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Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 7pm

Junior Auxiliary of McMinnville will present

The Crown Jewels Art Gala

a formal fundraising event at the McMinnville Country Club

attendees will enjoy heavy hors d'oeuvres, a live band and a silent auction featuring art work by local children.

Tickets are $100 a couple ($50 a person)

and are currently available at Gary's on South High Street, from any active or provisional Junior Auxiliary member, or by contacting project chair person Kelly Wood at 808-1521 or jamcminnville@yahoo.com.

All proceeds will go support the many service projects of Junior Auxiliary of McMinnville.

Christmas in the Park

The date for our 24th annual Christmas in the Park has been set.

Join us in beautiful Downtown McMinnville on Tuesday December 1st for a night of caroling, cider, games, fun and other Christmas treats - all with friends, family and the ladies of Junior Auxiliary of McMinnville!

Stay tuned to the blog for more news about this wonderful community tradition.

Christmas Luminaries

It’s that time of year again! Christmas is just around the corner and we’re in the process of planning Christmas in the Park. Last year, as a separate project, we began selling luminaries in the weeks building up to Christmas in the Park to decorate downtown during the event.

We’ve already begun selling the luminaries to decorate at this year’s Christmas in the Park and we’re really excited about the potential to raise lots of funds to help meet the needs of the children in Warren County!

Here’s what you need to know:

· Luminaries are $5 each – or more if a donor feels so inclined.

· Each member is encouraged to sell at least 20 luminaries.

• The deadline to turn in names is the November General Meeting on November 17^th.
  

· Contact your family members, friends, fellow church members, boss, children’s teachers & coaches, coworkers, in-laws, hairdresser….you get the picture!

· We’re selling luminaries in memory of and in honor of …for anyone that they want to buy a luminary (or several!) for.

· Businesses can also purchase luminaries in honor of their employees or just with the name of the business on them.

· We’re also focusing this year on selling luminaries in honor and memory of our local veterans and also for those currently serving our country. We will have a special section for these luminaries.

· Emails have been sent out with notes, sales sheets and receipts.

· If you have any questions feel free to contact Project Chair Ashley Wright at (931) 607-6599 or jamcminnville@yahoo.com.

For the Public:

Contact your favorite Junior Auxiliary member or Ashley Wright if you’re reading this and would like to purchase a luminary (or several!).

All donations to Junior Auxiliary are tax-deductible (receipts are available).

Coats for the Community - This Weekend

COATS FOR THE COMMUNITY

- COAT GIVEAWAY -

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17th

THREE STAR MALL

(In the old Bookland)

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Coat & winter weather gear giveaway for all ages

All sizes will be available - baby to adult

for more information contact project chair Lori Womack or call Ashley Wright (931) 607-6599.

Vanderbilt Children's Hospital's Queen for a Day

Our Junior Auxiliary Princess, Leslie Moulton, recently participated in a very special event at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville.

Queen for a Day is a program that offers quality of life services through play therapy programs at no charge to pediatric cancer patients (ages 1 to 21) in hospitals around the nation.

Each Queen for a Day event consists of make-overs, manicures and rhinestone tiaras in an upbeat setting. These events provide a distraction from the strain of treatment that these children are having to go through at the hospitals. Queen for a Day measures their success in smiles, laughter and personality transformation in their patients.

The organization is completely volunteer based, relying upon the generosity to give their time, resources and money to fulfill their mission. Queen for a Day strives to create an atmosphere where kids can feel like kids again. Each child that participates gets to keep their tiara from the event as a tangible reminder of how good it feels to reign as "Queen for a Day".

Vanderbilt Children's Hospital recently held a Queen for a Day event for some of the little girls who are patients there to get an opportunity to meet with and be pampered by local pageant queens and princesses!

Not wanting to leave the boys out, Vanderbilt also created a special Hero for a Day program for them! Much like the Queen for a Day program, Hero for a Day gave little boys who are patients at Vandy a chance to meet real life heroes! Nashville firefighters came out to let the little guys know that they, too, are heroes for enduring what they have to face every day at the hospital! Instead of tiaras, the guys get fire hats and fire gear to dress up in.

This is such a cool program and we're so happy that Leslie chose to represent us and to volunteer her time for this worthy cause! She got the opportunity to crown and pamper several of the patients who participated in the event as the official nail painter! She got to spend time with Miss Tennessee USA, Kristen Motil and Miss Southern Tennessee, Katie Hoppel while she was there for what I'm sure was a wonderful experience. Leslie and her mom were both incredibly touched by the children that they met and the stories that they heard while they helped out with this event.

Thank you Connie for sharing this information and the photos with me! I know that you're so proud of Leslie and, you should definitely know; so is Junior Auxiliary! She has an incredibly big heart for such a young girl!

In other Leslie news; She recently won the title of Warren County Princess 2009 in the pageant held by the WCHS Pioneerettes! Congratulations Leslie!

We are thrilled to have such poised, beautiful, sweet and all-around-great girls representing our organization this year!

To learn more about Queen for a Day, visit their website at www.qfad.org.

Congratulations!

We are very excited that our very own Junior Miss Warren County, Laura Caroline Carter, competed in and won the 2009 Fairest of the Fair Pageant at the Warren County Agriculture and Livestock Fair!

She did a wonderful job in the pageant. She was graceful, beautiful and she totally kicked butt on her top five question! Congratulations Caroline (and thanks for letting me borrow some of these photos)!

Here Caroline is after being crowned by Victoria Woods, 2008 Warren County Fairest of the Fair and 2009 State Fairest of the Fair!

Here is Caroline posing with the Fairest of the Fair Emcee, Miss Emily Hobbs (who just so happens to be a past Junior Miss Warren County).

Here she is with her court - left to right; Megan Boren 1st runner up, Caroline, Victoria, Caitlin McClain 2nd runner up and KayAnn Moore 3rd runner up.

Caitlin just happens to be a former Junior Miss Warren County too. She did an awesome job as well and we love that we had not one, but two Junior Misses represented in the Fairest of the Fair court.

All of the girls did wonderful in the pageant but we're especially proud of all of "our" girls that participated! Congratulations ladies!

Did you know?

*Each school day, 46 children are diagnosed with cancer.

*On the average 12,500 children and teens will be diagnosed with some form of cancer each year in this country.

*One in 330 children will develop cancer by age 20.

*Although the 5 year survival rate is steadily increasing, one quarter of children will die 5 years from the time of diagnosis.

*Cancer remains the #1 disease killer of America's children - more than Cystic Fibrosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Asthma and AIDS combined.

*In the U.S. almost 3,000 children do not survive cancer each year.

*Over the past two decades, only ONE new cancer drug has been approved for pediatric use.

*Currently there are between 30-40,000 children undergoing cancer treatment in the U.S.

*As a nation, we spend over $14 BILLION per year on the space program, but only $35 MILLION on Childhood Cancer Research each year.

*There are 15 children diagnosed with cancer for every one child diagnosed with pediatric AIDS. Yet, the U.S. invests approximately $595,000 for research per victim of pediatric AIDS and only $20,000 for each victim of childhood cancer.

*Research funds are scarce as most money is diverted to well-publicized adult forms of cancer, such as breast and prostate.

*Right now, this second, somewhere in America, there are 7 children fighting for their lives who won't live through the day.

Junior Auxiliary of McMinnville wears gold for Andy, Morgan, Riley, Lauren, Jackson, Hunter & all the other children affected by cancer.

Who do YOU wear gold for?

Pencil Pals

It's back to school time again and many families don't have the resources to go buy the supplies that they need. Through our Pencil Pals project we try to provide at least some of those supplies for the school kids that are really in need.

Items that are needed:

pencils

ruled paper

folders

crayons

glue/glue sticks

new or gently used backpacks

UPDATE 8/24: Irving College Elementary needs pencils, wide-ruled paper, stick glue & scissors.

It will be determined at Executive Board how many items will make up a service hour.

UPDATE:

10 items = 1 hour

1 backpack = 1 hour

Feel free to go ahead and pick the supplies up (while they're on sale) and bring them to the August General Meeting.

Items can still be brought to the September General Meeting.

Contact Project Chair Sheila Boyd or Co-chair Jessica Higgins if you have any questions about the project, additional items that you can donate or if you have information about a child in need.

Make sure to spread the word about the upcoming Warren County Schools' Back to School Kickoff at the Three Star Mall on Saturday August 8th. They give out free school supplies to the school-age children in attendance so make sure to encourage the families of children that you think might need the assistance to attend...but tell them to be there early...the supplies go fast!

OH! And don't forget about the Tax-Free Holiday August 7th, 8th & 9th. It's the perfect time to shop for Pencil Pals!

Yankee Doodle Children's Parade

Who: All children 0 - 5th grade

All Junior Auxiliary Members are invited to help out- Active, Associate & Life

Ashley Wright - Chair Kim Chisam - Co-chair

What: The Yankee Doodle Children's Parade - NO ENTRY FEE!
When (for the public): Saturday July 4, 2009 - 10:30am

(For Members) - 8:30 until 11: 00 am

Where: Warren County Courthouse Square - Downtown McMinnville

Pre-registration forms are available at The McMinnville Civic Center, The Chamber of Commerce, Magness Library, The Southern Standard and Ashley's Attic.

They can be returned to Ashley's Attic

or mailed to

Junior Auxiliary of McMinnville / P.O. Box 791 / McMinnville, TN 37111

Why: The Yankee Doodle Children's Parade is a service project for Junior Auxiliary of McMinnville

For those of you who aren't familiar with this project:
The Yankee Doodle Children's Parade is part of Warren County's Independence Day Celebration and is sponsored by McMinnville Parks & Recreation (who allow us to hold the event during their 4th of July Celebration), PEG Broadcasting and Southern Standard Publishing.

It allows children (and their parent "helpers") to use their creativity in designing a "float" for the parade. Participants can show off their national, state & community pride through this project, which is something that J..A. likes to encourage. The project also promotes family togetherness, learning, confidence, hard work and, of course, fun!

The Schedule:
8:30 - 9:00am Set Up
9:00 - 10:00am Check in / Registration
10:15am Participants must be in their assigned areas / Judging begins
10:30am Let the PARADE begin!
10:50am Awards will be presented to winners in each group
11:00am - ? Clean Up (shouldn't take long)
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Rules & Additional Information:

*For children 0 to 5th grade (2009-2010 5th graders)
*There are 5 categories this year and they are:
- Babies, Toddlers & Preschool
- Kindergarten & 1st Grade
- 2nd & 3rd Grade
- 4th & 5th Grade
- Group (maximum 5 children to a group)
*NO GAS POWERED VEHICLES ALLOWED in the parade. Battery-operated "Hot Wheels" type vehicles are acceptable.
*Bikes, Tricycles, Wagons, Strollers or any other push, pull or pedal toys are also allowed.
*The floats must be patriotic or state, county or community pride themed.
*An adult may accompany small children and push strollers in the parade.
*Entry numbers must be on the child and be visible for judging. For groups, the entry number must be on the "lead" child.
*Awards will be presented immediately following the parade when all participants are lined up in front of the stage according to the directions given.
*The winners must stick around after receiving their awards for a group photo for the paper.

Annual Education Conference

Ten members traveled to Franklin, TN for the 68th annual National Association of Junior Auxiliaries Annual Education Conference.

While we were there, we got to learn a lot, spent a lot of quality time together, got to know some of the other chapters and came home with lots of ideas for projects and fundraisers.

Here are a few pictures from the event.

Hoppin' into Health

Hop on over to Junior Auxiliary's

3rd annual

Hoppin' into Health Easter Egg Hunt!

Saturday April 11, 2009

10 am

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For children 0 to 10 years of age.

FREE!

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10,000 prize-filled eggs!

Larger prizes will also be awarded and snacks will be provided!

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Attendees will get a chance to visit with the Easter Bunny and Hello Kitty!

Parents, bring your cameras!

Junior Miss Warren County and Junior Auxiliary Princess Pageant

Junior Miss Warren County
And
J.A. Princess Pageant

Saturday, May 16
6:00 p.m. at Covenant Academy

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The pageant is open to girls ages 14-16 for Junior Miss Warren County and girls ages 11-13 for J.A. Princess. Contestants must reside in Warren County or surrounding counties; DeKalb, Cannon, Van Buren, Grundy, Sequatchie, Coffee, and White. Applicants must be enrolled in school full time and must never have been married or have had a child.
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Applications may be obtained at Kathy’s Bridal, Dream Maker Bridal, Memories, the Middle School, W.C. High School, and Boyd Christian.
Electronic copies can be obtained by emailing pageant chair Holly Magness.
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Application Deadline: May 2nd
Mailed applications must be postmarked by May 2nd, 2009
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For additional information concerning the pageant, contact
Holly Magness at home 668-3605 or cell 247-2842
Or feel free to email holly.1979@hotmail.com
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Junior Auxiliary of McMinnville is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
All proceeds from these pageants support various JA service projects including;
Coats for the Community, Christmas in the Park, Healthy Children, Healthy Futures, Smile, and Hoppin’ into Health Easter Egg Hunt.

Junior Miss Pageant Program

Advertise in the Junior Miss Pageant program!

For parents, friends, family, etc.: Give a shout out to your contestant in our pageant program. This is a great way to send a special message like “Good Luck” or “I love you” to your favorite contestant.

example:

For businesses and other organizations: Give a shout out to your favorite contestant or say “good luck” to all of the girls. Advertising in the pageant program is an affordable way to gain exposure for your business or group. Hundreds will see your ad!

example:

(All program ads will be black and white.)

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** 1/4 page in program - $25 ** Half page in program - $50 **

** Full page in program – $100 (includes 2 free tickets to the pageant) **

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Please Make Checks Payable to Junior Auxiliary of McMinnville

All donations to Junior Auxiliary of McMinnville are tax-deductible...
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Contact Holly Magness at holly.1979@hotmail.com or (931)668-3605 or (931)247-2842 for more information or to secure your ad space.

Space is very limited, so act fast!