November’s General Meeting was the largest in recent club history. Lots of new members this past year has contributed to a vibrant environment, full of ideas and energy. Special mention to Wendy Gordon, who is the most fabulous Membership Chair, and has diligently worked hard with all our new members welcoming them in.

New Members

This month we installed 2 new members.

Bonnie Carson

Bonnie has returned to Cocoa Beach after spending 40 years in California. She attended Freedom 7 elementary school, Roosevelt (when it was a Junior High School) and graduated from Cocoa Beach High School in 1977. She attended the University of Florida where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism. After graduating, she relocated to Santa Cruz, California where she worked in high tech before raising her four children.

She later moved to Palm Desert, California where she earned a second degree, this time in Substance Use and Mental Health disorders. She worked in residential treatment centers in the Coachella Valley helping people with addiction and other mental health diagnoses for 10 years before returning to her hometown.

Bonnie has a passion in working with addicts and their families to help them overcome adversity and improve their lives. She has been recognized as a leader among several treatment facilities as well as conducting educational seminars on the disease of addiction. Bonnie currently works as a contracted sober companion and counselor for two companies, one in Florida and the other in California. She is a proficient writer currently working on her first book of essays which detail her personal journey and how she overcame her own struggles with alcohol. Bonnie moved back to Cocoa Beach in 2021 after her father passed. She cares for her mother, a former CBWC member from the 1960’s.

Kathryn Milliken

Kathryn has been a resident of Cocoa Beach since 1990. For 13 years, she worked as a cosmetologist and owned her own salon, Kathy’s Hair Den, in Cottage Row. Now retired, she’s enjoying the next chapter of her life.

December we will end with a membership bang with lots of new members coming in!

Exciting times..

We also had a visit from Zach Marchetti from Brevard Zoo. He came to update us on the new Aquarium progress and we were happy to give him the latest $2000 installation payment of our Founders Donation.