Dixon Women’s Improvement Club Scholarship Chair Diane Schroeder, front right, is pictured with last year’s scholarship recipients from Dixon High and Maine Prairie High schools.

DIXON, CA (MPG) - Here’s your chance to avoid the Valentine dinner rush while helping to raise scholarship monies for local students at the Dixon Women’s Improvement Club annual Scholarship Fundraiser Dinner on Monday, Feb. 10, at Bud’s Pub & Grill, 100 South First St.

For more than a century, the Dixon Women’s Improvement Club (DWIC) has supported projects that are in the best interests of the Dixon community, beginning with the establishment of the Dixon Women’s Improvement Club Park, followed by securing funding for the Dixon Carnegie Library that continues to serve Dixon.

The Dixon Women’s Improvement Club has provided funds for disaster relief, senior citizen projects, community literacy and well-baby clinics in addition to the college/training school scholarship program that was initiated in the 1980s for graduates from Dixon and Maine Prairie High Schools. There have been thousands of dollars awarded each spring to students since then.

This year’s fundraiser dinner will not include the Community Grants Raffle as it has grown beyond the walls of Bud’s and will be held at a later date. But the dinner entrée choices are the same: prime rib or tri-tip, chicken, salmon, pasta or vegetarian dish. They also include a house salad, garlic roasted red potatoes and fresh, hot bread. Dinners can be eaten inside or taken home from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Call to pre-order at (707) 678-4745 after 4 p.m.  Monday if you want to pick up.

Dinner tickets are a donation of $35 per person. They can be purchased from any of the Dixon Women’s Improvement Club members or by calling club President Teri Brown at (916) 601-3371 or Vice-President Jewel Fink at (510) 301-1887.

The Dixon Women’s Improvement Club was established in 1899. The founders were women from families that settled in the Dixon area following the Gold Rush of 1849 and were interested in beautifying and improving the town of Dixon. The club is open to anyone interested in joining and guests are welcome. From September through May, the club meets the third Wednesday of the month usually from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Dixon United Methodist Church’s Fellowship Hall, 209 North Jefferson.

The next regular meeting at 1 p.m. Feb. 19 will feature a hands-on cake decorating lesson by the Every Baking Moment’s cake designers.