacity to see a task through to its desired end. The website is an ongoing and living evolution and will continue to be expertly administered under DuBona.

She can also be relied on to devote several selfless hours towards making a fundraiser successful. Her creative talents once again surfaced at the annual Christmas fundraiser. She made several wreaths to be auctioned/raffled off as part of this major fundraiser.

DuBona has devoted several hours towards another passion: photography. Again, her degree of excellence surfaces as is evidenced by the several awards her work has won at the Palomar District Photography contests.

The diligence in her pursuit of excellence is shown in many and varied activities. Her monumental contribution this past year totaled many volunteer hours towards the success of the club. To say she is most deserving of the BWC Volunteer of the Year Award is probably minimizing her many and varied contributions.

For more information on BWC, visit bonsallwomansclub.org.

Submitted by Bonsall Woman's Club.