J.A. Christmas Party 2008

This year's Christmas Party is being hosted by Laura Dunlap at her home on December 16th at 6 pm.

All members are invited - that means Active, Provisional, Associate and Life Members. Everyone attending just needs to bring a finger food and an ornament for the "Dirty Santa" gift exchange!

Sheila Boyd will also be presenting the top "luminaries" seller with a prize basket...just in time for Christmas!

Contact Laura Dunlap for directions to her home.

We'll see you there!

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

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.

Associate-Active & Life-Active Status

To all associate and life members:

We have a proposal for you!

We've heard many comments from Associate and Life members who have mentioned how much they miss being directly involved with the chapter. Obviously, they are happy to be "free" from the big hour requirements - but they miss participating in our projects, having a say in the projects and events that we participate in and definitely the fellowship with other members at meetings.

Enter the Associate-Active and Life-Active status! This is in our constitution and we were not using it! This is a great way for those who miss J.A. to reconnect with our projects and our group. We are a really strong membership with some really dedicated women and we run the chapter really efficiently, but we feel that we can always be better. We need our associate and life members, who still would like to be involved, to help make our chapter even stronger!

This status entitles those members to have most of the rights of active members. They can vote, recruit new members, serve on committees, propose new projects and chair projects - all the things that being a Junior Auxiliary member is about. The only limit is that they may not hold office.

The requirements for this status is that the member must attend at least four general meetings a year and must perform at least 24 hours of service during the year. Their dues will remain the same as their Associate and Life membership status requires.

We currently have 3 associates who have already jumped on board: Tabetha Sullens, Kellie Hutchins, and Pam Cantrell. We thank them for their participation and we are really excited to have them back. Welcome back ladies!

If you are interested in taking on this status; please call President Natalie Miller 607-2945 or Ex Officio Susan Burks 273-4195.

One of our main goals this year is to strengthen our chapter and to make our chapter more recognizable in the community for the type of service that we do. We think that we can help even more people this way - with more hands on board especially - since that is what our purpose really is.

As always, Associate and Life members are welcome to help us out with projects without this special status. But why not put those hours towards that 24 hour requirement and be an even more involved part of the chapter again?

After all, we miss you too!