By AMANDA KIMBLE
TheFlashToday.com
ERATH COUNTY (February 3, 2017) – It’s a labor of love. Members of Cross Timbers Business and Professional Women (CTBPW) are gearing up for the annual Love Bites cookie fundraiser, which delivers Valentine’s Day cookies to local residents and thousands of dollars in scholarship funds to area women.
Kim Barrier, cookie sale coordinator, said the deadline for ordering is just one week away, at midnight on Friday, February 10. The homemade, hand-decorated and gift-boxed cookies are available for $10 for six or $15 for a dozen. They can be picked up from club members or delivered on Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, February 14, for an additional $2 fee.
Cookie orders may be placed online at the CTBPW website, through any club member or by calling Barrier at (254) 977-1174.
To help spread the love, Barrier said CTBPW mixes up enough cookie dough for 300 dozen cookies.
“We buy all of the ingredients and make the sugar cookies scratch,” she said. “It’s a labor of love and involves every club member. Once the dough is mixed, we divvy it up among members, who take home their portions, cut and bake the cookies and decorate them with homemade chocolate icing.”
To help offset the cost of this year’s sale, Barrier said CTBPW called on the support of Schreiber Foods.
“Schreiber provided all of the cream cheese,” she said.
The cookie fundraiser is something the club has done for years, but it took on a new meaning with the passing of Marin, a beloved CTBPW and community member who died in 2008 at the age of 69.
“We have held the fundraiser for at least 10 years,” Barrier said. But, when Bea passed away, we wanted a way to honor her memory and accomplishments.”
Marin was born in 1939 in Bryan and enlisted as a registered nurse in the U.S. Air Force in 1967. She was dispatched to Vietnam in September, 1968, as a part of the 12th Air Force Hospital at Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam. Upon her retirement 26 years after enlistment, she held the rank of full colonel.
Marin came to Stephenville in 1994 as nurse executive at Harris Methodist Erath Hospital. After leaving the hospital in 2000, she accepted a teaching position in the School of Nursing at Tarleton State University. Her primary teaching duty and passion was in the area of Leadership and Management for senior nursing students.
Marin held memberships in a number of clubs and organizations and served on the Stephenville City Council from 1997 until 2003. Her recognitions included Federal Employee of the Year, 1985; Erath County Woman of the Year, 1998; and being named among DFW Great 100 Nurses, 1999.
“Bea was a truly amazing and professional woman,” the CTBPW website states.
The organization presents two $1,500 scholarships each year to women enrolled at Tarleton State University, with the annual cookie sale bringing in the dough to make the awards possible.
Barrier said community members who would like show additional support to the effort can mail financial contributions to CTBPW at P.O. Box 1711, Stephenville, TX 76401.
“Every little bit helps,” she said.
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