TWIST

About

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TWIST is a non-profit, service organization. Through volunteer service, we work to improve the community of Tuolumne, CA. Funds from the annual TWIST Tea Party assist us in providing scholarships and community improvement projects.

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                                                                                              We strive to raise funds to                                                                                                          continue to give numerous                                                                                                          scholarships to local students                                                                                                      who seek to further their                                                                                                              education through universities,                                                                                                  community colleges, or                                                                                                                vocational trade schools.

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Annually TWIST holds a community clean up day, hosts the TWIST Tea Party and a holiday cookie booth, has meet and greets at the Summer Tuolumne Farm's Market, and supports other local service oriented clubs.

 
Meetings are open to the public and all individuals interested in improving the community of Tuolumne are invited to become a part of TWIST.

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HISTORY

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In the summer of 1911, the "Village Improvement Club" was founded. It later became known as the "Women's Improvement Club". The wives of the West Side Lumber executives took leading roles. The first summer they had street cleaning, interested themselves in child welfare

and safety at the park. In later years,

the Improvement Club was involved

with planting sycamore trees which

line so many of Tuolumne's streets.

By 1921 The Women's Improvement

Club acquired a lot and had a

clubhouse built at 18663 Carter Street.

Tea parties, fund raisers and exercises

in refinement were held. After WW II,

the club lost membership through attrition and the last few members disbanded

about 1982. 

 

While working on the celebration events of Tuolumne's Sesquicentennial Anniversary, Serina Ortega was inspired to re-establish the Women's Improvement Club of the early 1900's. 

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Ortega, with friend Terri Neher, began pulling together ideas and people. Thus the club was resurrected and newly dubbed the Women's Improvement Society of Tuolumne (TWIST). 

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