T-shirts

The Yankee Doodle Shirts are back from the printer! Aren't they cute?!

Come by the shop (Ashley's Attic) and get yours

or call me and I'll bring it to you.

If I'm not at the shop when you come by, the box is in front of the register. Inside the box with the shirts there will be a list of your names with the sizes you ordered...just check your name off the list when you get your shirt.

If you haven't paid me, just leave a check or cash with whoever is running the shop.

Each shirt is $11.

I'll also have in the box some schedules for the Junior Auxiliary events on July 5th...pick one of those up too.

As always, call me if you have any questions: 607-6599

Member Appreciation Brunch Recap

Our Member Appreciation Brunch was a success!

It was open to all active, associate and life members and it was really a great opportunity for us to spend a little “off-duty” time together, getting to know each other a little better, sharing individual and group accomplishments, welcoming new Active members, celebrating our Associate and Life members and, of course, giving out some awards!

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Those award winners were:

• Jennifer Brooks - Member of the Year
• Jamye Jaco - Executive Award for Service
• Pam Cantrell - The Presidents Award for Participation and Enthusiasm

The awards say it all! Congratulations ladies!

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Members that were granted Active status were:

• Cole Black
• Lori Womack
• Jennifer McBride
• Carly Bruce
• Allison Tupper
• Danielle Miller
• Christie Gilispie
• Jessica Higgins
• Aimee Hale

Congratulations Ladies! We're so excited to have you in the club - You were such an enthusiastic Provisional Class and we're so excited to see what you'll do now as Active Members!

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Members whose status changed from Active to Associate (meaning they served the equivalent of 1 Provisional year and 5 Active years in J.A.) were:

• Jennifer Brooks
• Pam Cantrell
• Joyce Britton
• Tina Smith
• Dana Roller
• Toree Craven

Congratulations to y'all too! Your service to J.A. and to our community has meant everything...you've made the club what it is today and the rest of us definitely have some big shoes to fill!

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Finally, members whose status changed from Associate to Life (meaning that they served the equivalent of 10 Associate years OR paid the equivalent of 10 years' Associate dues) were:

• Diane Wood
• Joyce Britton
• Cindy Rogers
• Jackie Reed
• Tammy Womack

You ladies have set such wonderful examples for the rest of us! We're so excited to be able to celebrate your service to the club and to Warren County...our Life members are really the rock on which our chapter is built, so congratulations to you on this milestone!

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So thanks to all who attended this brunch. It was so much fun! Please feel free to email jamcminnville@yahoo.com to make suggestions for next year's Member Appreciation Event.

P.S. I'll be posting pictures as soon as I get them...keep watching the blog! -Ashley

Yankee Doodle Children's Parade

Annual Education Conference

Twelve of our members attended the Annual Education Conference in Birmingham, AL.

Susan Burks, Natalie Miller, Allison Tupper, Ashley Gillentine, Jamie Lorance, Jennifer McBride, Brooke Totherow, Shauna Wiley, Cole Black, Kristy Weeter, Holly Magness and Tabetha Sullens all packed their bags and headed out for a girls' weekend full of learning, bonding and networking with other chapters. We even got two national honor while there; the Robbins Family Scholarship Challenge - Sapphire Crown Recognition...and the Efficiency Award!

We all had a great time...and just last week a story about our trip made the Southern Standard!

Check out their site at http://www.southernstandard.com/ and we're in the lifestyles section for Wednesday June 18, 2008....and click here for the link if you can connect to it - read all about us!

We're in the News!

Wednesday's Style Page in the Southern Standard had a story about our mural that was painted by J.A. Life Member Pat Bigbee. Go check it out at http://www.southernstandard.com/ or use this link!

The Bicentennial Committee is using the mural for the L. Virginia French Ball on Saturday night. Go to this link to learn about the details for this event.

Relay for Life

Everyone make sure to attend Warren County's RELAY FOR LIFE.

When: Friday June 6, 2008 6 PM

Where: Warren County Middle School's Nunley Stadium

Why: All proceeds support the American Cancer Society

and its effort to support those affected by cancer and to eventually find a cure!

Everyone should attend this event! Teams made up of people from all over the community set up booths on the football field in order to raise money for the American Cancer Society. These booths offer a little bit of everything; food, crafts, games, face painting, hair styling, yard sales, etc. etc. etc. There's a friendly competition to see which team can raise the most money and they'll go to almost any length to be the winner....'Male Cross-Dressing Beauty Pageant' anyone?

J.A. won't have a booth there this year but our ladies are on several of the other teams so make sure to go and support them and the cause!

Yankee Doodle Children's Parade T-Shirts

Any member interested in getting a Yankee Doodle Children's Parade T-shirt for July 5th, get in touch with me, Ashley Gillentine. You can get shirts for your kids too...we like to deck out our J.A. kids as much as we do ourselves! Just email or call me with sizes. The shirts will be regular cotton t-shirts, so order accordingly.

The design will be a play on Warren County's Bicentennial Logo with a Junior Auxiliary twist - on J.A. blue with white and red details.

You don't have to be working the Yankee Doodle Parade to have one. It will look good for as many J.A. members as possible to be in them on July 4th and 5th both! I believe that these will be nice to wear to any community event - not just in July - since it also has a Warren County and a bicentennial theme. Just consider this a J.A. shirt with a patriotic theme...not specifically a Yankee Doodle Parade shirt.

The shirts will be $11.oo each and the deadline for ordering them is Monday June 9th. I'd like to be able to get them to everyone well before July 5th.

We'd like to give a big thanks to Helen at Ashley's Attic and Pat Zechman of the Southern Standard for providing the shirts for this year's Little Miss Snow Princess, Miss Snow Princess, Junior Auxiliary Little Sister and Junior Miss Warren County for the event.

It's almost time!

As I mentioned in the notes to the left, J.A. has been asked to help decorate and set up for the Bicentennial Event, The L. Virginia French Ball.

Friday afternoon President Natalie Miller, her son Aiden and I (Ashley Gillentine) got together with Carla King from Main Street McMinnville, Jimmy Haley from the McMinnville Preservation Council, and Jimmy's daughter Laura Kate Haley (who was our J.A. Little Sister last year) to begin making plans for the decorations.

One decoration in particular is a GIANT mural that belongs to our club (in the pictures). This mural, painted by Mrs. Pat Bigbee over 25 years ago, has been used in countless Junior Auxiliary pageants as well as other J.A. events and it was also used during Warren County's Quartoseptcentennial (our town's 175th anniversary).

So, once again, we have pulled it out of storage to serve our community. Jimmy had it cleaned and touched up early last week and now it is ready to be used as a backdrop during the L. Virginia French Ball!

Here are some pictures from our meeting. We'll be seeing you at the L. Virginia French Ball on Saturday night. Check out this post for details about the ball and where to find tickets!

(I love this photo! Jimmy seems calm, collected and, literally, in focus while everything around him is blurry, busy and rushed looking. That's how he always strikes me! I did not mean for it to be so art-y and symbolic but I'll definitely take credit for it!)