| The members of the MBWC set a pattern of serving the community in and through a wide variety of positions; and from its beginning the Club distinguished itself as a corps d'esprit in the area. Fund raising is our main effort but we are also all about community service. Through the years many events such as follies revues and annual Bashes have established a means for us to reach out a helping hand. In 1991 the first of our annual bashes, the Trash Bash, underwrote the expense of bringing Myrtle Beach its first recycling program and is still talked about today. Following that, each year's bash theme supported a broad spectrum of community needs from funding and gearing a MBPD K-9 Patrol Unit to public art! The club is also responsible for establishing the city's first "Just Say No" program.
Crisis response followed Hurricane Hugo in 1989 when the membership physically took part in the huge clean-up in the Town of McClellanville just south of us. And the Mask Bash in 1999 saw us raise funds for the serious flooding to our neighboring areas following Hurricane Floyd. While in 2001, the United for Liberty Bash benefitted both our adopted firehouse in New York City, from which eight men had been lost of September 11, as well as our local heroes of both the Myrtle Beach Police and Horry County Police and Fire Departments. We are proud to add that many of our membership also met the emergencies caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 first hand through local church mission relief efforts.
Crisis response followed Hurricane Hugo in 1989 when the membership physically took part in the huge clean-up in the Town of McClellanville just south of us. And the Mask Bash in 1999 saw us raise funds for the serious flooding to our neighboring areas following Hurricane Floyd. While in 2001, the United for Liberty Bash benefitted both our adopted firehouse in New York City, from which eight men had been lost on September 11, as well as our local heroes of both the Myrtle Beach Police and Horry County Police and Fire Departments. We are proud to add that many of our membership also met the emergencies caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 first hand through local church mission relief efforts.
In 2004, the Bash took on a fresh look of elegance when it feted the opening of a new mall, the Coastal Grand Myrtle Beach. Several thousand guests attended including state senators and congressmen as well as The Honorable Mark Stanford, Governor. This was a huge undertaking for a club of such a small membership but permitted us to give the March of Dimes, who we named as the main beneficiary of the event, an $18,000.00 donation! That following autumn, the MBWC participated in the first Best of the Year Contest sponsored by the "Myrtle Beach Herald" weekly newspaper. From the inception of this effort, the club has campaigned vigorously to win readers' votes and the substantial financial prize which accompanies this title, making it now our annual fund raiser.
The development of a park had been a long time vision of the Myrtle Beach Woman's Club which, thanks to monies raised at several bashes, was brought to fruition in 1998 after many years of planning. Gardens by theSea is located at 5400 North Ocean Boulevard in the Cabana Section and is an ongoing fund raiser for the club through the sale of pavers there.
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